Wichita eagle., 1888-11-25
OUTRAGEOUS DEFAMATION.
Wichita Receives More Than Her Portion
Of SANDER,

Wichita will never fail for want of ad-
vertising. Good or bad she is being con-
tinually talked about from one end of
the continent to the other. This being
an age in which advertising has become
the principal stock in trade, the capital
and sum total of many successful lines
of business, Wichita will not be forced
to hunt up collaterals. Within a week
we have received three marked eastern
papers containing contributions on Wich-
ita. One of these is from lady living
in Illinois who owns property in this
city and whose faith in its future is only
equalled by her admiration of its people.
1t is a copy of the Peoria Journal con-
tanning letter from man signing him.
self w. I'll. Thomas, who claims to live
i'll Chicago. We cannot afford space for
his column of ribaldry, but from his lam
guage we should think he could hardly
hail from less moral town than Chicago.
After denouncing our city as the ''town
that knows no night, the SOdom and
tomorrow of Kansas, the habitation of
thieves, thugs, sandbaggers, pickpock-
cts, ETC., etc., gambling hells, niger
dives and houses of i'll shape, all have
an abiding place here; the real estate
signs of rent EN- and sell EN-, catch 'em
and skin 'em hangs promiscuonsly every
where" this saint from the highly moral
town of Chicago goes on to say things
had reached such pitch that the city
council, through its mayor, sent
formal proposition to the devil to attach
the place. to hell. His Internal majesty,
from a corner of his plutonian regions,
acknowledges the receipt of the commu-
nication, but very emphatically declines
the honor. We guess we might as well
give his majesty's reply in full:
Devils Headquarters, North Corner of
He'll. July 5, 1sSS.-To the Honorable
Mayor and City Council, Wichita, KAN
DEAR SIRs: Your communication came
duly to hand and contents carefully
noted; and in reply must say that at a
general meeting now assembled, your pc
tition, being properly placed before us,
was acted upon. We can not see the good
that would come to ourselves by anneXing
Wichita to our present territory. We
have oft times heard of the very elegant
material of which your town is composed,
and we find, as a matter of history, that it
is the only town, save Sioux City, from
which the stencil arising Is so great that
the man in the moon is compelled to hold
his nose while passing over.
In fact. when we sent out an exploring
expedition for the champion liar of the
world, they found, after searching every
where, more liars to the square inch in
Wichita than in any twenty combined
states of your union, and that the choice
lay between your real estate agents and
the editor Of the Wichita EAGLE.
The exploring party finally brought in
part of the land agants, leaving the EA-
Giles editor behind, as he would have to
undergo the drying process, being entirely
too green to burn.
The very clever manner in which your
subjects have done us all up in the many
crimes too numerous to mention, have
caused all our best devils to turn green
with envy; and we could not, at this late
hour, jeopardize our best interests by too
close association with you.
No, we do not think the plan good one,
and your council ought to have known
that it could not have worked in the first
place: therefore, Tor a thoughtful care for
our now peaceable management, the prayer
of your petition is rejected, and we cheer
fully recommend that you fence in your
town and start a hell of your own. Hoping
that you will promptly act upon our sugges-
ton, we remain, Yours with the great
est respect, SATAN's OWN CHIEF.
No denial of such envious filings is de-
maaded at our hands A dozen church
going bells, whose music is floating out
across this great rich valley, this beauti-
full Sabbath morning constitute a denial
than words. Five thousand
happy homes in this city with their for.
ty thousand inmates, silence all such de-
famation. The cupolas and towers of
more than dozen great schools and
silently, but none the less
brand as wanton ibeller
the would-be traducer of city which
for its christianity, munifcent and ex-
allied spirit, the number of its charitable
its enterprise and brotherly
harmony, is equalled by no city of its
size on Gods green earth.