Wichita eagle., 1888-02-19
WEIGHT FOR 1888.
THE FORCE OF REACTIONS AND
VICTORY.
The Full and Complete Prosperity
Already Accelerating the
New Life of Wichita.

misrepresentations made by the eastern
press. a reaction would follow, the force
and results of which reaction would re-
dound more to the city's prosperity and
permanency than though such fight
had never been waged against the city
and its interests. This fact we desire to
now emphasize. In the first instance,
people who know nothing of the many
very superior advantages Of this city out
side of the conceded fact that she had
grown with wonderful rapidity, were
easily persuaded that our prosperity was
only a seeming one, that our
values were fictitious and not real,
and that therefore the end had come, as
represented by those who, in fact, knew
no more Of the true situation here than
they themselves. The thousands who
had watched our magnificent increase
and growth with the expectation OF
sooner or later coming here but, who,
following the onslaught made upon us,
congratulated themselves over their own
smartness for waiting, are now awaken
ing to the fact that there must have
been lie out somewhere. The truth
has been slowly dawning upon them of
late that Wichita was not busted, at all,
that the boom hadn't collapsed, as rep
resented, and that after all they had
been simply gulled by those as gullable
as themselves.
The result of this awakening upon the
part of capitalists and in the money
centers of the east cannot be measured.
The men who had been fooled
once cannot be caught in
a like trap the second time and he who
undertakes it will be made to realize it.
The paper or the individual that shall
tell this class of people anything hereaf-
ter detrimental to Wichita or her en-
terprises or interests, will not only not
get hearing but will the more thor
oughly convince all such that the mat
ter is Just the other way. And this state
of facts will SO soon reach the rounds
that where two or three months since
eastern people were shaking their heads
in doubt over Wichita's great future
will become her especial champions,
although they may not have cent in
the world invested here.
So the reaction is coming, and in its
force and consequence it will be I'M
measurable Men in New York, Phila-
delphia and Boston and other great cen
tiers, where are representatives of none
tary and commercial interests, who had
been made cautious by the fabrications,
exaggerations and perversions of last
summer and fall, are now telling their
customers and correspondents that there
must have been some misrepresentation,
that Wichita is not only not busted, but
no city of her size in the country is so
flourishing, no city where the banking
operations are more secure or collections
more prompt, and that, without any
further doubt, she will swing to the
front in way that will surpass even the
most phenomenal western cities as /;
commercial and manufacturing center
) The effect of this kind of talk and feel
ing-this kind of reaction, is already be
ing felt in Wichita, being felt sensibly by
our banks, realized by our money loan
ers and investors. and when its full fore,
shall have come Wichita will not onl,
have got her second wind but she vii
realize as she has not even up to tn,
present time, that the fight has not onl,
been made and the victory Won, but tina
, every body is on her side. Praise anC
, confidence will take the place of de
traction. Whenever and wherever Kan
, sas and her prosperity are spoken of, o
the relative value of western cities a
places for permanent investments ant
locations for enterprises are discussed
Wichita will be named and her claims
: urged. From the Atlantic to the Pacifi,
this will be so, more truly and generally
,, than at any time in her past history.
The ordeal which Wichita has passed
through, while it affected bu
little her actual residents and prop
, erty owners, and hardly perceptably he
> business, did, however, work an injur,
to her values and credit. Theresult viii
not only be worth all it cost in the wa,
of brief depression but bring harves
of golden dollars through hundreds o
unlocked for channels. To have stem
med the tide may have cost some effort
, some concentration of forces, but tn,
e faith of her people in the final outcom
; never wavered for an instant. Upor
every hand, look where they would, wer,
so many multiplied resources and in