Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-29
THE EAGLES BOOM BONUS.
A Newspaper Mans Cosby Letter
About Wichita and the Eagles
Editor

Mr.. Dingley, one of the present pro-
prietors of the Leavenworth Times, and
who is comparatively new man in
Kansas, visited Wichita the other day.
In an easy going, cosby letter, he gives
his impressions of the city and tells some
things which he heard and all of which
we print elsewhere in this issue. Our
friend puts in type a number of bright
| things about our city, as well as amusing
and ridiculous hearsays. There is one
| statement, however, which we desire to
correct, it having, in substance been
made by number of other papers Of
Kansas within few months past. Muir
dock or the EAGLE never received a
bonus of $4,000 year for booming
Wichita, nor any other sum as
a bonus, great or small. The EAGLE
has never been either bonus or black
mailing concern. And what can be said
of no other paper in this city or state,
the EAGLE has never even solicited adj
vertisements or the patronage of the
business men of the city, personally or
through agents. More; the EAGLE has
never even charged the Republican party
or its central committee of the county
or city for the publishing of calls, etc.,
during any campaign of its history, or
ever charged any candidate directly or
indirectly for supporting him. While
the editor of the EAGLE was promised a
round cash bonus for establishing the
paper in the spring of ~, that bonus
was never demanded and but a very
small per cent of it was ever paid. The
original printing plant brought here for
the EAGLE was paid for before it
was shipped. in full, and SO of
the present and only house occupied
by its editor, which was built with
money which he brought with him.
While the editor of the EAGLE is very
proud of the fact and of the way in
which the people Of Wichita have stood
by him and held up his hands in his
personal efforts, and in his role as writer
and editor. to build here city, after all
it was mutual interest and effort. In
short we are proud of Wichita, proud Of
all its people, of its grand institutions
and varied and multiplied and increas-
ing interests, and proud of the EAGLE
also, for legitimacy and solidity enter |
into and mark the character of each and |
all; nor the misunderstanding of a day, |
nor the lack of appreciation of the few, |
nor the envy or thoughtless words of |
those who only see results but who |
neither comprehend or understand how
it was all brought about, moves us.
The EAGLE, like the city of which
it is an integral element, is solid entity
of sound growth, into which has entered
only honest, legitimate blood and brains,
and the greatest misfortune that Wichita
could have sustained, at any time within
the past dozen years, would have been
this papers loss Or destruction: and, the
Wichita man or interest that either tries
to pull it down or to embarrass it in any
way is an enemy to Wichita and to
future, whether unwittingly
or by design. Like the city Of which it
it is part, the work has been accom-
plished, the result realized and those
who have and those who shall come might
dissent and protest until the city through
discord, should loose the spirit by which
it summoned its marts and palaces from
naught, and the paper itself be utterly
yet, that which has been done,
has been done, and the very dust of its
will not fail of acknowledge
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