Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-07-08
4 CITIZEN OF WICHITA TO his
NEIGHBORS.


| That man may breath. but never lives.
VINO much receives. but nothing gives:
Creations blot creations bian&."
| DEDICATIoN:
His eye unblenched looked thro' the mist Of fu-
Beheld the fruition Of hts concentrated thought:
dis iron nerve unrelaxed in pursuit OF the end he
His unclouded mind was undisturbed by doubts OF
| fears
In the sublimity of his faith in the GER
tainty OF the results to follow the concen-
tration of power, he could as easily have
been led to doubt the existence of God. OF
his own being, as to have admitted a
doubt that his we'll directed efforts would
not at last be crowned with success.
| ANONYMOUS.
| There is no question in my mind that
in ten years from present date that the
above dedication will be applicable to the
men who built Wichita.
It may be said of the men Of Wichita,
at least of those who know it best and
love it most, they have no ambition
other than to behold it in the majesty of
the power to issue from the universally
of commerce and trade-apphcable to
the condition of Kansas, which shall be
evolved from. the Developments of resourc-
es natural to our soil, and those acquired
resources essential to our complete indie
pendence as community.
| We must have more industries or quit
inviting men who live by labor to come
to us.
Those industries that Immediately de-
pend on crops for success, and those ere
ations of the manufacturer which pre-
cede and are prerequisite to agriculture,
as the plow. the planter, the cultivaJor
and the drill, and those that follow but
which are necessary to the development
of the ripe fruits of agriculture, such as
all appliances pertaining to harvesting,
threshing, and Smelling and preserving,
including the disposition of the fat ami
NAL at home, are all as essential to our
arriving at completeness in the grand
design we have in our minds
as are the products of the
soil themselves. And at whatever
in our growth, our men stop short of
furnishing to our people, all industries
and appliances for taking care of the en-
tire products of our soil and supplying
the wants of Kansans. we shall have
failed as city, as trade center: failed
as citizens to take advantage Of the op-
portunities that are within our grasp.
No one demands that Wichita foster
any manufacturing industry other than
those whose product is as necessary to
Kansans as bread and meat and whose
ready consumer is within the limit of the
daily trains that run through our city;
but there are those articles,
utensils, appliances and machines
which, inexpensive in cost, are so neeessa-
ry to our people and those tributary to
us. that the aggregate amount paid out
year by year is almost beyond belief.
This trade in and of itself is to the maker
and dealer fortunes; it is prosperity to
the southwest, and individual wealth to
the community in which it is located.
This class of enterprises, whether it be
a starch factory, or canning factory, with
large or small means, or reaper and
moving machine company, wooden
mill, or another packing house, should
commend themselves to our people, and
rouse us to do our entire duty as citizens
of the commercial capital of the state of
Kansas.
The consumption year by year of the
man who earns two dollars per day for
sustenation is as great as the skilled
mechanic with an earning of four to five
dollars per day. Hence we want more
of the common laborer than of the finer
artizant-though one thousand men at
two dollars per day earn no more than
five hundred four dollar employees, yet
they and their families consume more
than double and in point of trade are the
best for us.
The problem is to furnish to every
wage worker employment and have var
led induStries-to the end that some shall
at all times be prosperous and not have a
few mammoth concerns and the danger
of shut downs.
The wisdom in paying $500, 900 to Dold
was not alone in adding this wealth to
to the city, nor in securing market for
the hog product, nor in making us CEN
ter, but in the fact that it added popu-
lation of unskilled labor. Comparing
this enterprise with that of the Car works
and estimating the general good to the
community to be derived in the course of
time, | doubt not that the packing house
is the greatest source of profit to the people
and the greatest blessing to the COM
munity, as it furnishes employment to
that class of people whose entire capital
is health and industry, whose wants /
though few are mostly supplied at home,
to whom comforts are as the oasis in the
desert, and luxury is a thing as forbidden |
dS though IL was piOHiU1tcu ny law anu
punishable with death.
Pride in Wichita is our greatest pride. |
That which will produce the greatest |
wealth in the aggregate should be our |
study. That result we hope for finally |
is not individual wealth, but power as a
city to feel that we have within our
selves. at home. the means
OF support for our people, |
and that we are growing rich from the
produce of our soil, and that each year
but adds power to power, and at last we
shall demonstrate that as agriculture is
the basis of all wealth, and that as all
are dependent on tit is not dependent
except in those localities which have
lost sight Of their real wealth-and we,
in the glory of our strength and in the
grandeur of self-exerted powers, by
working out possibilities, have solved
the entire problem of community and
prudence and become independent in all
things which are the result of agricul
ture and which are sequential to it, and
leave those who come after us such
record of achievement that naught but
progress will shield them from reproach
and dishonor.
The years of our youth are filled with
deeds that older cities envy.
Our maturity should behold us in ad-
vance of every rival. Kansas crowded
achievements of a century into twenty-five
years, and Wichita accomplished it in a
decade. In the commercial sweepstakes,
where wealth and age and corporate
power had entered the lists, every men
ace that could intimidate, every aspersion
that could belittle, every mean and igno-
BILE advantage that could hinder, were