Wichita eagle., 1889-08-28
THE CALLED JADE wINCEs.

ltorlal squIbs to puncture the prepoSter-
GUS proposition of making the murky
Missouri navigable, a scheme SO persist
emily advocated by the Kansas City
Times as retalitory measure. Our es-
teemed contemporary ignoring his own
knowledge of the rejuvenating, not to
say invigorating and elevating, effect Of
vacation, or otherwise being upset by
the marked contrast between our clear
and lucid course of reasoning as com
pared to the uncertain flow which he
proposes to ex with his mythical barges
and imaginary steamers, goes all to
pieces in a half column Of wreckage
which would hardly honor the columns
of the most obscure sheet of the darkest
corner of Pike county. We are hkened
by him to a wounded goose crying from
q sllnken and lost nudhole, and then in
continently threatened with the pen Of
the red-headed editor of the Kansas City
Gazette whom we are admonished writes
better English and has more hitting pow
er than the editor Of the EAGLE" besides
being one who never wastes any time in
jumping up and cracking his heels to-
gether. Our old time friend and cham
pion, however, stops not even with all
this, but calls upon Martin, Hudson,
Rice. Krohn, Easley and others to join
in q howl that won't leave so much as a
mudhole Of the Peerless Princess or a
grease spot Of Murdoch.
Well, well, we would tell the esteemed
Times thing or two, or perhaps three,
but for the dread that our homemade
grammar might jar upon his classically
tempered sensibilities. Ours is not up to
the standard demanded by the organ Of
those to the Sni Hills born, or OF those
who nave later, by Inheritance or by
purchase, succeeded to its jack-oak hol-
lows and briar-commons. However, in
the brief space OF time which must
eiapse before the Times launches its first
steamboat, we venture IN our INGRAM
NAUTICAL way, to tin1idiy suggest that,
Wichita, for dead and decaying town,
shows a wonderful increase in her clear
ing house report Of last week, while that
of Kansas City, Missouri, which includes
her Kansas sl6p-over. as also its red
headed editor, shows q decrease, that we
fear is more discouragiDg than the
EAGLES editorials. And, but that it
might fail TO make the Times feel any
better, we would further observe that
for weeks and weeks all through
the long summer months, Wichita
has persistentiy shown an increase in
these bank clearing reports, while the
converse is true of thetwo Kansas Cities.
AS for the Times menace and boast that
Wichita is led in population by two
cities in the state, and that some half
dozen or more other cities are bound to
pass her within the next few moons, we
further beg leave to jump up and crack
our heels together with the co-admission
and declaration that while it is not de-
MED that Wichita, in the Oklahoma ex-
element, lost from five to seven thous-
and people, that their places have been
nearly or quite filled and by a more sub
stantial class, generally speaking. and
that notwithstanding all the blowing of
the papers Of the two towns named,
assisted by the Times, the government
census of next wear Will show Wichita
to be not only the most populous city in
Kansas, but the greatest city in every
way, as is undoubtedly true of her to-
day. That Wichita is doing twice the
business of any other city in the state OF
Kansas we not only affirm but we defy
any body, not excepting 1Iissourians, to
show to the contrary.
And while on the subject of the re
latIve present and future greatness of
Kansas towns will the dear Times
further consider the following gentle
racket: Kansas City, Kansas, depends
entirely as a slop-over Of Kansas City.
Missouri. for her future. If the failure
of the river navigating scheme in the
absence of a Missouri river basing
line, is 10 be the knell of the one
town it makes a whistling station of
the other. All of the other towns
named as probable rivals of Wichita
have reached, approximately, the pres
ent possibilities Of their respective cir
cumScribed tributary territories, while
Wichita's greatest growth, her most
expansion, is yet TO come.
and of and through her undeniable trib-
utary territory yet awaiting develop
ment. That assertion may lack some
what by the Times rule of grammatical
but Il is hard horse sense.
deduced from the logic Of the environ
ments which 4 very curtailed slice Of
the future Will render plain, even to the
Of . Missouri cotempo-
rary.
six years ago. in writing Of the same
matter. az time when Wichita had not
one-third of her present population, and
Kansas City, Kansas. was unnamed, the
Topeka, Leavenworth and Atchison pa