Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-28

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bereft of her cub, was pacified with 9
| substitute, but on raising it found in.
stead of tiger, that she had raised ..yal-
Ter dorg."
We hope that these digressions make
the matter in hand so plain that way
faring biped, though a Missouri "alli-
ANGER" will CLEAN our meaning. If the
joint conjugal production of the Arabian
and the jennet, trotting ahead is of more
benefit to Kansas than the upbuilding of
an entire state, then we will exemplify
the old story of the husbandman who
worked the family to death to send the
| eldest born to college, and at last was
! snub5ed as a reward for his labors.
| This primogeniture scheme did not
commend itself to the ''rustlers" that
settled this meek of the woods" All
the boys had an equal chance, and it was
ever thought more noble to assist one an
other than eat each other like rats, when
the provisions grew short.
| An old fable illustrates the position of
| the Missourian and Kansan on this ques-
ton: ga hermit once observed mouse
fall from the bill of a crow. He took it
up and nursed it, and being an Aladin's
lamp, in his own right, turned it into a
cat, next into dog, next into tiger,
and then he who had furnished many a
meal to this boarder, who "never missed
meal or paid a cent, ''skurcly" fur
nished the solids for this erstwhile
mouse's dinner. We have now worked
this fable to the "dog act" Shall we go
on or choke the dog.
On what basis is it that Kansas City,
Missouri, shall keep the Gazette ratio.
nv - 7 nd Of ar.
cities do SO? Why not Milwaukee and
Chicago keep the ratio? Why not Min
neapolis and st. Paul? 1t is asserted
that labor or incidence governs these
things. In no case it Is Incidence, and
we are informed, politics alias bribery is
the cause. If it is asserted that the
same territory, recruited as it has been
and cultivated as it now is, contains
the elements that can cauterize
this cancer and prevent its
spreading and drive the disease
back until death ensues from the rotten
ness of the entirs carcass.
Eighty thousand square miles of land
have the power to do more than 10000
square miles, and whilst we have but
little regard for the fairness of Mis-
sourian' on this question, yet it seems to
us that any Missourian (even one pro-
duced from breeding in from generation
to successive generations will admit
that K. G. was built up and got its grand
start by one-ffth of our state, and has
reached its meridian through the con-
catenation of Kansas Incidence, estate
treachery' and too high regard for the
profound, philosophical and metaphysi-
cal study Of politics in all its branches,
environments and ramifications, to the
neglect of the states advancement and
the growth of the cancer on the east.
Either one of the items of whisky,
beer, cigars and indirect brides spent in
politics from year to year by men whose
friends demand 'that the Office seek the
man." would put the ''jobbing' or ''pack
ing" interest of Kansas on its feet
all over Kansas. There are today
in Kansas $500 men seeking Office,
i. e., hunting a salary where they
can exist two years without active
individual exertion. and each man
will make an affidavit that he is the rep
resentative man of his township, ward
or county. If Kansans would be as live
to the interests of their respective coun-
ties as they are to the creation of official
paupers, this Kansas City question would
be settled in short time.
In an examination of the subscription
lists made up in my own town to build
it up, it is found that the business men
of the town are the foundation stones
wherein we rest our greatness, and to
which we look for future glory and that
the politicians as class, are unknown,
and those known have paid out more for
ward and township influence than for
building the city.
The parasite at home and abroad have
contributed toward our commercial
weakness, and herein is one great cause
of our not long since heading off Kansas
City, and advancing Kansas. Our growth
has been stupendous, but considering our
hinderances we have cause to complain
more from our own people than from
any other source. With Kansas City
beer we have imbibed some Missouri
attributes, and neglected many things
that should have been done.
With quotation we will end this pa
per:
From the endeavors of him who hath
not, resulteth acquisition. Property &C
quired. not husbanded. is wasted. What
hath he to do with strength who exert
eth not himself? What is power to the
sluggard? What load too great for him
that hath strength: He5ltation should
be abandoned as the foe of action: hest
tation being forsaken whilst success may
attend, humiliation will be avoided"
Kansans haye accomplished much in
the last ten years, yet it is the accom-
plishment of the natural schoolboy
genius who without particular effort
stands head. 1t is our genius half exert
ed that puts us where we are. Kansas
is a Corliss engine capable of immense
power performing to the capacity of a
traction engine We should carry head
of steam COMFORTING to the dignity of
the machinery. Compared to Missouri
we are
LAS bantTing, cast on a barren rock,
Sucked with a she VOLTS teat;
Wihtered with the hawk and fox,
Yet gifted with brain, power, speed"
The power is in our engine,-we need
but an engineer to run 1t.
kANZAN.