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

he had never thought OF that and since he
came to think he did not believe the
EAGLE had ever given its readers any in
formation on that point "Well, well,
he said, what is it all about, anyhow"
have seen the time in Wichita when
horses and potatoes were shipped into
Wichita, but now long strings of farmers
wagons come in every day loaded with
potatoes to ship to other markets. One
farmer living few miles south of this
city. told me Yesterday that he had ten
thousand bushels of potatoes this year.
Horses are shipped from here every few
days to eastern markets. The balance of
of trade is largely in favor of Kansas in
these latter times.
Mr.. George Longenberg, of the firm of
Longer Bros, & Co., st. Louis, told me
last evening that he had been in Southern
Kansas for three weeks soliciting consign-
ments of grain to his house. but that no
grain is moving, and he would go home
last night. He says he never saw such
magnificent crops of everything raised of
the farms as we have, but the farmers are
so pushed with work that they can only
have no time to haul it to market
Rev. T. S. Hodgson, presiding elder of
the Winfield district, is small man, but
a great magnanimous heart throbs in his
breast. He said to me last week: You
let the theatrical and minstrel bands pa
rade in the streets of Wichita aud it will
not hurt you to let the Saliva
ton army do the same. They
are doing some good. Do not
prevent them. There may be some
| bad connected with the Salvation army
There is bad connected with camp meet
ings, but camp meetings have done good.
Error may come in contact with the truth,
but the truth will prevail. l am in favor
of everything that accomplishes good"
In a recent number of the EAGLE exam
zan" said, lin nation of millionaires
| there can not be many paupers." 1 have
always believed that wealth is produced
by labor, and honest toll will not make
any man millionaire. Hence, if a man
becomes a millionaire he must get the
product of somebody else's labor. That
being the case there can not be a great
many millionaires in a nation without a
great many paupers. A man who
will keep forty-seven long snoot-
ed hogs and let them run
at large and destroy his neighbors crops
for five miles around will in every in
stance become q millionair if you just
give him rope.
| A number of gentlemen on Douglas av-
enue yesterday were telling how some cap
! italists made their start in a modest way.
| One gentleman told of man who became
a millionaire picking up rags ia the street.
| Councilman Mercer said he knew q man
| in Pennsylvania who asked permission to
gather the wool on the farms that was
pulled from the sheep by the blackberry
bushes. Jim said: He got a sack and
started in to gather the wool, and how
The guesses were all the way from one
| hundred thousand to one million dollars.
"Well, SIR said the councilman, in
about four weeks he was found dead under
black berry bush. He starved to death. {"
| The crowd moved on with a disguised
| look and one man remarked: II guess that
councilman thinks lied about the rag
| picker"
There has never been legitimate manu-
| featuring establishment started in Wich
tia but has been a success The overall
and shirt factory did not seem to me TO be
demanded, but they have not been run
ming year and now they are employing
sixty people and are putting up large
brick building in order to supply
the demand made upon them
for goods People may call Wich-
tia the Windy Wonder" and laugh
about our corn field additions, but here is
surely laid the foundations Of great city
that will be known in all the great COM
mercial centers round the world when her
defamers are forgotten. He who can look
| over the boundless prairies Of southern
Kansas and behold their unequalsd pro-
| ductiveness and predict dark future for
! the young cities in the Arkansas VALLEY,
| lacks faith in the energy and wisdom and
| integrity Of the American people.
Judge Thomas came 20 me some time
| since with sorrow depicted in his count
| enance and said he feared the most for
/ Wichita. His reasons were that Wichita
sent two hundred thousand dollars a year
I
| Lewis and Hon. w. E. Stanley, both ex-
| treme prohibitionist, were on the police
commission in Wichita, we could not get
any revenue from the business and we
would have trouble / told him that 1t
was pretty rough On Us anti-proaibi-
/ tiouists but that thought that we would
| better not borrow trouble and cross the
river before we came 70 IL, tor it Is my
candid opinion that the city would not De
/ everiastingiy ruined IL Lewis and Stanley
succeeded in their effort 20 suppress liquor
| drinking and we were compelled TO keep
/ the two hundred thoCsEnf dollars a.
home The mex. day the i1ge
| said he had been thinking about
| the matter and had come 20 the conclusion
| tha. Wichita would nos be ruined II ws
kept the money al home. and Etne people
wanted 20 try II be would 20. ob5ect- Il
| had now been = considerable time since
Lewis and Stanley entirely SUPPRESSED the
traffic, and Wichita keeps right along IN
| Der prosperity.