Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-04
KANSAS FOR KANsANs-M1zoURY'
FOR THE "PUKES."
Chow Chown for Statesman, Bankers,
Editors, Shippers, Politicians and
Business Men.

| TO feeble themes hath given power.
That else, were damn'd TO lasting shame.
| We're born TO live a ftful hour
Hot scorniul winds ha' idly passed
W.. thought, that yentured ~ me ,s glade
| Meath protecting "Greast Names" shade.
| To the Editor of the Eagle.
Some biped, long since dead, hath said
in some old books which we have read
that an eloquent speaker was drawer
of sight drafts; an eloquent writer a
drawer of time drafts; one was paid By
the people on sight, the other was hon
ored by the historian. Without having
the silver plated tongue of the one, OF
the goose quill of the other I fain would
make a draft on Karsans to be ac-
cepted .d,shonored, protested or paid as to
the Kansan seemeth meet. I believe that
it is to the interest of Kansans to accept
this draft, but if they don't it won't be
the first draft protested on US since ''the
locust came down as hail"
OUR CORRESPONDENTS.
A Mizourian who thinks he is on to
| Kanzan wrote us last Lords day that if
| K. G. was a mule, we (Kanzan) were an
ass. Desiring to treat this question fair
| ly we wrote him that asses prOcreate but
mules do not.
We are also in receipt Of communica-
ton gravely informing US that we know
we are hurting Wichita. As we do not
know this creature we use the EAGLE as
a vehicle to inform him that Wichita is
the apple of our eye, and that no one
ever Intentionally, with prepense, mall
!
out.
1t is unnecessary to say that our sex
hath been discovered by the writers
| aforesaid, and we may now exclaim
| with the bard that "these things have
were undone," but prior to self strangu-
| lation, modification, interment. or be-
coming dust of ashes, we desire to state
that it is written concerning Kansas City.
-Eccles -6.-GRASSHOPPER PROPHECY
AND the grasshopper red legs shall
prove burden Ito the Missourian) and
to his long home and the mourners go
is vanity and vexatiOn of spirit. The
red legs, terrible as an army with ban
ners, are come to visit the iniquities of
third and fourth generation of them that
have lived from the toll of Kansans, and
promising aff1uence and sweet peace to
to them that move west across the line
and assist in building the temple of
Zion in the land of the Kansan.''
THE POWER OF "NAME" BEHIND AN
IDEA.
And here lies the duties of Kansans,
big, little, old, young, great, small, to use
their power to foster Kansas trade. Ideas
are like bullets, which belchad forth from
a cannon minded man are heard round
the world arrest the attention of every
class, arouse the thinker, move the poll
tician, interest the pulpit, awaken the
common people, challenge the opponent
and momentarily force recognition from
the plodding business man, and at last
becoming the subject of general CONVEX
sation, public and private speculation,
newspaper controversy, debate of states
men, SO fastens the germ-idea on the
sober thought of the age that it becomes
imbedded in the polity of a party: be-
comes the theme of the humanitarian,
the doctrine of a church, and finally be-
comes no longer an idea but passes into
the realm of every day fact, understood
by all and disputed by none, save mi
nority more helpless than the puny band
that first recognized its truth and en-
listed under the banner of its champion.
Yet the same idea from the man whose
mind may be said to be on the ''shot-
gun" order scatters and falls harmless,
disturbing few and affecting none. And
though the idea proceed from a minnie
rifle mind, penetrating what it hits,
piercing every heart it touches. the very
narrowness of its path prevents its being
noticed until long years of rifle shooting
by similar minds, decades of patient
watching, innumerable defeats, dis
graces and humiiations.
If illustrations are necessary we might
instance that he who said that the first
shot at Hunker Hill was heard round
the globe was wrong. That shot was
but the echo of the cannon idea of Pat
rick Henry. The slavery idea was a
minnie rifle campaign for long, weary
years; the prohib idea is yet the concen
trated battalions of rifle sharpshooters-
today defeated, tomorrow successful;
and yet, undismayed, pressing on boldly
to annibilation or final success. The
Oklahoma question was the cancatena-
ton of all sorts of guns, big, little and
smooth bore. For years it was a guer-
rilla warfare. The shadow of big names
carried it through. The trust problem,
the foreign elements equitable status,
the consolidation of railroads, the alarm
ing growth of all corporations, state.
federal and alien: the immensely of the
power of corporate aggregated
wealth, and the consequent peril
of the country as a whole, are
all ideas, yet in the shotgun, minnie rifle
or pistol practice on glass balls, stage
and time only will prove whether they
are evolved to while away a tedious
hour, scatter and harmlessly fall, or
pierce the thought of statesmen and be-
come at last fact.
THEORIES ROUSE MEN QUICKER THAN
PRACTICAL QUESTIONS.
Strange as it is, while wealth is the
handspring of ninety per cent OF our
peoples pregnant thought and living &C.
ton, and more men will risk honor, haz-
ard comfort, imperil liberty and life,
deaden conscience and face almost GER
tain losses to gain money and property,
yet we chase theory year after year with
but little profit TO ourselves or mankind,
when by determined stand we might
become prosperous in few years and
spend the best half of life IN the prosecu
ton of theories without end, with no loss
to ourselves. and perhaps be benefit to
Kansas, if not to any other people. And
this brings Us to
OUR KANSAS IDEA
Kansas statesmen, capitalists, bankers,
SINNERS and editors conformity possess