Wichita eagle., 1889-03-01
For the Eagle.
SNOW,
Light-winged fairies, descend from your cloud.
homes,
Drop from fair shoulders your mantles Of white,
Spread the soft folds DER the earth's throbbing
bosom,
Hide its dark sins meath your dazzling light
Wichita, Kan, Feb. p, $50. &C. P. J.
WE THINK so ALSO.


Personally we are sorry that Rev. J. D.
Hewitt made the statements attributed to
him at that meeting night before last, not
that we would deny or affirm, through the
public prints, the purport of any private
and confidential talk, but sorry in that it
affects the estimate we heretofore enter
tanned of his character.
Touching the repeal of the ordinances al
luded to, it is not our understanding
that there was any wholesale repeating
as claimed, but only such old ordinances
as conhicted with the oaths and duties of
druggists under the new state law, that,
in fact, the ordinances repealed were only
those which were considered as conflicting
or as entirely unnecessary so far as the en-
forcement of the prohibitory was concern
ed. However that all is very musty old
chestnut.
AS for the opinions and expressions of
Rudolph Hatfield, Anna Taylor and the
other prominent politicians present. of
course we agree % with them in all their
broad catholicity and high moral conser-
vatism. We think with them, of course,
that tho present city administration has
been extravagant and awfully corrupt and
that the EAGLE failed in its plainest duty
to the people when it refrained from ex
posing Joe Allen and his gang of boodlers
every morning in the year. We think
with them, of course, that the editor of
this paper connived with Hewitt to get a
police commission and that we went to
Topeka to urge it upon John A. Martin.
We think with them, of course, that the
Wichita police commission has been the
greatest, undisguised blessing that was
ever bestowed upon hard-necked, unwil-
ling people, and that the only bigger and
better thing would be two boards
OF police commissioners or maybe
one for every ward. We think
with them. of course, that with
police commission and strong ordin
ance against wickedness generally and
drinking in particular, that any man
could squat on the open prairie anywhere
and build up great commercial MEGA in
just no time at all. We think with them.
of course, that straight is the road and
narrow is the gate to the Good Place, and
that very few eyer enter therein, while the
great crowd are surging recklessly along on
the more popular down grade for the
hotter place. We think with them, of
course, that Farmer K'' and brothers
Payne and Reynolds and all the other
fellows who have saved up their
money by the sweat of their
brows, should be empowered to stand on
the corners with shot guns and see that
the police commissioners do their whole
duty and to blow up the EAGLE occasionly
with dynamite or hang its editor who
seems SO wholly unfit to longer embarrass
the situation. We think with them, of
course. that all history is replete with ex
amples wherein cities have waxed great
with lots selling for 5000 per front foot
simply by their people sitting around and
bowling over the sins of each other; also.
that all history shows that precept and
example have proved fiat failures In incul-
eating morality and religion, while moth
ing has ever equalled in elevating the
morals of the world like strong, infexible
laws backed by hatred, fire and sword.
We think with them, of course, that but
for temperance, lewdness and wickedness
in high and low places New York,
Boston and Chicago might have be-
come great cities, and that Kan
sas City would be much more
attractive resort for the members of the
Kansas legislature and the average Kan
san should that city adopt prohibition and
abolish all her cussed wickedness. We
think with them of course, that thousands
of capitalists, jobbers and manufacturers,
from all the great cities of Cincinnati,
Chicago and st. Louis would pour into
Wichita but for the faint suspicion that
there might, in truth, be some foundation
for the rumor that there is now and then
an ungodly citizen here so far lost to all
respect for the police commissioners as to
take nip on the sly now and than, or
when feeling little depressed. We think
with them of course that nobody sizes up
in vast overshadowing Importance with
the presi lent of that meeting and with
the eX-pr, s.dent of the w. c. 7. T., ard
that there can be no high priced
lots, no general prosperity, no COM
mercial greatness attainable and no
great city built except where the
ideas promulgated by that meeting do not
dominate and control, including female
suffrage and all the other rot sentiment of
II am better than thou" We think with
them, of course. and in conclusion, that
great majority of our readers who may
read this will think rats" and in this
thought our critics of that meeting includ- /
ing Rudolph, Anna and Hewitt, must ex-
cuse us if after thinking with them at such |
great length that we choose in the wind !
up TO think just once with the great ma
lority, rats