Wichita eagle., 1889-07-21
MISSOURI FOR aMIzOURIANS," KAN
SAS FOR .KANzANS."
Small Jobbing Centers Better than
hybrid Standing on Missouri Soil
with Its Tail in Kansas--We
Want the Mule to Re-
verse Himself

; The Kansas City Gazette hayIn
l honored US by the publication of lette
l without signature, contrary to til
usual rule of newspapers, and devoted
column in remarks on the same, and ais
mailed US copy CT the Gazette in car
of the EAGLE, we are like small dog a
dogshow, i. e. ''we have been noticed
by the old mastiff," hence our tail wag
. in glee.
= That have given additional interes
to the EAGLE is personal insult to it
editor, and all Eiffel tower compliment
to me, | have not given any thought t
the effect, either upward or downward
that this discussion may have on the
EAGLE. The question is, have we II
. anywise aroused additional interest il
Kansas and made anybody think?
am not writing to give additional inter
est III the EAGLE, but in the state.
SOME NEWSPAPERS IN KANSAS.
/ am aware that some of the news
papers of Kansas have written article:
Of and concerning Kansas City, Missouri
within the last two months which one
year ago the editors would have turned
off local reporter for writing, and for
City, Mo-, by next mail with an ap
pology.
We are aware that systematic hunt
has been commenced on kansas City,
Mo-" by some editors who have been
"toad eaters and ''crumb-gathers' at
Kansas City, Mo-, papers feet for at
least ten years; but so far are we from
thinking that anything we have written
| 70 oft of
we incline to the belief that they, like my
self, have run across some of the articles
written by the Gazette" in his twenty
odd years tenting on the plains at
junction City and haye caught the
spirit of the cold Kanzan." And in
this view the seed sown broadcast has
at last taken root; but whether it will
come to fruitage or only sprout, die and
decay is yet to be determined, and TO be
determined by ''Kanzans."
THE OMAHA RACKET.
The Gazette requested the EAGLE to
muzzle "Kanzan" because "Kanzan"
urged Kansas to trade at Omaha. 1t
will be of no benefit to argue what was
said in this connection in our screed on
Omaha, but after the statement that
railroad has been chartered from Cloud
county to Emporia, and from thence to
the southwest, by William Martindale
ct al, and that another charter is now
on its way to Topeka, chartering rail-
road from ga point on the north line of
the state, east of Cloud county, in a
southwesternly course, to some point on
the south line of the state west of the 9th
principal meridian believe l am war
ranted in stating that there seems to be
some other 'cranks" who believe that
there is a way to get to Chicago without
gong through a supposed natural gate
way" prepared by the Almighty to en-
able people to get west.
THE DIVINE LOCATION.
The philanthropic idea that the AL
mighty took drunken surveyor into his
confidence and took Himself on the Sni
hills and, in imitation of showing Moses
the Land of Promise" informed
the surveyor: There's the place
TO build an interstate metropolis,
is an older chestnut than q years old
one, and while it reflects credit on the
editor of the Gazette's ingenuity and be-
nevolence, yet as ''town site man" it
places the almighty" as poor judge of
real estate and bereft of the qualities de-
sired in ''boomer." l might say in all
sincerity that believe that the Almighty,
who made this plain, conceived it as
''the birth place of freedom;" as the pi-
oneer of ripper civilization. where ques-
tons Of morality were to be decided,
rather by instinct than dry reasoning"
and where even errors Of Judgment have
been on the humanitarian side of every
question presented.
This is the same "Almighty' who
is supposed to have looked with a fra
ternal eye on an interstate metropolis
at the Sni Hill, j, e. He created Kan
Fans to be killed by Missourians, because
kanzans wanted a free state; then en-
abled Kanzans to be the pioneers in the |
liberation of the slave and then bound !
the kanzan hand and foot to the same
enemy and said ''This is the place to |
build an Interstate metropolis"
This is the whole scheme if the Ga |
zette is correct that the Almighty person. !
ally superintended the survey and loca-
ton of Kansas City, Mo.
This may be the Missourians' God, but |
it is not the Kansan's.
If the Gazette can even re-
motely establish Its theory on the loca-
ton of Kansas City, Mo-, it will do more
TO down the Christian religion than In
gersoll and all his followers, for the rea-
son that Christianity is based on the
wisdom" and not on the ''idiocy" of the
and the establishment of a
trust or combination between the AL
mighty and Missouri "to down Kansas
will overthrow the entire moral scheme,
and leave the world in utter darkness.
We will now leave the theological
part of the Gazette editorial, with the
wish that the Gazette editor will get on
mis- blended knees and ask contritelv to
be forgiven for the expression of such
treason to the state of Kansas, and his
in publicly rejecting on the
wisdom of his Maker.
THE INTERSTATE METROPOLIS DESIGNED
BY NATURE
Being neither a newspaper man or a
regular writer. l confess to feeling of
timidity in answering the prac-
teal part of the Gazette's
article on the future of Kansas.
SO long as the question was purely one
Of theology. | was to 1.-The manner born"
but on questions of practical moment
am indeed "a prairie rooster with
clipped wing" 1t is said fools rush
where angels fear to tread. am not an
angel, hence | rush.
LABOR, NOT LUCK, MAKES TOWNS.
! assert that labor, not luck. makes
men, towns, cities, states, empires and
that the Almighty did not
create men rs unfiedged birds to sit
with open mouths TO catch whatever
WAS i-ODDp1 than. that