Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-17
A METROPOLIS FOR KANSAS,
Kansas City, Kansas, the Point Designed
by Nature-A Few Remarks by a
Wichita Crank
From the Kansas City Gazette.

From the Kansas City Gazette.
The Wichita EAGLE has for some
weeks past been of additional interest
because of a series of articles signed
I"kanzan," under the significant head,
kansas for Kansans; Missouri for Mis-
sourians.' The drift of the articles is a
feature of the windy but heroic fight
Wichita is making against Kansas City,
Mo.
The Gazette has mission, and it is in
harmony with that of the ''crank" at
Wichita. Our mission is to save unto
Kansas that which is being lost through
the geographer, who is unable to beat
nature. 1t was an unfortunate accident
for Kansas when some short-sighted sur
veyor cut Kaw'smouth in two with a
state line, but looking att from higher
altitude, there is no doubt but that ma
ture and the surveyor conspired to make
an interstate metropolis at this point.
In celebrating on his mission the new
crank at Wichita stopped over and urged
the people of Kansas to trade at Omaha
instead of Kansas City. We requested
the editor of the EAGLE to muzzle him.
The EAGLE man intimated that he was
terror, and begged to be excused. The
IlGN Cldilk IL fiO" cHSdSSu III
on the number of hogs and cattle in
given sections, showing that 1t is easier
than rolling off log for people to build
their own packing house and do their
own killing. Biased probably by hat
full of stock in creameries, canneries,
packing houses, ETC., we ventured to say
that we had strewn the pathway of life
for tweDty-seven years with able edi-
torials in the same direction. only to
witness things flowing right along to a
center.
This prompts our unknown friend to
address the Gazette as follows:
WICHITA, July 13. 1850,
To the Editor Of the Kansas City Gazette.
Pardon my addressing you without
formality of introduction. frenchman
once said be was his own ancestor. l am
my own introducer: Also overlook my
signature, as it would not add anything.
1t takes a big man TO sign his name.
Small men look better without calling at
tention TO obscurity. Ny sig, 'Kanzan,n
is enough | am not bothered with the
thought that "ksnzan" will ever be
bounded as a "Juuius' or quarreled about
as the Arthur Richmond papers" now
are.
| note your "squib'' Of twenty-seven
wears of labor ous effort TO convince the
people that Kansas was an empire
and that she might be commercially inde-
pendent. Your work was local. your audi
euce small, your people poor, your
wealth local. your state undeveloped,
pour home cut Oh from connection
with the commercial world, and you were
as one crying in the wilderness"
The hour had not come, when
a, Junction" you labored In the field.
Your co-workers were poor, and scattered
abroad You were the kansas old /
date from the grasshopper-the FIRE that
purified the plaiu-the beginning OF the
New kanzau." You commenced your
labors-
an the old days" when the qrairies were
free,
Aud naughs save cattle on them were
seen.
When the "Kanzsu old'' in frolicsome glee,
Sank TO sweet rest oc carpet OF green
Ny humble efforts are in 4 different
field, under changed conditions and In =
world created since you pounded, pounded,
pounded for the chestnut am pounding
for. Slavery was pounded on, generation
after generation. Ths old men died-the
boys fell in. Loveioy was murdered. and
the army marched on; John Brown hung.
the army marched on: Lincoln elected the