Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-17
NAL rates." then Wichita is entitled to

But we do not desire, at this time tc
pointedly discuss this matter. Wichita
has shown no undue haste, but patiently
waited until the bulk of her traffic would
warrant move, in the meantime allow
ing two great wholesale houses to
90 back to ST. Joseph and Kan
sas City rather than ask too
soon. Wichita returns more property,
pays more taxes, is more powerful in
wealth than any city in Kansas, and hay
ing done more in securing the different
railway systems and railway mileage to
Kansas than any other community, does
not propose to go down in the interest of
''long hauls" for the building up Of Mis-
souri, and Illinois towns at the behest or
demand of any number Of railway man
ayers and traffic agents, however high
their salaries, or however unsatisfactory
the dividends of the foreign stock
holder who puts up the salaries of these
officials. This appeal for rehearing, of
itself, is but a dilatory movement, de-
feating for the time the ben
efits designed by the commission
ers through their order and thus
working an immediate injury to
this city, not only, but to all Of the peo-
Piles and communities of southwest Kan
sas who are looking to Wichita as pres
ent and future market. If the traffic
and other managers of those protesting
railroads don't know enough of south
west Kansas and of its immense re-
sources and possibilities to realize that
Ill the sustaining Of great central mar
ket within its area will result in such
additional prosperity of its citizens and
additional development of the country
as to thousand times better reward and
sustain their lines than the narrow, i'm
poverishing ''long haul principle, then
they do not know enough to properly
and wisely fill the positions which they
hold.
In view Of all the determinations
against the immense tonnage of this city
In the past as compared to the favorit-
ism shown towns not one-half
or one. fourth as important;
in view Of what is now offered this city
in the way of new trunk line and in
two extensions from Wichita out into
the territory naturally tributary to her,
and in view of the fact that the Kansas
railroads represent but fraction of the
wealth of their foreign owners, while
the farms and the towns and the cities
of southwest Kansas represent the sum
total of the wealth of a people who de-
sire and demand great market built up
within their reach, and who favor
Wichita as that place only because she
has the lead and always had the prestige,
and which people can not only cause to
upset, In a years time, the railway
legislation of this state, but made the
railway commissioners themselves
elective and with judicial powers to en-
force their mandates; and in face of this
rehearing after the order should have
been in force; and this rehearing with
out any opportunity for Wichita to be |
present to answer, this article may seem |
somewhat tame; but, wepromise the one
hundred and twenty-five communities in /
southwest Kansas, which the EAGLE |
reaches as morning paper, and all their |
farming interests and dependencies |
that while we are conservative in all |
these matters, and have been forbearing |
and patient, that nevertheless, salaried |
and railway magnates, and ''long hauls" |
and short dividends from short crops. to |
the contrary Notwithstanding, south |
farmers and livestock raisers, a city for
her merchants, brokers, traders, and for |
her manufacturers And the EAGLE,
speaking for the interests of city whose |
business has for three years past reached.
according TO the bank clearing house re-
ports, from three-fourths to million
dollars week, and which by the same
standard will show one-half increase
in the near future, and speaking for a
section Of the state which contains nearly
half of the wealth of the state, and a
third Of its population, would suggest
that fair and honorable recognition of
these by the railroads might prove much
more profitable and advantageous to
their properties, than railway revolu-
ton wherein receiverships would absorb
even more margins than are at present
gathered in by determinations in max
ing Kansas tributary to outside cities,
and more money in the way of earnings
than is required to pay the princely sal
aries of the mel who spend their high
priced hours in figuring out just how
much freight charges the products of
Kansas and the goods of her merchants
will stand.
CATTLE AND HOGS IN THE SOUTH
WEST.