Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-11-21
WICHITA AND HER EAGLE.

| There is law-abiding, elevated, chris
| tian element in Wichita, but it appears to
have no representation in the daily papers.
The sympathies of the editor of the EAGLE
are with the higher and better class of
people in Wichita. They are naturally
| his kind of people. Why don't he come
out and stand by them? Show your true
| colors, Colonel Murdoch. Journal.
Too little taffy, too much aquafortis,
friend Frank. The most "law-abiding.
elevated, christian element that ever
composed a community. Truly said.
and the EAGLE is their organ. They not
only command the sympathy of its
editor, but he even makes their appeals
for charity, for their churches, for the
Sabbath and for all that they
desire for good. We rejoice with them
when their children are born, sympa-
thize with them when their sons and
daughters marry and depart, weep with
them over their dead and write kind
words for them on all occasions. They
are indeed naturally cur "kind Of peo-
ple." We have many times and oft
dropped our own concerns, left wife and
babes and travelled from one end of the
continent to the other in the interests
of this element. We have refused
offered fortunes for their sakes, and we
will, dear Journal, come out and stand
by them in our true colors, stand by
them now as in the past, and for the
future, henceforth and forever. Be they
for prohibition, resubmission, or for local
option and high license, we never can go
back with our sympathies on these
"higher and better elements for which
the Journal so earnestly appeals.
But truth compels us to inform our
Topeka contemporary that all of the
claw abiding, elevated Christian ele
ments of the higher and better class are
not found among either of the classes al
luded to. There are some of these nice
kind of people to be found even among
the Democrats, to whom no a1lusion has
been made. Yet none of these classes
are entirely free from some of the most
miserable skunks that ever went I'M
mincemeated, crouching hounds of hell
with whom Matchmaking is virtue and
the robbery Of widows and orphans but
professional ethics. A specimen of this
latter class, who in regularly partaking
of the holy sacrament makes the devil
shudder with the horror of his sacrilege,
and who if he had his just deserts would
be arrayed like a zebra and put to pound
ing stone for the states sake. was around
only this week with call for meet
ing to sit down on the EAGLE and to
form an anti-saloon club. AS the hired
tool of one of the most disreputable
sneaks that ever annoyed people with
his Vaccinations, this same sponsor of
temperance and would-be example of
Christian character has been spending
months in trying to ruin the EAGLE
financially. If the Journal means this
kind of hypocritical assasins, we will
have to be excused.
When the EAGLE fails to voice the
sentiments of large majority of the
class of men and women to whom the
Journal refers; when it is no longer the
medium of the Christian organizations
of this city, of their charities, schools,
churches and homes, in reaching the
heads and hearts of the people; when it
is no longer recognized as the safe and
true champion of all the great material
interests of this people, then he who
writes these words will cease to be its
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