Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-28
KANSAS FOR S-"MISSOURI'
FOR THE "PUKES."
To the Editor of the Eagle.

Tothe Editor ofthe Eagle.
The Kansas City c'Mizzoury'D Star
having admitted that we had some abil
ity, i. e., "knack o uniting sentences,
for example, stringing 'em together a
beads SO as to give an effect to the whole
we cannot but be fattered, as we die
not, even in our widest vagaries, credi
''Mizzourian" with discernment boil
so perspicuous and veracious, and with
out investigation we conclude that the
Star is not a ''puke" by instinct or incli
nation, but from force of circumstances
Even as we write, vainly trying to solve
this 'Mizzouri" equation with unknown
quantities, text comes to us unbidden
"Can any good thing come up out o.
Nazareth. i, 46.
1t is said we are on the wrong side OF
this question. Then it is admitted that
there are two sides. Il thank thee, Jew.
for teaching me that word;" yet Kan
sans are those who shall finally settle
whether we are right or wrong, and q
verdict by ''Mizzourians" will decide
nothing. We are lnsensible to "Miz-
rourian's" compliments and Indifferent
to his surs. We ''are as the deaf adder
that stoppeth her ear"
Next to riding DER the plains of Kan
sas where
Now teemng fields of golden grain
By the eye of the traveller are seen,
Where once a naked, treeless plain,
A SHINING sheen, waving sea OF green
Nothing delights us SO much as going
through "Mizzouri" and ''picken" up
beer and 'terbacker in the hand" sta
tistics, and comparing the squalor,
density of ignorance, and primative
vices of these biped (surposed to be
created in the image of Divine Sover-
eign) with the morality, prosperity and
knowledge of my own bright Kansas.
AS the dweller in the valley cannot
appreciate the grandeur of the mountain,
nor be moved by the emotions that come
to one in that SOLITARY converse with
nature" neither can the mountaineer
| fathom the sweetness of the valley. So
with the Kansan and the Missourian.
The Kansan cannot know his wealth
| till he has viewed the degradation of
''Mizzouri;" nor can the ''Ishmaelite"
know his abject poverty until his eye
| hath drank in the charming vision of
the Kansan, on our boundless plains,
whose immigrants after the war was
over, cheat their swords into pillow
shares, and their spears into pruning
hooks, and came west. all singing:
Come, along, come along, don't be
alarmed;
Uncle Sam is rich enough to give US all a
farm;
Come along g. come along, make no delay.
| Come from every nation, come from ey'ry
way"
Often in riding through Missouri my
mind hath tried to invent excuses
for the ''being" Of Missouri. Nothing
but the faith possess in the wisdom of
Creator has kept down the feeling that
Divinity was not chargable with this
particular genus of mankind. Often l
have said to myself: Is it possible that
the same Divinity that moulded the
Kansan moulded the ''pule," and if so
one must be common ''yaller" dirt and
the other the ''clay of the gods?" Yet as
everything was created to subserve
wise purpose. the final conclusion hath
been reached that Him "who doeth all
things welP' must have intended to make
llzzOuri-it5 customs, ways, habits,
mode Of action and arrogant, ragged,
unambitiouS pride-a negative example
to mankind IN general and Kansas in
particular, and intended Kansas to be
the cynosure of modern progressive
civilization and an example to the
world to be emulated but not SUR
passed in quick and ripe development.
Let one take the age, natural resources
and the wealth of the two states and
figure and see if there is any other
rational conclusion; one of them agri-
cultural and mineral, capable of support
offf la1 g
the other preserved in the archives of
our government as a barren waste, I'M
inhabitable desert; one of them miser-
able dependent in the midst of plenty;
the other beehive on prairie, creating
resources; the one examplifying the fable
of the ant and butterfly: the other act
ing on the wholesome truth ''that the
law of this earth is work." has domon-
strated, that
Natural resources are ofJ-times curses,
Deadening "A state to healthy exertion,
While state without 'em its energy
nurses,
Labors and thinks and works out its
salvation.
One more word to the Star: In view
of the above moral disquotation and
philosophical dissertation, it seems to US
that we are squarely on Gods side of this
Kansas VS.. Missouri fight; hence we
must be on the right side.
Twinkle, twinkle little "Star,"
Just above yon sandy bar,
As the day grows fainter and DINNER,
\ iitful light, an uneasy glimmer
Is emitted by lonely star"
THE KANSAS CITY GAZETTE"
The Kansas City Gazette has n ratio
of: as 2O00 900 is to 10000 so 800, 600 is TO
100000. This example is correct, but
there is no intimation as what part of
the half million will be Kansas when the
hybrid" reaches that point. If Kansas
City, in Missouri, is to keep the same
proportion over Kansas City, Kansas, we
kick" if, however, Kansas City, Kan
sas, is to have $780, 600 of the half million
and Missouri is to have the rest, no
reasonable kansan should object, even
though some of our lair castles will be
ruined thereby. Personally we will re-
jolce when to say kansas City" means
the Kansas part, for then the "muie"
will have reversed himself.
For, brethren. say unto you, that
there will be more joy in the house of
Israel over the reversal of this mule than
over ten thousand that turned not
about
If Kansas City hopes to rise by clinging
TO the Kansas City, Missouri. kite after
furnishing the tail TO support in its
fight, then it ought to sink.