Wichita eagle., 1889-04-10

to this problem if the east will read the
future In viewing the past. Boston.
Lynn, too, want market for boots and
shoes and other wares emphasis is put
on boots and shoes, for the reason that
this is the dividend" of those points J
Kansas, with an area of 10000 square
miles. has no boot and shoe manufac-
tory, at least nothing worth mentioning.
1t has no jobbing trade, no wholesale
trade in boots and shoes. The demand
of Kansas is not for manufactures so
much as for the manufactured product
ready for market, not retail market, but
wholesale or jopblng market.
Wichita, with 10000 people, five rail-
roads running out from every point of
! the compass (morning and evening
trains) reaching 40 towns daily
of an average population of
| 5000 people, demands that a
| boot and shoe trade be established as a
| centre from which to work this part of
Kansas, Texas and Colorado and beyond
south and west. A half million people
are tributary to Wichita. Two millions
can be made so if the boot and shoe Gen.
ire is started.
If the eastern manufacturer would in
terest himself to establish commission
houses, or a iobbing house, or induce
eastern men to establish them in Kansas,
Nebraska and Colorado, the demand for
the manufacturer would be over. The
east would find its own market in the
west. The west would thrive and be
willing tributary to the east. The man
ufacturer would run his works to the
highest point, and in addition to his
trade east would have a trade west,
which in growing year by year
would not in any wise menace the
eastern makers of boots and shoes, and
other products. The west in being
fully supplied with the manufactured
product would not feel the want of man.
ufacturing. In this way there would be
established that reciprocal relation be-
tween east and west which is desired on
the part of both-and which would be
beneficial to hoth,
This paper assumes that the east looks
to the west as one of the large users of
all its products; that it desires the con-
tinuance and growth Of all its industries
and the enlargement Of its trade in the
west. The increase of the population in
some Of the older states, which have to
live from their labor in the various
manufactures, will have evil effects I'M
less the output of the various industries
increases with the population, SO as to
give them employment, or emlgra-
ton from east to west is managed
with some degree of system. To my
mind, right or wrong, the establishment
of large commission houses or wholesale
jobbing houses over the west. with full
lines of goods, SO that each state is sup
piled with goods, Is the solution of the
manufacturing problem both east and
west. The west being fully supplied
with manufacturing products, and hav-
ing its jobbing houses all over, it will
cease to care about where goods are
made; but SO long as the jobbing inter-
est is neglected it at once reaches the
conclusion that manufactures is the SOL
ution of the problem.
The east may say if these are needed,
what is the reason it is not done. The an
swer to this is-1st, newness and want of
capitul; End, the many things that never
bother built town are crowding for
notice in new one, and capital is in
vested in twenty things instead of one
thing, but time will correct this. II the
manufacturer will study this thing che
will see it to his interest to increase his
eastern manufactory to supply a purely
western permanent trade, but a neglect
of this will eventually be realized as the
west grows older, richer, stronger and
turns its attention to manufacturing.
1t is hoped that this question will be
investigated by the east and distributive
centers established in the west for their
products, resulting in profit to both.