Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-04


web and wool of our polity
and history and transmit them &c
their posterity as legacy over which
there will be no quarrels and which
time will not tarnish, or ages abrase.
There are some such men in Kansas;
every reader of this will in his own mind
name some of them, and but for bad
taste we might in this paper address
them and demand in the name of our
broad and fertile prairies, in behalf OF
the weak and struggling condition of the
commercial, industrial and manufactur-
ing interests of kansaS-in behalf of the
infancy of the sugar and salt interests OF
the state, both of which promise en-
ployment to thousands and wealth to us
all, and one of which is crippled by in
fuences exerted over the carrier by cor
porations out of the state. hoping to con-
troll, if not weaken and destroy our bud
ding industry-in behalf of the packing
interests of the state; in behalf of the
cities of Kansas whose future is being
throttled by Kansas City, Mo-, and
whose shippers in every trade, highway
and avenue of business from the most
humble to the highest, daily pays tribute
to Missouri. either directly or indirectly,
through influences brought to bear on
the carrier and in the interest of city
whose growth and present prosper
| ity and wealth is the measure
of Kansas stupidity, Incidence,
commercial pauperism and dependence,
and whose future growth is inimical to
the growth. prosperity, power, railroad
and commercial interests, as well as the
capitalization of Kansas. In the name OF
the independence of the state, free from
restriction in our own business. In the
name of the unsettled prairies whose
rich settlement Is Kansas wealth; In the
name of the promising field south OF
Kansas whose trade we should enjoy on
equal footing with other states.
In the name of all these things it is
demanded that the abilities exerted in
our behalf in other ways be now exerted
in wiping out the state of commercial
vassalage which for years has stained
our name, weakened our power, re-
pressed our growth, dimmed our glory
ana impoverished our finances. Unite
us at home, free us from the alien, as
sist us to get to the east by going north
west of Kansas City, No., and south and
southeast of it; take hold earnestly of
the deep harbor problem, shorten our
line to the ocean, not to humiliate Mis-
souri,, but to build up Kansas;
add millions to its wealth
and millions to our population; break
the power Of Missouri bankers over Kan
sas banks; bring home the foreign cor
poration in fact and local in name; COM
| pei business to be transacted at home
and force the money to the west side OF
the line.
THIS DEMAND IS FOR COMMERCE.
We demand that you do this not to
gain present popularity, not for the
huzzas of mob, not for transient graf
itude of a people, but that you, to life
sufficiently distinguished to satisfy the
cravings of ordinary men. to a name al
ready honorable, add another flower to
be entwined in the cypress wreath with
which to adorn you brow; when full of
years you ''lie down to pleasant dreams
on soil consecrated TO liberty, viz: The
imperishable laurel of bestowing on
your state commercial freedom equal
to the civil liberty which we now enjoy.
AN IDEA MUST HAVE POWER BEHIND 1T.
An ''idea" cannot be enforced by a
name bereft of power, shorn OF in
fluence, unknown and inglorious. There
must be giant powder, accompanied by
him behind the idea carries a weight.
A small man behind counter, desk or
pillow would scarcely dispute with a
known brainy man on the only thing
the small man knows anything about
and of which the great man knows but
little.
Daily we see the cringing before
name. Power, wealth and influence
har %
and for this reason in this endeavor 10
wrest from Kansas City, Mo-, that
which belongsto Kansas, we believe that
every kansan should throw the weight
of his name into the scale.
The writer of this paper has but little
at stake in this kansas VS.. Missouri
fight, and is so unknown that name
appended hereto might destroy the force
of this paper. "But were l Brutus, and
were Brutus Anthony then there
would be an Anthony that should move
the stones of the cities of Kansas to rise
in meeting" against the long continu-
ance of this serfdom Of eighty thousand
square miles of supposed Independent
manhood, to a "mongrel city" every tile
of whose roofs and every brick in whose
buildings represent the sweat of Kan
sans, and proclaim the want of genuine
state patriotism on the part of our peo-
pie.
There are those in Kansas whom 1.-The
worlds loud tongue proclaims them re-
plete with power and influence, on
whom Kansas has showered honors and
to whom it hath right to look for as
sistance at this Juncture.
RAILROAD CONCESSION.
The first railroad concession is but a
bone thrown to a beggar, and though
the bone be juicy and sustain life the
pauper knows it is bone and feels hui
inflated. We want no concessions: we
a fee simple estate pays no rent. The
land is ours, and we should have the
rents, issues and profits thereof.
There are those that affect TO believe
that Kansas cannot by a united effort
pull the lions skin from off this Mis-
souri, ASS back. These men are either
moral towards, or h. &c a selfish interest
in the maintenance of Kansas City,
Missouri, and in either event should be
discredited. No fair-minded man can
view the situation without apprehension.
The state of Iowa today Is building up
iobbing centers east, west, north and
central, and though the aggregation Of
these centers are not equal 10 st. Louis,
they are larger than Kansas City, Mo-,
and of vastly more benefit than one city
on an extreme border, no matter what
size il may grow TO.
HE who forsaketh his own people
and delighteth TO serve an opponent shall