Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-20
WORLDLY WISDOM.
The Worth of the Words Which Wich-
tia is Winning.

The two or three articles from papers
of other states reproduced elsewhere in
this issue, embodying the opinions of
disinterested writers about Wichita. her
present and future, lead us to say:
Several thousand home people
have been realizing of late that
there is renewed and an
increasing life in not only all of
the business channels of Wichita, but
that it is stimulating every interest, in
short that prosperity is here whose
logical ultimate will be growth and ex-
pansion. This realization is not more
true than another, which is of no less
Importance, and that is that the great
business centers, especially the business
interests of the greater western cities,
are becoming, by increasing numbers,
convinced that Wichita is destined to be
a great city. The wisdom begotten of
conservatism in the older and richer CEN
tiers of trade, was wont to shake its
head as it declared that such phenom-
email growth as Wichita had shown
could only logically end in a disastrous
reaction. 1t has taken some time to
convince some, and it will take more
time to convince all, that Wichita is an
exception; yet, no more an exception, or
only such an exception as Kansas City,
Chicago, Minneapolis and other western
wonders have proved to be. The en-
compassment or mediumistic advan-
tages Of Wichita have been as excep-
tional as her prodigious growth and
therefore euch growth while exceptional
was none the less logical. The distrust
and adverse opinions, however, of the
conservative wisdom referred to, have
been felt by Wichita, but no less is she
now reaplng a benefit, and will in the
future reap far greater ones, through the
revised and the more permanent con-
illusions and convictions being forced by
her own example, and which outweighs
mere precepts which failed of truthful
application in this city's case.
Yesterday morning the commercial
reviews, appearing in our dispatches,
most clearly indicate stress, bordering on
panic. There is complaint everywhere,
which has been growing more distress
ing all summer. Yet in face of this
state of the country's business affairs,
and in face of close margins and only
slight increases in Kansas City, St.
Joseph, Omaha and other large western
towns, Wichita for months past has,
with the greatest regularity, week after
week, shown a large increased percent
age in her clearings, last week leading
every commercial city in the country in
such increase except one. These Incl
dental proofs of Wichita's stability,
these assurances that her opportunities
have not as yet been equalled, nor the
demands Of her tributary trade not met,
and that, therefore, greater growth and
must follow, have for several
weeks past been bringing to the city al
most daily, representatives of the great
jobbing concerns, from many of the
greater cities, who have shown no hesitan-
cy in declaring that, having become con-
vInced of Wichita's future as trade
center and commercial entrepot, they
had come in advance to see and de-
termine what the chances for foot hold
would be i'll the near future.
1t will be but short time now before
Wichita will not only begathering into her
markets the live stock product of all this
vast region, as also the grain harvests,
but from her great stores and ware
houses will the bulk of the retail trade
and its demands, for southern Kansas
and good portion Of Oklahoma be sup
piled.