Wichita eagle., 1889-06-27

Kansas, and no doubt Will De neart
from again, as no city with the pusl
| and enterprise she has shown will bt
kept in the background long.
MIsSo ORR FOR MISSOUR1ANS, KAN
SAS FOR KANSANS.
| To the Editor Of the Eagle.
The Kansan who today stands In aw,
of Kansas City, No., should move t.
Missouri. The Kansan who believes tina
we can not build better town on Kan
sas soil than Kansas City, Mo-, ought t.
go there at once.
Mirabeau had favorite saying: "Ht
will succeed, he believes all he says
This is true of the EAGLE, true of WITCH
ita, true Of the southwest, and may bt
true Of Kansas from the east to the west
the north and the south.
Kansans should remember that the
railroads did not make Kansas. Missouri
had railroads, but oh! the people. Coo
Almighty made Kansas, made it for &
purpose. Made it as the birth place OF
freedom.
Kansas has soil, Missouri rocks, and
rills, hills, hollers, brooks, briars, and
ore. ore; yet Kansas has the soil and the
people.
Its location, climate, homesteads and
Indian lands peopled it. Its level
prairies made railroading holiday and
the railroads had to come. We were so
situated geographically that we had to
be crossed. We are crossed. We will
be crossed, and Kansas City. Missouri,
like pauper has simply taken what we
put in its mouth.
When we quit feeding it will qui,
eating, but it will still have beer, beer,
beer. Beer to drink, beer to swill, beer
to ship. But if the beer business ever
stops its trade is gone.
kansanS must remember that great
undertaking must have the support OF
the common people.
When all the people think on any
given question, the majority usually
think right.
Kansas people have looked on Kansas
City much as man looks at big steer
at fair. They think he is huge with
out giving a thought to the fact, Kansas
corn fattened this beast. Now, as a
Kansan, want our corn kept at home,
AT present the vote in the eastern
states has set KansanS to talking on the
liquor law.
AS am suitable candidate for eight
or ten offices, l must be discreet as to
my real opinions, and l desire to submit
some facts-for Kansans-to think about
concerning the City of Kansas, in the
grand old, undeveloped state of Mis-
souri,.
Frst-There is one mile of saloon and
bawdy house frontage in the City of
Kansas, in the grand old state of Mis-
souri,.
Think of it, $3.50 feet of beer and
prostitution.
If there was a prohibitory liquor law
in Missouri there would be $3.50 feet of
empty business frontage or 500 empty
business houses.
The Kansan who talks about the fine
business streets of Kansas City, Missouri,
does not stop to consider that 500 of
those SO called business houses are beer,
beer, beer and prostitution, both of
which are considered by some good
as illigitimete and somewhat
demoralizing, if not positively destruc-
tive.
Second-Banish beer in the United
States and Kansas as state
will present to Jan impartial observer
the most prosperous business outlook
and the fewest empty residences and
business houses of any state in the
union.
There is not "beer-guzzling' state in
the union that could make the business
showing Kansas makes on its streets if
beer was outlawed.
Personally l cannot make up my mind
until after the next nominating conven-
ton whether l am for liquor or "agin"
it, but if all the states in the union had
the prohibitory liquor law, Kansas
would be the cleanest and brightest for
a man to come to to find home, educate
his children. or make living, and my
Judgment is Kansas City. No., would
present the general appearance of town
struck with cyclone.
Kansas City without beer would be
blind orphan in a wilderness. That peo-
pie, deprived of beer, would be as fam
ily suddenly bereft Of father, Chris
tan of his faith in the future, Jew
with the repeal of the binding clauses of
1.-THE old dispensation." Oh! the misery
of being without beer at Kansas City,
would be the quick realization
of the Calvanistic hell on earth.
Empty houses in Kansas towns is the
standing local of the Kansas City (NIo.)
press. and yet if beer was outlawed Kan
sas City homes would present the
mournful spectacle presented in the
New Testament when Herod issued his
writ of 'habeas corpus" for the child
rem.
Out on the empty house local. Empty
YOUR beer in the street and the press OF
Kansas City, Mo-, would stop the issue
of papers and turn the entire type over
to Job printers to print: ''Houses and
saloons to rent at a cut rate
Business in Kansas City, Mo-:
Five thousand people dependent on
her for living.
Twenty-Five thousand habitual drink
ers.
twenty-five thousand moderate drink
ers.
Twenty-Five thousand genteel drinkers.
twenty-five thousand paupers and the
contingent.
Banish beer. what has Kansas City to
live for?