Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-03
MISSOURI FOR MISSOURIANS, KAN
SAS FOR KANSANS.
"Rabid Communications and Kansas Hy-
drophobia" VS.. Gall, Prostitution
and "Jim-JamS"
To the Editor Of the Eagle.

| To the Editor Of the Eagle.
| The issue is made, is accepted.
Kansans may become "rabid commu'
nieations" and have hydrophobia on
question of Kansas trade and freight.
Possibly they may "froth," but they will
not have the Jim jams and wipe beer
froth from their lips. Hydrophobia is a
disease, not vice. ''Jim-jams and its
accompaniment are vices. We are dis
eased; Kansas City is putrid, rotten,
| vicious. Its revenues are from immor-
ality, drunkenness and Kansas trade and
commerce, and if these sources of supply
| are stopped it will languish, tester, and
become petrifed putrifaction.
| To be accused of being rabid, when l
think of the years that my state has been
humbled by Kansas City, Mo-; of the
immensely of the tonnage sent out of NJ
state to build up Kansas City, Mo-; of
what we are in commerce.; of what we
might have been long, long years ago;
of what we may be, if we work earnestly.
To be accused of being "rabid" in view
of these things is tribute, not slur.
am proud of it,,
Kansas is rabid.
1t was rabid on slavery. Has Kansas
City. Mo-, forgotten it?
1t was rabid on prohibition.
1t is rabid on the question of sugar and
salt, packing houses, corn, hogs, cattle
and wheat, and when the entire state be-
comes rabid on independence in COM
merce, IN all its branches and railway
lines, go from Kansas northwest and
southeast of Kansas City it will in its
intervals of sobriety experience hydro
phoba, but it will never become "rabid. "
When Kansas is not rabid it approach
es Missouri attribute.
When we have had our period Of
''rabidness" we have progressed.
The nearest approach 'to rabidness"
that Kansas City has ever had is when
the police make raid on houses of ILL
repute and threaten to enforce the Sun
day law.
KANSAS CITY PAPERS.
Kansas City papers may boom Kansas
but never Missouri.
Kansas City papers may give statistics
of Kansas crops and freight. to prove
the grand aggregate of its freight, but
no Kansas City editor has yet gath
cred the statistics of Missouri's crop of
"hoop-poles," railroad ties and ''ter-
DdChcI lduly 1Hd oCht tlAChA oCi Cuo
as an immigration scheme, for the grand,
old, undeveloped state of Missouri.
The state of Missouri, it is said, raised
seven million pounds of ''terbacker,'
sold four millions.
Conclusion-The inhabitant ''chawed"
the rest. This is Missouri enterprise F"
No Kansas citizen ever had cause to
grow rabid, because neighboring state
was becoming enriched from Missouri
products. They may have the Jim
Jams, but never, never become ''rabid. "
Relative to the "rabid communica-
ton" Kansas hydrophobia theory have
story: "Once wicked family had a
sinful son bitten by snake, and in view
of death 'ensooing a minister was
called, who caught on to the surround
ings, and he prayed that each member of
the family be bitten by a reptile nine
teen feet and seven and one-haIf inches
long, to the end that they all be re-
formed" If Kansans were all rabid on
the question Of state trade independence
Kansas City people would mix hydro
phobia with their "jim-jams.
We are content to be rabld; we are
free from the ''jim-jams.
.RABIp" KANsAS.