The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-30
WICHITA ASKS NO ODDS.

puDISned Yesterday IHOInlnS, anu 10
two or three like ingracious filings APP
pearing in central Kansas newspapers
within the week, the EAGLE begs leave
to indulge in a few observations for
the benefit of all such people, as well
as for that of the state at large.
Wichita is the only independent and
self-sustained city in the state of Kan
sas. All other towns of importance
have been built up, largely, and are to-
day fostered and sustained by either
state money or by railroad money or
bv both combined. Wichita is the
only city in the state that has de
pended entirely upon her own re-
sources, the only city that has been
the architect of her own fortunes.
Kansas City has the State Blind
asylum. railroad repair shops and
round houses: Lawrence has the State
university and an Indian school: Leav-
enworth has the penitentiary, the Fed
eral fort and the Soldiers home; Atch-
ison has the Soldiers Orphans home
and railway repair shops; Fort Scott
was founded on a government fort
and has railway repair shops; Olathe
has the Deaf and Dumb ASYLUM;
Manhattan has the State Agricultural
college: Beloit has the Girls Reform
school; Emporia has repair shops,
round house and the State Normal;
Topeka has the State House, the State
Printing house, the Insane ASYLUM all
the state offices and railway repair
shops and general offices; Winfield
has the State Idiot School; EiDOrado
has railway repair shops; Newton has
repair shops and a round house; Ar
kansas City has repair shops; Yelling
ton has repair shops; Hutchinson, State
Reformatory. Each of thsse towns are
daily and yearly drawing large sums
of money in the aggregate from the
state and from the railway corpora
tons, which money goes directly into
the hands of their trades people.
Wichita does not, nor never has re-
ceived a cent from either of these
sources which have so largely built up
up and sustained Topeka, Leaven-
worth, Lawrence and the other towns,
and but for which would have failed
TO be anything or would have utterly
collapsed in the absence of such I'M
earned and gratuitous support.
That interviewed Mr.. j. II. Pitzer,
of Arkelon, Seward county who
in that Topeka Dispatch of
yesterday so vehemently denounced
county, was not aware
probably that Sedgwick county pays
more money to keep up these same
institutions which in turn constitute
the life of these same towns, than is
paid into the state treasury by any
other county in the state of Kansas,
from which state Sedgwick county
has never received a cent.
Wichita is asking no odds, aid nor
sympathy from the rlng-towns of
Kansas, from their newspapers, nor
from their bosses, who regularly form
in the legislatures to
bleed the state of the money of
which Sedgwick county puts
up more than any county
in the state. These bosses
of these ring-towns, named, have never
had any use for Wichita nor for Sedg-
wick county. They have not only re-
fused her a state institution, but de-
MED her, Systematically, every time
she has asked either a congressman, a
senator or a governor. The bosses of
these combined ring-towns not only
continue TO draw hundreds of thous-
ands and millions of dollars annually
from the state treasury, which directly
sustain their towns through these pet
state institutions, but their papers and
politicians are eternally, like this man
from Arkelon, decrying Wichita, which
will, just as sure as the sun
continues to shine and the rain to fall
in the Arkansas valley and in south
Kansas. make the greatest city in the
state of Kansas if indeed not
the greatest in the vest, Kan
sas City nor Denver excepted.
She asks no sympathy from
the ring-towns and she defies her de-
famers. Her independent enterprise
and business methods have done more
to make and sustain a good market for
the live stock and grain products of
Kansas than any half-dozen of the
cities. named, combined
The weekly reports of the bank clear
ing house shows that Wichita handles
more than twice as much money a
the biggest of these ring towns, with
all their railway pay rolls and contin-
ued flow of money from the peoples
treasury. For solid, independent self
won greatness, the state of Kansas has
only Wichita 10 quote or boast.
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