Wichita eagle., 1890-01-05
TAKE Up 4 COLLECTION AND SEND THEM
AWAY.

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of grumbling grunters infesting this city
who, in the absence OF any power to
souelch, are earnestly, but none the less
kindly, beseeched to get up and get. They
are at liberty TO choose their own destina-
ton 80 it be beyond any possible chance OF
their insane whines ever reaching again
our much abused ears. They are mostly
Of class, male and female, who owe
what they have to Wichita. Having been
carried, and Unexpectedly carried, 10
financial heights Of which they never
dreamed before coming TO Kansas. having
been afforded glimpses OF social life and
tastes Of Iuxuries to which neither they
nor their Z ancestors ever even dared
aspire, now that times are a little
close and penalties for their wild, insane
speculative and wholly untenable and in
excusable ventures, have come home to
roost, they clamor IN senseless Criticisms
about matters Of which they are as il
capable :of compromising as pissant
would be of the siderial systems. Intelh-
gent kicking is no less entertaining than
profitable, but blind beefing bores. There
is logic as well as an object in the kick OF
a mule. but when it comes TO straddlIng
the shafts and bursting the breeding over
an ordinary wind collie the quicker the
boss is traded off the more remote will be
the chances for funeral The knots OF
lazy grunters, roarers, stump suckers and
wind broken wheezers, who spend their
days in cursing the city, and who form
funeral professions on the street corners
bemoaning the fact that money is not
found rolling around the sidewalk might
better go to work or pull out; land the women
vino, with diamonds dangling from their
ears, as they lounge III luxurious parlors,
the very appointments of which they
could not have comprehended a dozen
years since, had better hold their tongues,
doff their duds and hustle for the kitchen,
or otherwise persuade their complaining
halves to haul them of to ether climates.
1t is simply ridiculous-worse, it's ldlotlc
the way some OF these people are taking
on. Some of them say they would depart
if they could take anything away. The
truth is nine out of ten of them can take
away full more than they ever brought, IN
any event. There is this consolation. They
belong to the loafng and adventure classes
and are few in number, but they MAKE
enough noise to annoy sensible people.
Now, what are the facts, the existing
facts, touching the present status OF Wlch-
tia, her business, her values and her I'M
mediate future?
There is not business man in the city
that is, man who depends upon, looks TO
and only desires legitimate business-but
that knows that at no time isince garden
ers, peddlers and loafers were suddenly
elevated to capitalists and monied nabobs,
l. "a rhOrOIIQllV
trenched in her own inherent greatness
nor more surely felt that she was the dar-
ling of destiny than for the past two
months. She will be the first Of all the
great towns of the west TO take another
great bound forward and upward. Within
the next few months there promises TO De
a very elimination of enterprises and re-
wards and victories which will leave her
without possible rival, outside OF Kansas
City, in all this country, and with no
other towns nearer than Denver i've hun
dred miles to the west and Dallas three
hundred miles to the south, to claim even
a peership in commercial greatness. a
sufficient number of facts are in our pos
session now, some Of which have been
maturing for months, which could be
made and which would constitute one Of
the biggest boom editions ever issued by
the EAGLE. But it is not boom" for
Wichita hereafter 1t will be supplies for
demands which will constitute her new
increase and the nearer bed rock realities
now. the better it will be for the city's
present and future, whatever real es-
tate spectators may say or feel
That Wichita for her age for.
her size, for the number OF her inhabit-
ants, is the best city, the finest city, the
greatest city in Kansas or in the west any
where, is conceded everywhere by every
body. Towns and cities Of preteDsions in
the west and south which have by system
attic boom effort pushed and urged IN
natural and unwarranted growths, will
| inevitably be receeding when Wichita
will not be troubling herself over emigra-
| ton schemes, for the reason that she will
be securing all the people that she can take
/ care Of or utilize.
! The only fear that Wichita need have is
| in her coming expansion OF trade and &C
| emulation of interests that another realty
craze may overtake her. In the meantime
| the best thing that could possibly happen
| for both her present and future, would be
the sudden and final departure OF all the
! grunters and kickers that infest her Dor
/ ders.
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