The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-11
A FEW FUGITIVE FIGURES.

There Is something the matter with the
4 town The place is afflicted with an alb
normal streak, which is the biggest part
4 of it. Five thousand, five hundred is her
registered poll of live, full grown men.
I These men as measured by the ordinary
standards and demands Of civilization,
seem full statured. And TO look at them
one can see but little difference. They are,
to say the least, as enterprising, as gener-
Gus, as successful and as moral seemingly
as any like number of men composing any
community in the world, yet of all that
$500, there are not TO exceed 500 who are
right. The other 5000 are incorrigibly, in
curably, hopelessly unsound, and who but
for the other 500 would not only ruin the
town and beggar its people, but plunge
headlong into doom. Its queer and IN
accountable irregularity.
No amount of talk or of law can convince
these five thousand that they don't know
as much or that their ideas are not just as
worthy as those of the five hundred. The
unreasonable stiff neckedness of these five
thousand is not only cause or worriment
to the five hundred, but is matter of con-
siderable invitation to numerous distant
the five hundred that they don't summar-
lily wipe out the five thousand. All of
this is very unfortunate for the five hun
dred, unfortunate for the five thousand
md unfortunate for everybody else. If
the five thousand cranks could be dis
posed Of would only go away off some
where and never come back, the five hun
dred would be equal to replacing them
with men of the right stamp and replacing
in two fold all that they took away in
two-fold all that they took away of prop
erty, thereby winning the congratulations
and favor of the powers that be. As 1t Is,
you can't blame the five hundred level
headed men, and you dare not blame the
five thOusand-there are too many of them.
The 5000 are off only on one subject, but
they are away off on that If they could
be but convinced of their unreasonable
ness in this one particular everything
would be forgiven and forgotten and the
community would settle down, as some
think, in peace and quiet, into a deep.
calm and abiding peace, such as would
prove a great relief to the jasperite pave
ment and the electric car lines.
This matter of difference between the
right-minded people and the 5000 incon-
siderates is one of Submission and Resub
mission, as appears. The 500 want the
5000 TO submit, but the 5000 only want To
Resubmit, with an incidental collection of
some s., 900 in fines per month from mis-
guided jointers. The Subs desire to spend
money to make it lively for the Jointist,
but the Resubs pretend that they can't see
it. Aud we guess they can't They are
a very blind lot who seem to think more OF
paying he debts of the municipality than
of helping impecunious lwyers to "A libidin-
Gus fee. The Resub aggregation are un-
doubleday utterly unable to comprehend
how the police are to be paid unless there
is something to pay them with, forgetting
that the state pays the commissioners and
that the cops live on their good clothes,
and an occasional raid. The Subs are very
solicitous for the Resubs, and often re-
member them in their prayers as stiff
necked and unregenerated generation, but
the Resubs claim that they can show more
and bigger receipts for money paid for re-
ligious AID charitable purposes, to say
nothing of tax receipts and the like. And
so they 90 and so they are likely to go, as
painfully ineXplicable as some who have
gone dry for two whole days deem it to be-