The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-14

VTJON G(gS nave oeeh CON
* ~ spring against
0@I Wichita for some
time past, which, in addition to one or two
of later development, of which our people
being generally congnizant there is no call
for REORGANIZATION, but which added to
! the hard times, have caused not few to
feel blue. Some of these troubles have
! been logically inevitable, others human
and ephemeral Some of them may have
come because of our inability as a
people to read the future others have
been inspired by Vaccinations of the envi-
GUS and rendered effective through out
side jealousies. The harm that has come
| to Wichita Of, from and through these
references has not been of so much direct
injury, in fact, as that they have, through
distrust, deferred prompt and hearty
action upon the part of our property own
ers at times when vigorous work and con-
| fident responses would have been rewarded
thousand fold For instance, there was
meeting called by the Board of Trade
some three or four weeks ago, in which,
for the want Of comprehension. or the alb
sence of an mistaken conviction, things of
no inconsiderable material import were
lost to the city for the time being,
to say nothing of the postponing
of the important enterprise then
and there under consideration At
that time there was simply an action de-
manded such as would have been war
ranted solely in the realization that there
is no city in this state, or in the west, that
has the windward or the heels of Wichita
for great big and certain future These
are no times for bells, brass bands and
whistling. but Of cool action, backed by
the utmost possible faith
While there is not the remotest danger
that Wichita will in the near or remote
future ever lose her prestige as the com
mercial factor of south Kansas, it is not
wisdom nor in consonance with the spirit
that made her what she is, to settle SUI
pinely back to wait to be carried along on
the crest of the next national wave of
prosperity tha5 may roll this
far westward To do so is not
only precious time wasted, but the
advantage which must accrue from al
ready having a move on us when the good
times do come, is thereby lost. Every
sound headed business man appreciates the
full force of these suggestions. To hold
your own at certain periods is great
gain, simply in and of itself, while to go
backwards is loss, whatever the chances
may be of afterwards recovering the ground.
But what we particularly started out to
say was this and mark the words as you
90 along and determine one way or q e
other for yourself when you have reached
the last one: If one hundred of the lead |
ing men of Wichita will meet with the |
directors of the Board of Trade, at their
rooms, tomorrow, promptly, at 4 o'clock,
they can within fifteen minutes consum- |
mate that which means more for
them and for the town generally. |
in every way, than any single |
enterprise ever located in the city. This is |
all the notice you will get In this num-
Der is included every one of the men who.
the first part of the week, received a small |
circular advising a call at the rooms of the
board within ten days. Ten days will no
longer do It's now, tomorrow, at
o'clock, or otherwise it's some indefinite
requesting, or warmly urging your pres
ence. You are just as much and immedi-
ately interested as he who writes this or
either Of the gentlemen who sent out the
circular referred to. They sent it to no
man who could fail to appreciate the stu
alton rs keenly as they do, and to no one
who is not just as much interested and in
like degree as themselves. No excuses
are wanted because the only one to receive
such an excuse is yourself And if you
want to make an excuse make it to
yourself, because you WHO received the
circular were deemed by the best judges
20 be as responsible in receiving excuses as
anybody could be-
This not being matter of charity or of
but one wholly of enterprise
INVOLVING a simple business proposition,
wen if Of gigantic proportions and far
In its consequences, and so I'M
ierstood, any talk of excuses becomes folly
emphasized There is just as much differ
nee to be realized in the result of prompt
md definite action, tomorrow. by these /
men indicated, and the postponing of the
natter for one or two years, as there 4,
would be difference in thousand
dollars lying idle in a mans pocket
nd that same identical money :
'assing through hundred different hands .
Il a single day thereby aggregating one {
hundred thousand dollars OF actual bust
ess transactions. One is nothing the
ther everything One is death, the other =
ife.
The conditions submitted 20 be met and
aiken care Of were shorn down TO level 4