The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-11-21
Oh. WE GUESS NOT.

Our sang,Iinary haired brother of the
Kansas City Gazette does not like the
! EAGLES criticisms of the s'river i'm
provement convention" called for by his
Missouri neighbor, and irately denounces
us as a backwoods bird as he cites the
| fact that Leavenworth and Atchison are
on that same Missouri river. If the peo-
pie of the two cities named, or their
papers will endorse the move the EAGLE
| will dry up. The fact is the Missouri
town does not contemplate any improve
ment of the river farther west than their
own wharf. The whole movement is
one to force traffic concessions to Kansas
City, Missouri, by a scheme sought to be
matured through Kansas influence, at
an immense cost to the general govern
ment. As for Wichita, she viii take
care of herself, my dear George, and
you never fear, not only as to
any Missouri river town, but as to
any other town in the Arkansas
valley or elsewhere. In the meantime the
EAGLE will reserve it to itself the right
and satisfaction of saying what it pleases
of your Missouri neighbor who not only
seeks to rule Kansas politically and
commercially, but whose principal bust
ness mems organization has been trying
to rob Kansas towns of their local enter
prises by the offer of induce ments !
such as slower freight rates" to be
secured through hammering down of
railroads with a threatened line of old |
shallow scows foated in diluted sand |
and by government millions; that selfish |
puffed-up hog of burg whose business
men have boycotted railroads built by |
Kansas enterprise and money, largely,
only because such railroads proposed to
deal fairly in grain and livestock rates
by Wichita, purely Kansas town, and
one of which roads in standing for such
decency and common fairness, was pun
shed by such boycotters to the tune of
one hundred and thirty-five thousand
dollars in the course of a very few
months.
No, the EAGLE is not fighting Kansas
interests nor Kansas towns, but merely
the vulnerable spot of a mu-
that, having stolen the name
If our state, has gorged itself into dis
ended proportions on Kansas cream and
IN Kansas fat, while the state to which
hat municipality owes its allegiance and
oayS its taxes, for years has done little
lse than plume itself over efforts, begot-
en- of sectional prejudice. to crush its
Inoffending and more deserving neigh
'or, and upon whom its border parasite
till seeks to prey.
Where are Leavenworth, Atchison and +
4awrence today, all, at one time, i'm !
ortant commercial and iobbing centers, {
IL, two of them on those same nav |
gable @ waters, and the other but forty S
niles by rail away; and, through whom,
r by what, did they lose their power, 7
restige and wealth? We leave the ed 9
tor of the Gazette to answer. Where is
Wichita today? The EAGLE will answer t
hat question. 1t is out here in !
he midst of the greatest agri- .
nth a like wealth, prestige and
over, once boasted by the cities named,
ut Wichita don't propose to, in turn,
leet the same fate at the same hands,
nd it is, therefore, against any and all Y
5eals attempted in the name of Kansas i,
y that Missouri municipality, and the a
AGILE in this but voices Wichita's senti- o
lents, II