The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-16

as have other equally favorable seasons,
that the stocks and securities of the Kan
sas railway lines are thus rapidly appre-
ciated in value, and as much through a
prospective as through the actual in
crease of business over that of the aver
age year. The greater the business the
greater the increased value, and to in
crease the former the number of produc-
ers and consumers must be increased,
and there is no more potential power nor
influence for such increase than wise
and liberal railway policy. With proper
encouragement by low rates for passen-
ger immigration for such as Texas en-
joys the year round, as does Colorado
for six months each year, and such as
Kansas roads concede for Utah, Cali
fornia, Oregon and Washington, Kansas
would probably have, within five years,
two or three million additional people.
If Kansas has by the production of co.
900, 900 bushels of wheat and 240, 100000
bushels of corn and other products in
proportion, and all produced by 800, 600
people this year, put new life into and
largely increased the value of all rail-
way property in the state, what might
lot the stocks and securities of these
roads be worth two or three times the
population and two or three times these
products for series of years, with Kan
sas trade centers enjoying equal privi-
leges with Missouri river, Nebraska and
Minnesota points, and growing strong
and great under such policy? Instead
of waiting for phenomenal seasons
to bolster up their fuctuating fortunes,
under the common sense regime here
proposed, Kansas roads even in poor
years would enjoy as great or greater
business than the present prosperous
year is affording. The truth is since the
trunk lines of Kansas have disposed of
their subsidy lands and municipal aid
bonds voted them by the people they have
ceased to fight for the interests of the
state with that spirit of devotion which
characterized the years when Kansas was
the center of attraction for immigration,
and now, from many of the invidious
determinations against the jobbing In
terests and live stock interests and grain
interests of her larger interior towns, and
the apparent readiness with which they
Weld to the mandates of outside connec-
tions, and unreasonable rules of traffic
associations, the people are almost ready
to conclude that these roads, controlled
from distant seaboard centers, have no
longer any interest in Kansas beyond
their right of way and the right to run
through, if not to run over the state.
There is no institution in the state of
Kansas that has been or that is more friend
ly to, or that believes more strongly in rail-
ways, in them as power for good for
the state, and in them as an investment,
than the EAGLE. This paper has always
been an advocate of railroad building
and of liberal railway laws. Situated
as the state was and is-away from all
water ways, although the central state
of the Union, and possessing vast aSri-
cultural and pastoral domains, her
chances for greatness were found in the
building of traffic ways, not only of
trunk lines, but of branches and feeders
in all directions. This has been success
fully accomplished at an immense bond
ed debt to the people. But
with our resources as a state fully
developed and with million or two of
added population the present debt of the
people would never be felt Upon the
other hand, with a shrinking popula-
ton the same debt would soon become
too intolerable to be borne; and self pre-
servation has no superior interest and it
recognizes no higher law.
This state is a great empire, yet in its
infancy, whose productive possibilities
are beyond computation, and its people
do not propose to pay outrageous tribute
to outside interests, nor to forfeit their
right to build up such commercial cities
as shall from their wealth and
greatness pay largely the taxes of the
state In short, they do not propose to
be compelled to contribute their sub
stance to the creation of business CEN
tiers of vast wealth beyond their own
boundaries and beyond their own tax
collectors. In this resolve for develop
ment of inherent greatness they have
right to expect the cordial, energetic
and wise cooperation of the manage
ments of all Kansas railways, in the
consummation of which ambitions
the owners of the said roads viii find
a proportionally great regard and per-
manent prosperity.
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