The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-29

At such different pace. in such grand
and confident way as compared TO other
towns, has Wichita swept along in her de
velopment into city, in all her past, that
her people, who for years knew only profit
and increase, seem all the more unable to
philosophically meet one OF the hats and
reverses which have come TO all rapidly
growing cities of the newer west, and the
result is that condition which would be
confidently met or courageously submit
ted TO by older and less enterprising COM
munities creates here disposition to
grumble, to subside from all effort, and, in
some instances, to despair. The history
of all the great towns of the country, with
their like experiences of periodical back
sets, go unheeded, and financial depres-
sion and trade reaction, which is not
only state wide but national in its extent,
is not given any weight nor considered as
a possible factor for a state of things that
no community, whatever its resources,
could rise superior to- Wichita in the es-
timation of some of her own people. at
least it would seem so to hear them talk.
is worse off than other cities of like size
and Importance and like situated. But 1t
is not true. A gentleman representing a
firm owning large plant in this city, and
who had been paying Wichita visit re-
Gently, was met last week in an eastern
city by man who has always believed
that there would be large commercial
center built up here. The latter gentleman
observed: II hear that business is fiat
and times extremely depressed at Wich-
ita" The former gentleman replied: Yes
they are very much so if you could believe
the people of Wichita themselves who
are doing more growing andlcriticising
than l ever heard from any people" The
gentleman then went on to say that he
had just spent week in Wichita, after
having visited several of the cities of the
west and that Wichita showed more life
and was actually doing bigger and more
substantial business, in lines that
could never be taken from her,
than any city of her age or size in the
United States east or west. There Is not
bit of doubt about the correctness OF
this mans observations and conclusions.
OF course times are hard, comparatively
awful hard, with the country west OF the
Mississippi stripped of all its surplus OF
grain and live stock, with no money being
brought in by immigration and the last
years crops bad failure, but the man
evidently told the truth when he declared
that Wichita was more lively and was
doing greater legitimate trade than any
city of her size about which he knew any
thing Wichita people were spoiled for
times like the present. For fifteen years
it was all growth and increase, all pros
oh rrif hra kpS N
and no backing up, and the result
naturally enough is spoiled lot who be-
ing denied and disappointed must whim-
per, per force, must growl and prognostl-
cate evil for themselves and for all con-
cerned to all the many strangers
who come along. There is probably
no way of arresting or shutting off
this current of misrepresentation aud de-
spondency set in motion by those whose
disappointment outweigh their reason.
They will gradually cease to croak only as
their surroundings and conditions have SO
imperceptib!y improved that upon looking
around they can find nothing further TO
criticise, or about which to growl.
Wichita is all right. If Wichita is not
all right, what in the name of everybody's
knowledge and observation is going to be-
come of the other big towns of Kansas
Missouri, Colorado and Texas? No city
among them all can boast so many up
building utilities and corelating agencies;
none so certain and expanding a field for
future operations and agrandizement, and
these stripped of all ifs and uncertainties
Wichita is all right, and all you have to
do is to say SO.