The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-17
NEXT TUESDAY NIGHT.
An ImpOrtsnt Epoch in the Life of wichita.

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suing year must be chosen. New blood
ought to be put into that directory ant
new heads in the official places. and il
doing so that no mistakes may occur, every
member of the board ought to be there a.
well as every business man.
No farther array of favorable suppose
tions nor of multiplied encouraging cir
cumstances are longer necessary to con
firm the universal judgment, that Wich
tia must become the next great city west
OF the Missouri river Her every day in
creasing business attests, and experience
abundautly satisfies all that it is now cou-
ceded on all hands that Wichita is a BRILL
ant example ofthe survival Of the fttest;;
that the city has not only stood the test OF
an unusual ordeal. but is triumphantly
entering the portals of renewed growth
and Of prosperous expansion, that Wichita
has not only relatively held her own, but
has unquestionably triumphed in the alb
stract, and in the face of reverses and OF
calamities which have squeezed the life
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The days of bonus giving by towns being
over, we, as people. have but to stick to
our bright badges Of prestige, and to hold
fast to our many marks and signs Of su-
periority, to stand conspicuously pre-emi-
nent when the returning wave of good
times shall roll westward again, bearing
men with new enterprises and with fresh
capital seeking location and investment.
One of the most prominent emblems of
superiority which has been maintained by
| Wichita all the way through the past three
years of unparalleled and unlocked for
| failures and reverses and it is a metropoli
| tan distinction which has been the talk
and envy of all, and by which mark and
distinction only has it been largely
possible to gain transportation concessions
and other advantages, and TO have what in
spection etc, etc, is the organization Of
business men known as Wichita Board Of
Trade" But now. right at the time when
the prestige and the influence that we as
people have held in being able to boast the
only live organization of the character in
the state, at time when general interest
is again reviving in the question, WHERE
WILL THE NEXT CITY WEST OF KANSAS
CITY BEs'' At a time, when for general
and for representative purposes such an
organization is more vital to the future of
this people than ever in the past, there
seems TO have fallen in APATHY concern
ing its existence, and the Importance of its
maintenance, not only on the part of busl-
ness men aud property holders in general
but upon the members and directors of
that organization themselves.
But these words are not written to COM
plain or to fault find, only to call the at
teution of members of that organization
and of the business men generally to the
fact of its Importance in a hundred vital
ways to the city, and to the further fact
that the annual meeting occurs next Tues
day evening when new blood should not
only be infused but new directory and
officers largely chosen of fresh and ambit-
ious hands to the end that its affairs shall
not only be upheld, but the whole city en-
couraged to hold fast and inspired TO new
victories.
No city can hope to keep up with the
procession without such an organization
through which to concentrate supreme
efforts, and by which to take care of all
the little details that must be looked after
from day to day in competition with mors
pretentious cities of like organizations,
and to set at naught the malicious pre-
dictions and envious work of enemies.
We have the material both within the
present membership and out of it, for a
board that would tell nightly for Wich-
tia, and whose room in the Sedgwick
block would remain the information
bureau TO which every new conner would |
90, and where visitations of like organiza- |
tions from other cities would be met.
During the past year the board of trade !
has organized upon trading basis wheat |
inspection and weighing, under the laws I
of the state, and it is entirely feasible in |
the near future to make Wichita one of /
the important grain points OF the west, /
under the law referred to, aud through a
board of trade, but in no other way. Be-
sides, the Wichita board of trade, (Which .
IS matter of far-reachiug Importance is
now recognized by the great commercial
organizations of the west such as the
boards, Of trade and chambers Of COM
nerce of St. Louis. Chicago and many
others In fact it is every where conceded
hat there is only Que city in this state Of
Kansas of sufficient business Importance
20 support such metropolitan appen-
iage.
Now what is wanted of our business
men. and it is wanted in their individual
interest as much as in the interest OF the
,ity which holds all of our interests, is
-ealization of the truth OF these facts so
briefly set forth. and of the importance
# the maiutainence of this organization SO
hat you will be at the meeting on Tues
lay night at the present board Of trade
ooms, prepared with your presence. voice
md vote, to urge the necessary steps TO re-
organization and a greater assured I
Efficiency for the year TO come.
The late decision of the interstate com
mission. and of the state commissioners,
o say nothing OF the suit to dissolve the
'ransmissouri Freight association aud to
estroy the arbitrary basing line sc the ;
Iissouri river not only, but dozen other
otent and equally promising factors, al
o TO warrant faith in the victory so