The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-14
ATCHIsON VS.. WICHITA.

Marsh Murdock's ignorance of Atchison
and her business possibilities would be
loughable if it were not SO much regretted.
The Champion recognizes WICHITA as
gced town with future, but the EAGLE
Goes not see anything good outside OF
Wichita.-Atchison Champion.
Oh, YES. the EAGLE does. Atchison
is a good town, city that has hewed
out her own destiny and maintained her
commercial power despite the fact OF
the conserved wealth and prestige OF st.
Joe upon the one side, and of the wreck
less robber- enterprise OF Kansas City
upon the other side. Atchison has had
wholesalers of standing and success, OF
statewide reputation, for years, such
for instance as NIcPike & Fox, such ex-
tensive manufacturers as John Seaton,
such enterprising dealers and business
men as Donald Bros, Pomeroy, Harwl,
and many others, together with great
err number of prominent individuals VINO
have figured in the affairs OF state than
any other town or city in Kansas can
boast of having furnished. If we were
a citizen of Atchison we could cite only
her great things and great names from
her historical inception when 'Regls
Loisel moored his batteau at the foot OF
Block seventeen" down to the very hour
that Symes & Co. enjoined Wichita
rate. Why, one of the moments OF our
greatest life-pride in Kansas and her
future was in the quiet cleaning OF
summers evening, years ago, while sit
ting with Colonel John A. Martin on his
front porch, train whistle interruptlng
our conversation he remarked, "Atchi-
son now has eight trains day. No
town at that time in the state or Its bord-
ers could make such boast. 1t was to
us thrill of realization Of what was to
be.
Oh yes, we see good things, and great
things, in not only Atchison, but IN
other Kansas towns ''outside OF
Wichita" yet that is no reason why
Wichita and other bright interior towns
shouldn't be granted the same chance
for business that the railroads have ex-
tended TO interior Nebraska towns, such
as Lincoln, for instance, which has as
low car load rate on several classes as
Atchison or as Omaha have.
Does the Champion complain of the
EAGLE because ut protests against
Wichita paying double the freight rate
for sugar, coffee, fruit, ETC., from Gal
weston that Atchison pays from the
same point, the said freight being hauled
over the same road, on the same day land
right through Wichita: Does the Cham
pion think that the EAGLE is narrow be-
cause it screams out against the rate-in-
Justice which forces Wichita millers,
and grain dealers, and meat packers to
pay more per ton per mile for car load
lots to southern and Gulf points than is
paid by Minneapolis, South Omaha, Lin
coin, Sioux City aud St. Joe? Would
the Champion criticise Murdoch because
when a train load of sugar comes in
from the Pacific over the San Francisco
road, one.half of which train is
left on side track in Wichita for
Wichita dealers who have bought it
the other half being hauled on 50J miles
further TO st. Louis, Wichita not only
having to pay the rate on TO st. Louis,
but the additional full car rate from
Kansas City or the Missouri river back
to Wichita.
How long would the wholesalers of
Atchison live if for the goods they re-
ceiyed from Chicago or New York they
were compelled TO pay the freight rate
on through to Wichita and the local
rate additional from Wichita back to
Atchison?