The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-09
HURRAHl HURRAHI
After Hard and Heroic Struggle Wichita Re-
ceiyes Justice at Last.

| west branch of the great harvesting works
of Deering & Co. have been located at
Wichita was good; the news that followed
on the heels of that that q general south
west branch of the great Acme farm i'm
| plement factory of Pekin, HI, had located
in Wichita was still better and the further
news that the Rock Island road had let
contracts to build an extension from Min
co, L T., to Fort Worth. Tex, thus open
ing up TO Wichita vast
additional commercial territory was better
still The two big implement HOUSES
alone will add not less than S125, 600 TO the
taxable wealth of Wichita, and will also
add materially to its population. They
will cause dozen like enterprises to fol-
low, and it is not exaggeration to say tina.
by April the taxable wealth added by
the location of implement houses here
will not fall very far short of $500, 600.
All this is really and truly good news,
but ii sinks into insignifcance compared
with the news that was received yesterday
over the WIRE and which was sent out
from Topeka by the Associated Press.
Here is the dispatch as it was received
TOPEKA, Kan. Jan s.-The state board
OF railroad commissioners today decided
the famous sugar rate case in which the
wholesale grocers of Kansas complained
that the railroads and sugar kings had
formed combine in the interests of Kan
sas City and other Missouri river whole
sale points. The commissioners order the
railroads TO make rate remedying this on
or before Feb. and say If they 90 not the
commissioners will make such a rate and
enforce it Feb. 10 The Wichita seventy
five mile limit jobbing rate is repealed and
will be covered by the rates made for all
the Kansas wholesale points.
What does this mean: It means that
the wholesale houses of Wichita can go
where they please and sell their wares and
merchandise without being burdened by
the tyrannous chains of a railroad com
bine that has held the Peerless Princess
by the throat in an effort to keep it from
rising to that dignity among the CONNER
cial ceuters of the United States which
nature intended for her.
1t means that the sugar rates from San
Francisco and New Orleans will be as
cheap to Wichita as they will be to Kan
sas City, st. Joe and other points favored
by the combine
1t means that Wichita can enter the
fields of commerce with all competitors
nd In oil 3
supremacy.
1t means that groceries and all kinds of
goods will be supplied TO all the merchants
of Kansas, Oklahoma. Colorado, New
Mexico and the Panhandle of Texas,
from Wichita and that if the merchants
of Kansas City and st. Joe want to be
lin it" they must come to the Peerless
Princess or fall headlong into the soup.
1t means that Determinations can no
longer exist, and that few corporations
and their lawyers can no longer over ride
the rights of the people of this great COM
1t means that fully dozen, or more
likely a score, large wholesale houses must
pack up their goods and come to Wichita
or suffer themselves to be confined to
limited territory.
1t means that the star of prosperity has
risen and that hereafter the GOODIES of JUS
tice will smile and not frown on the Peer
les Princess.
1t means that the patriotic movement
of that gallant Kansan, Judge Ady, where
in he has undertaken to take the hand of
The railroad octopus from the throate of the
that the state board of railway commission
ers are at the helm, in fact
II means that the state must have jus
ice aud that railway companies cannot
become bloated with wealth at the ex
Dense of the people who have built and |
sustained them, but that they must foster |
and promote business along their lines and /
rot conspire TO st;fie it.
1t means that Kansas, free from restraint !
md with an even break, will blossom like /
he rose; that Wichita, in five years, will /.
rave 60, 600 people, and will hold dominion |
or all time to come over the commercial !!
erritory of the southwest.
When the dispatch was received at the /
EAGLE Office it was taken at once and /
hown to Lehman & Higginson, the whole
ale grocers. 1t was received BY them /
With manifestations of Joy and, while they /
lid not know what the new rate is TO be, /
nevertheless they realized that the actions /
4 the commissioners means big thing /
or Wichita. This firm really cut /
zig figure in the reduction of rail |
Dad rates for the decision OF the inter
tate commerce commission made recent /
Y in their favor demonstrated to the state /
that they had power TO |
egulsfe such matters, and, OF course,
timulated them TO work in that direc-
ion. They think the sugar rate should be
made 80 cents, or s. cents at the very
most
Mr. Hess, president of the Wichita
Wholesale company. upon being shown
he dispatch realized also that the action
{ the commissioners is big thing for the
wholesale merchants OF Wichita He did
ot know what rate will be made, but
eyertheless he felt good to think that the
Kansas board of railroad commissioners
re to take the bull by the horns He
bought the dispatch meant great deal
Dr Wichita.
The existing rate on sugar 70 Wichita is
ixty cents and for that reason it is an
utrsge That the wholesalers Of Wichita