The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-25

ness and such unbusiness-like
practices are certain to cripple and
hamper any community that follows
them.
The natural channels Of trade connect
communities whose natural products
are not identical, and it follows that
those lines must be longitudinal and not
latitudinal, as considerable differences
of mean annual temperature are neces-
sary 10 the production of such necces-
sary~articles, the exchange of which be-
tween sections is commerce. As the
eastere seaboard of the United States
was the first settled and has the adj
vantage in time counted by centuries
over this the central west III develop
ment, ana accumulation OF wealth, IL
follows that they are the principal own
ers of the transportion lines that connect
the Two sections, and as in the beginning
by reason OF that accumulation Of
capital. produced the manufactured
articles we found indispensable,
a commerce on iatitudlnal lines -four
isheu, and still fiourishes; bat now, as
manufacturing follows the settlement of
the country. manufacturing in the east
is losing ground wien compared with
increase Of population in the west; OF,
IN other words, the west is manufacture
ing for herself an ever increasing pro-
portion of her needs, and in the end the
unnatural commerce between the east
and the west will dwindIe away. But
vested interests fight hard, and as the
east needs our trade, and owns the
transportation lines, she has double
incentive to keep things as they are.
Yet, as it is struggle against natural
laws and the laws OF mmerce, she
must, in the end, succumb. However.
the east must fight its own fight, and
what concerns us is the west, and we
hope by this article to throw some rays
of light upon the subject which will help
the west along the path where lies her
interests.
The city OF New Orlkans is a sea port
today, physically capable Of handling
the surplus on exports of the Trans
missouri west, and to supply her with |
her needed imports, at prices that will
realize Us D cents per bushel more or our |
grain, aud like saving on our imports. |
The physical condition is now equal to |
that result what she needs is the pluck |
and the money, both of which, as always |
happens through laws of supply and de-
mand, she will obtain. Let it be our t
task to hasten the day. What is true of |
New Orleans is certain il the near |
future to be true OF Galveston. Her |
deep water is not yet equal to that OF |
New Orleans, but she is rapidly getting
here, and when those two ports shall |
nave fulfilled their destiny Kansas
farmers may wear diamonds, for the
ines Of commerce will not then be lati-
,udnai and opposed TO nature, but
longitudinal and in accord with nature.
Then our young men will learn the
language of Spain, and the South and
CENTRAL American ports will be TO them
vhat India is to the young men of Eng
gland. Then our transportation lines
will haul our surplus tOa market where
very mile travelled will be in the direc-
ion of market that cannot compete
with us. When we shall enjoy the
hort haul to the seaboard; when our
IMPORTS exchanged for, our food surplus
will be returned by the shortest land
carriage.
When we follow the natural econo-
MES we lose the least by friction, and
when we manage with our own brains
instead of the gray matter of our eastern
brother, we may not only wear diamonds
,ut enjoy the luxury Of the ownership
If New England farm mortgage.