The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-05
OUR CONGO LETTER.
STANLEY CITY, Congo, Africa. !

STANLEY CITY, Congo, Africa.
Sept II, 1898.
Colonel NJ. NJ Murdoch. Wichita, Kan, Z. 5. A.
My DEAR COLONEL:-I find after all
that am still at sea as to tie situation
in the United States, and that the Cleve-
land Democracy is likely to be divorced,
incompatablity, and characterization on
the past Of the Democracy is likely to
end in a separation. There is nothing
left for Cleveland than to have the Pop
ulsts change their views to conform to
the great Cleveland idea, and turn the
Democracy adrift to depend upon its
own resources. PETER and Cleveland
would make great yoke fellows. What
Cleveland did not know PETER would
tween the two there would not be in
formation enough to embarrass either,
but ! may be wrong there, and until I
read up more thoroughly will drop them.
/ find in the file of EAGLES you sent via
the pneumatic express that you colonel
have been very largely instrumental in
booming your fine city, Wichita, for
several years. It strikes me that in
many particulars your success has been
phenomenal. and you should be justly
proud of your share in the upbuiloing of
such a community. OF course IL the
years 1861 the supper. of your ideas
the public. since it was exceedingly
profitable to all concerned is nothing out
of the common.
1t is easy to 60 along with the crowd,
and very satisfactory too. when it is
profitable as it must have been in those
years. But when the falling away
period begun, when the enthusiasm was
turned to dlsmay, when the profits melt
ed away and Melted heavy losses, those
were the days to test your people, and it
is edifying TO note how they stood to-
gether, shoulder to shoulder, in those
discourging~ days covering period of
now l make out some SIX years. As we
say here, you never know man all
around until you so journey through
the black forests of equatorial Africa
with him, and your people should know
each other now If ever. And they do,
and | thanks to the files OF the EAGLE
in this distant land, fully appreciate
their grandeur. One would expec. that
the ordinary man not cast in the heroic
mould. that your community would dis
intergate, instead OF consolidate in
adversely, and that they have not done
so proves the heroic moulds in which
Wichitians were cast.
After the first memorable boom in
Stanley City. of which you may have
read, a boom in which our city increased
its population by 81. mostly black,
ard when we realized the boom
WAS off. what rush there
was 10 sell; what scramble and falling
over each other our millionaires INDUCED
in. The holders OF outside additions
devised private telegraph signals by flags
waved from the highest tree tors, and
when a caravan approached the million
aire. appraised Of the fact, stole out in the
darkness of night 10 meet The caravan
with his plats and his Establishments.
What hunting high and low for methods
to declpher each othes's signals. and
what bribing of signal men 10 misiead
their employers and send them south
when the caravan approached from the
north, and when a stranger with ivory
and slaves found his way to the Hairy
hotel. or the Man wi,h-the- hat-on. he
was surrounded with tho agents of these