The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-25
WHERE ARE WE At.
Why Wichita is Being Talked About.

1t is becoming plain, even to ordinary
observers, that Wichita is not only the
solidest city IN the state of Kansas, but
that her business men and bankers and
that her people generally have been less
effected than any city in the west. great
| or small. The Uneasiness and financial
distrust which has shaken the confidence
and knocked the bottom completely out
of many others, only caused dullness of
trade in Wichita. People have been less
extravagant and more cautious in their
I purchases, naturally enough, and mer-
| chants have been inclined, therefore, to
grumble over a slack trade; but there
has been none Of that distrust
and frantic apprehension experienced in
| towns and cities where conditions have
been strained. There are reasons, and
they are mighty solid ones, for the serenity
and security felt by Wichita Every man
and woman knows that there is no longer
any initiation in Wichita She passed
through her shrinkage many months ago,
and for two years past all her property
interests and values have been down to
bed rock. Everybody realizes that W!ch-
tia but for the reverses of the past and the
unfair advantages taken of her promi
nence, would have been twice as big as
she is today. Everybody knows that all
of her property interests and values are
too low today by one-half, ard that as
sure as two and two make four they will
not only double, and that, too, just as
soon as she comes to her own.
Railway combinations in and by
unjust indiscriminations, as well
as other well recognized adverse
forces may have succeeded in retarding
her onward movement and commercial
growth, but these circumstances could not
deprive the city of the prestige of its loca-
ton and central advantages
So, now, when towns like Kansas City
and Denver, which have been favored at
the expense of Wichita's rightfuI claims.
are sweating blood, Wichita realizes that
she has not only had her sweat, but that
she is trimmed down to fighting weight.
These and other well recognized facts.
coupled with the conviction that no town
OF ali the west viii grow like Wichita will
grow when things have again taken turn
for the better in the country at large.
renders Wichita and her people
not only serene. but secure |
In unity there is strength and if one thing |!
more than another has characterized the |
people of Wichita it has been their united |
faith in their town, in each others enter
prise aud ability, and in the soidity of all |
her various interests and institutions.
Being down to bed rock, as Wichita has
been for two or three years past, may have I
proved quite inconvenienJ and disagree
able, even disastrous to many individuals,
but being on bed rock has its advantages
at such times as these. People who do not
owe anything are not concerned in the
movements of the sheriff, and so the con-
1dence encountered among our citizens
everywhere, among our merchants, manu-
factnrers, tradesmen and bankers, is not
only reasonable and logical but it is found
ed on facts realized of everyone, So
while owning to the universal condi-
lion of things Wichita may not do her
usual volume of business for awhile, she
can't burst. Upon the other hand she
will be in great shape to win the race when
other towns will find themselves sore foot
I'd, broken-limbed and out of wind. In
short Wichita is not only in the best pos
'ible fix to go through, untouched by the
squeeze that has caught the whole coun-
Try, and which is paralyzing the corporate
ana municipal powers that have so unre-
entingly fought against the recognized
advantages of our city; but Wichita will
ind that which is proving such calan-
tg to others to be the very agency com
,elling recognition of her rights and inn
'ortance which will result in sending her
Onward again in the path of her destiny
Is the greatest city between the Missouri !,
liver and the Pacific coast, and in which G
lew forward movement will be realized ,
III that was so plainly promised of her in S
he past. ana which would have been here I
re this but for the powers and influences
low being brought to their senses by the
eveling forces of panic whose distrust :
prang from an over-reaching greed that G
in change of national policy a
hat proved to be no policy at ALL but dem '
gosic and many sided personal scramble
oU worth the name of party or parties;
ominated by the goldbugs of Wall street .
pom the one hand and the free traders of /
he southern states upon the other. a
Wichita has had to wait, but her waiting
avs are nearly past. Still, in all of her
rating, hsr people never lost confidence.
nd today finds her the SCUM lest city !,
nancially and commercially in the state, =
not of the entire west. $
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