The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-12-10

so tired and dissatisfied they can't re-
move Mohler. They have no powe,
over him. The only thing the people
can do Is to pay him and leave him to
serve the Interests which keep him in
place and to serve Kansas City, No., as
occasion or banquets NAV demand. 1t
is all right with the Capital, and with
the Gazette, and with the Missouri
papers, for this old pampered sinecure to
tell the world that the state of Kansas is
but the tail of a Missouri kite;
but these papers would do well to per,
NIT the EAGLE to scream its protest, as
IS Its want. in the absence of all such
roastings as has been INDUCED in. For
years we have emphatlcally declared
that Kansas City, Missouri, with all its
acquired interests and power, and which
have all been absorbed from this state,
is against Kansas. except in so far as she
can appropriate the products of our peo-
pie and manipulate their political forces,
corporations and representative indi-
viduals, which all SO largely fall within
the hundred mile pocket alluded 10.
They have even gone so far in their
greed and assumed ownership as to at
tempt the selfish use of our own courts
against the commercial interests of the
state: witness the Missouri river Juno
ton suits, instituted against freight
Rates for interior Kansas. AS
for the Gazette's endorsement of
the Capitals defense of old Mohler
and the Kansas City, Kansas, end of the
taffy stick, we assert, that the Missouri
town and its railroads, which Kansas
built and support, have no use under
Heaven for Kansas City, Kansas, further
than as a convenient space for side
track and dumping ground, hole for
the blood, stink and squeal of the Kan
sas hog, and for cattle pens and
their awful offal. The money, the
clean meat, the gains and profits of it
all go INFO the pockets and banks and
institutions of the community that
owns them and whose men pay no taxes
in Kansas, except on the side tracks,
grain dumps, pens and stinks aforesaid,
This is enough of that for the present.
The EAGLE does not care the snap of a
finger for all that said combines may say
or do, further than such combines in
fiuence goes to bolster up and sustain
condition of things which tend to render
a great state forever tributary to a town
and people whose every interest is
against any and all commercial develop
ment of central and western Kansas.
NO state can ever be great
or important in the absence
of commercial centers, for not only
do all manufacturing interests but the
price Of every conceivable product of |
the farm and mine depend upon the con.
tinguity Of commercial life. The peoples. |
the communities and the counties repre- |
sented by the EAGLE have just the same |
use. and no more, for Kansas City that |
they have for Chicago or ST. Louis, nor |
are these people at all bliud to the fact
that a st. Louis or even a Kansas CITY, |
located anywhere within the bounds of |
the state, would be of more importance |
to the state, to its institutions, tax pay
ers and the entire people than Chicago |
located anywhere outside of her border. |
But for the inimical power and con-
troll in the matter of freights, over |
roads built by Kansas people, Wichita
today would be saving to the
farmers of south and central Kansas
fifty cents to a dollar on every hog
raised, five cents on every bushel of |
grain, and on everything else in proper
ton, with every conceivable supply |
lower. All and the only /
in the direction of fair freight |
rates ever made in the interest of central t
and western Kansas over Kansas roads /
has been through fights in the courts
and before commissions and in face of |
the Missouri river, which when run down
means Kansas City, Missouri.
Anything farther at this time is prob
ably not called for, but we will be
pardoned for the observation that some
people will never learn anything, or
their ignorance must be
assumed and not entirely disinterested
OF course if there had been no Kansas
City, Missouri, George W. Martin would
never have discovered the value of the
pig sly end of it, while so far as the
Capital is concerned, which not only de-
tends old Mothers traitorism but has Of
ate been pouring slush buckets full Of
taffv over Kansas City, Missouri, it
would have had ten readers where it has
one today had there never been Kan
'as City. Missouri, to say nothing of the
TWO or three big towns which would
have been today flourishing on the Kan
sas side Of that Missouri tide.
I
The Mas achusstts Humane society !