The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-07
BUSINESS IS BUSINESS.

Wichita has been done through harmon
ious and complete unification of effort.
Time was when that characteristic o.
the city was OF national remark.
The spirit is still here. 1t Is needed
now. The freight rate matter should
not be permitted 10 lag week longer.
In the course of cur struggles for justice
in this matter Of transportation we have
as vet progressed slowly, but 1t has al
ways been progress, and we have won
every step forward by hard work.
Since Judge Williams decision, we
have a clear field before us. Il the city
| Of Wichita ever should light for Its
lights, il should do so now. The way Is
freed of the old and aggravating obsta-
Giles and, as capable general would do.
it is the business CT the city TO push the
matter quickly and vigorously and bring
the enemy to terms.
! II the fight, then, is won, it will be
through organized effort. One man can
do very little. Two men can do more.
Bat all the people in Wichita directly in
terested, can do everything, because the
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any of the railroads centering here can
afford to ignore. The more united the
action the sooner the benificent results
will be secured. Selfish interests on the
part of one or two men will delay them,
and the Obstructive methods of four or
five. or indiffer ence of a considerable
number will defeat the elds for which
Wichita has labored so long and val
iantly.
With the rulings of the commissioners
and the courts on Wichita's size the
fight is not diScouraging. But it must
be through an organized and we'll
directed attack.
Several plans to turn Wichita's win
nings in the courts to good account have
been proposed. These plans have their
especial champions. There may be good
in all. At all events they should all be
weighed and the safest and the best and
tine quickest in results should be adopted
and action taken Immediately.
In location Wichita could not ask for
more. 1t has the place of places on the
wants and what it must have is equit-
able freight rates. This city has three
great arms reaching INTO the country
south of us. 1t is the only city in direct
communication over these lines. Ii is
the only city of its size that can be
reached by the people in those sections.
The position is an enviable one. 1t is !
envied. st. Louis is trying to get into
that territory, which is now in touch |
with Wichita. Kansas City is also |
figuring on getting slice OF it. TT. |
Worth and Dallas are awake and reach
ing northward. Little Rock, Ark, is
also ambitious,
AS it is now st. Louis and Kansas |
City must come through Wichita in
their most direct line. They could not
come at all if Wichita had not been out
mistreated and Disseminated
against in freight rates. st. LOUIS is
a railroad which is now being
surveyed east and west through the
Indian Territory into Oklahoma. Kan
sas City is also watching proposed line
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the Indian Territory. Both these lines
would give direct communication with
Kansas City and St. Louis to the people
who are now reached quickly only from
Wichita must remain, however, the
great central point between the east and
south. The Santa Fe line leaves tie
Rock Island here and diverging they
traverse country of marvelouSly latent
resources and country which, when
all the rest of the nation is at stand
still, is rapidly developing. Immigra-
ton which has SO long been forging
has been turned southwark by
high mountains and sterile plains.
oklahoma ana the Indian country and
northern Texas are now III the reach of
These lands are unexcelled
in productiveneSs. They are being set
led rapidly. Wichita consequently is
The natural gateway between the east
and the south in the western country.
Its advantage is stupepdous. 1t has
been hampered by one thing-discrim-
nations in the income and output of our
freight. United action now Will wipe
that away and when the Industrial tide
turns and business prosperity again
sweeps this country, as il undoubtedly
will, Wichita VIII be builded on a rock
hat no storm can shake.