The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-16
9aily X eagle
NJ NJ MURDOCH, Editor.
1T WAS INEVITABLE.

Railway arrangements do not always
display the sagacity their Importance de.
mands. 1t is true they are often ham,
pered by the jealousies of rival points,
and are thus prevented from being as
Just as their judgment dictates. but II
is in vain that they endeavor to set aside
the laws of trade. AS the west settles
ND. new centers are developed, and as
they are necessary to the people, they
will sooner or later overcome all dis
elimination, and their right to supply
certain territory will be recognized, and
fully.
Tt isa law of commerce that every
point built up for the convenience OF
the surrounding territory, is entitled to
the advantages of its location, and any
effort to prevent it is bound to end III
failure, The same rule that would per-
NIT Kansas City to ignore Wichita
would enable Chicago to ignore Kansas
CITY, New York 10 ignore Chicago and
London to ignore New York. But as
Kansas City, Chicago and New York are
necessary centers in their respective
fields, they are and will be maintained
The railroads in turn have recognized
these cities, and justly so, but there are
other territories which demand centers
for their accommodation, and such a
territory surrounds Wichita and its de-
mands can no longer be ignored. Wich-
ita must have tho advantage of her po-
sition, and her rights are being rapidly
recognized. She stands today the most
important business point between the
Missouri river and the Rocky mountains,
with her rights to that territory recog-
nized practically by the railroads, and in
The near future will be fully and COM
pletely.
Previous to the enactment of the in
ter-state law OF commerce western rail-
way arrangements had conceded that
Wichita must be common point and
pooling station Not only her impor-
tance and pre-eminence as the center Of
a new field, but her location with refer
ence to, and distance from any and
every other pooling or distributing CEN
ter, rendered such conclusion inevitable.
At the time of the enactment of the in
ter-state law Commissioner Fink de-
clared that such law would necessarily
retard the development of Omaha. Min
neapolis, Kansas City and Wichita, and
probably Denver, all of which would
suffer because of the ''long-haur' pro-
vision, whereby Chicago and New York
would be directly benefited, but that in
the end such natural centers for mar
kets, manufactures and distri-
button would logically assert and
maintain their superiorities in
their particular lines and respective
fields. The subterfuge of the navagabil-
ity of the Missouri river and the subse-
quent expedient of declaring such water
way chasing line" largely overcame
the iniquities of the interstate transpor-
tation swindle, for Omaha and Kansas
City, leaving Wichita TO fight for her
rights in the courts and before the United
ed States and state railway commissions.
In this effort to regain what was former
ly her own and of which one-sided law
had robbed her, much time has been
consumed and no little money expended,
but these supplemented by The advantage
of environment and natural laws of trade
have won such a victory as will in the
end sweep away the barriers as were in
terposed by traffic associations under a
modified enactment.
So the time has come around again,
now, today, for the establishment of new
iobbing houses and manufacturing in
terests in Wichita, and with it advant-
ages never before commanded, including
metropolitan daily paper in touch with
the citys entire field, carrying its market
reports and business interests to every
portion of that field For those who
have helped to supply this field from
other locations, as well as for those who
desire to become jobbing factors in the
trade of the great southwest, no mistake
can be made or hazard taken in their inn
mediate removal to and establishment
in Wichita.