The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13
THAT KANSAS CITY PosroFF1cE.

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Kansas seems destined to ever be
| the tail to the Missouri kite of the Sni
/ Hills The difficulties encountered by
Kansas Territory, in sailing to the stars
Of states, were all Matched in Missouri
! The nation became involved in de-
| structive war. the bitter enmities Of
which quarter Of a century of years
have failed TO efface, and the debt
burthens imposed by which will still
be harrasSing two hundred millions of
people when the name Of John Brown
of Ossawatomie shall be Of memory
less than n tradition. When the pat
ricidal hand of old Pap Price would
have struck down the sucking para
site at the mouth of the Kaw, and
wiped its burrowing squatters from
the face Of the earth the patriotism Of
Kansas colonists was invoked under
the penalties Of martial law to save
them. The writer of these feeble
words, commanding hundreds of phi
lanthrOpic patriots, coerced TO the dis
tasteful task, threw himself across the
main thoroughfare leading from Nc
Gees addition TO Westport, and
through the weary watches of a gloomy
autumnal night slept upon his arms,
keeping ward of the homes of
the huckstering wretches who had
crawled into their holes protesting in
turn their loyalty to Jeff Davis and
their devotion TO the union. 1t was a
night of rafting cais0ns, of tintinnabu
lations of hurrying cavalrymen, pend
ant saberS and the ominous susura
ton of the artilleryman's numbering
cannO carriage, a night whose back |
ground was of funeral corteges, made |
up OF lines Of the dead, fresh from the |
disseminated ranks which had that |
day held the banks Of the Little Blue, |
a night no less marked for its dark pro- |
tOlypical uncertainties than for its |
gloomy prOpheticiSm for yictimized |
Kansas. And so in the slow diurnity I
of elapsing decades Of drouth, bOoms
and grasShoppers, which have charac-
terized and emphasized the chronology
zeal trail of our beloved commonwealth
all the multifarious products of our
sunny plains and smiling wales have
gone to the Unsuitable nav of that
Of Goldfish cliffs and sand
sink of stinkS which we would that
night have died 10 save. The sweat
and MOL of circling years Of uncertain
ty, the penny saved and all including
the permission to drink what we pleas
I'd dumped into that hill corrugated
hole of greed and CRIME held to be
decent only because Of its name, a
name stolen, and stolen like every
hing else from Kansas.
The eastern terminus Of the trans
continental road the construction Of
which was so largely due to Kansas,
vas fixed at Wyandotte. In turn this
erminus was stolen also and the name
If the Kansas town was expurgated
wiped out and expunged from the To-
alton and that of the Missouri munic-
pality given 1T. Now, as though sniff
ient indignitieS had not been heaped
lpOn us by this corradiation of Bush
vhackers and rendezvous of train ]
a Democratic administra ton
proposes to blot out the largest city of
Kansas as postoffice. and transfer the I
anne to the Missouri town, thereby
fifty thousand citizens of
Kansas to patroniZe and swell the i'm S
ortance of n people who having forced
his state into every conceivable tribute S
nd humiliation did so manipulate the i
reight rates of railways, which we 8
ad built, as to render it impossible |
or Kansas ever to have q commercial t
ity or center of her own. /
Under existing conditions protests I
gainst the outrage would avail moth t
~, but in the absence of prohibition '
NV fOrbidding it we for one propose
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