The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-20

sought 10 be enforced by legislativ,
hypocrisy.
But three states in the Union hav,
esSayed such policy, viz: Maine, low;
and Kansas. Neither of them boast,
a city Of greatness and never Will under
such Il forbidding and restraining rule
| Bangor promised to be a second BOs
ton, but forty or fifty years ago Maine
invented the prOhibit0ry law, and al
though Bangor never obeyed it, only
as it has been obeyed in Kansas and
! opportunities subsidized into COMPARE
| tive nOthingnesS-failed. Nebraska
! younger and less favorably situated
than Kansas, has two greater cities
than any that Kansas claims. Mis-
souri,, our eastern neighbor, has three
great and wealthy cities. Even Col
oradO, still younger, ON our west, with
/ its almost impregnable mountains and
arid plains, has a greater city than all
| Of Kansas so-called frst-clasS cities
put together.
Great centers of population may not
be desirable, but without which no
state can ever be powerful or import
ant, commercially, financially, politi-
cally or religiously. Rural life may
be preferable, but these ministers who
threaten so loudly seek the urban and
viii have no other. The ambition Of
their lives is for a higher CALI from
a bigger city. Not one of them who is
thruSting his influence for the control
Of the secular affairs of Wichita would.
for moment, consent to the dietary
racket of "locuStS and wild honey"
In enjoying the fat of the land and
the best of all that we have TO give
them they are curtailing our chances
and abridging our opportunities to sus-
tain the very cause to which they claim
they have cOnsecrated their lives. We
do not deny that if they succeed in
forcing their rule that they viii, by
just 50 much, enhance their own inn
portance and power, and thereby Sc
cure more certainly advantageous of
ferS and openings. So far as one of
these preachers is concerned it is con-
coded that his fortune in this state is
made, his demand for its greatest
churches in his denomination assured.
if he can but win in a fight, precon-
certed at Topeka on the 4th OF july, in
which Wichita must go down.-a fight
not sought nor desired by Wichita, a
fight into which her people has been
forced largely by the eternal whine of
outside envy
Is it right that the many should suf-
fer that the few should be gratified.
and two or three who only came here
for an opportunity. be exalted:
Now. we do not want anybody to say
that the Eagle believes or advocates
that whiSkey is essential TO municipal
Importance, or that evil of any char
acter IS necessary to greatness. They
who shall thus assert Will simply lie.
Yet many evils are possible in cities
which could not exist in sparse popu-
lations, therefore it is impossible 10
build city Of importance, in any par
ucular. and avoid the presence of such
evils as those which since time was
born have bartled with the good
wherever large aggregations of human
ity have existed and hourished.
The spirit of intolerance is more
disastrous to Il community than the
alcoholic spirit which intoxicates. more
fatally depressing. It IS the iron
forged intolerance Of assumed suner-
iority. the spirit Of i am my brothers
keeper that brushes enterprise. that
discourages capital that in driving
away many that We have keeps others
from coming
The majority ought to rule. and the
majority viii rule. Wichita is not the
majority Of the STATE. neither is the
state the majority ii the nation. nor
Yet the nation the majority Of the
world: but Wichita has a majority
which canont be crushed out by the
individual ambitions Of such - barnen
to be seeking name, fame and motor .
iety.
As we have said. the Eagle is seek /
Ing The good and fer Tie whole com [
munity. We have at heart their ma /
terial prosperity. Lois. and blocks. /
business houses and homes. ought 10
be worth double, five times. what they
command today They all VIII be
worth less than half what they are if .
this crusade which has been started s
proves triumphant Three 10 i've
times as much mercantile and banking
business and manufacturing ought To
be done. hut there VIII be three times +
less Of il done, If we are forced :nto .
the yoke fashioned for our necks by I