The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-16
IT Is TO BE REGRETTED.
Some OF the Results of the Unfortunate
Contention

A member Of wholesale firm, in this
! city, said to a representative Of this
paper yesterday that they had conclud-
| ed TO remove to Kansas City with their
| stock and business. When asked for
| an explanation he prefaced his reply
| with the declaration that he was a
| teetotler and had been a believer in
prohibition, but. he added. that to him
it was evident that with the law strict
ly enforced Wichita's chances for be-
| ing a wholesale and business center
would be crippled for an indefinite time
if not ruined entirely, and in the near
| future, which conclusion, if correct,
| the sooner his firm could get establish
| ed at some other point the better, as
| to both time and money for them The
| privilege of using his name was not
asked but viii be furnished to any
honest doubter.
Another man, one OF the oldest. quiet
est and most substantial in the City.
retail dealer on Douglas avenue almost
. pposte this office, and VINO has fine
home. announced yesterday that he
would commence Immediately 10 wind
up his affairs and he hoped by next
spring to be able to bid farewell forever
to a condition of things and a turmoil
which rendered business life in a pro-
hibition state not only Improbable,
but burthen.
The contract for a new business
building has been cancelled and dozen
or more improvements abandoned since
the announcement that a new police
commission backed by an assistant
states attorney were to be named for
the government OF Wichita.
All Of this is unfortunate Heaven
knows we, as people, have had
enough of adverse conditions and un-
toward circumstances TO struggle
against, hard enough time to hold our
own, at best. Outside of the misun-
derstandings. the ill-will engendered
and the threats made; outside of the
cause of temperance and the enforce
ment of the law, or the convictions Of
the men who have by their actions
frightened the timid and discouraged
the ordinarily self-reliant business man
all this state of things. as everybody
will agree, whatever their beliefs. is
unfortunate for Wichita 1t would
be better for Wichita if every one of
the insurance agents and other indi-
vIduals who have fomented this trou-
bic should leave the place forever and
take with them all they have got, If in
deed they have anything left than that
the single individual business man last
Eamed should be lost to this commune
ty. AS for the wholesale firm we cam
not think that it will go. However, no
doubt many others will
But there is an end to all things
These business men should consider
that it will not always be in the power
Of these agitators to threaten and an
hoy, to impose their biased notions
and while ruling TO ruin summon the
law and the power of the state to their
aid. These bushes men who are con-
temp1ating leaving should remember
that these misguided and stubborn !
headed prosecutors and prosecutors !
do not represent the will or sentiment |
of the community nor any organized |
portion of it: that some of these indi- |
viduals are impelied by one motive and |
some by another and all without any
reference to the material welfare of the |
town, and very few of them with any |
care for the moral welfare of the peo- |
pie. THESE business men should not [
forget that there are better times ahead !
and that in the better times many of !
those very individuals who now lie /
awake at night to think up plans to /
annoy others, for conscience sake, will, !
In their future prosperity not care one !
snap who drinks beer or who does not. |
No, don't give up the shp-don't de- |
sert the town which you have done so /
much TO build up. The prime movers |
in this conflict and uproar have no |
large interests here and they are only |
here so long as they can satisfactorily |
fill their positions; they go today and |
tomorrow, and after the next day !
thereafter we shall never hear of them |
again.
Stand up for Wichita and stand by /
your own.