The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-14
ENVY OR MALICE, OR BOTH.


or believes the Eagle, but if our frienC
Hoch will spend but a single day il
, this city in questioning all the meT
and women whom he may meet, with
out any attempt to Gull out those OF
his own particular creed he will fine
!. that the Eagle does reflect the senJi
ment of the people of Wichita
Wichita is all right Because ii is great
er, stronger, more wide-awake, more
progressive and enterprising, less given
to hypocrisy and more earnest in it,
religious convictions, broader guaged
more cultivated and cosmopolitan than
any other city in the state, and there
fore is not understood, appreciated by
the peoples of such towns as are lack
ing in the essential spirit which char
acterizes the metropolis, great Or small
is no indication that we are either
heather or all gone wrong.
The finest Y. NJ C. A. building in the
state, or in the west, is in Wichita.
Who built it? Not the state. Not the
churches. The people of Wichita
built it. There are in this city a
dozen splendid permanent school build
lngs, all Of stone or brick, four of them
among the most imposing structures in
Kansas. The people of the state didn't
! build them. Wichita boasts two acad-
envy building, both running, two col
leSeS, both running, two universities.
one running, none of which were built
by the state. The finest court house,
the most magnificent temple of JUS
tice outside Of Chicago and St. Paul in
the entire west, rears its proud dome
| IN Wichita. The state is occupying a
portion of this great edifice, for which
it pays no rent nor for which did it
contribute cent. The most imposing
and commodious city building boosted
by any city west Of the Missippi river,
is in Wichita, the tip of whose beauti-
ful tower stands 196 feet above the
| curb. Wichita owes the state nothing
Tor this monument to the enterprise OF
her 'rum-Soaked" citizens. We have
twenty-six churches, several of them of
lofty spires and beautiful within.
These were built by the people of
Wichita, and the ministers for them
are supported by Wichita people. Last
week, the bank clearings of this CITY.
as reported by Bradstreets, lacked but
$4,000 Of being half million of dollars.
That business was not furnished Wich-
ita by the state of Kansas, but largely
through her trade with the live men
of Oklahoma, whose people are more
ike the people Of Wichita than are the
people of the state of Kansas. The
people of Kansas, outside of Wichita.
believe more in Kanias City rnan in
Wichita; they patronize that Missouri
town by mail, by express and by
freight daily ~ they do much of their
banking business in that model Mis-
souri, town; they take excursions there
and there the state bosses regularly
meet to resolve upon policy for Kan
sas, which ever renders it impossible
to build up great powerful CONNER
cial city and rich center of population
in their own state.
There are other characteristics ner-
tanning to Wichita, not understood by
Editor Hoch nor by the people Of this
state, OF which he is type and a rep
resentauye. The first and only prom
lnent Woman'S literary society within
the state, "Hypatia," an organization
OF bright pure women, the name and
fame of whose society are familiar to
the members Of like organizations in
the great eastern centers, is in Wichita. |
Inc most intelligently fine face in the |
galaxy of pictures of the nrominent
men in the Boston convention of Chris
tan Endeavorors, as published by the
DAILY Globe, is that of President II. W.
Ruie OF Wichita. The man who stirred
up the crowd most markedly. which
had gathered at Topeka on the 4th of |
July, partly for forwarding the cause
OF temperance, but mostly for political
purposes. is a Wichita preacher. The
social life Of Wichita is on a higher
and purer plane, the arts, especially of
music and painting, are more generally
cultivated and patronized, the churches
more numerously attended on the Sab
bath day. her ministers more brilliant.
earnest and self-sacrifcing, than of
any other city or town in Kansas
There are more beautiful and costly
homes. and 4 greater number of really
refined and Intelligent wives and
mothers, and happy children. occupv-
ing such homes than in any other city
of the state.
For truth, and in brief. there are
more men and music, more brains and
business. more purity and pietv. more
hddles, fun and fidelity. all told. and
in Wichita, than in any or
all of her Observation-Disclosures critics and
enviouS carpers. and the Eagle. in he
ing the acknowledged metropoIitsp
daily of Kansas, in rejecting the sen
timents aud convictions of this people
as truly represents all that they hold
dear in defending them.
PLENIFOTENTIARY RIP-sNORTTNG.