The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-06-12
KANSAS CITY sQUEALS.


City principally comes from Kansas
but that that Missouri town is largely
dominated by formerly -of-Kansas nell
vino have been compelled 10 move &c
Kansas City. In this connection the
Star bewails our prejudice. Ii is use
less. We are prejudiced against the
maintenance of any condition Of things
which is to leave the great central
state without any commercial aces
series 10 her agricultural interests,
without which commercial advantag es,
the state will never be anything pOiit-
ically or materially. This Missouri
town not only largely dominates Kan
sas. but stands a menace 10 all the
states future. If Kansas City can
| successfully maintain the advantages
which the Star claims is hers by right
of location, then the state of Kansas
| has no future worth considering. If
Kansas is TO have no city or cities then
her taxable value as commonwealth
viii never rate her more than a tenth
or twelfth grade agricultural state,
with Missouri ranking because of the
wealth Of two great cities, along side
of New York, Pennsylvania and Hi
nOis. Without Kansas, Kansas City
would be nothing. Upon the other
hand, with Kansas City as her CONNER
cial center, Kansas will be nothing.
The Star insists that the Eagles per-
ceptive faculties are blunted by preju-
dice. It's the kind of prejudice which
prompts man to provide for his own
family first We might retort, upon
the other hand, that the selfishness of
the Star renders it oblivious 10 the
wrongs which have been perpeuated
against the people of this state in the
interest of Kansas City. OF course if
Kansas City is to be given a ratio OF
better rates. all around, by the rail-
roads, upon the theory that Kansas
City is the natural commercial center
for this state, and must be sustained
as such, then every important COM
mercial interest of Kansas must sooner
or later go to Kansas City or otherwise
fail If Wichitas wholesalers must
continue to get their stocks from the
Gulf, from the Atlantic and from the,
Pacific, only by the way of Kansas
City, or in other words, if in addition
to the Kansas City rate they must pay
an added '1ocaT' from the Missouri
river here, which local" EQUALS the
entire through rate; if every car load of
hogs and of cattle in southwest Kansas
is to be hauled to Kansas City for the
same sum total charged for one-fourth
or one-tenth the distance to Wichita; if
south Kansas corn and wheat consign-
ed to Galveston can go cheaper by way
of the Kansas City elevator than to the
Gulf direct, which is, and has been the
case, then, of course, Kansas will never
have a city within her borders, while
the Missouri town, with her hundreds
of thousands of population and her
many millions Of taxable wealth, will
be the state of Kansas, materially not
only, but its head center socially and
politically. If the people of Kansas |
can prevent this and don't, they are
chumps, and none too bright to be led |
by Missouri, ruled by Missouri, robbed |
by Missouri, through a combination of |
salaried and it may be bonused freight |
experts known as traffic managers,
whose whole concern is to hold their |
jobs and draw their slaries, which sal |
aries, as rule, are ridiculously dis I
to the service rendered |
either the people or the real owners of |
the railroads. The Star and people of |
Kansas City probably will not take to
this character Of talk very kindly, but
we don't care whether they do or not
We, upon the other hand, don't take
kindly to the fact that the railroads
charge Kansas City seventy cents for
sIeaming coal for which they charge
for the same distance, haul.
one dollar and sixty cents. The sal
aried freight clerk win attribute the
difference 10 the tonnage. Wichita
would use ten tons, where she now
uses one, on an equitable rate
The railway homogeneous of Kan
sas will some day wake up to the fact
that there is more money to them in |
the local business along
their lines, thereby increasing the local
haul. or If they don't the people will
do the waking up for them. Had the
Of the Star been an applied
rule for st. Louis there never would |
have been any Kansas City. Wichita
IS as far from Kansas City. within 4
few miles. as Kansas City IS from ST.
Louis. and Wichita would rival Kansas
City in many things today as n com
mercial and packing and grain point
but for the fact of the maintenance of
outrageous discriminate tons against the
town and in favor OF the Mis-
souri, town. Wichita is nearer the new
deep water port on the Gulf by two
hundred and rwenty-seven miles. and
while Wichita is not asking a better
rate than is accorded Kansas CITY No.
cause Of the advantage in distance
still Wichita demands an equal ra1e
AZ least, and she viii get il or have a
better reason than the one founded on
the difference in tonnage, which diff
terence was developed. and is sun
growing wider. because OF the very
determinations complained OF by the
Eagle.
SHYLOCK'S CUCKOOS.
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