The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-21
OLD WAKE ON WICHITA.

| That Wichita is not left today as a
| blank. black determination of desola-
| ton is not because of the absence of
opposition of powerful interests and
| agencies. to say nothing Of the malig-
nant persecution of Governor Morrill,
and his man Friday, the dirty Dawes.
Wichita has been subjected TO a vol
ume of adverse conditions and cir
! cumstances in the near past such as
would have utterly bankrupted any
other community in the state. In ad-
dition TO the persistent fight which
has cost the city, directly and Indirect
~. hundreds of thousands of dollars,
and loaded its people down with taxes
and the superimposed freight rate
determinations, has been the super
aided opposition from outside sources.
Among other outside antagonistic
agencies is the New York Voice, a pro-
hibition organ published in a whisky
city but which finds such magnificent
support among the rural cranks of
the people of Kansas, that its editor
lives on the fat of the land and tours
it through Europe for a pastime. This
organ of prohibition for Kansas, but
for dollars and doughnuts for its pro-
prietors, who live, lord and swell in
great metropolis. plays upon the cred
ulity and prejudices of its patrons by
enthusiastically turning itself loose
on the struggling people of Wichita
1t lately published a diagram show
ing only seven houses of i'll fame, with
two hundred inmates that had been
scattered and driven away by the
combined efforts of the righteous
Dawes and the sycophantic Morrill,.
This hypOcritical lying sheet declares
that since August last one hundred
saloons have been driven out. AS
there were but nineteen joints run
ming in the city when Morrill, opened
out with his raid it is pretty hard to
understand where the one hundred Sa
looms came in, unless they We're subSe-
quently established under the boodling
rule of Morrilfs commission and
Dawes redeemer.
There is another paper of the Xix,
published closer at home, at Topeka,
under the auspices of the State Temper
ance union, edited by one Reverend !
Richard Wake, which paper seeks to !
live by the exact methods of the New |
York sheet. This Wake, who, so far |
as we know. never did an honest days |
work in his life, is fairly fiendish in his |
hatred of Wichita. Whether it is be- |
cause the churches and Sunday schools |
Of Wichita do not respond with their |
of money for the support |
of his combined union and paper |
scheme, more satisfactorily, or because |
he can reach the prejudices of the /
balance of the state more certainly by /
abusing Wichita, we do not know. /
Probably both. In his last paper he /
lays down the law to Judge Dale whom |
he instructS to threaten jurieS and wit
nesSes with the penitentiary if they /
fail TO convict the jointists arrested |
by Bill Campbell. He says that a
glimpse of the open door of the states
prison would bring them to their sen
seS There is not a bit of doubt that /
this imported old fanatical hypocrite
and bigoted manipulation of the dog
matte, would, had he the power, burn /
at the stake or break upon the wheel
every inhabitant of Wichita who !
questions the righteousness of his con-
illusions. As it is he abjures a judge,
IN the bench, to send men to the pen
Tertiary for conscience sake.