The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-25
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Nj. NJ MURDOCE. Editor.
D1sLoYaLTY TO WICHITA.


tribute to the augmentation or that MIS-
souri town. But for the numerous
complaints of discrimination and
freight-rate outrages, brought by Wich-
ita before the state and interstate COM
nierce commissions, and the cases insti-
tuted by this city in the federal courts
there vould not now be remaining TO
+he towns of South Kansas single
wholesaling establishment, factory OF
anv inheritance or grain elevator OF
mill of character. As is well known,
The livestock interests Of Wichita have
been subsidized. its packing interests
hammered. and its grain business sys-
dramatically bodied. by the dominating
concerns of the constituencies hog Oh
the Sni Hills habitat. Within a few
months past. after years of an enforced
control. whereby South Kansas grain
has been diverted TO Kansas City, the
contract. made and signed, for the cree
ton of a grain elevator Of million
brrshel handling capacity at Wichita
suddenly disappeared through the cor
rupt sop in the NAV Of The combine al
the mouth of the Kaw. In brief, the
people of Kansas have never been per-
mitted the legitimate fruits OF their cap
stal or labor. nor the benefits when
should have accrued through the rail
roads built by themselves, and all be-
cause of the hard-pressed advantages
end the ''dog- in-the-manger' policy OF
the bastard octupus of pirated name
asauat the border nobs and gullies OF a
state primarily notorious for its bandits
and later for its robber-propensitles.
AS our readers are aware, the latest
effort of this pillaging combination of
ex-slave bushrangers upon the one side
and licensed righteousness upon the
other, in the way Of AN attempt 10
weld their clamps on Kansas, is a gov
eminent subsidized newspaper train.
By their ''fast maiP' coercion they ex-
sas shall even read. Failing so far, to
make the proposed connection, by re
tarding the regular business mails Of
South Kansas and Oklahoma, they are
dropping the hastily compiled midnight
editions of their papers into the yards
of all the homes in Southern Kansas.
This presumptive essay proving I'M
successful, the half-baked Democrat
Times dispatches an agent to Wichita
with instructions to see To it that the
paper is pushed by some scheme, &C
cepted and read
The Eagle ventures the conviction
that any Wichita man or firm, lending
himself or itself 10 this questionable
and unbdIsineSs- LIKE scheme is a traitor
to WiclTita'S interests; and that any
man who pays his money in its support
Is, TO such an extent, dbsloyal not only
10 his home, but blind to his own inter
ests- As for any Republican who would
thus lend himself 10 the boistering I'D
of a power which has ever been eXerted
TO pull and keep Wichita down, he is
not only a traitor to the best interests
of the people but a political hypocrite.
No man can be true 10 Wichita and at
The same time either become the tool or
patron Of the newspaper organs of a
people who have tolled off a number of
cur jobbing concerns, and bribed away
by reduced freight rates, free rents and
money a number of Wichita's manufac-
turing interests
The many times bankupted Times
and iis contemporaries may assert that
all tins is but an evidence of selfishness
upon the part of the Eagle. The peo-
pie Of Wichita know better. The
Eagle will Not lose a single subscriber.
The evening Beacon contains all of in
terest In the way of Associated Press
dispatches found in the midnight edi-
tons OF the Missouri papers. The
Eagle contains not only all that viii be
found in them and all that their later
and complete editions contain, but
more. Every word of the Associated
Press dispatches recorded in Kansas
City is clicked off in this office at the |
same moment It is therefore neither |
jealousy nor seltishness. Enterprises !
have been planted in Wichita 10 be
stolen by Kansas City; others have !
,fourished a while, and subsidized; men,
by the thousands, have come and gone |
but for upwards of a quarter OF a CEN 1
fury the Eagle-time and time again re-
fusing advantageous offers to move its /
plant to larger cities-has unselhshly /
fought the fight for Wichita. true. ever. /
and unfiinchingly, without hope of re-
ward other than that which might come /
through the growth az the city and the /
general prosperity OF its citizens. 1t
has suhordinated everything 10 that end /
save its political principles and honest
convictions. believing il 10 be a /
worthy life ambition. Schemes. en- /
bracing sums aggFegatins thousands Of /
dollars, have been rejected by the /
Eagle because they involved bad faith
10 the business interests % this CITY.
Within ten days one of the largest met
ropolitan dailieS Of the country offered +
TO supply its pages free. through the /
Eagles carriers 10 our city subscribers.
but il was refused because il s1nacked
too much of the 6eteStable Subterfuse