The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-20
Daily Eagle
NJ. NJ. MURDOCH, Editor.
KANSAS CITY. MISSOURI, AGAIN.

The Eagle took occasion yesterday TO
editorially refer TO the quality and
quantity of Kansas City's gall. There
is nothing in that line to be found any
where TO compare with it. 1t is a thing
of both termination and evolution. 1t
is a combination of conditions and en-
vironments, such as probably occurs no.
where else. AS tadpoleS grow TO a loot
In length along the Congo, and mosqui-
toes six inches from tip TO TIP Ill New
Jersey, so the length and bulge OF Kan
sas City cheek is something attractive
were il less absolutely startling. An
other phase of that towns Impudence
of which her papers are the best ex-
moment and the most truthful reflex, is
found in the demand now being made
In congress for a fast newspaper mail
train from Kansas City TO all the more
important interior towns OF Kansas.
This would be, Of course. at the eX-
pense of all Kansas dailies. Kansas
must not only be forced TO dump her
aggregated products into the bins and
pens of Kansas City's thieving commits
SONS, but Kansas must not have any
dailies worthy the name, but must look
to Kansas City for its news and senll-
ments alike. Having helped 10 prokib-
II the sale of liquors in Kansas in the
interest of Kansas City whisky dealers,
who reap from the trade more than
million of Kansas dollars annually,
they now propose to prohibit Kansas
newspapers TO the same end Demand
ing that Kansas people shall come to
Kansas City for the meat which they
themselves originally raised, for the
-four made from their own wheat, and
for news and general intelligence, this
Missouri aggregation of unprecedented
gall will next be demanding that accom-
modaiion trains be run from Kansas in
the interest of Kansas City's churches
and piayhouses. And they never do
these things through Missouri men or
Missouri influences. Oh, no. They
work their schemes through Kansas
people. They ask Kansas railroads,
Kansas legislatures and Kansas con- |
gressmen &c kill the state of Kansas in |
the interest of Kansas City, Missouri. |
They are nov asking congress, through |
Kansas representatives, to give Kansas |
City a fast newspaper train TO the end |
that Kansas people may be forced to |
support Kansas City papers, not only, |
bit that Kansas may know nothing |
save What ner people learn through |
Kansas City, Missouri, newspapers,
" hich will thus be enabled TO the more
surely control public sentiment in Kan
sas in The interest of that Missouri town
Kansas City. Missouri, newspapers even
now are read more largely and they
have more influence with the Kansas
and officials at Topeka
than all the Kansas papers put together.
Unless Kansas soon cuts loose from the I
financial and political
clamps which bind the state and all it is
10 Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas will
soon become hopeless dependency
with every leading enterprise and every
magnitude pulling up and To-
eating in Kansas City, Missouri. TO
this end that Conference of cheek and
gall are looking; for this they have been
planning and assiduously
in season and out, for years.
Kansas City. Missouri, is not the sister
or daughter of the horse-leech, but the
horse-leech itself. is ii not about time
that Kansas congressman and Kansas
L. s. senators and Kansas legislators
let up in their efforts to build up that
Missouri town at the expense of Kan
sas. of her interests, industries and en-
Lerprises?