The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-18
INJURIES KANSAS
By Sunday Cheap Excursions
to Kansas City, Mo.

The Wichita Eagle has fiery edi-
torial on the Sunday excursion business
to Kansas City. 1t says:
tThey (Kansas Cityans) have got up
a cheap excursion scheme to run Sat
urdays and Sundays, of every week,
ern Kansas to this Missouri town and
back for a mere nominal sum. Having
induced one read into 1.-THE other roads
are compelled 10 do the same thing in
Self-defense- Thousands OF people are
being hauled down there every week.
augmenting the receipts of the Kansas
City hotels, restaurants, dives and other
enterprises to the tune OF many thouS-
ands of dollars weekly, which money
otherwise would have been expended in
Kansas and added to the volume of its
business. Topeka, which is hurt more
by this last move than even by the fast
mail steal, hasn't the sand~tO kick All
the sa me, the Eagle goes on record with
the statement that it is a barefaeed
entire state. While it can't pay the
railroads, it takes from the trade of
Kansas towns to add to that of, and
to build up, a community which pays
no taxes to Kansas nor supports the
state in any particular. Every such
train abri6ges the legitimate chances
of every town reached by it of becom-
ing of commercial Importance by just
so much. Those people are hauled
down there at the expense of Kansas.
save the pittance realized from the
said that thirty thousand people were
carried to Kansas City on Saturday
and Sunday last. We do not believe it,
but conceding it to be true, it meant
not less than an extra quarter of mil
lion dollars of Kansas money expended
in the interest of a town which never
expendS cent in the direction of Kan
sas except it be for some scheme to beat
chances and advantages these Missou
rians have plotted for quarter of
century"
1.-THE Eagle is wrong in it's state
ment that Topeka hasn't the sand
to kick Topeka does kick, and kick
audibly. The Kansas roads ought to
get together and stop an excursion
business that barely pays expenses
The great crowd that goes on Sunday
do not even buy necessary articles, be
cause the stores are not open. A large
their money in debauchery. There
doesn't seem to be a single redeeming
feature in the Sunday excursion. 1t is
very gratifying to know that Mr.. W.
J. Black of the Santa Fe and Major T.
J. Anderson of the Rock Island are
greatly opposed to these Sunday ex-
cursions and will use their influence
against them, but an agreement with
other roads must be reached.1
WHAT THE DRINKS DO.
The inevitable row which takes place
among drunken men returning from a
Kansas City excursion" occurred be-
tween Holiday and Lawrence on the
night train. These rows are not con-
fined to any one road; all suffer from
them.
In this case, the car was filled with
men and women One drunken white
man was cursing because the nfggers
had seats and he was compelled to
stand up. He had kept this up for
some time until a Lawrence negro
pulled a revolver and started after the
white man.
There was intense excitement in the
car but the riot was QuelIed before
anyone was injured The women,
when the coIored man pulled MS re-
volver scrambled over seats in mad
haste to get into place of safety, and
some of them We're bruised, but not
seriously injured.