The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-17
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time, that Kansas City, missouri, not
being satisfied with growing rich ana
powerful. and wholly off the people OF
Kansas. had organized Nheat-bin ana
nig-pen and other trusts which have
combined TO force every product OF
Kansas into their hands, for the posi-
Bile toliings and stealings. Little comes
to. and practically nothing goes from
The state that is not filtered through the
close meshed sleeves and nets spread at
the mouth of the kaw, by these Mlssou-
rians, aided by former Kansans, VINO
have gone down there for the sole pur-
pose of joining the robber gang. HAY
Ing got fast hold on the commerce o.
Kansas they next essayed the control of
her state officials, legislative commit
tees. and finally the management OF
Kansas railways and Kansas congress
men. Because the Eagle charged. and
lot only charged but proved, that Kan
sas influence had been employed by
Kansas City, in the name of the good
of Kansas, 10 secure a fast mail serv-
ice, which benefits no soul under heaven
save Kansas City. Missouri, interests,
a Topeka paper or two got on their ears
and one of the Missouri sheets waxed
so hot that il cut the Eagle from lis eX-
change list, after first toiling off man
whom the Eagle had made valuable. No
sense of honor ever influences a member
Of that Missouri gang in the direction of
decency. Another OF its papers, by the
way. tolled off, with an extravagant
salary. a solicitor who in travelling
long time for the Eagle, had become ac-
Guainted with every business man in
twenty-siX counties Of southwest Kan
sas, with the understanding that he was
TO run down the paper that had given
him a chance to become valuable. An
other Kansas City sheet, an evening
concern which makes pretenSes 20 hon
or and decency, has been trying, for 4
month, to seduce into its employ a man
who has been travelling for years for
and through, 10 dot. SO, when these
Kansas City papers find that some Kan
sas town is being exceptionally well
served by its home or local press these
Missouri bushwhackers cause their
sheets TO be thrown into the front yards
of every home in such town. accompan-
cd with co,,1o 6acar.ira offa,. If cham
ness. They call this enterprise. Its the
kind of enterprise employed by another
class of MiSsOurianS who having sneak
ed into deep cut hold up mail trains
and rob passengers. Its the same char
acter of robbery which forces South
Kansas wheat designed for gulf ports
10 be first consigned to Missouri com
mission combines for lower grading by
mixing and other kinds of tolling.
But what we started out to speak of
is new phase of hold-up Instituted by
these blood-poachers who keep their,
traps Sc; on this side Of the Kansas line,
but who live and pay their taxes on
the Missouri side. Knowing that Kan
sas had raised an extraordinary crop OF
wheat, oats. etc. and would therefore
have more money y spend than ordin-
arily, and having succeeded. largely
through the influence Of Topeka in get
ting an extra fast uain run 10 the center
of the state for their newspapers. they
have got up cheap excursion scheme
10 run Saturdays and Sundays, of every
week, carrying passengers from all over
eastern Kansas TO this Missouri town
and back for a mere nominal sum.
Having induced one road into II. the
other roads are compelled 10 do the
same thing in Self-defence Thousands
of people are being hauled down there
every week. augmenting the receipts OF
IN X. {. hotels, restaurants. street car
lines, merchants. dives and other enter
priseS to the tune of many thousands
of dollars weekly. which money other
wise would have been expended in Kan
sas and added to the volume of its bust
neSS. Topeka, which is hurt more by
this last move than even by the fast
mail steal hasn't the sand 10 kick Al
the same the Eagle goes on record with
the declaration that it is 4 barefaced
outrage Un Topeka, NOT only. but on the
entire state. While it can't pay the rail-
roads. it takes from the trade of Kan
s9s towns M add 10 that of. and 10 build
~. community which pays no taxes
to Kansas. nor supports the state in any
particular. Every such train abridges
the legitimate chances Of every town
reached by it of becoming of CONNER
cal importance by just 50 much. Those
people are hauled down there 1T the ex-
penSe of Kansas. save the pitance real
lied from the nominal fare by the rail
roads. 1t is said that thirty thousand
people were carried 10 Kansas CITY on
Saturday and Sunday last. We do lot
believe il. But concedng il 10 be true.
il meant not less than an extra Quarter
OF million of dollars Of kansas money
expended in the interest Of A town
which never eXpend> a cent in the Ill
rection Of Kansas except il be for some
scheme 10 beat money out of 4 people
against whose chances and advantages
THESE MisSourians have plotted for
quarter Of a century.
A personal friend Of the writer On be-
ing asked. a few weeks since. Willie in