The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-17
Daily Eagle
III. NJ. MURDOCH. Editor.
FAILURE OF TEE NORMAL.

The effort 10 induce the state TO estab
Gsh a Normal school In this center o.
population and trade has again failed
1t did not fail because this section Of
the state is already supplied With state
educational institutions, nor because
the counties of this great valley pay
more than the average towards sustain
ing the state educational and charitable
institutions, all of which are located in
the heg-pen corner, but failed because
Of sinall-souled eaTieS Of individuals
who have 40 interest in tie state be-
Sond what they draw from its public
treasury, and from the contemplate
iealnusies of towns which, having STATE
Institutions. cannot brook the idea Of
any other city or section boastipg a like
advantage. If Wichita had rendered
the Garfield as a gift TO the state, out
right, together with an added bonus Of
SIuaoO0, no Normal would have been
located here. A combination OF the
hogs, Who hold the present state insti-
futinns, with the short-graSs chumpS,
whose only qualifications as public men
consist in their prejudice and their ig-
norance OF the state and its wants, VIII
prove sufficient to defeat the ambitions
and the rightful demands Of any local
sty outside Of the corner combine. The
president Of the State Normal school, a
professed friend of education, whose
sole interest in the state IS his salary
which the state pays him 10 conserve
education, spent # is said, much of his
time this winter at Topeka drawing
his pay and fighting the proposition Of
another State Normal at Wichita, And
this IN face Of the fact that Sedgwick
has, for years, been paying more taxes
ID the way OF support Cor the EnapoTia
school than any other county In the
state save two.
But Enlporia Is not the only town
whose hash-house greed and unworthy
jealousies have got the better Of their
high professions in the interest OF edu-
fined to the heads OF. and the people of,
the towns containing the state instftu-
tens Topeka boasts several state in
stitutionS In short this town, which
lives off the state and the San
"a Fe railway, has a sectarian col
lege, a fairly good college so far as we
know, but a college whose directory
or conductors have been fighting the
effort being made here 60 endow and
build I'D Fairplount College. This To
peka Institution seems to fear the posi-
BILE prosperity of an Institution located
nearly two hundred miles distant It
Is Inevitable that the Arkansas valley
In Kansas will have greater popala-
ton than the Kaw valley can possibly
sustain. The Arkansas valley is not
only from three to FIVE times as wide
as the KaW, but It's fertile portion twice
the length of the KaW, Is all this great
valley and the many tributary TO Il to
be forever denied any consideration
simply because it IS not strong enough
as yet to enforce its demands: 1t looks
that way, when even the trustees and
faculty OF a Topeka college go out OF
their way to damage another college of
its own denomination in the eyes Of
friends Of education In New England,
and only because It is located in Wich-
tia President Morrison. now absent in
the east, earnestly laboring in the inter-
est of Paramount, which Institution is
asking nothing at the hands Of the state,
has been thus embarrassed in his eff
forts By this Topeka influence
II is not enough that Wichita has
powerful enemy ar the month Of the
kaw, in Missouri. fighting its commer-
cial and industrial interests, ever and
eternally, but the power of the state,
which is c1ystallized UP In the north
east eighth, the eighth which holds the
eleven principal public institutions of
the state must, at every opportunity,
join in the suicidal crusade, Of the
sum Of nearly three and half millions
Of dollars appropriated by the outgoing
legislature for state purposes, three and
q quarter millions of II is to be expend-
ed ON state institutions located within
one hundred miles OF Kansas City, Mis- |
souri,, the most OF them within fifty
miles.
The counties constituting the three |
southern tiers Of Kansas viii never get
anything from the state politically, edu- |
cadonally or otherwise until they cam
hine and take it That was settled |
many years ago Until such comblna-
ton can, through community of inter |
eSts or otherwise, be brought about, this |
section OF the state and It's respective |
localities Will, while contributing 10 /
feed and sustain the hog-pen corner.
take care Of and foster their interests
and institutions.
CIVIL SERVICE HYPOCRISY.
Grover Cleveland having fSIled cana !