The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-08
WHY, OF COURSE.

Topeka is making a grand stand kick
| because Kansas City, Mo, is laying
plans to capture General Frederick
Funston and the Twentieth Kansas on
their return from Manila and use them
for advertising purposes. We do not
blame Topeka in the least. The town
at the mouth of the Kaw has been
made by Kansas All the fame and
saS and at the expense of Kansas
towns but this attempt to steal our
military glory is worse than burglary.
Poor old Missouri has not won any
glory in this war, none of her regiments
having been sent to the front. but she
cannot be allowed to steal from Kan
sas. We are willing to have the regi-
ment parade in Kansas City, Kansas.
while the Missouri fellows line up on
their own side and look on, but this is
all that we can consent to. Kansas
City, Mo-, should call for new survey
of the state line and take care to be on
the west side of it. The odor Of Mis-
souri, that clings to her is embarrassing
and neutrality-suspicious. Reporter.
Wamegoans take special pride in the
many nice things being said of the
Twentieth Kansas. Eight of our boys
are IN this gallant regiment and upon
their return they will receive a well
come such as their bravery deserves.
The idea of the whole state rendering
the boys a reception at Topeka meets
with favor. Hundreds of our people
would participate. Kansas City also
wishes to give the boys a reception.
The Twentieth Kansas is Kansas
regiment and the capital of Kansas is
the proper place for KansanS to meet
the boys and give them such a recep-
ton as Topeka and the state would
know how to plan. If Kansas City peO-
pie wish to be with the crowd they had
better get on the Topeka band wagon.
-Wamego Agriculturist.
The gall of Kansas City, Mo-, is an
Unreasonable thing. That people, in
claiming the earth as a mere minor
thing, assume absolute proprietorship
of Kansas, of all it is. financially and
commercially as a commonwealth, to-
gether with the guardianship OF it's peo-
pie, morally, religiously, socially and
otherwise. No acquisitions in the way
of industrial enterprises are ever made
by the people of this state that are not
forthwith looted by this Missouri NUM-
cipality; no progressive step, material,
religious moral, taken by them that
these MiSsOurianS do not claim to have
inspired. To say that they own us, as
a people, body, soul and brooches, is
but to feebly express the proprietor
ship assumed and largely enforced.
Kansas having sent a regiment of her
sons to Manila to shoulder share of
The White Mans Burden" where by
their inherent heroism they have won
name and fame, these Kansas City
plunderers assume the glory and honor
as their own rightful heritage and are
now taking Ostentatious steps to well
come back our patT1OJS, TO welcome
them home. How Kansans can be well
coined back to Missouri would be hard
to explain upon any other hypothesis
than that Missouri owns Kansas, the
greater necessarily including the less.
Contemplate. for an instant, the spec
tacle of the bushwhackers of the Sni
Hills of Missouri, headed by a rem
nant of the James gang in cahOots with
a contingent of train robbers honOring
any body of men for duty done, or that
which is much more prepOsterous, ap-
probating patriot heroes for victories
won in the name of freedom and hu-
mainly. But this is Kansas City, Mis-
souri,, all over, through and through
and every time. whether it comes 70
the docking of a Kansas hog or the
tolIing of a Kansas bushel of wheat,
the lOOting of a Kansas town, the sub
sidizing of a Kansas fast mail or the
stealing Kansas hOnors won in battle
fields, however distant. The tentacles
of this Missouri octopus would entwine
the very heart-strings of the brave and
unselfsh even while yet fighting for the
emancipation of an enslaved race of
the antipodes Welcoming Kansas boys
back home to Missouri, forsOoth. The
an additional reef in his tail and trem-
BILE when from the gazebo of his brim-
stone factory he contemplates from
time to time the audacity of these Mis-
souri, monopolists and his own inevita-
BILE future responsibility of properly
warming them up.-Wichita Eagle.