The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-12
8alLu~sc ,dQLE
M. M. MURDOCH, Editor.
raE CITY OF HoMEowNERs.

17,b,ts &c city Of honeowners. years the land
lord interest has been growing and less Considera
HE m n was At one time the day Of debated values with
,b na that had favors in its arms. fierce wind that
Il was found the Iaborng Of this city grasping the
hargaine which offered domiciles cost less than the
s+sl vale of the land on which the houses stood The
Increase in value since has equal in some cases to
The wages they have earned in the time There are art
sans in Wichita who in the dull times reckoning that the
nn1v chance against them was failure Of recovery in
Wichita and holding that correctly nil invested in sew
eral houses at the then prevailing dormant values and
have become landlords themselves Meanwhile the wage
Garner in other lines the salesman the assistant in the
professions the saared employe in the mercantile lines
bought home which in other conditions, it would have
taken him years to obtain.
The bomeowner makes a city His home is a substan-
hal manifestation Of his faith the future Of his city
guaranty that his belief and interest in its destiny is IN
divided The speculative transient brings an ephemerai
enthusiasm which while valuable is not the pure gold
n the nermanent resdenter who has determination equal
Ing his enthusiasm It is the homeowner then who To-
o forms the element which, without abatng one jot
The determination to help make Wichita great city the
greatest Of this great southwest still forms the conser'
tive brake upon any speculative rashness whatsoever
Is well that he is here Wichita is on boom,
boo znrnassing all previous experiences but the foam
and foh which was threshed high once before is not TO
rome and sink away cutting the substantial life OF the
,f+ There is not to be wdeyed speculation in imDoss
HE additions The coming Of the Orient and its shops
DOCS not mean that; the business of half hundred whole
sale bonses and manufactures crowded today to their
aa does not mean that the business Of the big pack
inc houses does not mean that the construction OF the
massive Touring mill; or building Of three big ele
vator or the completion of the big canning factory; or
the extension Of the street railway system; or the crowded
traffic on the streets; or the houses that show yellow
nine on every street and in the city; or the
strangers crowding into city to make it their home
Or the enlargement of freight depots or the necessity OF
more racbage every line centeng in this city feels to-
aav or the great college buildings filing or the great
me being built; or the four million in deposits in our
banks or the jump Of the weekly clearances Of Wichita
banks toward the million mark these do not mean specu
ation or the threat Of speculative excitement They
mean business business going after business. They
mean expansion the expansion of Wichita to its proper
dimensions as the center Of the great southwest and
legitimate normal prodigious advance Of values in
keepng with that expansion They that Wichitas
greatness now has foundation with permanent cit
zenship citizenship Of homeowners the work on the
superstructure has just begun So all Of will within
Eve years. see