The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-02-01
nairn4s Eagle
y. NJ. MURDOCH. Editor.
A Word With Wichita About That Woman.


IT Is to be hoped that majority o the people of
Wichita VIII not permit an incidental eseapade Of an an
Gent curbone stager to precipitate them into such
personal encounter and legal contention VIII
body by the ears as pile up costs to the taxpayers
and as VIII in the end bring things stand STILL and
only that placable extremist upon hand and i'm
practical reformers upon other. gorify each
other in qualification wars tedious and costly
and if interesting exciting those directly involved
and for those prosecuting them they Improbable to
everybody else and dscouraging great majority.
Wichita had one resulted in business dis
traction social upheava church wrecage and
expenditure of pile money with beneficial result
found upon the credit side
The crazy old woman whose inspiration seems to con
sist of the memory Of Of husband
who for the lack of manly resolution
mems has turned the town Of Topeka upside It's
people and papers its authorities and churches are by
the ears over this Medicine Lodge who while
in wichita only enlisted the active support of two three
other ancient females as foolish herself others
who could lose nothing even If they gained nothing
than their lawyers notorety by backing
warranted and iueged onslaughts.
But Topeka is Wichita, and for which Wichita
pie should feel in liquor for
municipal derelecon for social corruption Infamous
prostitution and for hypocrca profession there has never
been place side Babylon Of its size to equal
it, such portions Of its inhabitants lay awake
nights to find new state treasury put in
daytimes evolving political schemes devsng eccles-
iastlcal sensations planning ways rng-n state
conventions fraernal associations and other kinae &C
cessories in the line popular gatherings This state
parasite and corporation barnace in aordng fabulous
Medicine Lodge freak opportunity assured
an additional supply Of the kind of sensation which
the majority Of the people of Topeka exist they are
making the most Of it
It is given by Kansas city and other papers that
Wichita Is going to resubmission movement
tia tried that once and stgnay failed Neither
or material reasons Wichita afford any fight
unquesionably temperate city the with
least drunkenness and disorder. Without
doubt the people of majority of counties
prohibition prohibition has succeeded
any state a whole, it communities where
law option. only option
laws traffic be either prohibited the hand
or regulated upon other satisfactory majoras
Of such communities The unlicensed ilct hole and
dive damnable. impossible under local option.
Either these win be driven out upon the hand
regulated pay privilege OF be
decent upon other is has been and win be- always
a matter not pronunciatve dictaton
local preference for local determination, LEGAL
regulation whether that local preference be prohibition
or for regulation by license
II the people Of Topeka if the majority Of com
Kansas entire state should conclude
to go Off after the methods Of Medicine Lodge
to intense political aggtaton
cal disinergraton and of moral religious ezcations
let Wichita resolve to keep cool remain continue
to and do business BY such course we win as
community only be happy. richer prosper
but win have and bigger churches more and
greater schools and educational Institutions than be
hoped for under the depression Generalization Of
strife mooed sentiment which centuries Of time
with ali their generations Of and wisdom have failed to
settle.