The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-01-03
To the Eagle:
TO THE VOTERS OF SEDGWICK
COUNTY AND KANSAS


/ Gentlemen: Being citizen of Sedgwicl
county and of Wichita, certainly think
have a right 10 talk about some things
| that have for years agitated the minds of
Kansans. / pay taxes and that gives me
| a privilege to talk. We have always paid
tribute to Kansas City, Mo, and suffered
ourselves 10 be overcharged by the raI-
/ roads, and have been Disseminated
1 against by the two above mentioned until
right ceases TO be virtue. and L come
now to the point where we may get relief,
/ and that is through the members OF our
! legislators ard state senator's; provided.
1 always, that we get the right men. l
/ simply mean men that have human sta
bility and quit or doesn like a dollar
well enough to take TWO. when there is
/ only one coming. We have plenty of
them. Yes the woods are full of them
all you have to do is to stcK in pole
and you viii find them hopping around il
the logs.
! We have tried our railroad commission
ers. and we get ten cents of on ton of
coal. | would like to ask that commits
sion: When they acknowledge they have
/ the power to take - cents per ton of
coal. why didn't they take OF 50 cents per
ton from Arkansas and the territory coal
ara give Us equal justice with our neigh
Dor. Kansas City. Yes, there are some
things that are hard to solve. l Go hope
! that before it comes time 10 nominate our
representatives and senators. that there
will be platform laid down just big
/ enough for an honest man to stand on,
so that if railroad boodier gets on, ne
may fail off and be downed and get buried
/ at the start
l am a Republican and have always
been. I started in with Lincoln ard
stayed with him; with the noble Grant on
down to Garfield and the ldmentei Nc
: kinney, and To-Day am battling for that
fearless brave man. Roosevelt.
Now here is soue more Of the things
( complained Of: Kansas City TO Galveston,
a distance OF rs miles. pays rate of =
cents per 100 pounds on wheat Wichita
to Galveston, 15 miles. pays rate CT 81
cents per leo miles Then again, we mus
pay on our wheat from W ichi5a to Kan
sas City IA cents per hundred pounds.
But wheat seldom goes there. for whsat
bought here in quantities is generally
shipped direct to Galveston from Wichita.
but the farmer has TO lose tn i cents Fer
100 pounds or. as they generally put il.
I II wheat IS worth y cents per bushel in
Kansas City. It is only worth - cents per
bushel in Wichita. II it was not for the
+ tribute that Kansas Cisy gets of OF kan
sas name Of her mills and factories. IL
would become closed and become aE
abode for these leather-winged bats Al.
we want is fairness and l guarantee that
Kansas viii lie found on the top Tu1g o;
the ladder l am no politician. nor the
son of one. j am a plain citizen 81 NIch-
tia: one that loves his country AID tie
old fag Of equality before the Law Of our
country
- the coming year Is the year We vii
be called n TO elect our Representative s
aud state senators. and We viii oe ogt for
By game. let us look ~Fel Tor fhe men
that we send 70 represent rs IN the EaIi
OF our legislature This thing Ct JOG t.ck-e
me and III tickle you : played out. Give
Is !. hat the state at large needs ana All
: Well fer Kansas. i the men We have
previously seEt TO represent Us had done
their sele duty 70 these constituents. Nc
would have laws today in cur statute
books and faithfully put into practice.
and would have protected as from ths
greed OF Kansas City and the rzilro2cs
I eonr nined Today wichita coa!t have
been q city OF II. 60 as easily as va arr
today s. 80. bar We s-e - the fight "a
stay Let Is - what We can thTo--EA
the courts and an-sh R2 Wi;h our legs
lG,o,s ard Kansas IN eighteen nlanths - .ii
be there with both fest ID stay r =