Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-04-14

I "tD'Sessfc upOH lHe bITU-
SO the agriculturalist showers Ills hard
earned produce into the hand of specula-
tors to find an eastern market and as the
clouds can part with no more moisture
than they contain, SO the farm affords no
more than it can raise. Yet our Loan
friends seem to think that by few claps
of Loan Thunder. to the tune of hum
dred thousand dollars each they can make
the country clouds give down. in copious
showers of wealth, that shall dissipate
the dearth that seems to have settled
like death pail over the deserted streets
and parched lands of that once prosper
Gus and thriving city. Let us here apply
an old rule of at least eighteen hundred
years standing, which may not entirely
have lost its force upon some minds in
this community, many at least, who are
engaged in enforcing the proposed Loan,
profess to be guided by its dietates-I
mean that Golden Rule which saws
Whatsoever We would that men should
do unto you, do ye even so to them"
Suppose the farmers in one of the towns
in this County wished to make some i'm
proyement to benefit themselves, but which
would in its results. benefit the whole
County. They Loan the credit of their
torn, they loan their individual credit,
and are still unable to complete their en-
terprise. They awaken an interest in
the other ounty'towns, and get the intlu-
ence of the County to weigh in the mat
ter, obtain an act of the Legislature to
authorize the County to Loan its credit
Tor few hundred thousand dollars in IT'S
work OF internal Improvement The city
demonstrates almost to a man. but in
spite of her remonstrances, the town for
ces the Loan. Think you the citizens of
Kenosha City would be quiet under this
oppression tell you nay. Every tongue
would utter its anathemas, and every
counting room would become rostrum,
and the very pdremeRts would cry out
against it. The whole country would be
clnyassed. and the man who should favor
the County under these circumstances
would be truly stigmatized as traitor to
the best interest of the City.
If the case here supposed bears any
analogy to the one in fact, then we have a
right to be yiglant in defence of our homes
and to call upon the friends of this scheme
to pause and reflect before they attempt
to enforce this enormity. This step once
taken, and retraction is impossible and
hatred is created that will run parallel
with our existence as a county, and must
prove disastrous to the mechanical inter-
ests of the city. The fires of disaffec-
ton are already kindled from the utter
want of discretion on the part of those
who have sought with undue anxiety to
obtain by force what the resources of the
country would not allow being obtained
by voluntary means.
We are told that if we will freely give
one hundred thousand dollars the power
of the Loan Law shall not be applied.
The midnight robber informs the power
less subject of his avaricc, that his life
can be spared on condition that he sur
renders stipulated sum- and the bandit
constitutes the sole contracting party.
But recent Developments demonstrate
that men engaged in selfish enterprises
are not always to be trusted for compro-
misses may be repealed even by individu-
ais in high places. The taxpayers are
told that they will never be called upon
for one cent upon these bonds, from the
fact that the road will pay them, and in
proof of this we are referred to the prof
its Of roads running west from Milwau-
with commodious harbors at a distance
of near one hundred miles intervening,
commanding great wealth and influence
combined, pursuing invariably an honor
able trade with the country west with
rivalry combined against the intermedi
ate towns. their rail roads stretching into
vast interior with no successful rival,
pointing into country rich in minerals
and prolific, in all calculated to supply the
physical wants of the east. One of these
roads at the head of navigation forming
a connection commanding the capital of
the Eastern World. The attempted COM
and one running from Kenosha. a small
I0ra but a short distance from two 9TH
er towns which claim equality if not SUI
periority in point of importance, without
Il harbor and at enmity with the country
back, and what is still worse, without ere
dit sufficient to construct rail road to
Beloit, with men vile enough to force
io"h vi lCN HuHuicu thousdiiu uoliais
from their only friends on earth those
who have sustained them by their toll
and sweat, through the trying history of
the past-I say the attempted comparison
between the capacity of these two roads
TO pay. savors too much of Weahness ordis-
honesty to be seriously entertained for a
moment. What, | ask, are all these sub
terfuges? What would second or third
mortgage upon such road be worth to
the farmers of Kenosha county. who. in