Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-04-17
Railroads.

correct, Dut tnere are TeroTtS toieIauiJ
well authenticated, which darken all that
looked bright few days ago. We
therefore change the caption as follows:
RAILROAD HoAxING!
The grand combination scheme of uni
ted Office holders from New York to
Mississippi and Minnesota, under the
hi.copiia-shiP of RoBERT j. WALLER,
CALrD CUSHING and A. HYATT SMITH,
has been little checked by the defeat
Of the GA. Hyatt Smith Land Bill" SO
called, which Bill proposed giving away
10 every Railroad Company in Wiscon-
sin, except two or three companies,
large quantities Of lands--not to promote
building railroads, but TO secure Offices
TO the leading operators for years TO
come. 1t has been discovered of late,
that any leading champion of a proposed
railroad, can carry all the votes along
that route, so they have gone TO work,
organized companies everywhere all o.
yer the northwest, appointed champi
ons, assigned them titles and designated
who shall be subordinate emissaries of
each household. Sufficient has already
been accomplished TO control Legisla-
ton, and cause Legislatures to memori-
alize Congress for these grants of lands,
grants so bountifnl and wild as TO aston
ish the world al the boldness of memo
rialists!
We believe the design of this nam
moth confederated league is to break
down, denolish and Illustrate every com
pany having the ability or intention to
build railroad, and to retain the mere
skeletons of railroad organizations for
the single purpose Of making men, by
apportioning Offices, national and State,
TO the head leaders and their subordi-
mates. Man-making--not railroad ma
king, is The design; the fathers of the
league are to pocket the spoils. The
grants are TO be the private property of
the few. The many are to be held in
anxious suspense for years, as they now
are, by eternal promises that, sin few
months the road is 10 be contracted and
finished" Oh, what prolific field for
,aricature
Some time back, all seemed fair for
the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad,
and its early completion TO Prairie du
CHEN, appeared like fixed fact. It is
said ala act passed at the close OF the
Session, authorizing the city of Mllwau-
kee to take stock in the Southern Wis
consin Road TO the amount Of $500, 900.
The former Road was not included in
the favored list of roads for grants of
lands; perhaps the latter was. So the
Milwakeeans have once more changed /
their minds, if the legislative act was
passed at their request. They have been
persuaded to the change by some pro-
mise made by the league. After while |
some other shift will be made, and we
doubt whether any road will be built to
the Mississippi, as the completion of a.
ny one road would Illustrate somewhat
the League operators.
Now any nan, having ordinary sense,
knows that two roads 10 The Mississip-
pi,-parallel ones, starting from the same
point, and terminating in so miles or so
o! each other, too, with the
Illinois Central for the same trade, are
not needed and can never be built. Ii
would be just as useless TO have two
roads TO heaven, when one can do all the
transportation thither. The design is 10
Illustrate both, build neither and always
KEEP them with other projected works
10 use at the fall elections. The Potosi
and Dcdgeville Road is being re-resur-
rected, but we cannot say whether there
is anything behind the scenery. We
begin 10 look GU them all with disirust.
So soon as fair arrangements were made
for finishing the NJ. 81 Nj. R. Il. through
TO The Mississippi, the League operators
went TO work with savage Ierocity,-fell
on 1t and begun TO gnaw its vitals. and
so we believe, is every road 10 be vic
timised, or at least, be suspended be-
tween helpless promise and purgatory
for years. Probably the old Madison
and Cassville Railroad Charter will soon
be exhumed TO help fight the Prairie du
Chen Road, and then some olher pro-
cess will be invented-all for TO make
men, not railroads.
We don't believe Milwaukee ever as
ked for the act authorizing them TO take
$4,000 stock in the S. W. r. r.. ri
they did there has been an outrage com
milted somewhere. We believe il was
made 10 Induce Milwaukee 10 forsake
the Nj. & NJ. r. r. and GO for the 9TH
ss. which is just as likely to be built as |
road under the Mississippi river
though we would prefer to have il built |