Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1855-10-11
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WHAT if the farmers Of Kenosha County will
not take One Hundred Thousand Dollars Stock
in our Western Railroad7
Why, then the Railroad will not be built, ar
neither the city nor country will derive its ben
riffs. The best business men of the county will
leave It; kenosha city will grow gradually and
most beautifully less, until she reaches a con-
tcmptib!e insignifcance. Her best mechanics,
her best merchants her most monied men, will
flee from her as from pestilencc. Her enter
Prise and capital gone, she viii possess no mar
kets for the farmers produce. One farmer viii
raise more than enough to stuff her disheartencd
population TO death. Her harbor upon which
she has expended such immense sums of money,
will fill up with the sediments and sands of the
Lake, that fshing-smack will ground and wreck
at its mouth Her wharves and warehouses and
public buildings, will moulder and rot, and crum-
BILE by piecemeal, until the last traces of them
gone. Her schools and churches, now her pride
and glory, will exist only as undisturbed retreats
for rats and mice; as Inournful mementoes of
what she once was and to fret and chafe the spir-
its of her poor, dsconsolate people Her beauti-
full park will stink with the decay of rank vege-
tation and noxious weeds. Her streets will an
nnally yield an abundance of green heritage. Her
name viii be by-word and reproach, and she
and her people will be a aughing-stock for the
neighboring cities Of the State, and stigma up
on the fair character of Wisconsin.
The lands of the county will gradually sink in
value until they reach their accustomed inSignif-
canoe. The farmers must lug their produce double
the distance they now do, and quadruple the dis
lance they would have to, had we our railraod,
to find a market Then must they quietly sub
init to all exorbitarce, and piferings of a monop
oily. They will find no market for much of their
commoner kinds produce. They will carry off
the wealth of their own county to enrich another.
They will pine and anguish for want of that spir
it OF enterprise and go-aheadativeness so neces-
sary for their success. They will acquire an un-
enviablc isolation No stranger face VIII ever
greet them save some poor straggler who may
have lost his way, or some curious traveller Who
would visit them as he would mass of moulder-
ing, dusty ruins, or some strange and heretofore
unknown people. Their locality having no pub
LEFTY, their beautiful farms will never be seen by
any one save themselves; hence such thing as
purchaser and sale, will be as rare as "apri-
cots in mid-winter." They will have the SUI
preme modification of seeing all the other coun-
ties of the State, up with the times pregnant
with the spirit, the enterprise, the genius, the
skill OF the age; enjoying advantages and bless
ings OF life, whist they will be tagging after at
snaiis pace. They might just as we'll be any i'm
agnablc distance from everywhere, or located
now here, AS to he in Wisconsin. So lar as regards
any benefit or advantage they win receive from
the connection Every pGDHc avenue OF any I'M
portance will pass around them, to points with
out their limits. Every public improvement will
seek an enterpising community to locate amidst
No capitalist, no business man, will 60 among
them TO operate. They will avoid them as tbey
would commercial Unas. All the ealamties
all the inconveniences, all the notifications, con-
sequent upon such folly, will be theirs; not for
month, or for a year, but for all coming time
The appointed time will have fed, never never
to be recalled. They will be worse far, than
though curse from heaven rested upon them
Let no one imagine this is idle talk Is it not
the natrai and unavoidable consequences of
such folly and neglect Any one curious enough
70 cast his eye over the country will find hun
dreds of just such instances and just such results
The experience of the world points out to us the
rock upon which others have split Let us learn
a lesson therefrom and pass by on the other SIDE