The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1858-02-27
More Crushing Out---The Railroad Mill
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Its all well enough bat the gentleman may lessen his
deposits-that's all."-Times ofthe 25th.
The gentleman" referred to in the above
sentence, is Mr.. MAcKUBIN of the firm of
Mackubin & Edgerton, who are amongst our
very soundest bankers and business men.
Does the Tim s speak by authority of the
officers of the Railroad, MIR. RICE for in
stance-in making the crushing threat which
it does ? When the Loan Bill is passed.
and the people have approved of it-and the
Loans are negotiated the money is got
what nice picking for some banking house
who may be the depository of the funds -
What a nice morsel to roll under their tinan-
cial tongues This you have lost, oh foolish
Mackubn & Edgerton Don't say you
couldn't loose what you never had Bosh
You might have had it, if you had fallen
down and worshipped the Railroad golden
calf! Now, the Treasurer of the Company
will deposit elsewhere
Alas, we say again, what foolishness =
'Twould have been so handy too. Banking
house on the first foor-Railrold office in the
second story-all convenient as an old shoe
And then, all the priuate deposits ofthe Rail-
road spectators you will loose by your obsti-
nate course!
1t is melancholy to contemplate how some
men seem blind to their own interests. Mr..
MAcKUBIN was so short-sighted as not to
want to pay about eight per cent. per annum
of a tao on his property in and about St. Paul!
lie ventured to think that this enormous
certainty overbalances the immense problem
atical and prospective advantages in having
Railroad running between the St. Croix at
Saltwater, and the Mississippi at Minneapo-
lis He couldn't understand, how such q
piece Of a Railroad would help business or in
crease the value of property more than
enough to compensate for the enormous tax
alton
What desperate and utterly hopeless old
fogy! Why, couldn't he see, that with such
a piece finished, 50 great would be the rush
to ride upon Rail in Minnesota, that stage
loads of passengers would groan $50 miles
overland through Wisconsin to Saltwater,
just for the sake of there taking the cars for
ST. Paul and Minneapolis Wagons even
would bear freight over the same route to the
same point-the few Mississippi steamboats,
would rush up the St. Croix to unload the
St. Paul freights, purely foc the satisfaction
of having it go "express" by Railroad; and
old father Mississippi would be dead cock
in the pit and laid up to dry upon Pigs Eye
bar!
We should have the Millennium, SIR
the Millennium All the fancy town-sites
would go off like hot cakcs-every lame
duck would be enabled to waddle erect in all
the pride of being "out of that fix"-and we
should all be rich, happy, and kiteingr p
The leetie tax would not be worth mind
ing ; and if you didn't fancy that part of the
programme, why you could follow the exam
pie of the rest-sell out before the bubble
burst, and make tracks for other regions
Be one of the sharp ones ! Leave the Farm
ers, and Mechanics, and Business men, who
came to live and work in Minnesota alone in
their glory
But where is the use of arguing with an
obstinate man like Mr. Mackubin. Mr.. Rice
carned him that he and all like him should
be crushed The pressure has commenced.
" You will lose your deposits-that's all !"
How terse and sententious What wag of
the heal and determined pressing of the lips
together, and emphatic stamp of the foot, are
pictured in those two words" That's all -
Cruel Cruel Mr.. Times Cruel cruel |!
Mr.. R1cE Couldn't your " crushing take
any other shape but this
Deprivirg the bankers of their deposits
and the newspapers of their subscribers is un-
constitutional. These come under the pro.
hibition of "cruel and unusual punishments"
Its inhuman-its barbarous O,Mr. Times |!
o, Mr.. RICE O, Mr. Senator NoRroN! O..
Mr.. BALcoMBE o, Mr.. BEMAN! O, Mr..
S. R. JOHNSON o. young Mr.. BEARcE /!
0, Mr. GROVER, Exist. Peter Commissioner |!
Bear, all of you, with our groans
EDWARD WM. JOHNSON, formerly editor
of the Cincinnati Columbian, an intensely
Know NOthinp shoot :, 49, ill.,. Al