St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1861-10-10

.nexs@spring, and return this. winter ; and
appeal to the magnauimity and gerorusity
Of the State Legislature to restore them
the whole. or ! part Of the SIC, 900 guar.
antec, deposited by them nsgood faith
aud perfect sincerity, and forfeited TO the
State. r $
Nowords Of ours can depict the grief
with which We make tina announcement If
these facts. The hopes of the people of
Minnesota. are again dashed to the ground,
aud at,a time when the goal seemed IL
most within their reach. We see tie ac=
tue.t <r.e stennion of a rai2road i41er,up-
It'd ~ actual capitalist. ,leaving tie
State, driren oat " xnlsst. and e1orbi-
Mhk tenat,nos. ~ = 49, - =
Is there never to be any end to this
state IT things? tim the State never
meet face to face with undoubted, bona
fide capitalists 2 4aaf 49, r,a4,, r.'s ..3,s
We hope TO- see an end Of these things.
Let the dead bury the dead, and those
who have had every opportunity which en-
terpr'se cou d demand or iberality give,
aud who nevertheless find that their Efforts
are productive pot Of good but Of bad re-
suits, let them step aside and not persist
emily stand between the State and her
prosperity. :I.rr zssa~ ,:sa -, Sc
A Cross-out Letter from DR.. Fos-
+ ter on railroad Matters.
!: Fepov G. t;:<ens- an old editor a
wond or two over his own signature. -.
You have often before heard from me
70 the subject OF Railroads .;...,. 49,.
As often AZ you heard, I told you that
You would never see Railroads more than
t"lkcd about-never see them built-as
long Us YOU permitted Men Of Straw to
stand IL tho way q: Substantial Men-Men
Of No Means to black mail Men Of Means
a = condition precedent ere the latter
could be- allowed to make the Railroads
which the other kind have for six years
gaxsed about making! ....'.-,..
But (pard"n the egotism) you gave lit
tie Eerd 10 my rope ted warnings. ! Ut
tered them, first, soon after the adjourn.
ment Of tie Extra Session Of the Terrific
rial Legislature which distributed the Con-
gressional Railroad Land Grant among a
vt Of men who soletnnty engaged, if the
Grant was given them, to 6nd the capital
to build the Roads, '''
again raised ",y voice when the same
men-acknowledSing their bankruptcy
impIored the Legislature and People to
fi"d them capital US we'll as the lands, BY
means Of the deplofatls Five Million
Loan project. - 49,
! They then told yon. through the mouth
Of Edmund Rice, that if that Loan was
only voted, they had "olre dy arrange :
for all the money that would be. needed
aud the Minncs,ta and Pacific Railroad
! would be built simultaneously from Saint
Paul, st. Anthony, and Saltwater" %
IL spite Of my warnings, however, the
I.oa" vas adopted-,he pralries were hur-
ried to b. graded--near'y two millions and
half Of bonds were issued. and then the
next phase Of swindIe was duly reached in
the attempt to make the people Of Mime.
sofa cash the Bonds by establishing them
as tie basis Of worthless currency.
Again I tpld the people the ruinous con-
sequ.nces-agai l was uaheeded- and
again they suffered how severely let the
holders Of Owatonna, Fillmore and other
wild cat bank notes testify
At this point the People began to wake
up to the conviction that they had really
been swindled THEY struck out, by their
votes right and lett from the shoulder.
and those who tried to shield the .swindlers
went down under their indignation.
At thi. point the People began to wake
up to the c"i'vistion that they had really
been swindlcd. They strucl. ont, by their
votes, right and lett from the shoulder,
and those who tried to shield the swim.
dlen went down under their indignation
Fur one session Of the Legislature, the
Wild Cat Railroaders rad to hide their
heads The popular fury. injured into
their Legislature Of winter before last.
sought FIR victims, but the swindlers man.
aged to Dodge out Of sight, .nd SO nothing
was done. - '#.f' '7
But last fall. you remember, Mr.. Ban
ming, James Smith, Jr., and others, in
clud1ng myself; eudeavored to arouse the
people IL the necessity Of building Rail-
roads, and as preliminary step, to cashier,
dismiss, run out, aud clean out, all the
old swindli"g Railroad Corporations. T. 4 4"
For once the People vcted right-for