Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1867-03-22
CEDAR CITY AND ITS ENyIHONS.
CEDAR CITY, Iowa, March IL.

Correspondence OF the Dubuque Times.
AS most Of the cities and towns of
Northern Iowa contain talented and
ambitious men who, with commenda-
bic modesty, manage to get communi-
cations published in the newspapers,
thereby shedding the refulgent light of
their wisdom on the benighted minds
OF their less Intelligent fellow beings, |
have concluded to try my hand at
writing some "choice family literatoor"
for the benefit of those who are so I'M
fortunate as to live outside of the classic
walls of our famous little city.
Let me in the first place assure your
readers that we are not vain people !;
we are willing at all times to acknowl-
edge that we have less population than
Dubuque, and never jeer chop-fallen
Chicagoan because his city is too far
distant from us 10 ever amount to any
thing. We live here in our own gran
deur, on our own merits, contemplating
our own greatness, envious of no one
true, we have pity; we pity the people
of Cedar Falls, who live in our shadow
just across the river, and, we say it
more in sorrow than in anger, we de-
plore their morals. We boast of hav-
ing but one saloon in our city, and the
moral proprietor thereof, with view
of suppressing intemperance, deals out
his whisky in the smallest sized pony
glasses, and his beer in glasses Of about
one-third the usual size, thereby render
ing it almost impossible for a man of
ordinary means to get drunk. IT'S
true, he charges the usual rates, but it
requires no extraordinary judgment to
preceivc that the surest way to break
man of drinking is to break him of
sreenbacks.
How often tho blush mantles our
checks at the sophistry of our trans.
Cedar river neighbors, who sell their
whisky and beer in large sized glasses,
and argue that by so doing the intoxi-
eating drinks will sooner be drank up
and be beyond the reach of the topper.
We do not boast, and, as we have
said, are not vain, yet as our neighbors
across the river, either through envy or
malice, frequently speak disparagingly
IF our morals, would here state the
ease fairly for reflective minds to con-
slider. Cedar Falls has six saloons
were large tumblers arc used, while we
have bat one, and there are used only
The smallest sized tumblevs, giving us
III immense per cent of morality and
virtue over them, besides great seien-
tific advantage, for how much more
can be studied through the
bottom of our tumbleTs, before man
gets drunk, here than there.
But we pass to other interesting sub
ects. We have, with great expense
and labor, built a bridge over the Cedar
river that our neighbors may have the
honor of visiting us and getting
warm meal once in while, and also
get over to our depot. Well, Oh the
second thought, L believe the depot don't
belong any more to us than to them, as
i is on an island between the two cities.
The fact is we did not want the depot
It all, with its engines whistling and
switching through our streets, frighten-
ng all our little children and nervous
I'D ladies to death. We subscribed
argely against it; in fact we love quiet
md that is the reason why we did not
nave our neighbors mills and factories
quilt here to disturb our peaceful slum-
)ers with their midnight racket.
We have no corporation, therefore we
lave no policemen to get up fights that
hey may make arrests and get fees;
when our boys want fight they go
'ver to Cedar Falls. A circumstance of
his kind occurred the other day; u few
# our boys went over there and took
rink, and those who were not killed |
~ the first dose, proposed to clean out
he town, which they did pretty effect
tally, as they came back with their !
reads and faces bathed in the gore
lrawn from the fists of their conquered
oes, and yet the victors were generous
md put that city to no such useless ex-
'ense as sleeping or eating in their cor
,oration hotel, but kindly permitted
heir city Marshal to accompany them
,art Of the way home.
In fact am forced to acknowledge |
hat we have many advantages over our
uburban city, Cedar Falls, and can't
,lame them If they are a little jealous
# us. We have but one school house
lere where our children are taught to
cad and write and do sums, therefore
We have but one schoolmaster to pay,
yhile they have a large number of
chool houses and large number of |
eachers to pay for teaching their child |,
en- Lain and Greek, a. though they |