Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-02
Radicals Doing RnsIness.

SulhlLS; prairie indrSA eA'N - .
fare of ground was almost awash WIN INV
water IL the lake and the stagnant ui'ch
called the Chicago River the elinaVe -
more -cbanceable and tickle than the spirits
ond ton,,,o,? 81 4 handsome wife, at 5 o'clock
in tho morning calling you down street
in white linen vest and troWsers' anu a'
o'clock in the afternoon forcing you INTO
cossimeres and heavy overcoat. On the
other hasd it's great, it's overmastering ad-
vantage 4. that it stands in the very heart
Of the finest weaith-prOdueing region of
equal size on the face Of the globe, and has
the only harbor, deserving the name, near
the head of the great inland sea called Lake
Michigan :T. TFEXOEII
All these general facts about Chicago are
well enough known. But not sowell known
is the further fact that her business-doing
population-her grain and produce dealers
who buy and sell by millions of bushels in
a season; her pork and beef packers who
slaughter and barrel up yearly more cattle
and hogs than the State Of Tennessee ever
contained at any one time; her shippers,
who daily receive and send away twenty
miles of railway trains filed with freight,
and whose vessels arriving and departing
on the lake actually count more in number
in an average day of the business season
than the daily arrivals and departures at
the seaports of New York and Boston taken
together; her lumber dealers, who handle
more millions of feet board measure than
traders in other markets do of thousands
her wholesale merchants and jobbers, who
sell more goods than st. Louis and Cincin-
matt dare speak of-that these operators
are, almost TO a man, radicals of the most
decided kind 1t was they that gave to
| Chicago her character Of intense and active
loyalty during the great Shareholders re
bellion it was they that raised, equipped,
and fitted out at their own cost whole regi-
ments of infantry whose volleys crashed
and whose bayonets cleaned from Nash
Vile to Atlanta, and field batteries of artil-
lery, whose guns Numbered at Stone River,
at Chickamauga, at Kenesaw, and at Peach
Tree; it was they who poured out money
like water for the troops of all the States,
when suffering with wounds or sickness.
These were men who, when poor, scared
Horace Greeley ran off to Niagara Falls
and made himself contemplate by suing
for peace in his conferences with rebels
on the Canada side, never q " bated jot of
heart or hope in the nations cause, but in
the very blacklist times of disaster only set
their teeth the harder and worked the more
fervently for radical progress towards
radical justice and liberty, through the
means of a destruction Of that rufianly
aristocracy then doing its worst towards
throttling the national life and human lib
erty. The Chicago Board of Trade against
the plantation oligarchy! The radical bus
mess man against the slaye-driver, the
slave trader, and the slave-owner That
was it! Tho radical crushed the aristo-
GRAFT and the aristoeratis making haste to
dieoppoar hozn off the soil and from among
the people. IMN@ HMA iHNF
These men being this sort of radicals, let
us look little at their strivings and doings
, as business men. First of all, then, they
have within thirty years built up from moth
I ing Il city of 275,OOO inhabitants; and it is
to-day growing up as fast as ever. Finding
after twenty years trial, that the mud they
, lived in could neither be enduEed nor cured
they Quietly went to work with jack
and hydraulic presses and raised all their
long miles of brick and stone blocks bodily
up to a level four to ten feet above the old
one, and filled the streets with earth up to
the new grade. Thus they became masters
of that situation, and could drain the city
into the river by means of thorough sys-
tenn of sewerage planned by a radical civil
engineer and executed by radical board
of public works. ..-,f., f5.
The rotten, marshy prairie yielded no
, drinkable water either by springs or wells
, these radicals set. huge steam pumps to
work lifting water from the river and send
ing i. all over town in pipes After time
! the river, by reason of the growth Of bust
ness in the city, became nasty and quite
unfit for use, The radical business men
said to their radical council, their. radical
board of public works, and their radical
civil engineer, the nasty water is something
that can't be endured, and therefore must be
cured. Whereupon all these radical officers
of municipal affairs said, The only cure
is to run out a tunnel under the lake, two
whole miles to water always deep and al
ways pure, and through it draw this cold
pure water for our drinking, our cooking
and our washing" No sooner said than at
it these radicals went and in less time than
a chivalrous planter would spend in medi-
tating the project of anew "upping block
bv his gate the tunnel and its end-shafts
were dug, arched, and brought into daily
use. So they are now this long time rejoic-
ing in radically pure water won by tins au'
I dacions lradicaI scheme. JU31 esEa@ya
+ But time fails us. totell about their Board
of Traac Buildings; their streets with the
Nicholson pavements; their street tunnels
through which they go ,mder the river and
: its branches instead of over it on bridges
and Of their wonderful stock-yards outside
the city, making a large and active town II
and of itself Let us, however, spend lit
tie time and space in looking at some of The
llzinds and amounts of business done by
these merry radicals, during the year end
~ OF, &c March 1898 Here arr