The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-06-16
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EIGHTY SMALL BoYs, CARGO OF CHIN
| NEfs, AND NoN-ExPLosIvE ARTICIi
| WANTED.
With our late experience in reilroot
matters We can well appreciate tn,
existence of that individual whose bostil
ity TO all public improvements fount
vent in the expression that "tbe dernet
railroads If they kept on growing would
soon run out the best old coaches - and car
excuse the spirit that moved him wber
we think of the short step back 10 the per.
iod of jogging, jolts and long JOURNEYS
But, what shall we say of these individual,
who, living (after dark in the glowing
glazing, glorious gaslght OF this progress.
i've age talk Of oil--oil as a substitute 70,
gas--and odiferous coal oil at that. We
have before us small phial Of the article
procured especially for this occasion, and
solemnly assert stalking in standardization
of the assertion that which we hold price.
less and above value--our character for
veracity-that Colerdge's city, with Its
seventy separate and well and acutely de-
fined stinks would be PERKS paradise Of
fragrance compared with nineteenth GEN.
fury town lit with coal oil. We have
heard of leaps into the laps Of the dark
ages, but 1t has never been vouc fed to ia
to gaze upon the "leapist" until recently.
1t was an alderman: and we gazed on
it with reverence, pity and in awe rev
erence for its age in awe at the ancient,
clothed in the robes of and moving among
the living and in pity, that it had no
contract.
BUT SERIOUSLY
n great deal can be said in favor of this
proposition to light the city with ola
great deal that is entirely new, and which
has probably escaped the attention of the
gentlemen whe have charge Of the "light"
of the city. In the Hrst place, it will not
be denied that to light and keep in repair
say,eighty coal oil lamps, will give stead
employment to as many small boys at,
in round figures, fifty cents per week, or O
triAe over two dollars per month. "Ah
we hear committeeman say, that's toe
much that's half as much MS gas at
present costs, to begin with Cost
what's cost, when the labor and morals OF
the town are involved ? If we can keep
eighty small boys busy with lamps, burn.
era and chimneys, and off of the streets,
what taxpayer would refuse to pay two
dollars per month, or even two dollars and
ten cents Not one. In almost the Ian
guage of Dan Mum, we say you may rake
Cairo with a fine tooth comb and you
can't find such one. Besides, it is not
long since Cairo had committee on man.
ufactures which solicited the attention of
manufacturers from abroad to the eligi-
bility Of the city as manufacturing
point-even going so far us offering and
giving subsidies as inducements. If is
a good policy to use with strangers is it
not good for the city or the citizens them
selves? Let us be mathematical. There
are eighty chimneys. Good. There are
carslessness, boyishness, wrecklessness and
vciousncss, and you have an average de.
struction Of forty chmneys per night
Again good. Thirty nights 10 month
forty chimheys in a night, and you have
twelve hundred in a month, or a yearly
destruction of one hundred and forty thou.
sand chimneys; or, what is yet the best corr
sideration, the creation Of a new branch OF
industry-glass works. That is the argu.
ment mechanically and logically carried
out, and the gas committee should give to
it their most profound thought. 1t might
be objected that lamps would be broken at
times that they might explode and make
excellent suits for damages; that the force
of small boys would have 10 be doubled on
windy nights, and that the lamps might
smoke and be clothed in impenetrable
darkness. But such insight cant objec-
tions Go not weigh with US, and we trust
the committee will turn a deaf ear TO them.
If the lighting Of the lamps with oil will
get the city into the glass business, we say
with the alderman from the second ward
"Give us oil-oil, oil the timer VIVA,
| do the committee say?
SHAMEFUL ABUsE.-The Anna Union
county, Advertiser, OF the 10Th inst cor,