Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-07-31
Hope Deferred Maketh the Heart
Sick.

mate war against railroads, inaug-
urated TO some extent by men of
desperate political fortunes, has par
alyzed railroad extensions and is
operating injuriously against those
places that have not as yet succeed.
ed in connecting themselves with
the railroad system. Farmers VII o
live in sight of depot may offer
to fight these institutions, but some
of those that live twenty or twenty
FIVE miles-say from BoscObel-and
have to lay out from four to elk dol
lars for every load Of wheat taken
to that market would prefer that the
"great and glorious wa against
the monopolies would be postponed
till all sections have equal access to
these highways. Some OF our citi-
zens who trade with railroad towns
are informed by the merchants and
landlords there that railroad is a
great nuisance, and by all means not
to allow one to approach Lancaster
and the other interior towns of
Grant nearer than 20 miles. They
enlarge on the cruelty and tyrrany of
these monopolies and tell us they
are carnivorous, homnivorous and
omnivorous, and they envy these
central towns because they are like
ly never to be infested with those
iron clad monsters.
Free from the range of railroad
influence, railroad rings and corrup-
ton, Lancaster offers u nice quiet
retreat where successful business
man can retire and spend the even
ing of his days after he has,accumu.
lated competency in the turmoil
of railroad town. But when we
sec the highways leading to these
railroad towns thronged with teams
80 that the United States mail can
hardly find a passage through the
interminable procession, carrying
away our wheat crop, corn crop,
hog crop and all that, and reflect
how much of our money goes to Bos-
cobel and Platteville for want of o
depot nearer home, we suspect there
is something selfish in the advice
given by the business men in those
railroad market towns to the inhabit-
ants Of other towns not TO vote any
aid to railroads.
IL looks as though the popular
cry OF vengence against the rail-
roads is being carried to a suicidal
extent, when there is not railr Dad
town in the county but what would
rather encounter almost any calami-
ty than surrender its depot and
railroad. Even poor, afflicted Iowa
county, where Supervisors and May
ors are annually dragged over to
Milwaukee by United States Mar
shalls, and Gagged and exhibited like
wild animals in menagerie till they
mako their oft repeated and broken
promises to pay off their railroad
bonds-even Iowa county, would
prefer to suffer its imprisonment and
stripes and fines rather than give up
its railroad. If all the railroad
towns will set TO work and burn up
their depots, tear up their iron rails
and pillow up the road beds, then
every place would be on an equal
footing, and we would go back to
primitive times.
.put till all roads are abandoned
and abolished or every place that
has any trade is furnished with the
like advantages, we ere almost per-
suaded to be q Modoc and ask for q
truce in the warfare against capital
that seems to prevent investments
in one of the main enterprises which
really aids and helps the laboring
nnrtion of Tho cnunponnify