Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-08-07
Especial Correspondence OF the Herald.)
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.

engaged in an agitation in behalf OF
increased facilities for transporta-
ton. They see that the production
OF the country has grown faster than
the means of moving such produce.
For fifteen years no new trunk lines
of rail have been opened between
the East and the West, and though
those that exist have increased their
business i'm mensely, they have not
kept pace with production. These
merchants have agreed to a declara-
ton of principles on this subject, and
are preparing to hold meeting in
August to discuss them. They are
opposed TO the watering of railroad
stock, so that commerce is taxed to
pay dividends upon fictitious val
ues. They object to the use of
money in corrupting Legislation.
They condemn the special privilege
es granted to fast freight lines as
levying o further tax upon com.
merce. These are the salient points
of the complaint of the merchants;
The remedy proposed is simple. 1t
is the construction of exclusive
freight railroads so that the time
may be reduced one.half for two-
thirds. They would limit the ex-
penditure ofraiIroad corporations,
and have the railroads do all their
own freight business. The canals
they would enlarge so that their ca
pacity would be greatly increased,
and they would employ steam pow
err as a motive.
A RIGHTEOUS DECISION.
The decision of the Board of
Health to demolish the booths and
stalls about Fulton Market meets
the hearty approval of our whole
population. These booths are un-
slightly and filthy. They obstruct
the sidewalk and the street. They
fill the air with disagreeable odors
at all times and frequently emit q
horrible stencil. They breed disease
and invite pestilence. Why they
have not been removed before is
question which only those who are
familiar with the complications of
our municipal politics, and know
how strange are the Influences
brought to bear upon well,m Gaming
officials, can answer. The Board of
Health has been blamed for its hesi-
tating councils and tardy action.
They wisely waited until the great
body of the people demand the re-
forms they are making, and sustain
their wise and energetic demonstra>
tons.
THE DANGERS OF PRINTERS INK.
The average mortal man never
can be taught save by personal ex-
perience, and the dearest bought ex-
perience mortal man purchases in
this world is the leason learned by
fooling with printers ink. A case
in point just now points the moral
of the apothegm above. Mr.. Shep-
pard Romans is just now the talk of
the town, but everybody and his
wife may not know who the afore-
said party is, and why he is the
talk Of the town we rise TO explain.
Romans was formerly actuary of
the Mutual Life company of this
city and was discharged from that
Office in 1871 under circumstanc es
which made him then the theme for
nine days gossip in the Life lnsur-
ance World, in as much as he was dis
missed for "unfaithfulness, incompe-
tency, obstinacy, impractibility, and
characterization, "a string of pow
erful adjectives half of which, in the
war times would have caused him
to be shot. In this case he was
lucky-he was only drummed out
of the service. Itseems that recent
" the President of the Mutual Life
was put under the pump of that art
less and gentle creature, known as
news paper reporter and said reports
er interviewed the President as to
the facts connected with Romans
dismissal from the service of the
company with the result given
above. Of course the interviewer
could not keep so luscious an item |
TO himself and he blurted it out in
his paper. Heretofore out of consid. |
GRAFTON for Romans the matter had
been kept rather quiet, but as soon
as the matter took air the trouble
commenced. Romans "card" went
the round OF the metropolitan press
and the reply of the Mutual follow
ed the testimony adduced by the
latter sent Romans up higher than
the Graphic balloon will be apt to
go, and he will stay up longer than
Prof. Wise will care to do. All of
which proves that when they rush
into the arms of the press to fight
out their quarrels, the fellow that
jumps first had better be sure of the
ability to set type only to "solid
copy" and have his "proof' and ere
wise" come out "clean."
THE JAPANESE IN AMERICA.
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