The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-12-19
A GENERAL VIEW OF THE RAILROAD
BUSINESS
The other Side Of the question.
Bend Voting VIII do NO Good


tears" have lately been shed here
over the prospects OF various rail
road schemes which were said to be
inimical to our supposed interests,
zone OF which the Paola X Fall |
Rlyer was whom" These tears
have been shed over what was |
supposed to bc tho ruinatio. Of this |
part of the country, because this
perverse generation did not see tit
TO plaster the comfy over with
more railroad bonds. They cried
aloud and spared not those whose
obduraic hearts would not yield TO
their opportunities for more bonds.
bonds" was the healing plaster by
which every evil was TO be turned
into blessing. ''LOok at Burling-
ton" they wept, and some were
really fearful that n few of the bond
hungry people were going to leave
and locate in burlington. Every
Imaginable routs was written up
for burlington, and charged to the
delinquencies of the aDti-bond vo-
tiers here. Burlington voted tS1en-
h-dre thousand dollars in bonds,
all 1t one time, and was to be the
great railroad center. 4 few OF
these fellows have waded through
mud, backed the farmers up
against buildings, stopped them in
the streets, and shiVering in the
wind, violently jesticulated to con-
vince them they had done a
great wrong, in not voting for ihe
bonds. Columns OF verbiage writ
ten "to hammer one golden grain of
wit into = sheet of infinite plati-
tudes'' to show that we were going
to the devil IL we didn't vote
bonds. Anathemas, feeble and fiat,
were hurled at this paper, to prove
il was against the interests OF the
community. One OF the very roads
that was held over the heads of the
antis, to prove their short-sighted-
ness, was Abe Paola g. Fall River.
It was magnified into a wonderful
bug-bear against the interests OF
EmporiA, just as though there was
the least sign OF common sense in
talking to sensible men that way.
But bond schemers, who have
nothing to do but TO sit around In
Offices aud on store boxes and wall
over unsold town lots; newspapers,
which depend on such sandy foun-
dations as bond excitements and
unnatural mutations tor pre-
carious existence, bark ye!
Here Is the other side Of your story,
and &c you have any brine 10 waste
prepare Gor tho emergency. Read
this from the PAola Spirit, printed
In the town TO be most benefited
by the building of this paper rail-
road: ....
PAoLA j. FALL RIVER RAILROAD.
We are given to understand that
work has ceased on tho Paola ~
Fall River Railroad, and the enter
prise IN dead to all intents and pur-
poses. We suppose the recent
bond decisions have had n great
deal to-. do with this stoppage
of work. When Hall Petered ont,
we expected this result would fol-
tow, though we had more faith IN
his successors than we had in Hall.
lie was n "blower" and had no CAPT.
taI 10 back him. He rushed
through the grading on credit, and
expected to get hold OF some OF the
bonds and jump the job, III our
opinion. When II came to raising
Ctinds for iron, Hall failed, and as
sianed TO q st Louis company.
And now they have failed. This
probably ends the PAola, Garnett ~
Fall River Railroad, however much
we may regret such a culmination.
The city of Paola win save bond
ed indebtedness TO the amount OF
$4,000, and this at least Will be a
source of congratnlation TO our peo-
nle. On the other hand. we deeply
synpathize with our Osawatomie
sad Lane friends in their hisap-
pointment.
Now, the truth OF the whole mat
ter Is, there will be no more railroads
built for some time which have to de-
pend on township or county bonds,
issued by counties which are in
debt up 60 their ears already.
These bonds are not worth fifty
cents a barrel ia the monied centers
Aad wild railroad schemes can't
raise any money on them. We have
no feeling that would not desire
the entire prosperity of Ottawa and
burlington, but the road between
these two points will not be built
for years, iii il has to be done by
bonds- The quicker We como to
an acknowledgement OF the facts the |
better for us. Those people who |
stand around the streets and talk
about our interests, but who always
back out when pay time comes, and
want Others to foot the bills, need
net weep any more over the pros |
poets OF railroad projects which are
depending on bonds. That bug
hear won't scare anybody.
Tho very road which it is pro-
posed to extend from Ottawa to
Burlington is to-day in default Ter
the non-payment of interest on the !