The Grange advance., 1875-04-27

'A'o oAAA0"ooAou OOAlIuS VI VHe "OIIu
drawn it's thoughts away from it. That
railroad has been its altar and it's i'd dol.
The Pioneer Press, then, IS only too
happy to repeat that the Wabasha Her.
aid has at last reached consummation
after long protracted and Hercalean ef-
forts to secure the capital from home
contributions to build the road, without
astonishing success, regular born and
bred eastern railroad man, with plenty
of security and no end of confidence,
has dropped 1.ght down in the streets
of Wabasha, just for all the world as if
he were an angel, and given out that he
is going to build that railroad right
from the word 60. His name is the
son Of Ezra Cornell, of Cornell college
fame and honor, and
But let the Herald tell the rest.
We cannot begin to do the subject Jus,
tice:
He came, he saw and Conquered
and shall we say was conquered. He
has been over the line from Wabash A.
to Rochester, and pronounces the route
entirely feasible. The towns rose as
one man TO receive him. Wabasha,
Plainview, Elgin and Rochester were
stirred as never before and even hither-
to unsympathetic Highland and Glas-
gov glowed with the common ardor.
But one sentiment seemed to prevail:
ASK anything in reason and you shall
not find US wanting They succomed'
at sight to this frank, honorable,
straightforward, energetic man Of
means, from the east, and he as readily
succoned to them. The great beauty
Of location and natural advantages Of
Wabasha greatly pleased him, while a
three days examination and observation
OF Greenwood Prairie even at this sea-
son OF the year wrung words of admira-
from this man Of few words. "It is
the Garden of the World" he exclaimed
as he stood on the heights of Pottsdam
and gazed eastward over twenty miles
of as rich soil, and continuous cultivat-
ed fields as the world can show. He
observed that men in the east have no
idea OF country equal to this, and
that 1t was richly worth a journey of
thousand miles to see. Rochester, too.
with its thrift and beauty, and its act
i've, enterprising citizens, all deeply i'm
pressed him.
And all this means that after all our
long years of waiting, hoping and toll
ing tor road that should open up and
give relief to this rich but long suffer-
ing section, it is at last within our
our grasp, on the one condition that we
as towns 90 what any candid and intel
l'gent man will assure us is right, rea-
sonable, just and honorable. If any
man will refuse to do this, then he de-
serves to be cast out into some rocky,
sandy, sterile, ill-favored land where no
railroad and no Cornell will ever come.
The towns are for the road. sThe
towns mean business. Mr.. Cornell
means business. In due time we ex-
pect to ride from Ashland to Omaha on
the railroad constructed by eastern men
and eastern capital, meeting more than
half way western men and western
means. May the Glad day speedily
come. So say we all of US. Amen.h
Well, we can only wish that the
captured Cornell and the enraptured
Herald may both realize their proudest
anticipations, but we cannot forbear
expressing sentiment of true inward
ness to the effect that all parties had
better 60 slow on the bonds. They are
not good thing with which to plaster
towns and farms. They are the easiest
thing in the world to put on, but they
leave red-hot and angry blister before
they come off. That's the experience
of everv town and State in the Uni m