The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-02-19

OF the banks, OF WHICH S<u,OD Is Wanted
Tor this year. The estimated total cos,
Of this Improvement Is $l,00O,000."
The above was In the Tribune OF Wed.
ncsday. Now read the following edito-
rial from the Tribune Of yesterday, and
tell us what effect Il IL calculated to pro-
duce on our city. just such falschoods,
misrepresentation and sneers as these.
prompted, we believe, by designing men,
have been the bane Of our city for years.
Read this:
"The City OF Cairo, which IL prob
ably assessed on valuation Of
ess than $l.OOO,OOO, modestly asks
government bounty d $1,000.
GOO to protect 1t from the
danger it apprehends Of becoming an
island! The inference from the character
of the demand Is that. II the United
States refuse to come TO the rescue, Cairo
will quietly await its ultimate destruc-
ton without doing anything to save itself.
IL will occur to good many persons
that city OF no more enterprise, energy
or internal resources than this would
indicate, is scarcely worth 81 100000.
To Others IL will occur that the govern
ment might about as well undertake to
rebuild the city of Cairo on q new site"
The above Is from the Cairo Sun Of last
evening. The remarks Of our ncighbor
are. TO say the least, i'll advised and In
bad taste Just at this time and calculated
to do the city even mere injury in her ef-
forts to secure an appropriation for the
improvement Of the Mississippi in this
locality, than both the dispatch and ed
itorial quoted from the Chicago Tribune.
We could expect nothing else
from the Tribune: but we people
Of Cairo, and especially the newspapers,
should be the last in the world to give
uttcrance, either by word or deed, to
anything that could possibly lead TO mis-
construction concerning this matter. We
are sure our ncighbor's intentions in this
instance were good, but he seems to have
got on the blind side Of the subject and
unintentially throws cold water on the
whole project.
Since reading the So, we have gone
to some trouble to ascertain just what
the reports referred to In the article
above quoted contain, and that our
readers may understand the subject as 1t
Is, and to correct any wrong impression
that may have been created abroad by
reason of these publications, we give
the result Of what we have been able to
learn:
General Simpson, who has charge OF
the Mississippi river improvements be-
tween the mouth Of the Illinois river and
the mouth of the Ohio river, a distance
of nearly, or perhaps over. three hun
dred miles, estimates the total cost of
the proposed permanent improvement in
his district, at $4,OOO,OO0. But congress
is not asked, neither Is it de.
sired that it should appro-
pirate this sum for present
use. The sum asked for this year for
this general improvement is 81 ,OOO..
600. Of the 81, 600, 900 it is proposed to
expend $i95, 900 In the improvement of
the river between Dickcy's Island and
the mouth of the Ohio river, but Of this
1896, 600 only 500, 900 is asked for this
year. This is General Simpsons gener.
al report; bat in a special report made
by him he encourages and recon-
mends the appropriation Of 100000
for immediate use for the improve
mcnt Of the river between Dickey's
Island and the mouth of the Ohio. This
Is the whole matter. The Tribune does
not state the matter fairly. Omitting
the all important fact that Gen. Simpson
has a district of three hundred miles
under charge, it endeavors to create the
impression that the entire $1,000, 900 is
to be expended at Cairo: and the San evil
IDENTIFY believes that some one has act
ually made such report, and sees in it
nothing but defeat in obtaining the com.
small sum which has been APP
piled tor,