The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-02-09
I.IvINGsTON's LETTER.
CAIRO, February eth, 1876.
The WARD MEETING

Saturday morning and eagerly deyoured
your literary eflusion under above mead
ing the purport Of which lie that Ward
and myself were cheap friends Of thu
Narrow Gauge railroad, and that w
were working in their interest. and
against the interest Of Cairo that Scarf!
& Canda were the power behind.
The dog that wsars the collar is usually
rewarded by an occasional bone for the
the smelling. whining and yelping thai
he does.
The fable Of the dog meeting q hall
starved wolf We think Illustrates oul
case. Said the dog to the wolf: II live
well. have good warm bed and plenty
to eat, and am exempt from responsi.
bility, and have no fears from dangerous
enemies. Come with me and I will In.
troducc you. aud then. you can live. as
nicely as do"
Said the wolf "lou do look as II YOU
were well treated, you are fat and--but
zee the hair is q little worn from abou,
your neck, let me ask you, If you please
what is the cause of its''
"O." said the dog. THAT is just the
marks Of my collar, they sometimes lie
me up"
Said the wolf: IL would rather be poor
and have my liberty, 30 goodbye - and
away ne bounded into the forest aud free
air.
But dogs still continue to wear collars,
and 80 do some men. Il this be 80. is 1t 80
strange. 80 passing strange, that Ward
and should don the ermine of distinc-
ton, when and while citizens OF Cairo.
where all good citizens are only known
and recognized by their collar-marks.
II we are poor. lost or discarded ca
ninei. minus this much needed and
highly priced passport to responsibility,
viz /: the bras, collar. who could Won
der at the grateful wag OF the caudal ap.
pendage, responsive to the whistlings
and clicks Of the invlnclbls Canda and
Searls: or who could wonder that the
latter should be willing to accept an
ally. though nc be az low and weak as
you represent poor Ward. considering
the crushing opposition they have in
Cairo.
Considering that in the fight between
the Property Company and the railroad.
both are wrong, we consider it more
manly to cspouse the cause of the under
dog.
That tire railroad company should have
made an effort to protect the levee, their
track, We do not deny; in fact, we
hold that they are highly culpable for
not doing it. But, their not doing 1t
loes not release the Property Company
rom its solemn promises and covenants
With citizens who bought property from
hem, to keep up the levee.
mo lawyer will contend that a right OF
lctlon exists on tho part OF the city or
my citizen against the railroad company,
hence we claim that there is no fight be.
tween them. The city may or may not !
have right Of action against the prop.
'rtv company, we do not pretend to say.
3ut We do say that o contingency may
rise in which the property company
will become liable on its promises and
to bona fd, purchasers of
property.
The Issue before the people OF Cairo
now. is this We have q half-fnished
evee, built at the expense Of the city.
which must be completed at once. The
,ity can lily afford to do it. Would 1t
not be better to give 1t to either the prop.
'rty company or the railroad company.
provided they would pay US back all
monies and complete 1t at once and agree
o keep 1t up, and thereby release Us from
his additional burden OF taxation?
We were not acting In the interest OF
he railroad company. They had moth
ing to DO with getting up the meeting,
They did not know OF 1t until after the
bills We're struck of, neither did tho
mayor. The motives were purely for the
purpose Of devising plan to enable the
city to avOid the expense Of the lsvee.
1t may have been lily advised, prema.
ture or foolish. I, for one, am sorry it
was called, for the reason that it will be
the means Of my losing friends II always
have too few but ! abide the result.
ask no friends at the expense of my lib.
erty Of thought.
The substance Of the above facts would
have been stated by me at said meeting
had ] not been interrupted by an i'll.
msnnerly crowd, headed BY you, Dir
Editor.
This is but another proof that man
hood is at a discount in these piping
times of bonds, bond-holders, rings ana
rascals. Old-timed manhood is jecrcd as
an old fraud. by the wise in cunning
craft and gobbling. whilst they are tho
real frauds 10 truth, justice and reason.
S.u, A., ,,.,...,..--