The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-30
no REsURRECTION, GENTLEMEN.

treme Northernism in politics and ultra
Southernism lie unrestricted in one
common bloody grave. Public thought
is reaching out after live issues and
vital interests. Senator Lamar struck
a sounding keynote when he told the
Democrats of Mississippi that "ques-
tions of trade, commerce, currency
and transportation" were the coming
questions Of the day, in this country.
The people tire Of the political gener-
aIities that constitute the wool and
warp Of current party platforms.
They would trample under foot section
al prejudices and partisan acrimony
and move forward to make State-craft
consist in shaping State and federal
legislation to the real betterment Of
the condition of the masses and not to
the aggrandizcment of class combina-
tions, and the enrichment of ambitious
Office-seekers. Four millions of Amer
lean freemen know not where to get
bread to eat and clothes to wear
Providence has favored our land with
abundant harvests, but the grasping
selfshness of men in power has direct
ed the whole current of general pros
perity out Of the reach Of the outlying
populations and into channels where
hcartless corporations and monOpolies
through eXorbitant taXation fatten
upon the swcat-products of the toiling
millions. No doubt when Congress
meets there will be a plentiful crop of
demagogues who Will attempt to gloss
over the business arrangements of the
country and administer quack nos
trums to the patient, to aid the schemes
of adroit politicians. But leading
statemen, who have a reputation to
maintain and a future political pre-
dominance to secure, should carve out
a line of policy in close sympathy with
the meat and bread wants of the peO-
pie. Class legislation must be scotch
cd and corporations when they knock
at the doors of Congress to be permit
ted to enjoy exclusive privileges should
be sternly refused. The organization
of the laboring men is but Il sign-board
to show legislators that Il revolution is
threatened unless legislation place it
self in accord with the life and rights
Of labor All classes outside Of the
charmed circle of bonded capital hearth
ly sympathize with the laboring men.
Strike from the statute books all re,
strictive laws, cease contracting the
currency, abolish National banks, re-
store silver to equal rights with gold,
and resist consolidation and centraliza-
ton Of power.
THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL R.R.
The Mississippi Central railroad, ex-
tending from Canton, Miss, to Cairo,
H., was sold at Jackson, Miss, on
Thursday last, the Illinois Central rail
road company becoming the purchas-
ers at the sum of four hundred and
twenty-five thousand dollars, that com
pany assuming All the liabilities of the
old company.
Under the able management Of the
ILLINOIS Central company, this road,
resting in the North upon the lakes
and in the South upon the gulf, inter
secting the rich belt of producing
States embraced between these two
points, is destined to he the leading
commercial highway along which the
immense products Of this inner empire
will seek European markets via New
Orleans. 1t will directly divert trade
from Eastern roads and force it down
the valley to the mouth of the Missis
sippi river. There Is no railway line
on the continent possessing equal natu
raj advantages with the Chicago Il
New Orleans road. Others run east
and west on nearly the same parallel
of latitude, but this line intersccts al
the parallels between the lakes and
the gulf. and when reaching the latter
Doint it Is within convenient CONNER
,ial reach of Europe and the South
American States. In making a con,
tinuous and consolidated road between
Chicago and New Orleans, the Hi
nois Central company will not be guide
al bv the penny-wise and pound-fool
isb poIicv of cnrichng Chicago and
New Orleans and impoverishing the
intermediate reach of country. The
,,,.actical and sagacious business men
who direct the affairs Of this company
,,ronose to conciliate, and not antago-
,,;2e the millions Of agricultural and
manufacturing people along the route
IF this road by adopting a schedule OF
reasonable local freight rates and such
discriminating inducements TO immi-
Grafton and capital, that along this
Inc in the near future increased activ-
ity IL the cotton, grain. fruit and veg