The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-08-02
WHAT OF the FUTURE?-HERE
AND EVERY

AND EVERYWHERE.
The people of Cairo are the most hope
full class OF human beings on the face OF
the earth. Neither fire, financial pancs,
nor threatened floods nor pestience,
brings despair TO even the most faint
hearted. Disappointment has followed
disappointment, but hope has ever been
a sheet-anchor which held them 10 good
heart.
The hope OF an early dawn Of more
prosperous era, that now inspires them,
is, we believe, founded upon rock. lis
full iruition will not long be delayed, ii
all the signs that now point in that d.
rectlon are not most grievonsly at fault.
Although scarcely recovered from tie
shock OF the great strike, the business OF
the country is rapidly assuming a health
Ter tone, The crops OF grain and fruits
were never more abundant, and not for
many years have prices afforded the
farmers more remunerative returns.
Through this channel money is Moving
from the money centerS OF the country |
Into the hands OF the people. Hence we |
hear, on every hand, the notes OF busy |
preparation tor increased activity In all |
the departments of industrial ana COM
mercial life. And much can be augured
from the better feeling aud increased
confidence OF the people. Everybody
seems inspired by well settled convic'
ton that six months will not elapse
before all branches oftradc and industry
will become active and prosperous; anI
no where is this conviction more general
or firmly fixed than among the people
Of the Mississippi valley.
BY the application OF wholesome Dem
ocratic policies to the South all disturb
ances and commissions there have ceased,
and white and black men alike, accord
ing to the means at their command, are
benGing their energies 10 the cultivation
Ofthe.. il,and,the upbuilding Of their pros
trated and shattered industries. Before
the advent OF winter the harvest Of this
effort will be gathered, and the South,
for the first time in many years, will
have of the worlds goods, enough fot
themselves and abundance to spare.
And the Northwest is one grand gran
airy. From the present grain crop of
Illinois. every man, woman and child III
the United States might be furnished
bushel of wheat, and every inhabitant OF
Europe and America bushel OF corn,
Iowa, Wisconsin. Kansas, and Mime
sofa, have not been less fruitful, il popu-
lation is taken into account; and turn
where you will in all that vast territory
drained by the Missouri and Mississippi
rivers, and plenty is the rule and failure
the exception.
James b. Eads has cut an ample chan
mel to the sea, and thus, ln the full effect
OF the term rendered Cairo an finland
seaport" Cairo business men are not
unmindful ofthe situation thus produced,
and are preparing to take advantage Of
1t. The Mississippi valley, in moving the
immense surplus, will employ its own
outlets to the ocean, and Cairo, the half
way house, will of necessity, become a
grand entrepot for the interchanging
products of the lower and upper valley:
and grain market for both home and
foreign buyers, OF no mean Importance.
And still other agencies are at work
TO bring Cairo out Of the condition OF
comparative torpidity in which she and
other cities have lain for five or six years
past. A powerful organization OF citi-
zens is graphing with the tax problem
which for years past has stood as an al
most insurmountable obstacle 70 the
growth OF the city. There is reason to
believe that the problem will be satisiic-
torlally solved, and that the property
aho pusihcSe vi SaIIO VIII thereafter
bear no public burden, save such as will
prove adequate to healthy maintain
ance of municipal, county and state GOV
ernments. This contamination once
fixed, the great bar to Investment of cap.
ital in Cairo realty will be removed. and
those who hold as well as those who buy
foothold in the city, will have no con
Germ about realizing fair return for its
use, or their "money back, should they
elect to sell again.
The assurance given by the general
government that the erratic father of
waters" shall cease his inroads upon his
banks, and leave our protective embank-
ment unimperilled, is accepted by those
who entertain just estimate OF Uncle
Sans Integrity, as an absolute guarantee
Operations In that quarter will have so
advanced by the first of March next that
the most timid OF citizens will Danish all
visions OF wrecked levees and inundated
cities, and rest absolutely assured that
our means Of protection are ample.
though all the waters of Lodore come
tumbling down In one roaring volume.
More might be said, and much better
said; but enough has been indicated to
assure the general reader that whatever
others may think. the people of Cairo
begin to realize that better era is dawn.
Ing for the whole country, and that in