The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-10-22
OPPOSED TO THE NEW COUNTY
ROAD, AND WHY.

of repeated efforts, in getting the people to
talk about the high-water road project, and
the tax proposition to be voted upon at the
election next month. 1t finds the liberal,
enterprising business men Of the city, with
a very few exceptions, advocating the I'M
position of the proposed tax; but it is
amazed to find few, sensible men, so
warped by their hates and prejudices, as
to oppose the whole project, because the
building Of the road will benefit the lands
over which it may be constructed, and the
Cairo Property Trustees and Capt. Halli-
day own portion of those lands
We do not know that we can more forci-
bly, portray the absurdlty and narrow mind
edness Of such an objection, than by re.
peating the cateahism to which such an
objector was subjected, yesterday evening,
by an intelligent and Influential advocate
of the road and tie proposed tax to build
1t:
ITS Taylor project" insisted the OBJ
jector. "All he wants is levee around his
land"
at being desirable" responded the road
advocate, "to connect with Mound City and
the several roads leading out into the inter-
ior of Pulaski county, and it being desira.
BILE, further, to connect with the Cairo and
Jonesboro and Cairo and Thebes roads at
the nearest and best attainable point-all
this being desirable, could better, cheaper
or shorter route than that determined upon,
be Selectedl"
Objector: 81 don't know that there could
be-"
Road-man: swell now, is it your desire
that the road should damage the land and
injure the owners2"
Objector: "Oh, certainly not"
Road-man: Now, being agreed that the
best and most feasible route for the
road that could possibly be adopt
ed, has been chosen, you object that, Incl
dentally, the embankment would serve as
two angles Of levee around 8 large body
of the Trustees lands?"
Director; That's precisely what l object
to-"
Road-man: "By building the third angle,
the Trustees would redeem from overflow
the greater portion of all the lands lying
between Cairo and Cache river?'
Director: That's precisely what would
follow"
Road-man: "And these lands, redeemed
from overflow, would be leased out or sold
in small parcels, and would become the
homes of gardeners and small farmers.
The stranger coming into the city by rail,
instead of riding through great food OF
water, or through an ugly tangled under
growth, growing up from oozy, dca,h-breed-
ing marshes, would pass through cultivated
fields, and garden patches. Do you object
to such change as thatl'
Director; mo, l don't; should be glad
to see it brought about"
Road.man would not such change
contribute greatly to the health; somewhat
to the thrift Of the city, and prove of i'm
measurable advantage in the work of re-
moving the impression that Cairo is sur.
rounded by swamps that poison the air and
sicken and kill the peoples"
OF think it quite likely"
r. MIS- it not desirable, that such q
result should follow the construction of the
road9"
O.-"Most assuredly it is; but
r. M.-"Now, just see, my friend, how
completely you have given yourself away.
AS an honest man you have. agreed that,
looking to the connections that are to be
formed, the road has been located on the
best possible route;y you havr acknowledged
that it is highly desirable to dlsplace the
swamps and morasses, deadened trees and
tangled underground, with gardens and
cornfields; you have agreed that
the change would remove an ever.
existing cause of sickness, and the
most unsightly part of Cairo's surround
ings-that all this would follow without
adding one dollar to the cost of the road
You have agreed that the benefits that are
certain to follow, ore of the greatest mo.
ment to Cairo, and you insist that il il NOT
your desire that the road should iniure apy.