The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1879-06-19
TITFOR TAT.


The people of this part of the State
look upon the railroad war between the
Milwaukee Il st. Paul on the one hand,
and the st. Paul 4 Sioux City on the
ether hand, good deal as the woman
did when her husband had the fight
with the bear. When the bear was on
top she cheered and when her husband
Was on top she cleered also. When the
If. Il st. Paul heads the st. p. & $. e.
Oft west of Sioux Falls our people cheer.
And when the St. Paul & Sioux City
leads the NJ. s. st. 2. in building west
Of Heron Lake, our people cheer also.
The fact is, we want them both to win.
Those familiar with the railroad his
tory of this part of the State. are no lit
tie amused ut the solemn iteration and
fe-,teration by the st. Paul & Sioux
City interest of the bad faith" exhib-
ited by the Milwaukee & St. Paul in
first occupying the field west of Sioux
Falls and taking the route to the Mis-
souri, which the st. p. l. S. G. had in
tended to follow. TO us this looks like
tit for tat. The st. P. & sc. are beat
On at their own gaTe. The NJ. & St.
p. is only doing to them as they did to
the Southern Minnesota.
A few years ago the Southern Mime.
sofa announced their intention to ex-
tend their road west to the State line
and beyond. They wished to make
Worthington \ point on the line, and
asked our county for bonus. Our peo-
pie promptly voted them a bonus of
$4,000 to Ike paid on condition that the
road should I've built to Worthington by
September, 1877.
What did the St. p. & S. C. do to head
them Off Built branch from Worth.
ington to Sioux Falls on the line which
the Southern Minnesota expected to
follow and thus shut the Southern Min
nesota out of Wortllington. By this
stroke Of policy the St. P. & 5. G. Com
pssny not only deprived US of a compel
ing line, but cut off our western trade
and reduced our business so per cent.
ut least.
And now what we want to see, and
what we believe we shall see, is just
this: We want the Southern Minnesota
to get the branch road away from the
st. r. n s. G. and thus get back their or.
iginally-intended route and give us the
competing east-and-west road on which,
our hopes have been based from the
first. This will be only justice, poetic
justice. That organization of the gods
which presides over railroad matters
and sees that justice is done even to and
among railroad corporations, should SCI
to it that this plan is carried out to til,
letter.
Next, we want the St. P. s. S. G.
folks to beat the Southern Minnesot:
all hollow in building west of IIero1
Lake. We want them to have a roat
into Dakota and just as far west as the,
choose to build. But as they beat tin
Southern Minnesota out of the rout,
through WOrthington originally, ",
want to see the Southern Minnesot;
beat them out Of the branch now ant
drive them twenty miles north for ;
route.
But all the talk about bad faith" i,
taking their route west Of Sioux Fall
only a'n,ses our people down this way
We see that this is only tit for tat
The Southern Minnesota dog Tray ha
only got the help of the big NJ. & st. L
Towser and proposes now to get bacl
the bone which the st. p. & s. e. Spool
10 tO0k. Anything we can do to en-
courage the several railroad CANNES il
this little tight, We shall do clleerfully