The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-07-30
DONGOLA NEWS,
A SPICY LETTER FROM Dos0oLA PULL or
POLITICAL AND OTHER NEWS.

once taken out and an attempt made 10
examine It's columns, but the attempt was
futile, and whyi because there were 50
many peepng over my shoulder, to get
glimpse of Cairo news, cold Trim was
compelled to 'scootn for his domicile,
where he could enjoy the paper alone, 1t
is evening now, and have examined all Of
its contents, Some very good correspon-
dence, among which Truro comes to the
front again, and new hand at the bellows
Pickles. We admire Pickles style,
but think his name indicated something
very sour, specially if vinegar has been
used. What wonderful age we are living
in, an age In which crime and immortality
are coming to the front IN high places, and
demanding to be respected; threatening
vengeance on him who, under.
takes to ventilate it We notice among
other things, that the editor and publisher
Of The BULLETIN, were both arrested at
the instance Of Squire Comings-for libel
We are in position to sympa.hize with
our boss, Of The BULLETIN though we
have not been sued, we have been perse-
cuted and cursed and threatened,
for the manner il which we ventilate
crime and wrong doing in
our vicinity. II crime is committed. Is
in some localities-must be kept out
Of the papers, for if not, woe to the man
who reports it. But after all the cursing
and threatening, we are firmly believing,
that as a people, we are improving A
close observer can see at q glance that
where crime and wrong doing is rampant,
the neuclus around which it clusters is the
whisky dens OF our little towns and cities.
Believing as we do in the existence OF an
sllwise Creator, aud that He is always on
the right that right must and will, event
ua.ly, prevail over wrong We feel hopeful
that We are on the borders Of brighter
age, 1t may tsrry It's full Development
till the writer has mouldered into his
mother earth, but come il will, SO let all
honorable men and women take courage
and present an undaunted front, TO vice
and immortality, in any and every shape,
whether in high life or low life Stick to
them brother BULLETIN reporter, for you
will come out all right, and the bright
for having attacked wrong doing in every
one Of its ramifcations
PoIitcally-in Dongola, the Republicans
are in the majority, "Jist' "Ieete" bit,
and it is both amusing AMI often disgust
ing, to listen to the arguments on political
economy After all, our Boosting over our
tree Republican or Democratic government,
q government in which majority of the vot-
ers are the powers that WELD the helm Of the
nation, not many, perhaps have ever thought
that Just few, comparatively speaking, do
oil the voting. In my own experience
have known bad men on both sides to carry
hundreds OF votes Just as it suits them.
How do they carry them That's easy
answered, they carry them with whisky
and few dollars. Hence q man who car
ries fifty votes in such manner just votes
himself ftty-oue times This is done by
all parties, and no one can contradict ii. 1t
seems then that there Is general want Of
political information. Every man who is
too lazy to study political economy should
compel himself to shake off his laziness
aud post himself on the doing; Of the past,
and deduce therefrom. what is TO his in
terest for the present and those who shall
come after him, We have no way Of pre-.
dieting what will be best for us, except by
scanning the past and taking lessons there
from We don't positively say it., but we
incline to the opinion that no man, white
or black, should be allowed to vote at all,
miles: he has fair share of common school
education In the long ago past the
chances to become educated were slim, and
in the days Of such ignorance the only way
was to wink at the ignorance. Such is not
the case now, or should not be, for we have
had free schools all over the land,
extending over period of sufficient dura-
ton that children have been born and grown
old, and therefore we think 1t time to quit
wlnking and 60 to trowning. There is no
economy In letting multiplied thousands of
young men vote who are so ignorant that,
they can not make out their ticket nor can
they read it when it is mrde out for them.
Teen why not have al educational qualif-
cation attach to all voters Since our last
report, which was then favorable for corn
we have to report now that corn is very much
in need OF rain For two weeks we have had
no rain tall az ali The indications being tor
continued drouth, it makes things look rath.
err gloomy, but lat us hope on and hope ever.
There must be screw loose somewhere