The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-08-19

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old man. No, the pope couldn't live in
Chicago. With Chicago's chronic habit of
getting up corners on things in general and
her peculiar propensity Of turning every
| thing into a source Of profit, the pope
would soon find himself in the corner
of circus tent in cage with bars of
manufactured gold, to be capped at by the
pleban crowd at nickel head And st.
Louis, wherein would that city DO betteri
Her oleomargrine smell coupled with Joe
Pulitzer and Christie avenue wonld be an
efiectual barrier to even tolcrable existence
for his Holiness in that city. st. Louis too,
| is a riotious and bloody town; labor and
street railway strikes are OF almost daily
occurrence and men and steers are killed in
almost equal proportions. His holmes would
be iD almost constant danger Of being called
upon by mob and requested to forego his
Peters pennies and cut down his price for
reading masses, etc, or his vatican would
be surrounded by blue coats and he be
yanked off to the bastie. charged with the
murder Of some Billy Louderman or other.
For these good and sufficient reasons st.
Louis won't do. But where then could the
Pope 90 in case of necessity Quincy has
fractions council, that wouldn't do; Pa
ducah has ferocious black wolf; Mound
City well, Mound City might do, but Joe
Roberts lives there, and where Joe Roberts
lives there is always bread beer and but
termilk famine. The Pope would suffer
for the common necessaries Of life that the
sormand, Roberts, might live and be slick
and fat. Mound City wouldn't do at all
But Csiro-now we come to the point-Cai-
70 is the city above all others that would
furnish the Roman pontiff with every con-
venience, and would honor him,
as every man who holds the respect and
homage of the majority of the Christian
world, deserves to be honored. In Cairo he
could have peace, spiritual power, Peters
pennies and butter milk, for which latter
he is said to have Jocrobertsonian ap-
petite. He should make Cairo his pcrman-
ent home.
The item clipped from the Globe
Democrat of yesterday and republshed
elsewhere in this mornings BULLETIN gives
information that must be looked upon by
all citizens and friends of Cairo with a
great deal of satisfaction. 1t gives positive
proof of the consumation of scheme
which The BULLETIN some time ago pre-
dicted must soon be consumated. AT that
time The BULLETIN judged only from the
signs of the times, all of which gave evil.
dencc of an inclination on the part OF grain
shippers to use the river in preference to
the railroad. and send to Europe by way Of
New Orleans, instead OF New York. The
facts that the river is the better route
of the two has, of course, always existed
but has not always been recognized Yet,
as was shown by the report of represent
alive of the Eastern grain Dealers published
in the Herald and reproduced in the RUL-
LETIN some time ago, the superiority OF the
river over tie railroad as carrier Of grain
became gradually known to one small ship
per after another, until the shipment OF
grain by rail fell off perceptbly, and the
shipments by river increased correspond
ngly. This was the discovery made by the
author OF the Tribune article, and immedi-
ately thereafter the railroads. in order to
regain their hold upon the grain trade, be-
gan a reckless cutting Of freight rates which
has not yet ceased The ILLINOIS, Central
railroad company seems to have been
first to discover the Importance
of Cairo as future grain shipping point
and accordingly located its immense eleva-
tor here. 1t is true as the writer in the ar
ticle elsewhere intimates, that during the
winter months when Cairo is at the head of
navigation, it will be the gram shipping
point of the west--tbat it will enjoy all the
Importance that st. Louis assumes in the
scheme. But more than this Cairo has
greatly the advantage of st. Louis. 1t il
an important fact that Cairo is an open port
to the sea every hour in the year There
need be no interruption in the transporta
ton of grain from this point because Of
closed navigation at any time in the year,
and there is not the danger of snaCs and
sand bars from Cairo down as there is iron
st. LOUIS. The port of st. Louis, besides
being closed during the winter
months, is nearly closed dur
ing great part of the summer
, at least navigation between here and st
Louis during great part Of the summer il
fraught with dangers that do not exis
from Cairo TO New Orleans. Even now
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