The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-03-23

Cairo, railroad maintain such cold ex.
terror towards the citizens and authorities
OF Cairo, and treat all advances for an am
icablc settlement of thcIdiferenccs between
II and the city council with an unconccrn
amounting to disdain, is that they hope to
gain something by the election which is TO
come of in this city next month-thcy
probably hope to see council elected
which will grant them what they ask with
out imposing any inconvenicnt conditions.
They are probably lead to hope this by the
belief that their several questionable
schemes to manufacture public opinion
hereto arouse the people Of Cairo against
the council and against their own interests
have succeeded. They probably aatter
themselves that they have, by series of
artfuly practiced ruses, made dupes of the
voters of Cairo; induced them to look
upon the Cairo and st. Louis, or the st
Louis and Cairo, or Amsterdam, St, Louis
and Cairo, or Cairo, st. Louis and Amster-
dam, railroad company, as poor, innocent
shamctully prosecuted little orphan
whose sole object it has
been and is, to bless the hand
that rudely smote (0 it, and to bring
wealth and industry to the city at great
sacrifice to itself. But if the company
aforesaid prides itself upon having achieved
any such success, it will be sadly disap-
pointed when the results of the work on the
! 18TH of April shall have been announced.
1t will fndI then, that its many feints were
"too Thin" that the people gained some
thing by their former experiences in deal
ings with corporations, that they were
sensible enough to recognize their own in
terests, and to endorse the actions of those
who sought to enforce these interests The
people of Cairo have found that dealing
with corporation is like dealing with q
treacherous opponent in some wild mining
camp in the west-they recognize the fact
that the man who "gets the drop"is ,le VIC
| tor In the matters now at issue between the
City of Cairo and the railroad company
aforesaid, the questions of "who was re-
sponsible for the washing away of the ola
Mississippi levee," or, "who Should have
built the new levce,n or show much was
the city swindled out Of by the aforesaid
company" or, "did the city council act
foolishly in enjoiping the company from
building its road into the city when high
water had already placed an inviolable in
junction upon said road, nome of these
questions have anything whatever to do
with the matters at issue between the city
council and the railroad company aforesaid.
But the only question with which the peo-
pie and the council have to deal is,
"woud it be to the interest OF the City of
Cairo to have New Levee strengthened,
and would this object be best accom-
plishcd by compelling the Cairo and st.
Louis, or st. Louis and Cairo, or Amster-
dam and st. Louis railroad, to come into
the city outside of said New Levee, be-
tween the city and danger, in consideration
of valuable franchise, granted to it by
the cityl' This is the only question to be
considered by the people and council of
Cairo--it is the only question which has
been considered seriously by them. What
the popular answer to this question is, is
no secret. 1t IS apparent to the most OBJ
fuse from every act of the city council
bearing upon this matter; it is apparent
from the propositions and decisions of the
people in mass meeting assembled aud of
their committees in dealings with the of
ficials of the railroad company aforesaid;
and it will be spoken in an unmistakable
manner by the ballots on the 18th proximo.
If all these signs Of the times do not satisfy
the company that nothing is be gained
by procrastination, other facts can be men
toned which would satisfy them. II is
true the railroad company looses nothing
by this procrastination, tor even though it
were granted all the privileges it asks it
could not now, nor for some time, avail it.
self of them because of high water; but
THE BULLETIN, seeing that the company IS
making every possible means, both
fair and foul, to dix things"
during its spare time, and is evidently
elated over its success (l, feels in duty
bound to inform the company of the utter
hopelessness of its case up to the present
time and would kindly drop it the hint
that it might wait longer and fare worse.
EXCURSION TO NORTHWESTERN
IOWA.
The Illinois Central r. II. will run a
land excursion to Storm Lake, Cherokee
and LeMars, Iowa, leaving Cairo at 4 80