The Worthington advance., 1882-08-24

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THE OMAHA ROAD
.rha ,,o railroad devil.fish are after
~. FOR several weeks there have boon
minors OF efforts to get control OF our
Owah, line. The Sioux City journal
Of Sunday says:
The reader Of the stock quotations
NAV have noticed that the common
stOck of tho Chicago, St. Panl, M,nhea-
rolls and Omaha has been steaony a.
vancinx since early in the spring: ~ IN
March this stock was quote0 ~ OFT,
and Yesterdays quotation WAS o. IL
NAV be that the big small gram ctop
and general prosperity OF the country
tributary to the road, ana tue heaVy
Immigration consiEg IN, mas c""ssu
this advance. More probably IL Is tne
effort Of somebody to get cohtrot OF
the road ky buying up the STOCK: Mhat M
Is not held by gentlemen interesteu ia
tho Northwestern is mostly tue ptopes-
" Of capitalists who own the ltock ls'
land. The stock recently has exper
fenced some rapid rises, on Tue 42Hn D!
inst. going mp from 81 to 3is' H. II:
Porter, president Of the road' and some
Of the other officials, arc now At Safato.
ga. consulting with Nanosso. o.".., ''"'
other owners Of the Northwestern y.
bout something. supposed 10 10 !ne
consolidation of the great lumoe' !.t.e .'
Psrter it Is generally believed, bought
tho roa.l to sell. He now has his oppor-
tunity in that the Northwestern ana
Rock Island are bidding against each
other. 1t is said that OH the day when
there was such Il boom III lumber ana
live stock, that of the $4,000 shares
sold on the market 50,0 900 were bought
bv Vauderbilt's brokers. During MS
recent visit west Vanderbilt personally
insnected the lumber line property at
s.. Paul and Minneapolis. a little 10
cal point indicating that a sale IS con-
templated is the taking OF an inventory
of tie stock on hand at the It. Panl
shops III this city at this unus!lal sea,
season Of wear. However, the st. laul
lumber line has, on paper. so often pass"
ed into the possession Of the North
western, that it will be time enough To
announce the sale when it occurs.
If the Northwestern takes the Oma-
la. and the Rock Island controls the
burlington, why don't that give us tEe
much-talked- of competition? And rs
the Milwaukee is surely coming
probably this season, why dosen't that
rive US competition No. 2? And as
the Wabasl, IS coming right up this
way from DesMoines, making for l''s-
,nark, why doesn't that give us compe-
ti,ion No. 5? You wise fools who are
always laughing ut the ADVANCE for
its railroad predictions and then swear
ing you didn't laugh ''no such thing"
when you find that the ADVANCE was
right. just tell us. wiliyou?
We wish now to put another predict
lon on record, one which will make the
short hairs stand up on the spinal col
umn of those wise shell-backs who
cant see beyond the little store III
which they move. or the little wheel
barrow shafts in which they work.
And this is our prediction, viz: that
WerthinQton is Oh the great highway,
turn pike or thorough-fare, from CHI
cago and st. Louis to tho Pacific coast
and Asia. All the great railroad sys'
tens of the west are row building
northwest and southeast lines to tap
ti,e Great Northern Pacific route which
will be through this year or next ut III.
test. These great railroads cannot af-
ford to 60 round by either Duluth or
1t. Paul and they are taking the shor-
test cut right through here to the great
aorthern trans continental route, which
is7OO or 500 miles shorter to the Pacific
coast than the Union Pacific.
When the Northern Pacific is opened
through, the belt III which Worthington
is situated and which has heretofore
been considered lis too far north and
out Of the way, will he Oh the great
highway leading across the continent.
AFTER I'ROHIBITIOy. WHAT:
The st. Paul Pioneer Press is getting
ia some good work on the prohibition
question. No paper that we have read
has discussed the question with so
Sauel, force and candid reasoning. 1t
NOW comes to the defence of its CORE
sponhent, ''IIuman Rights" who
sounded the note Of alarm on An arti-
clu entitled AFTER Prohibition, What?'
That note of alarm the ADVANCE
has ln:en sounding for some years, for it
is impossible not to see that if We yield
the fanatical elements in church and
reform All ell they will claim and take
. mile. give them Il finger and they will
grasp for the whole arm.
Step by step the ''church" is en-
croacl'ins upon the ''State," and law
after law is going upon the statute
l"n'ks tn say what men shall eat and
drink, what they shall read and print,
what physicians they shall employ when
sick, what .a'nusements they shall in
d"lge in. how they shall pass the day
called Sunday, and which is Sab
bath" to only u portion Of the religious
world. A few steps more and we shall
10 hack to the Puritanism Of early
New England and from that to i
church lnl"isitisn as horrible as that
OF Spain, though the methods may be
different. 1t is easy to foresee that we
are to have state religion, a union of
Church and State, in the United States.
Tie orthodox Clergy lave long since
boldly demanded that God" Ike recog-
nized i, the constitution and that the
''8ibls''. .be read in all the schools. And
they go farther and tell US plainly that
tl'sxsMeh the ''Christian" God, who
10 Christ, aud by Christ they mean an
orthodox church Christ. by tie "Di-
ble'' they mean the. Bible as interpreted
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