The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-12-19

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of these men yesterday morning aud hand
ed the mayor gives the key TO the cause of
all this exodus Of laborers TO the south. II
tells in very few words that tho
moving south of all this army
of idle men which has passed through here
during the last few weeks is but the result
of well worked, ingenious
scheme on the part of few
spectators in st, Louis and Chic
ago, who are making handsome sums Of
money out ofthe guliibity Of their dupes,
the "exodusers" The slip Of paper was
signed by Davenport & Quinn, OF ST.
Louis, and informed captain w. L. Mar
shall, L, S. Engineer at Wilson's Point"
that "the bearer wishes to do gov. work
under you at Wilson's Point" "The bear.
err Of this slip was one Of large crowd
who bad come here Sunday, in response to
a call for several hundred .aborers 10 20
south to work on railroads, published in
the st. Louis papers. He had called upon
Messrs. Davenport s. Quinn, had paid
two dollars, ali he had, for his tare to VII.
sons Point, received a railroad ticket for
| Cairo where, he was told, he would be re-
ceived by a committee at the depot, put
aboard of boatand taken on to his dtsti-
nation without further expense. He and
| his crowd arrived here all right, but there
was no reception committee and no pala-
tial steamer awaiting them; and they were
here IN about the same condition as a flock
of shorn sheep in wilderness. When they
realize their forlorn condition they seek to
make their way to"Wilson's Point as best
they can and as a preliminary step they
apply for passes over the Ohio The con.
tractors who sent them here make con-
tracts with the railroad companies TO
transport SO many to Cairo at perhaps a
dollar per head; they make the men pay
two dollars, or all they can spare, and peck
ct the difference, They are constituencies
scoundrels, who merely send these poor fell
lows down here in order to gain the profits
from the transportation, without knowing
or caring how their dupes will fare after
they leave the town they start from.
Jim" Orange was up before Msgis.
trate Comings again yesterday for getting
on oueof his crazy DRINKS He was fined ten
dollars and costs. jim ought to be suppress
ed, The city council ought to suppress
| him. II ought to pass an ordinance re-
curing that jim do forthwith become an
initiated, upon penalty of being confronted
in an enclosure with QUE of the fighting
members Of the city council and be by him
handled in accordance with Qleensbury
rules. Some might object that this would
be an unreasonable requirement. Well,
what of NJ We can point to several
precedents that would amply justify
the council in passing any kind of an ordi'
nance requiring anything OF anybody, par
ticuArly Of railroad operations But to
return to the subject. If jim should not
promptly comply with the comparatively
vey reasonable requirement of such an
ordinance, be should be arrested by the
council, and the penalty Of the law he had
violated should be visited upon bis woolly
head. There areseveral muscular and spirited
members in the counclt who have, upon
occasions, shown strong nclinations to en-
gage in physical combat in the chamber.
These should be appointed to meet jim.
They should be subj ected to careful train.
ing, be we'll groomed and properly deted
forseveral days beforehand. Jim IL always
in good trim-always in good fighting con.
diton--p provided he gets enough oh be
hellful to limtor him up and to arouse his
usually slumbering energies A meeting
might be arranged any where in the city
W opNNihl VI tllJ CIV Nv
any time when indications promise that the
c1uucllmen will show fight long enough to
be brought face to face with jim. But care
should be taken that Jim ia taken of and
muzzled and manacIed at tho proper time,
for he is terror when he gets his dander
up. These are merely suggestions, you
know, made In spirit Of meekness, and
with due appreciation of our physical In.
Significance and OF the physical superiority
of the fighting members aforesaid. In fact
1t is because Of our high estimate of the
prowess of sad Aghting members that we
venture to suggest this method Of Kidding
the city of agreat nuisance that has period
ically terrorized the community for 10 these
several years. The councilman who should
como out victor In this severe contest could