The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-12-29


and confidence and respect--would have
It pursue just that course for which any
business man, in like case, would incur
the just condemnation of all sensible people.
What The BULLETIN does claim, and
those who believe rs it does (who, by the
way are the large majority of the people of
the city, is, that the City Of Cairo has been
seriously wronged by the railroad organi-
cations named, that il has been most glori.
ously plucked by each of them; that it has
acted the unsophisticated goose, or the
damned fool, if you please, to railroad cor
poratons just long enough and often
enough; that it ought to get back, Indirect.
ly if it can not do so directly, some of the
fine feathers of which it was robbed, or their
equivalent, and that it should, above all
things, fight like Comanche against
submitting to another "plucking," or else
sell its feathers at fair market price.
The BULLETIN and those it has the honor
OF representing, i. e. the majority aforesaid
do not ask the st. Louis and Cairo railroad
company for donation" They would
have right to demand as their own justly
due them from said company, something
over hundred thousand dollars; but they
seek now only to prevent an entirely I'M
conditional appropriation, by one of their
most unmerciful ravishers, of the perpetual
benefits resulting from condition of things
which it has cost them many thousands Of
dollars to create, and which it may cost
them many thousands more to maintain
they have resolved not to meekly submit to
being "plrcked" of their best, newly &C.
quired feathers by their arch "plucker"-
they have screwed up their courage to the
sticking roiut"--they have dared to make
stand agin mother" and the Argus, and
q few people who are VIGOROUSLY NOT the
city's best friends in all things, are as much
Mortified by the fact, as was Old Father
Rogers in "Esmarada."
The Argus says that the
ST. Louis and Cairo railroad
company wants to have an equal
footing with the Wabash and other
roads, II this means that the city shall
do in future as it has done in the past ::
off.r the new railroad corporation large in.
ducemeuts to enter the city, give away i'm
portaut franchises unc additionally, for abso-
u;ely nothing psrchance burden the peo-
pie with additional railroad bUnds-all of
which the city has done for some
IF the older railroads in the city,
including the narrow guage which, under
its present management, rewarded the
clty's generosity with robbery, then the
Argus and the said railroad company will
be, and of right ought to be, disappointed.
The city has turned over new leaf in its
railroad record, and it will write thereon
oaly what will prove it to have been duly
| mindful OF its own interest. II, on the
other hand the Argus and the company
aforesaid mean that the city shall place the
company upon the same footing as it would
place Wabash, orany other ike company
thatmey in the future ask privileges similar
to hose now demanded as a right by the
narrow gauge company, then we AMI those
we represent, the majority aforesaid, say,
amen! That is just exactly what the city
is doing right now and has been dong
all along it is simply asserting its right
to impose some conditions upon which it
will give away very important franchise,
the benefits of which are the results OF the
expenditure of many thousands. Aud
this, instead of being an attempt by the city
to pluck the railroad company, as the Ar.
gus intlmates, Is merely an ! purely an at.
tempt by the city to avoid being plucked
for the third time within year or two by
the same INSCRIPTIONS fellow under differ.
| eUt ulsBuiseo'
The BULLETIN has not watched the
movements in stocks on Wall street to keep
track of who owns the controlling stock OF
the present ST. Louis and Cairo railroad
company II it was necessary to do the
one ia order to know the other, It would
probably not have been much of job. The
movement in St. Louis and Cairo, or Cairo
and St. Louis railroad stock was probably
not so very lively in the worlds great stock
market. But The BULLETIN knows. enough
for it to know, that "the new organization"
so called, was effected by the principal, the
foreign stockholders in the old organiza-
tons, and that in its formation, the city
was made the goose of and was most un-
mercifully plucked. Perhaps the Argus,
admitting as 1t does by it's silence,
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