The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-03-22

within the last month, for no other reason
than that the paper was Systematically
stolen from them. Others have been com,
PEELED to resort to all manner Of receptions
to protect themselves against the persistent
borrower, who, in some cases, was little bet
ter than thief, commencing by politely
asking tor it after the subscriber had read
it, and ending by deliberately suatching it
from the owners hands. Newspaper pub
fishers will be driven to resort to the law
for their own and their patrons protection,
and the sooner they de so the better. The
victims of theits of this kind will have the
moral support Of meriads of fellow victims,
ifthey willprosecute the thieves 20 the fullest
extent of the law. Experience has proven
that nothing but the severest remedy will
cure TIE evil, and this is probably as good
a time as any to commence.
AS in former years, when the munich
pal election drew near, SO this year, the air
is made pregnant with rumor; OF grand
Improvements intended to DO carried out
by the ST. Louis & Cairo Railroad Com
pany. And, as in former years, so now,
these promises of Improvements are made
upon implied conditions imposed upon the
city, and are accompanied by covert
thraotr W lao nyacuEat in caea tha pnpl,-
tons are not complied with Generally the
promises, conditions and threats are about
the same this year as they were before
though they differ in some particulars.
Formerly Cairo was to be abandoned for
Mound City; now, it is to give place to
East Cape Girardeau as a tcrmini for the
main line of the road. But as in former
years, 80 now the covert threats, as planned,
are so palpably impossible OF accomplish
mcnt, but if accomplished according to the
dictates of good sense, would SO signally
fail of the object sought, that those who
take the trouble to post themselves can not
fail to look upon the threats as the sheerest
foolishness. The project to run the main
line to East Cape Girardeau, ifcarIied out
according to the only plan consistent with
good engineering, would prove as much q
bonanza for Cairo as would have been the
case had the Texas e. st. Louis road, in
stead of stopping at Birds Point and con-
Meeting for St. Louis here, gone direct to
St. Louis from Birds Point, as was then
threatened it would do if the council did
not withdraw the injunction against the st.
Louis & Cairo road, so that the T. g. St. L.
could connect with it here. AS the extern
sion of the r. & st. l. to st. Louis, on the
Missouri shore, would have opened up the
rich mineral fields of Missouri to Cairo, so
now the building of branch to East Cape
Girardeau, on the only route that could be
chosen without gross violation of common
sense, would open up to Cairo one of the
richest grain tracts in Illinois. But in
designating the probable routes for this
branch, this only feasible route has been
carefully ignored. The routes have been
selected evidently without any regard to
practicablity and solely with view to
showing how injurious the new branch
could be made to the interests Of Cairo.
The construction of road upon either of
the routes indicated would be realization
of Mark Twains conception of railroad
twenty-five miles long, with fifty miles Of
trestle-work, some of it three stories high.
1t is safe to say that as the former threats
failed of accomplishment, this will fail
also, at least in so far as injury to Cairo is
concerned. If branch IS built at all, it
will probably be built on the certain route
that might be indicated, that would require
little or no grading at all-and such
branch would be of the greatest benefit to
Cairo, as well as to the section of country
it would traverse.