The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-03-10
RATHER CHEEKY.

road to Sprin field, this section woulC
be perfectly satisfied with the presen
location of the capital. Instead o
squanderiDg money on banqueting th,
legislature and "seeing" the members
the people of Jefferson City should
put their money into railroads, reach
ing into parts of the state now en-
tirely inaccessible to the capital,
making it expensive and inconvenient
to reach it. With a railroad from
Jefferson City to Springfield there
would be no desire on the part of the
southwest to the southeast to change
the capital. Now all of the south
east and southwest Missouri have to
90 out of the direct line hundreds of
miles to reach the capital. With the
proposed road they would avoid the
circuit and save money. If the Jeffer-
son City road is not extended south
and the Sedalia and Warsaw is. there
will be a strong sentiment in this Sec
ton in favor of removal, not that we
will love Jefferson City less but
Springfield more. - Springfield Lead
er.
We re. reduce the above and sub
NIT it to our citizens for careful and
business-like consideration. That the
Leader speaks the truth in some re.
spects is not to be denied, and it is to
be hoped that some show of spirit will
be exhibited in regard to this matter.
1t is entirely unnecessary TO advance
arguments as 10 why the road should
be built, as the advantages that Jeffer-
son City would derive from it are too
apparent. Then let some of our pub
lic-spirited capitalists take the scheme
in hand and crystalize it into some
thing tangible. 1t will rot avail any
thing to be eternally mouthing about
what ought to be done or what
has been done. Action, and prompt
action, is needed, and we believe that
the gap of 10 miles between the ter
minus of the Jefferson City, Leban-
on and s ,uthwestern railway and the
city Of Springfield could be closed up
within sixteen months, if our citizens
take proper and energetic steps in this
direction. Why not call a meeting
for next week and ascertain just how
much interest our people will show
in the matter?-Jeferson City Tri-!
bune.
For gall and cheek the above is en-
titled to the premium. If Jefferson
City had the enterprise of sedalia,
she would have had all these connec-
tons and many more long ago. But
Jefferson City is nothing but cata-
comb, for the burial of every dead
enterprise and it contains Upas tree
which instantly destroys enterprise |
the moment it enters its borders. For
twenty years Jefferson City has talked
about these railroads and every time
it has induced a man of spirit and
means to come there to undertake
their construction, it has swindled him
out of his money and sent him adrift
and appropriated the proceeds to riot
Gus living. Besides this talk of rail-
roads has become so old a story, no
body believes it and even if they
did it will be fifty years before Jeffer-
SON City could possibly get down to a
working basis. Jefferson City vii
never have railroad, Jefferson City
don't want a railroad, Jefferson City
wants to compel the people of Missouri
and especially of Sedalia to support
it on the ground, that it is an histori-
sal catacomb where not only lies
buried from all eyes, in musty vaults,
and unreadable the his
tory and record of the state, in the
past, but if We are to believe them
all the relics of ancient Rome, from
Numa's time, down to the present.
Jefferson City's ambition is to be
Mecca of barrenness, where pilgrims
shall come bare footed, on hands and
knees over its flint rock hills to wor-
hip at the shrine of past glories and
give pittance to the degenerate de-
,cendants of Missouri's illustrious
lead.
Let,them have their wish, but in
Gods name, let us have a modern
capital for modern people now on
,artb, where modern laws can be en-
lcted without the melancholy infu-
,nces of ancient mummies and ghosts.