The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-09-17

IiC AOlA1h tSstANAN
from the Monroe Bulletin. 1t
will bear a careful perusal by cur
readers:
l, and those associated with me
IN railroad matters, have under
taken gigantic scheme, the bull
ding of trunk railway line which
will be the grandest enterprise IN
this or any other country. We
are already building this hne at
the rate OF one mile per day, and
we will increase it to two miles
per day about the 10Th of Septeni-
Der next. For this road we are
using the best steel ties and. fast
enlngs and motive power from
Baldwin,s works. Those en-
barked with NE III this enterprise
did not at first approve OF such
high class locomotives but al
ways have my own way about
things or have nothing at all. BY
the 18th of September, we expect
to build 151 miles of the n. w.
Branch of this road from Fort
Scott to Topeka. Nothing like
this line was ever projected. 1t
will cost 50,000,OU0 from one
end to the other and it will cost
$40 900, 600 from Natchez to Fort
Scott. You will owe the railroad
company ouly s3000,0OO In this
city, an Insignificant sum com
pared with the expenses we shall
undergo. Your people will get
the benefit of this; your bankers,
/ farmers, landlords, mechanics,
: clerks and others will derive ben
eft from it. Your people can
suit themselves in this matter.
They can ratify the subscription
or reject it. But do not believe
YOU will reject the subscription.
You can see the importance of
this road. Our country is no rich
er in soil than yours; but we are
richer in every other respect,
SIMPLY because we have railroads.
Your land needs clearingup. You
need new infusion of western
blood-a thriftier people here to
bnild up this country. fou won t
get people here unless you do
build railroads. You need people
here who wear their old
/ clothes until they are worn out
people who never saw the inside
/ of ! court house, who never sue
any body and won't be sued-peo-
ple, IN word, who won't give
your lawyers and doctors chance
to make living. Get a popula-
ton here If you want to make a
great city Of Natchez. And re-
member, if you vote the bonds
YOU can keep them until we build
| i5O miles of the road from Match
ez to the Vicksburg 6 Shreveport
road: otherwise we will tegin at
| the other end of the line, and
work down, giving each church IN
your city 800, If the matter OF
choice is left with us ! expect IN
| five years to bring a people down
here who will plant northern gram
and show you as good a crop OF
wheat as you ever saw III the
northwest. These people Will
come here on the New Orleans,
Natchez and Fort Scott Railroad,
if you will vote the bonds. Ihis
is Gods country and the North
wants to come here. Our Ger
man girls will come here and mar
~ your Southern boys and our
Dutch-Yankec fellows will marry
your Southern girls, and strong
people will own this soil and work
It as i. should be worked. We arc
all one peoplc-God's people at
last. Vote these bonds. Take
the bull by the horns, and If the
hull won't come tear the horns on.
, I never was so well treated IN my
life as by your people; and can
) only repay them by building this
, railroad. Don't mind the croak-
ers. There are creepers ano
crawlers everywhereupon the face
of the earth. You must expect to
I ret some knocks IN railroad busl'
: ness. Move on and let your cif]
r move on, and l venture to predic
5 Natchez will double It's population
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