Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1890-09-02
THE II. & c. RAILROAD.
This Road the Only Hope Of Hop
kinsyillc.


Paper h0nuS nO LOnSer W w
Looked on with Patience.
We Can Build and Own Our Owr
Road.
Six long months have elapsed since
the Ohio Valley Railroad gave it out
that third proposition would be
made to the people of Hopkinsville
"in a few days"
Days have lengthened into weeks
and weeks, into months, until the
heart has been made SICK at the de-
lay and the long season Of unbroken
inactivity. Nothing has been done
and the time has come for Hopkins
vile to conclude that nothing is going
10 be done by the o. V. road. An
other year is fast slipping away,
making the fourth year we have lived
upon the illusive hopes held out TO us
by this company.
The KENTucKIAN is candid enough
to say now that il has lost faith in the
coquettish o. V. and is tired of hay
ing the feelings of Hopkinsville
trined with by this heartlessand tickle
iirt. Itnow proposes to pay no fur
I
ther attention to the o. ", nor to any
other road unable TO carry out its
promises, but TO hereafter advocate
the building of competitive line by
the exertions OF our own people.
A mother bird left her young in a
field OF ripened grain and directed
them to pay particular attention TO
everything they heard.
The farmer came, looked at the
grain and told his son to ask in all
Of the neighbors to help cut il on the
morrow. The frightened birds re-
ported what they had heard, but the
mother again left, after giving similar
instructions, ON the next day. The
farmer and his son came forth, but
the neighbors came not to assist.
Then the owner said TO his son, "Go
and tell all Of our kindred 10 come to-
morrow and help us cut our crop.
Surely they will aid us" "They will
not come" the old bird said, "but
listen closely to what you hear to-day"
and again she left on the following
morn. She returned this time at noon
and found the young bids in a panic.
: The farmer came with his son but
none q their relations wore here"
they said, "and the old man told his
son TO sharpen up the blades and get
everything in readiness and they
would cut the field themselves on the
following day." "Then indeed must
we get move on us" said the old
bird, "for when a man resolves to do
thing himself, it is pretty apt to be
done.'
This fable illustrates the point.
We must no longer look to our neigh
bors nor even to our relatives to build
a railroad for us. II we are to have
the long desired outlet we must build
II ourselves. The charter is ready,
the people are willing, the route to
Princeton and Eddyville is an easy
one and the road can be built Ut
comparatively little cost. The line
has been surveyed, the estimates have
been made for building this road and
something would have been done long
before this but for the repeated re-
quests OF the dilatory o. V. for further
time to prepare their oft-promised
proposition. The people must now
look to the Hopkinsville & Cadiz
road for relief and the sooner the di-
rectory can get in shape to submit
proposition to the city to take about
$l25,000 worth Of stock the better it
will be for all. Don't wait, gentle
men, but sharpen up your blades and
let's begin at once to cut the grain
ourselves. Hopkinsville is abundant
ly able TO build the greater part of
this line Of forty miles. The, city
with 81, 100000 of property is practi
cally out of debt and her monied men
are fully aroused to the importance of
the work. Everything is ready and
the times are propitious. The iron is
hot and now is the time to strike.