The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1902-03-14
THE NEW DEPOT.

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its wrath against the Herald. Tn
Herald has no quarrel with the Journal
We have not ''impugned the motives
or questioned the honesty" of tn
Journal. We have made no criticism
upon the paper or its management
We have no thought or disposition {.
do so. In fact we are not to be decoyec
into doing so. We started out to dis
cuss the depot proposition, and shall
not change the subject just TO pleas
our neighbor. The writer of the Jour
nails article on THE New Depot" il
an adrolt debater, and an expert al
confusing issues; but the Herald hat
met similar tatics before. and is not
so easily led away from the real ques.
tion at issue. to others of minor i'm
port. and not at all german.
The Journal says:
"We believe the great majority OF
the people of this city earnestly desire
to see passenger station constructed
on the plan proposed. provided it can
be accomplished without too great cost
to the city.
Exactly But the great majority of
the tax paying people believe that the
cost will be too great to the city.
The $40, 900 Tor 80 much thereof as
may be necessary specified in the
proposition, is of itself "too great
cost, - to say nothing of the damage to
abutting property, which the railroad
advocates estimate very low, but which
they are careful not to assume. We
were informed yesterday. by gentle
man who ought to know, that Nash
vile had paid $3.50, 600 for damages to
property occasioned by the building of
the depot in that CITY, anc that other
lawsuits were still pending
'We do not believe anything is to
be accomplished by warfare and strife
with our only railroad" says the
Journal. That depends. If the rail
road is fair in it's treatment and reason
able in its demands, then of course
amity and peace should prevail. But
when the railroad commands the city
to stand and deliver, while they OBJ
struct and tunnel and bridge it's
and reach their long and greedy
fingers deep down into Its already
overdrawn and depleted treasury, then
we think little warfare and strife
are highly proper.
The Journals defense of the present
Board is amusing. Simply that, moth
ing more. Nobody has made any at
tack on the Board, or any member of
it, and the simplest child can under
stand that the Journals writer made
that grandiloquent defense purely for
grand stand play to the
galleries.
Some of the Board are honestly of
opinion that this is good proposition
both for the railroad and the city.
some of them honestly think it good
for the railorad, but bad
me for the city. Honest and intelli
rent taxpayers differ as to the merits
# the proposition. At this interesting
tage of the game, Alderman Bennett
proposes a resolution to submit the
to the tax paying voters OF
he city. That seems to us reasonable,
air and altogether proper We are
orry our neighbor did not touch upon
hat point. If a majority of the tax
ayers favor it, the Herald's 'preju !
ice' should not stand in the way Of |
heir having it, IL they do not favor q
!, the Board g ''liberal policy towards {
should not force it upon L
lem. The Board should not, nolens S
olens, simply because they have the t
over, redeem their campaign pledges {
the expense and against the will of p
majority of their constituents. a
The Herald is perfectly willing fol
lose who have to foot the bill, to de- D
de the question. 1t is up to the q
GARD to say whether they are willing
whether they are afraid to do this "
There has been much hippodroming a
the German prince for the purpose, u
announced from the other side, of Il
the friendship of the two a
ltions. 1t is burlesque diplomacy to
tempt to strengthen the friendship
nations by pageantry. The prince s u
dress at the banquet at the Waldorf Il
'toria was not happy and emphasized Of
gulf wider than the Atlantic that W
parates autocracy from democracy. to
lie German throne hates and fears the
ess and 1t appears from his speech
at journalism could suggest nothing co
his brother but interviews. mines, re-
d explosions, which, however, like TT
rragut, he was determined to brave. hi
could think of no better COMPARE be