The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-03-28

just like his official brother, yet would
vote, if he were not an officer, for the
opening of the street; now go back,
take up this very same outsider, put
him in Office and by degrees his views
begin to change, he is honest, he had
simply not thought of it in that light,
etc., ETC., etc. So that the railroad
will ever have just enough, not more,
but just enough to bid defiance to our
ordinance, to our court of chancery, to |
our supreme court, and no one can tell |
how or when it came about but only |
know that they are helpless.
For the true ends of republican, in
fact all government, for the preserva-
tion of our ideal liberty, in order that
each and all, powerful or weak, may be
put on exactly the same plane; it were
better that these law-defying giants
had never come; civilization may have
been much slower; the rush of progress
much retarded, the many conveniences
far from now, but we would have one
and all under the same law; the rail-
road would have no power to shut off
me and you from our public right, to
depreciate our property, to laugh at
our courts and to bring in contempt the
wishes of six or eight thousand people.
realize that man must give up much
personal liberty to gain the present ad-
vanced stage of public progress; COM
plain not of that, the thing complain
of is this, and this do bitterly resent:
that on the same plane with this citi-
zen, the I. C. railroad, in the same
connection and on the same subject,
have been made to give up twenty-five
inches of the public domain which and
every one else thought l owned, while
this railroad, knowing that it does not
and never did own any part of Second
street, and this within the knowledge of
every citizen who, cared to listen
to this case when tried or would put
! himself 10 the trouble Of looking
at the city map. Yet forty-nine
and one-half feet of public domain
is held by this railroad, inconveniencing
eight thousand people. damaging every
| lot or parcel Of ground on Second street,
causing direct loss to every individual
owner of property on the street, and
, yet it's allowed to hold the same while
, am driven to incur nearly one hundred
r dollars in expense in getting off and
, giving up twenty-five inches of public
! domain.
E What is the difference? had no pull
Ipaid my taxes, small but nearly dou
, BILE in proportion to the railroad; why
{ was put out to accommodate the pub
D lie when no one was demanding it.
c while this railroad is left in possession
s of and allowed to completely block {
t whole street over the protest of nine
e tenths of our people? The reason i!
e this, the railroad had its servants on tn,
lookout and at the right place at thu
: right time.
o Our board is composed of sensibl,
body of men and having a clear case o
i Justice, moral right, and one which will
put no hardship on the railroad. certain
e " it is to this board one should appea
e for that justice whichis due all citizens
# The reople will aid the owners of prop
is erty on Second street, every man il
e town is more or less interested in it an
IS certainly the whole eastern section o
# our county would like to get to tn
It square by the nearest and best rout
If and certainly no one man can say truth
fully that this street is not the nearest
E: safest, best and most sensible route
" and from the square over the Bogue.
., Eternal vigilance is the price we mus
be pay for liberty. no man can wait fo
" another to do for him what he should d
it for himself. Those who are for tn
s. opening of Second street outnumbe
es those in favor of giving public domai
ne to the railroad forty to one. In fact,
Of know not single individual who want
to give this street to the railroad.
or have seen several who think that "
=. ought not to put the railroad to the il
is convenience of moving three iron pos
that used to stand near the claim agent
Ut Office, but these parties were eith'
k. railroad people or were tangled up wit
ke the railroad.
en- Eternal vigilance, an earnest appe
,ct to the board Of aldermen, and If tn
he does not succeed then to the cour
.ly again. 1t is a just, right and reaso
vn able request; the owners Of property
ey Second ct. have right, moral and leg
IN right. on their side Of this question al
re though the III. Central railroad is ric
In plenty able to buy its way through. y
IL - A. !. . x,va hovo man af the hel