The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-03-28
SECOND STREET AND R. R. INFLUENCE.
Difference in Treatment Of Citizens and the Railroad
How Street Gan Be Opened.

cation from DR.. W. T. Ferguson in your
Loot issue in regard to the opening of |
cocond street: without prejudice IN any
nov on either side, for or against the
People or the Illinois Central Railroad
Company, l wish to say that Second
.treet will never be opened.
The Illinois Central railroad has said
that It would never allow it to be open
"A and it will never be done. Though
ivory sensible man in this town may
Lrow and believe that it is to the best
;rterest of every citizen, to those on
Second street, to the railroad itself
and to the vast body of our citizens,
living eastward Of Bogue creek who of
necessity have to come to town, yet
will it not be opened because the rail-
road does not want it opened and will
not have it opened.
# makes no difference that death
tran is kept open on Third strees,
where one of our yeung men recently
came near losing his life; it makes no
difference that this street, from end to
end from side to side, belongs to all the
neople of this town; it makes no differ
snce that the property on Second street
ia depreciated from one-fourth to one
half of its value by the continued, will
full, open and defiant possession OF Sec
ond street by the /, c. railroad COM
nany il makes no difference that other
nriyate citizens have been compelled to
even move houses, fences, barns and
other things which they had in the
streets. it does not matter that these
citizens had no mercy shown them but
have been made to clear the street.
vet will the railroad not give
nm the street which it has
peremptorily closed and Kept clos
ed against the order of our
hoard of aldermen, against the order
Of the chancellor of the district in court
given, against the order of our su-
ureme court, solemniy handed down.
vet will this giaht corporation not give
up Second street, and the reason is
plain. / will show it later on.
BY what right does the l. c. R. R,
Co. occupy Second street. the nearest.
best, direct and easiest way eastward
from the public square in Grenada
By what right is this done?
Would any other citizen OF this city
be allowed to defy the order of the
board of aldermen, would any othel
citizen be allowed to defy the decision
of the chancellor of the district? Would
any other citizen be allowed to defy tn
decision of our supreme court?
/ dare say that there is no man IL
town with possible of exception o.
one) who would thus be allowed Il
damage his neighbor; hold out publl'
property, shut up a:public street in thi
city, to the damage OF every residen
on the street and to the Inconvenience
of something near five thousand peopl'
inside the corporate limits,
Wherefore then, and why, is the llli
nois Central railroad allowed thus .
brutally, viciously and corruptly hol
out property, one Of the most promi
nent streets in the city?
There cannot be found in the Who'll
city Of Grenada ten men, not under tn
influence of the /. C. r. R. or some
its tirelings, who do not want th'
street opened, who do not want to Sc
this heartless corporation obey the law
of the land, even as the humblest
our citizens has to do. Yet the stree
is closed, property owners complain
their loss, but nothing is done.
The reason Of all this is very simple
The Illinois Central railroad compan
is more powerful in..the city Of Grenada
in the county Of Grenada, in the stat
of Mississippi. than any citizen or ar
combination Of citizens, and when
says it will not give up the people
property it knows that when it COM
to final test it will have servants in Il
proper position to prevent the Will
the people from being carried out
The public has0 no one to look art
its affairs, no one to protect its libertie
no one to see that the encroacher
driven back from public rights. .
Very true, it has public officials. b'
these corporations start away pae
before the Individual citizen is AVA
and it sees to it that honest men, m
in whom you, l, all Of US have perfe
confidence, are deceived into what :
railroad wants: thesemen are periec'
honest; how they came to their .. :,
CONCLUSION they do not know. the ~.
serpsnt worked into their mind she
stillsd poison and not one would real,
that his own judgment had been
fiusnced. yet It has been done :
vhen The tast comes, this man, just