The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-03-16
Champions Cause in Smoking Com.
partnent of Pullman Louis
Vile Memphis Train.
CITED PAST CONDITIONS
AND MADE COMPARISONS
Vehement Denunciation of Falls:
Statements Puts to Route
the Defamers.

There are those who are quick to
defame Cairo probably because oG
envy but there are those also who
are just as quick to champion Cairo
and rXtol the virtues of the cit
and her people-and in this latter
instance they arc frequently
strangers who have no interest in
the city except that occasioned by
admiration.
A demonstration of this was given
the other day on a Louisville -Mein-
ph.s trlin.
IN the smoking compartment of a
Pullman was congregated a party
of gentlemen, nothing unusual eT-
cept for the conversation that fos-
lowed. In this party was a promi-
nent Cairo gentleman. his name ana
residence unknown to his associate
in tho car.
The topic of conversation finally
ycerad after travelling over the field
OF politics, Mexican embroglo, Pan
ANA Canal exemption, until Cairo
became the sole topic, Eyerybody
took q land except the Cairoltc wiz
quietly listened. Cairo was the re
cipcnt Of upper cuts, rib ticklef3
and kidney bruises until gentie,
man, who also had been a keen list
ener, thampioned Cairo and in tis}s
tribute he made a comparison he
tween two cities, Cairo and neigh
bnr uD the river In Kentucky. hA
told Of what he had witnessed IN
Cairo. and in the Kentucky city on
an occasion when a distressing per-
iod confronted both. He told how
the up .the-river fellows laid down
quit entirely with panic stricken dc
meano2s, found fault with them
selves, their neighbors and the city,
county, state and national govern
ments for the catastrophe which en-
quilted them He said that an eh-
tire different condition Of affair 5
prevailed in Cairo. Men were W
and doing fighting day and nigh
with might and main. Every man,
high or low, rich OF poor exhibited
tho militant spirit. Harmony PR
vailed with the result there now
were nNsigns or marks to be found
within Cairo on the walls of hcr
res dent cs the plaster inside, or in .
walls outside of any building left
there is reminders of dreadful
catastruphc-C and her pcopla
won their fight.
This gentleman went on to relate
while with wide open cars everF
body bee anne intent on hearing OF
the heroic battle OF man against the
elements, how when the fight had
been won, Cairo men took up Z
greater fight for future protection
how they sought and obtained na-
tional and state aid, how their owl
interests, railroads, property inter
ests AMI the city pyramided a bi.
pile Of money, the slogan obessin
| every man, woman and child "Sixts
| Foot Levees-0ne Million Dollar
Or Bust andEthey didn't bust bu
| assembled the million dollars. buu
1.-THE sixty foot levee system of steel
concrete and rock ribbed massivt
barrica2es Of selected dirt cmbank
mcnts thus insuring absolute in
prernaality against any futur
flood DaniCs.
This gentleman had hushed t.
knockers and every one volcr
Cairo the best and bravost OF all
| Our Cairo friend, who quietly n
a corner had been an attentive llct
lener, arose and apolosizins askc'
the name Of the defender Of Cair
and was informed that his name va
DR.. w. w. Richmond of Clinton
Ky. lie added that he was presi
. dent Of the Clinton bank.