Year: 1859

tested by the record at Brownsville, and that White River township has never crowded her citizens into the County Cour and squandered the public funds. and iher attempted to tax the people to make up de ficiencies. Des Arc has never pledged a dollar towards any enterprise that she was not able to pay, while Brownsville is | pledged to aid the Memphis and Little Rock Railroad Company in flchirg from the people of Prairie county Sl00,000 ol S200, 900 to aid in erecting a Railroad over a route, of which, Jous ROBERTSON the President in his Annual Report, date, February, 1858, spoke as follows:

 ' The line as adopted was hastily consd | cred, and without thorough survey and inves tigation of the surrounding country. so as tt secure the most eligible location. Much dis satisfaction exists, particularly in Prairie County, in consequence of it's present location and the people refuse to subscribe stock, unles. we are permitted to change it. On the present route the subscriptions amount to almost mo- thing, whereas we are promised from fifty to

 

 VIII build the Road on or near the air line. My object is to secure the best route and the greatest amount of stock"

 Put that in your pipe and smoke it Mir. editor of the Echo, and then blush for yourself and those with whom you asso. ciate, in this unhallowed attempt to op- press your fellow citizens.

 But we are not so silly as to imagine that a railroad to be a blessing and to merit public favor or challenge public aid must needs pass through Des Arc We have lived quite long enough to learn that railroads can be built without touclohg the city of Des Arc.

 Just so, in your estimation, no doubt By the aid of "outside pressure" upon the late Legislature. Little Rock, Mem. phis and Brownsville influence succeeded in defeating the Des Arc, Dardanelle and Fort Smith Railroad bill, and this chuck. ling of the Echo now is the consequence thereof But beware sir. There is a future, and we doubt if ever the State oI Arkansas will again be GU, sed with se, of men in her legislative halls who will legisla,e for the benefit of capitalists at the expense of her own people. A rail- road will be built from Des Arc westward, and then, and not till then, will Arkansas build up upon her own soil commercial emporium. It is not recorded that Rail- road can be built from Devalrs Bluff to Little Rock. The road may De buiH-bu, can 1t De sustained 1? We have lived long enough to know that the building of a railroad through, or near, such town as Brownsville, almost invariably reduces it's business to single grog shop and jack leg lawyer.

 The Echo concludes its remarks by ad. hitting that there is little doubt but that the people will be again called on 10 pass judgment upon the question of railroad tax. The people have already marked Hose in fapor of ii once, and we are well assured they will repeat the dose by marking Them again in the other ear.

 The editor of the Echo may cry TAX THE PEOPLE! TAX THE PEopLE!!" but he will expand his lungs in vain, and learn lesson long to be remembered, that " to tax the many for the benefit of the few, is an outrage that no people in a free country will submit to-" "Cease Vipers-you bite file" |" Out of your own mouths are you condemned"