Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1875 — “OUT OF THE WILDERNESS." [ARTICLE]

“OUT OF THE WILDERNESS."

[Rensselaer Union, j All the railroad news we have to - publibs this week is, that people who earnestly desire die prosperity of Rensselaer are fully alive to the importance of the Chicago ft South Atlantic project, and manifest a spirit of liberality and enterprise in connection with their work to establish and put the scheme on its feet for which they have long been famous. WebeKeve it is now safe to say the fall amount of subecriptkms required of the people to Wing the road to Rensselaer can and will be raised, and in season for the company to go on shh its w;q*k through the county without interruption after it has been commenced. Every dollar of the $60,000 new pledged on subscription is sure to be paid when the conditions are complied with. Every note is good There is not a “straw” among them. The people who give these notes are in e rnest and acting in good faith. Whenever the company is ready, now, she eao proceed with Work; and if a train of cars shall run over her road from Chicago, Illinois, into a depot within one-half a mile of the court house in Rensselaer on or before the first day of January, 1876, she may send her agent along to get that $75,000 as soon thereafter as she pleases, and it will be paid over promptly and cheerfully. No lees than four times before this within twenty years have the people here raised subsidies for railroad projects and been disappointed. If many were not discouraged by these repeated failures it would indeed be a remarkable incident, especially so when they have spent money, time and labor on the projects, all to their own loss, but wo hope, yes almost to actual belief, that this campaign is the one that will bring us all out of the wilderness, and set this beautiful and naturally favored county of ours on the broad highway of prosperity. Then let every man and woman do each what they can to hasten the enterprise forward, and remember that by the exercise of energy, an indomitable will, and unfaltering perseverence all obstacles that are met in life may be overcome, and these together with some money will build this railroad, and make a good market town of poor but pretty back-woods Rensselaer. There are fifty-seven Cardinals in all. In the event of the Pope’s death, a twoihirds vote of that body will be required to elect a new man, who must be from among their own number.