Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1883 — “We Don't wantto Vote Money to a Rich Corporation.” [ARTICLE]

“We Don't wantto Vote Money to a Rich Corporation.”

The Kailroad and the Circus together, occupy a large amount of space iu this week,s Republican; but they are big institutions, both, ' and well deserving of extensive, consideration. The lightning fired the new building of the State JJniversity at Bloomington last Thursday, and it burned to the ground. The museum, (containing the Owens collection) and the library of 15,000 vols, were totally destroyed. Tbe loss is $200,000, with $30,000 insurance.

In the first place the corpora* tion which is about to build the Rochester, Rensselaer & St. Louis Railway, is not rich by any manner of means; but rich or poor, they have the power and the disposition to bring a great, through, trunk-line railway to Rensselaer, to our everlasting and inestimable advantage; or to build it within a few miles of Rensselaer, to our everlasting and unmeasurable harm. IVo can vote the few thousands and get the road; or we can refuse the few thousands AND LOSE IT. On the one side is wisdom and self-interest. Onjtlie other, madness and self destruction. For our part we should be in favor of voting $17,000 to a party of pirates if by that means we could, honorably and without injury to others, secure benefits greater than ten times $17,000.