Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1875 — The Kankakee Swamps. [ARTICLE]

The Kankakee Swamps.

* The bill introduced into the ture on Tuesday by Senator Rhodes, looks very much as if the Kankakee draining swindle was about to be revived. The bill goes considerably* into details and in many respects is very suggestive of an attempt to breathe new life into that very mean project. When it is well known that more than nine-tenths of the people effected by it, are very decidedly opposed to the scheme, it ought to be the best reason in the worlid why the members of the legislature should cease listening to the wiles of the adventurers and speculators in this job, for job it was, and would be again, if reinvested with the life and respectability a new act of the would give it, —Indiana farmer.