The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1839-03-27

'F''' w" ""Hc fegHfu iof puoIc 0plnloi
= We have looked for some of these r,
RI deeming qualities in :he various Corpors
: t'ons' that have in their keeping the trsv.
y between New York aud The Eastern Stale.
: but have not, Of late, been able to detec
i them IN single act Of generosity-barcI
q oi naked Jusiice-to that class Of people
!. for whose benefit they were supposed to b.
, created.
From the moment the Stohington Raj
Road principally passed into The hand. O
two great Banking insiitutions-forced up.
on them by the failure Of former stockhold.
ers-and the road completed by them, in
hopes, by so doing, to snatch a portion OF
their losses from the flames, il seems ia
nave been discovered by those sasacious e.
nanciers, that, to insure themselves any saw
ing out OF the wreck which had fallen into
their hands. they must coutrive some means
to annlhilaie the outside route, and force
the whole Tide of travel through this, their
unfortunate purchase. Ii this could he ef.
iected, and the bubble kept in motion, nnd
The stock, thereby, become saleable, then
The Two great corporations might sell out,
Mt some price or other, and thus save some.
thing out of what would inevitably be lost,
without an ingenious contriyance TO make
fools part with their money, for moonshiu-.
lhe experiment commenced more than
year ago. The great Banks, whs had
suffered so severely, concluded to throw
good money after bad, for which purpose a
daily line was established by the way of the
ston'nston Rail Rond, supported by the
s~ifiest boats of the Transportation Conpa.
ny, while the outside route was sustained
but feebly, and with the slowest boats-al-
though they had much the longest passages
to make. A daily intercourse wa. kep, up
on the outside route but shor, time durino o
The summer, aud every inducement held out
10 passengers to withhold their patronage
and let the outside route die. that
The inside one might flourish; until a feeling
might be got up to enable the great Banks
10 palm oft their hard bargain upon the less
public The Point Judith route
was by the qu0eks declared to be almost if
not entirely incurable, and lis breath be-
came shorter and shorter, and its heirs hay
ng got most of its patrimony into posses
non, by force, looked with ertreme anriefv
or It's final death, To take the rest by heir
hip
Under those circumstances the Steam ,
Boat John w. Richmond made her apoeor-
nce-thIs was The Doctor who came to the {
I'd of the dying patient. His nostrums
onsisted simply of more exercise aud great :,
r speed; he taught the patient 10 work t.
iore, and spend less; to he reconcIed
'hen he had enough, and not to covet the u
oods of others to be courteous TO his Gus !"
'mers and moderate in his exacrions. =
These ronid be inside heirs TO the out c.
de potrimony found the old man recover. "
g under the care of Doct. Richmond, and X
ok the alarm What pas to be done I"
e public favor and good will seemed t. :,
cline to the Doctor aud his patient; which If
rs still more alarming and aggravatiug to %,
e heirs apparent, ihn any thing else. III
ut ~hdf must be done ?-lhe Doctor, pa o'
mt and all. mus, be put down, suppressed, r.
tirpnted, extinguished, defnnct and done 5,
er; and the weights of three Of the ic
,st powerful corporations in the United IN
ates-two foreign, in State point of so
w, and one domestc-were the bows
dt thought they could do it. n,
They may-but we trust liberal public vi,
II interposc, and crown the Doctors ef- -
Is with success. Can the public be mis-. Sa
Ten as to their own interest, or the view. "e
''S tui
The Monopoly Co. who run no bont on a.,
outside route this spring until lbe Rich
md commenced her trips at the rate of it
the passage; when 10 y boat was pro- "t
red OF speed nearly or quite as great u. Gor
kichmond, to run from the same places, col
The same hour. and to the same places, ca,
H!-and subsequently,, another boat,
Ndssdehusefts, is started upon the same ~. ~.
ne, to run the same day and Of the same ,o,
lie with tie other two-so that the mo-
poly have now two boats opposed to the g
'hnnond, and all three leaving at the same
C besides n boat on the Sionineton :
te.
The consequence Of oil this is ,bs, the ''f
side route is no better off with three boats 81"
n il would be with one (; when, at III. "''
re time, the bosts, they were run on "e
crent days, would keep n daily line OH .''' ~
outside route, without n cent more cx. .'o
sc, and, of course, shout three time. m. '"'