The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-03-06

l ohO 90 % WIN RCHSdtiVu iOt JuClI lIiC duO
services. Tin addition to the above ad
vance, five per cent, on the amount 0
duty remitted, or which may be saved tt
such company on railroad iron hereto
fore imported by it, or which it may i'm
port or contract for prior to July lst
1856, by the passage Of laws repeating
remitting or suspending for limited
time the duty on such iron."
This circular was signed s. F. Vinton
formerly member OF Congress from o.
hio, and now a resident of Washington
city; Noah S. Wilson, John Striker, G.
eastman. formerly member of Congress
from Massachusetts, and A. H. Poor
These gentlemen were the committee to
get the bill through. The duty paid on
railroad iron amounts to between three
and four millions of dollars year
Hence if the bill had passed, they would
have received some 100000 year
while it was in operation. The resolu-
tion. however passed by the Ohio Senate
is much more radical proposition than
the one advanced in the circular quoted.
The Ohio Senate resolution goes for re-
funding all the duties which have been
paid into the National Treasury for rail-
road iron since 1850-sIx YEARS! and 10
ignore the duty for two years to come, in
volving an amount of more than twenty
millions of dollars, and all for the exclu-
<ive and entire benefit of holders OF Rail
road Stocks, Bonds, Wall street specula
tors, and the army Of lobbyers, in the
perlieus of Washington.
We know that under the circular ad-
dressed to the various railroad compa-
MES, which we have quoted abov,, that
d utfcent number of the came into the
arrangement TO make total of three hun
dred thousand dollars-that fifty thou
>and dollars in cash was raised TO buy the
bill through Congress, and it would have
been bous sht through had it not b, ,en for
he great length of time consumed in the
Kansas Nebraska bill, the Pacific Rail
road scheme, and the Collins line. The
presen scheme, however, inaugurated in
the Ohio Senate. is far in advance OF the
original conception IN plunder magnifi
ccnce. Ii s proposition to bring the
cons bined corporate railroad interest of
,he whole Union to subsidize Congress
and rrupt the Legislation of the nation,
and TO make the people pay the price OF
their own disgrace. The money is not to
come out Of the pockets of the corpora
lions, and the Wall street and English
stock and bond holders, hut Out of the
public Treasury, the strong box of the
nation. At least twenty Millions of dol
lars are to be voted out of the National
Treasury, and placed in the pockets ofthe
owners of Railroads. Now these gentle
men could very we'll afford to pay liber-
ally tocarry su b a bill through. Cham
paigne suppers, free tickets and stock
certificates could be very literally used to
gain votes, and prick the sides of Con-
gresslonal interest. tits no wonder that
when such schemes of magnificent pubic
robbery are ON foot, that members of
Congress like Matteson, of the Oneida
( N. u district, can afford to pay fifteen
or twenty thousand dollars to be elected
a membrr Of Congress. The investment
is regarded as good one, paying in
vestment. The spolia opimo, the plum
der of a nation is the stake, and who
wins must play boldly for it, though
False face must hide what the false heart doth
know"
We have spoken warmly upon this SUBJ
ject because we feel it warmly. We
have ever been the friend of public inn
provement snd Of railroad enterprise
We have defended, and are ready to de-
tend the policy of corporate or consolida-
ted wealth TO accomplish great public
end. We know that great public ad-
vantages have arisen from them but we
shall never, and we never have closed
our eyes to the evils which may arise
from such consultations or combinations
when they use their power to effect a
wrong, and we should be false to our du-
ty as a public journalist were we to with
hold words OF condemnati where
wrongs, such as we have named, stare US
in the face and confront us in our path.
We have much that we could say on this
topic, and we shall yet say it, Our pur-
pose now is to call the attention of the
popular branch OF the Ohio Legislature,
and OF the people, to The subject that they
may not fall into the same mistake which
the Senate. has fallen into, and make our
delegation in Congress . mere dead body
10 be dragged at the chariot wheels of a
rotten, souIless New York monied de pot
ism.
Garden Fruit Trees.
AS soon as the season opens, treat these
to dressing of a compost of four par,s