The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-01-24
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great through route IL is to provide not only that
hese local roads may be made very valuable 10
heir own districts, but that they may be also feed
Yrs TO or form part of a continuous route. II was
- accomplish this that they were allowed TO con-
+ ect. You have this magnificent section of coun-
~, considered agriculturally or in regard 20 its
snineral wealth, opened in this way and by means
q these connections forming part of this great
Where lie the harm in all thisl Yet it is charged
gainst this company as crime that it has picked
Up few local charters and made connections.
,|Wby that is just what the Legislature has been
.ellng the community ever since 1S47 that they
tVanted II TO do we want not few small roads,
cting without cooperation, but wrangling with
ZACH other and cutting each others tbroats, We
|Vant you TO unite, and wherever you touch to
form one contn uous road, and in doing that do two
.hings-develop your local traffic and interests,
md also feed the great seaboard city of Philadel-
bhia on one side, and the great manufacturing city
bf Pittsburg on the other, each on a navigable
river, the teTminous of continuous routes. This is
"a great policy, and IL rather remarkable that we
sdould be called upon here to answer a charge
i4nade directly against us, and indirectly against
The Legislature of Pennsylvnia, for devlslng this
We answer this charge that we have used, and
intend TO use, these local roads where they are
8dapted TO the purpose of connecting, and by con-
hecting form this through route. L cannot imagine
anything more belittling as we'll as absurd, than
hat you are to fly in the face of the settled policy
bf the State begun in 1si7, and steadily pursued
own 70 the present hour their idea being 10 abol-
lsh private roads and form great arteries OF con-
INJECTION throughout the whole commonwealth and
twith other States. j cannot imagine anything
more absurd than to charge this as a sin against
*pany And why do they do IL! Because the COM
planants in the corporation bill fear that their in
berests may be hurt. The great feature of the ar
ument is and it amounts to just this, that the rest
.1Of Pennsylvania must be shut up, hermetcally
sealed, in order that the Pennsylvania Railroad
.may reap better harVests. am not afraid of meet
tng that argument in any place, nor am AFRAID OF
meeting it because the city of philadelphia is "a
Barge stockholder in that company.
do not fear that the city of Philadelphia will
buffer because, by means of this central Pennsyl-
vania route, Intermediate between the Philadel-
Il M on PenngVl
~Railroad the south, she is to have poured into
her lap all the treasures of the great west by
What is the Atlantic and Great Western Rail
Hway7 1t is peculiar in its geographical position.
VT is not east and west road, 1T is not north
land south road; it unites the advantages of both,
tor it is northeastern and southwestern, and,
therefore, you must see at glance that 1t strikes
Nall the roads of the west-seventeen of them, rs
am told and atroads all of them. And 1t is be-
cause the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
#Company wants to bring to Philadelphia, in the
way have shown you, by this great route, all the
trafc of that road ana all the united business of
Those seventeen roads that feed it, carrying 1t out
Ito the Mississippi rver-it is because they want to
do this that the Pennsylvania Railroad comes here
hnto Court and says you shall be prevented from
Entering into this contract
This is the argument and this is the status Of the
"Pennsylvania Railroad. But who made the Penn
sylvania Railroad the keeper of the policy OF the
State of Pennsylvania Who authorized that
companyto set its face against the policy OF bring
ling to the city of Philadelphia all the traffic from
Nthe west, because it is done by means of contin-
nous route, established, as l show you so as to
Mbrlng Immediately ana directly all JnlS great
business to Philadelphia, although without the
Hconsent of the Pennsylvania Railroad! Have
Hthey so zealously contended for the interests of
3Philadelpha as to be entitled TO place them
Eseves to-day here upon pedestal, and from that
eminence dictate what shall be the policy of other
[companies? Have they so carefully Disseminated
in favor of Philadelphia against New York and
other seaboard points in their rates OF freight as
to be the arbters OF THIS pohcyl You VIII
dscriminated, it has been in favor of the
city of New York. You will be surprised as
~xroa hon, Tatrr daxya hat in xytn
lation not only of their alleged policy, but in ylo
lation of the very contract made with the Legisla
ture in 1861, when, by its grace and favor, they
procured the abolition of the tonnage duties, and
- promised that they never would discriminate
&aganst Philadelphia, they had, by their scale OF
Echarges, disseminated against this city. Your
HHonor may well be surprised to learn that at this
livery day they only charge the same through
#treight from points In the west TO Phliadelphia
that they do to New York. though the distance is
*ninety miles greater. In some cases they charge
Hactually less to the city of New York than they
do to the city of Philadelphia. How is it then,
Jealous guardians of the interests of the city of
&Philadephia, that in order to show your zeal for
the city of Philadelphia, you charge as much and
even more for the carriage OF goods to the city of
Philadelphia than you charge for goods from the
same point in the west to the city of New York
They have wilfuly dsregarded the plainest die
tates of what the policy of State was, and the
panest provisions OF direct law as asserted by the
act Of 1861, and yet they pretend to say that the
s. Philadelphia and Reading Railroad has endea-
and have attempted to defect trade from Phladel
+ phia, when we have shown that it is the earnest
desire of this company, in entering upon the con-
tract of the 10th of January, 1866, to make Phia-
&delphia the gaining point by giving 1t the advan.
tage OF its greater proximity TO the great west ana
its trade, vantage which it must ever preserve
i over the city of New York. Mr. Ouyler did ill
when he apostrophized one OF my colleagues, re-
Gently at the head of the government of this city,
who he said, had been untrue to Philadelphia, and
b who, he said, made his appearance for the hrst
time In court of justice, after long professional
Absence in case against the interests OF the city
of Philadelphia.
say, sir, that if that gentleman had earnestly
tried how he could best show his devotion to this
city, he could not have done it in more thorough
and complete way than by standing on this floor
and advocating before this Court the great value
of the contract made between the Philadelphia aud
q Reading, the East Pennsylvania and the Atlantic
T. and Great Western Railway, by which all this
enormous traffic is brought to our doors. Unless
set our faces resolutely against what is offered
by these contracting parties, and say that we
will not otreceve it. his action needs no vindication.
4 That printed contract is more powerful and
eloquent vindieation than can fall from the lips OF
any man.
sue one of two policies. She may either literally
take and freely avail herself of the great advanta
ges offered 10 her by this connecticut she may sit
perfectly still, with her arms folded, waiting for
Il Providence to help her. / would like to know
which course will prove the most profitable She
may take ad vantage of the great privileges award
ed to her by this enterprise, she may sit idle and
Indifferent, with this six feet gauge road
tablished route to New York by way of Salamanca,
running, your Honor knows, from st. Louis to
New York, and lose all the traffic these connecting
roads have offered to her in this way. So much
for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and its
anOrdi position in this place
But what legal right have they to raise their
voice in this case except to say that the
of the contract, make in 1860, between the Phlla-
delphia and Erie (Which is the Pennsylvania Rail
road now) and the Catawissa, ought not to be eX-
tended 70 the Atlantic and Great Western Rail
Wayl They IhaHe no more right to open their
mouths, except upon this question, than the m most
Indifferent person in the community: On that