New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-31


it is understood that u majority of the iniuen
tial men in the State have been enlisted as
defenders OF this Company. 1t seems as if
they had also secured partisans on the bench,
and it is certain that they have retained the
best legal talent. At one time, only two law
yers were found at the capital who loved
good name more than the money OF the Cam
den and AmbOy Railroad. So long ago as 1913,
Henry {. Carey wrote series of anonymous
letters in The burlington Gazette, making
these and other charges, for which the Com
pany threatened prosecution for libel but,
when his name was announced, and an
investigation was about to take place, the
whole matter was hushed up. Generally,
the newspapers of the State have not dared to
express other than favorable opinions Of this
Company; and, if any ventured to be out
spoken, q change of sentiment, for some mys-
terious reason, was sure to follow. 1t is hardly
possible for any people to reach depth OF
degradation lower than this.
In one instance, however, when the State un-
dertOok to tax the New York and Erie Railroad,
which runs through fragment of New-Jersey
Camden and AmbOy fashion, it did not succeed;
for, the case being carried up to the Court OF
Errors, the Judge, being new man and having
regard for the dignity of the bench, decided
that "the State had no power to pass a law
interfering WITH taxing, or in any way bur
"dening, Interstate commerce." III this de-
cision does not equally apply to the Camden
and Amboy, there is no longer such thing as
logic.
The most painful impression which one re-
l,rio
hands of this powerful Corporation, the State
and Legislature of NewJersey are powerless-
in other words, it is incapable OF giving to Its
people republican form of government"
and, at the same time is unable to fulfill its
duties to the rest Of the States of the Union.
The power Of this Corporation consists In a
capital of over $3O,O0O,GOO invested in the fol-
lowing property: Both tracks of the Camden
and Amboy Railroad, the NewJersey Trans
portation Company from jersey City to New
Brunswick, nearly all the West and South
jersey Railroads, the Trenton and Phla-
delphia Railroad, the Belvidere Railroad,
n largo number of Country railroads, the
| Delaware and Raritan Canal, the Kings
ton and Princeton Turnpike, the straight
turnpike from Trenton to New-Brunswick,
also, we THINK, continuing HIciCSO III
the Morris and Essex Railroad, nearly all
the wharves and wharf property at Borden
town, all the water front at AmbOy, the Del
aware Bridge, most of the main front at Tren-
ton. and large ferry and other property in
New-York and jersey City and yet it is only
n sccond-class road. Starting from New-York,
the commercial emporium, and being the only
route to the capital Of our proud country,
"a country we call free-the cars are
often disgrace, and the accommodations
for passengers are utterly insufficient.
Unless Congress come to the rescue, and assert
the right of untaxed transit through the
various States, this monopoly will be foisted
upon us again after 1869, when the route to
Washington, for an indefinite period, will be
confined to a single line The monopoly arising
from n single railroad line always will stltie
growth at its terminus. Boston lost the ocean
steamers because she had only one road Of
communication with the great West. Unless
there be unrestricted transit from New-Iork
and the great Northeast to Washington and
the South, new avenues will certainly be opened
from the West, which will powerfully con-
tribute to the establishment OF manufacturing
and distributing points; and then the supremacy
of the seaboard cities will pass away.
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