Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1869-12-02

THURSDAY MORNING, December 2, 1900.
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article. which we give h"low. coming rs
it does from % popular nd il fn"ntial an
organ of public opinion as T." Washing
ton Star, is significant. we think, q -
earnest purpose On the part Of Washing
ton CITY 10 aid our railroad enterprise in
tangible and telling way. The endorse
ment By the Corporation Of Washington
Of the. bonds of our supPosing
that it SHAH become necefsarY to issue
bonds for the completion of the road
you'll Tiff orr great undertaking By sin
gle effort from whatever of doubt may
now exist as TO its succcs7 into tne do
main Of absolute ccrtainty-would make
assurance doubly SURE" If, as the Star
states, Washington "can better afford to
endorse the bonds Of railroad company
for a million Of daIiars than to subscribe
to the stock for three hundred thousand, J"
vhy, give us the endorsement, If we shall
med and ask it. and forcco the subscription.
Either mode Of assistance would be &C
ceptable and either would make the road
affixed fact" ifa "fxed fact" it is not al
ready. We thank the Star, heartily, for
the strong word sensonable spoken in be-
Eaif Of our road and we shall join hands
with it in the endeavor to keep public
SaI ha
work shall have been blocked out and full
y entered upon"
TuK Pnrxr LnoKoCT r RI Iere 10
Reqtq,-TLe peenle Of Washington are
quite unanimous in tecir purpose to have
an improved RAILWAY system, and norhing
saems wanting hnt the ability To decide
upon SONS plan Of operations. This de-
rision once mnde, it viii be easy to con-
cen,rate all effort upon tie particular
roads to he built NnnifestIv we can DO
nothing to force the CONSTRUCTION ofthe PIT.
of Rocks road, or tho Baltimore and Po-
tomac road faster than it suits the purpo-
sea of the managers to let tie work 20 on.
These two comnanies seem To be playing
n game OF rival interests which may re-
suit in nffording Washington competing
roads, or mnv end in n compromise by
which we shall remnin Gas we were" in
regard to railroad facilities. But how
ever the little game may end between the
Northern Central and the Baltimore and
Ohio players, Washington can only look
on rs passive spectators Quite certainly
our work must be in the opposite dircc
ton from their play What aid we give
must be to the enterprises struggling for
existence, and whose interests are iienti
cal with ours. It is not necessary 10 say
at this late day that the construction Of
the additional roads proposed means cheap
living aud plenty of work for the poor,
because by chcapening living, manufac-
turing enterprise Will be developed and
enabled to compete With other cities; or
that it means large advantages to the pro-
perty-holdcrs by increasing the value of
their ground, and immensely enlarging
the amount of business done here, there
bx returning to them tenfold the amount
Of taxes they may have to pay to help the
Immediate construction of the roads.
Now what roads shall we help, and how
shall that help be extended ? We have
> the roads south already in epertion. The
,I.oudon and Hampshire road is being
built. The Point of Rocks road and Bal
timorc and Potomac road, as above men,
toned, are also in such progress of con-
struction ns the magnatcs controlling them
choose. The Southern Maryland road
enterprise is gaining strength and friends.
II all these roads were constructed we
should have very satisfactory system Of
roads.
The duty, then, Of Washington is to
help the two national roadside London
and Hampshire. sending its main stem to
the Ohio, and bringing in the wealth Of
tho West, together with the coal of the
Alleghanies the Point Lookout and
Southern Maryland road. connecting by
fast steamers with Norfolk and the sea-
board cities, and bringing the early veg
etables of the South and the luIuries of
The By, TO be distributed from here
North, East and West and in return
carving the supcrabundance Of coal, that
must come here, 10 the deep waters ofthe
Potomac below the freezing point 1t vii!
be seen shat the construction of these two
roads. connecting in Washington city.
will afford dir. ct communication between
the Ohio river and the coal mines, with
the Chesapeake at point navlgable all
the var.
Bv tie time these roads are completed
we may be sure that the growing restlve-
ness of the people Of Maryland, under Mr..
CARROTS railroad rule, viii have shown
itself in y way to compel the construction
Of the Point Of Rocks road; and when
ths Point of Rocks road is built the Bal
timoro and Potomac road will be built
All the signs indicate that the Maryland
Legislatures of the future will grant char
tiers to any bona fde companies seeking
70 make new roads in the State, and the
companies having charters will be compel
led either to build or to allow others to
do -.
How shall the city aid these roads
the I.oudon and Hampshire, aud the
Southern Maryland! There are. two
ways. one by subscription to ths stock,
the other by endorsement Of the bouds.-
Now the first requires heavy tax at once
upon the taxpayers to raise the money to
nav fer the stock; and then should the
neeessi,ios of the roads compel them ~
;ssue bonds which are q lien on the stock.
tho city's stock interest may De lost. bat
bx endorsing bonds the city itself holds a