The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-01-16
The QUESTION OF TARIFF ON THE
CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD.

"Dutch Flat Swindls a. streruousl,
as anybody. Per contra, We lauded tn
Placervills Railroad Enterprise as vehe
mently as we knew how. With th'
existence of like circumstances to thos,
which existed in those days of stag
travel and "Great Expectations, w
should be likely to do the same thing
again. But, as our Reverend friend
Dr.. Mason observed when Stewart was
elected, "the BOSSES eyes is sot the
P.acerville Railroad is one Of the dead
gloriss of a passed season of local hope
fitness, while the Dutch Flat Swim
die" has passed beyond the pent up
Utica of the "German Level" and
towers triumphant over the stormy
Sierras and glides majestically around
the PERCEPTIONS margin Of Bonner Lake
and stretches out its iron arms we'll on
toward the City of the Saints. The
"Swindls that we were wont to ride
and derids has risen to the majesty Of
one of the comple,est triumphs of energy
that modern man knows anything of.
That great triumph forces US to admit
that what got popularity called a
" Swindle" was "on the contrary,
quite the reverse" Moreover, the
thing that we fought has got very much
the best Of US and we don't propose to
initiate the example of our deluded
Southern brethren and doggedly swear
that the struggle through which We
have passed has wrought no changes in
existing affairs. Time was when we
fought as hard as the best to make sure
that no man went to the Legislature or
to Congress who was not in favor Of the
Piaeerville Road. But the latter is q
"lost cause lost past a II redemption,
~ fear and because what we battled
for is gone down we are not mule headed
enough to curse the inevitable and
throw petty obstacles in the way of
" INV " o ShuuOb PAC'Sa'y ohA MIN VIC
now wish to proceed to completion.
Now it is not to be denied that the
Central Pacific Railroad has accom-
plished its marvels of labor and con-
struc,ion without any aid from those of
US who used to fight so hard for its
Plscervill. competitor. We think Ne
vada did wisely in refusing to aid. by
the issuance of Its bonds, the constitute
ton of that road. We were too poor to
make such an investment, and we were
commercially prudent in declining to I
venture it. But let US not give false
coloring to our well conceived economy
by putting anything in the way of the .
work which we declined to assist With
Popular opinion has it that the
Central Pacific Company is mon T
strously rich corporation-and we reck- q
On that opinion is correct. But if the A
interoceanic highway is to be built by
private hands, those hands must mo- 81
,nly be we'll supplied with means, but u
hey should be allowed some latitude
a the manner of their operations. We a.
I'VE it to the wisdom of Republican
Congress that the Pacific Railway is 30 g
rear completion as tits let US leave the
equations necessary to the prosecution
# that work to those who fostered it to
nd gave it the sinews of enterprise. Il
We sho, Id be glad to see the rates of
assage and freight upon the only rail- "N
Dad that connects Nevada with the tn
utside world fixed at figure that on
vould accommodate all classes of the
onmuni'y. But we don't relish the ~
otion of taking advantage ola mans
r a corporations necessities. Work
len who "strike" just because they
nov that their employer is obliged to 10
ire them in order to meet an emergen. ha
=, perform a very selfish and a very on
pc
old blooded act and it il just as mean
n such as are able to do it to take ad-
ansage of a workman's dependence to an
1t down his wages. Whatever Of prin- of
pie is implied in this is applicable to ~. SUI
e case under confederation for W.
,uestly think that i, would be nothing