The Democratic advocate., 1869-07-01
Railroad AfIairs-wostern Maryland.

We last week noticed the fact that the bill
aiding the Virginia Valley Railroad, to The
extent Of million Of dollars, had passed the
First Branch Of the City Council. Since
then 1t has been approved by the Second
Branch, and with Mayor Banks signature
becomes a law, depending only upon appro.
batory acts Of the Legislature, certain, al
most, to be had when that body assemblies.
There was great unanimity in tho Council
regarding this measure. II is also popular
with the people.
Nothing has ben done to interfere with
the ordinance in aid of the Pitisburg and
connellsville Railroad, nor is there any dis.
position to do so, though the law ia aid
thereof. as il stands, is known to be more
vulnerable and inimicnl TO Mr.. George NJ.
Gill 5 special clause in the State Consiitu.
tion than is that recently enacted iavoring
the Western Maryland. This is also pop.
ular measure with the people, and for the
good Il promises, they do not wish to see il
disturbed or thwarted.
No farther steps have been taken by the
smda jin,io--lhe few old logies and fossils.
and turtles, once in a while venturing from
their shells-who held the renowned torn
meeting Of thirty three, some time ago, in
the Law Buildings, which was reported
unanimous, nearly oae.hdtf present, how
ever, being didBietricaHy opposed to its
spirit and action. 1t is said they design
yet doing something, but what, is not exact,
ly ascertaineda
Now we may as well speak plainly, under,
standingly, TO these mjuRcti0niSis, and tell
them they are treading upon dangerous
ground, if, by any act of theirs, direct or
remote, so popular an enterprise as the
Western Maryland Railroad Is thwarted and
lis completion to Williamsport prevented.
The peoplc-the masses, who are to be
benefited by the opening Of this road, viii.
ling as they have been that even more dis
tant works Of a similar character should
receive aid, will not rest easy, nor forget
the indiCidaniS who, in any form whatever,
whether under pretonce Of constitutional
scrupies or otherwise oDiciousiy and uHSoii.
cited, mterpose Themselves in the way, and
to the injury Of, Maryland's iavorite home
irork-the Western Maryland Railroad
Mr.. George NJ. Gill, who has been so un
necessarily o6icioHS in this matter, trying TO
throw barriers in the way Of The people do
mestic, Internal rdiilcdy improvement, will,
If he persists, discover, when too late, there
is power behind the throne, no. only
greater than he and his feio codtljuiors, bu,
that will set him and them aside, branded
as enemies aud osiracised stumbling blocks
in the progressive pathway Of energy and
enterprize so necessary to our commercial
advancement.
1t is proper, and we say il for their own
good, that men so far behind the age, un.
dertaking to stop the progress of this actire,
absolute, iiping enterprise, Of the hour, called
for by the hard.working industrial masses
and the whole business community, will see
themselves, If they persist, still farther in
the rear than they ever yet have been. We
speak plainly, tru,hfully, and utter what
we know to be a mirerSal sentiment.
The determination is with ninety.pinc
hundredths Of the citizens Of Baltimore and
Of Western Maryland, that this road must
and shall be iinished-that those who on.
pose it must and shall, and willbe triumphed
over. Better, therefore, that they take
warning in time. We know the feeling we
foreshadow, and speak strongly.
1t would be unfair to an extreme, If dis.
tdnt, outside roads like the Virginia Valley,
and Pittsburg and ConasIkyille, should he
fostered and aided by Baltimore, aud her
own purely local icork, in which her people
have so direct an intgest, be allowed to
perish. We say agaIe,his will not be per
miIted. .-BdH. Saturday Night.