The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-04-08

place in the Government. Hold ont
this inducement judiCiously, and those
who control public opinion in the
Southern States will bring about re-
yolution there before the end Of Grants
term.
1t is in this aspect of the case that we
regard the appointment of Longstreet
to be Collector of Customs at Now Or
leans, as judlcious act. It is not one
that would bear frequent repetition
just yet; but it looks to the addition to
the Government party in the South of
some good material, without the coop.
Grafton of which reconstruction is in
complete and problematical.
Something More r. About +: the B. d o.
To tho Editors of the Intelligence:
In the National Telegraph oflast week
Is an article on the Is. & o. L. r., laud-
atory of and saying many fine and
| tlattering things in reference to that
road, which shall not now pretend to
gaiusay or controvert to any great ex-
| tont, but content myself with few
comments on said article, showing that
this very subject has, like many others,
two sides, one of which Is of vast i'm
portance to the tax paying people of
| this State. The article IN reference
SAYS, "Nothing can surpass the enter
prise OF said company" With whose
money, ask, to u considerable extent,
has this great enterprise been exhibited?
Why most assuredly the tax payers of
West Virginia. Again, Everything is
done on a grand SCALE" Well it may
be when the tax payers of this State
nav tens and tens ofthousands of dollars
| IL Jtyhi Gai6 nnDhk tn
pay. And farther, "the road is the life
and soul of commerce." Some who
have done business over this road think
it Il body without soul; and once
more, ''our people find ready market
over this road.'' Yes, indeed, by pay
cinnatians. And finally, lit is also lib
eral in its accommodations to religious
associations and Others" Who, think
you, is green enough not to see through
this tlimsy transparency which is a
part and parcel of the programme In the
present state of things? Half fair tick
, cts on such occasions is but sand thrown
in the peoples eyes-free tickets 10
members of the Legislature who are
: sent to protect the rights and interests
of the people-but who must shame
fully barter them off for their own self
isL accommodation and interest. Yes,
thousands upon thousands realized
from railroads and then wrung from
the tax paying people and that too with
these law makers connivance and con
sent. A certain amount of revenue has
to be raised, and if one party fail in
their quota the others have to make it
up. And further I regret to say that
newspaper editors have been bought up
like sheep in the shambles and for
mere pittance have proved dumb dogs
on the watch towers of the people. 90
| not say that any editor in our county
would be guilty of any such unfaithful-
ness in lending their aid in Fleeing the
the people in this way; but we all
know that there are those who would
| puff and endorse the devil, and swear
he was an angel OF light, II by SO dong
they could pocket five dollars or get
| free ticket to Baltimore or Washing
ton. 1 don't care n fig how many free
| tickets man has or how much he
rides over the roads (for it is little or
no less to roads), so that he has the
iron will and inReri6ic integrity to do
just and right, and stand by the rights
and interests OF the people.
Mr.. Editor. Ivy the above remarks
| do not wish to be considered an enemy
to railroads. and especially to the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad, for am not.
fully appreciate all their advantages
land they are mAny) TO our State, and
/ give them credit for every benefit
accruing. But still 1 regard railroad
| companies as L would others who have
factories, rolling mills, foundrys, farms,
merchandise, &C., and that they should
promptly pay, and equally pro rata
with others, all taxes justly assessed
against them, which the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad has failed to do-never
having paid one dime, and is now sew
eraI years in arrears with her taxes.
1t is we'll, perhaps, sometimes, whilst
landing and extoling strong, powerful
and mighty monopOlies, TO turn for
moment sympathetically to ones poor
down-trodden neighbours, who are
being ground to powder between the
upper heather milestone OF the heart
less worshipers of mammon. Whilst
we have been clamoring over "pay-
ing tithes in mint and cummin, we
have omitted the weightier matters OF
the law" In other words we have,
whilst distressing ourselves about the
| fifteenth amendments; tenure-of-oflice
law; money at interest; State Capital;
gold and silver mining, &C., lost sight
of subject which interests our pockets
for all time to come, and OF more im-
portance than all these subjects COM
bined.
will not trouble you further at
present, Messrs. Editors, on this SUBJ
ject, although it is hydra headed, and
requires to uncover its many deformi-
ties-the watchful eye of an
e ARGUS.
Harrison County. ". va, April 3.