The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-06-15
RADICAL REsPONsIBILIrY.
Ffom The Philadelphia Norm american

A late number OF the 81. Louis Re
publican has a long editorial trying to
prove that radicalism is responsible'for
commercial dullness. It exonerates
Grant from responsibility, but sails
into 'the radical partisans,' 'manufac-
turing monopolists,' and the accumu-
lated wealth OF companies with as big
a broom as Van Tromp carried at his
main top when he led an angry Dutch
fleet through the British channel. After
specifying a half column of supposi-
tions: If merchants can no longer Gals
culate even on small profits; it distrust
has taken the place of former belief in
mercantile honesty; II we are blessed
with all the amenities of perpetual
crisis'-if all these and other woes eX-
,ist, why then the radical party alone
deserves the credit for 1t. They have
caused a general stagnation in BUSH
ness and enterprise, for winch they
should be held to sharp account
Why said franklin in conclaVe
of savants, why is it that If you place
a bullet in glass already filled to the
brim with water, the water Will not run
over2' a great many profound e1pla-
nations were rendered. until one prac-
teal philosopher made the experiment
and found the water would run over.
In the same way the Republicans
elaborate editorial is destroyed by its
parallel columns. CHANGING from the
indictment Of material stagnation at
tributed to republican management in
the editorial, we find in the same num-
Der of that paper that the receipts of
leading articles at St. Louis the current
year compare with last years. receipts
as follows: Flour, 400, 1872 bbls against
2l7, 1868; wheat, bushels, !, 800 ,O54 against
I,OO4, $50; rye, 94.257 bushels against
IL, COG: barley, 13O.44l against 1IO,376;
hay, 1874 bales against 81 ,l22: pork,
packages. 8S4 TAT against sos. SOS; lard,
l6, 57S bbls against 1857; hemp, 1895
bales against 1925: bacon, lilo pack
ages against 500. The receipts OF grain,
Including flour reduced to wheat, have
been s, 782, 673 bushels since last jan
uary, against 4 ,677 S73 bushels TOR the
same period in 1868; an increase of L.
l04 800 bushels; and, of course, the
radical party alone deserves the credit
for this heArt-rending increase of in
jury.
But really this is not all. The same
paper has long account of the prOpos-
ed extension OF the Kansas Pacific Rail-
road to Colorado. 1t describes cOun-
try to which the promised land report
ed TO Moses was waste: wealth OF
minerals. coal, forests and agricultural
that is inexhaustible; and urges the
immediate extension of the Kansas
road to Denver, and "a just demand tor
add i'll the construction,
Lieutenant Governor e. o. Stannurd.
speaking on tho subject, is reported to
have said:
ave cannot build railroads fast enough,
ncEtu and south, Tor the growing prosperity
aud the commercial wants OF this country,
II is necessary to do everything we can 10
facilitate the railroads north aud south, east
and west, as well as promoting the interests
OF our water communication a much as
possible"
Aud we suppose the radical party
alone deserves the credit for all OF this
additional misery.
Still another exhibit of similar woe
comes to us from the same city of lam
entations and on the same day. It
seems thatMissouri has only 1913 1Imiles
ofrailrOad operated now. This is pain
full, but we aretold that great pro-
portion of this has been recently con-
structed, and that the increase for the
year has been very large. And "there
are 54l miles more so nearly finished
that cars will be running over them be-
fore the present year ends, when the
State will have not less than 1SS9H
miles OF railroad in operation" The
conclusion Is that "when we remember
what Missouri was in the matter of
railroads few years since, it is pecu-
liHrly encouraging to consider what
has been accomplished. But this is
only beginning.
Another ST. Louis journal of the Same
date is our authority for saving that
mills; that they do thriving business,
and being so placed as TO intercept the
of western wool and
southern cotton from the points of pro-
duction to those of manufacture, and
thus to save two freights in returning
manufactured fabrics TO the producer,
they are compelled to increase their
business and prosperity, and already
feel the impulse. 10 be sure Penusyl-
vania has 5l7 such establishments and
New York 1865; but neither of these
States is bringing such bill Of indict-
ment against the government and the
party controlling 1t. Both OF these
states have supported the government
and the party 1t represents, and have
already reaped some of those advanta-
ges that Missouri seems to be gaining
i'll spite OF its statements.
he same paper contains Il report of
the meeting OF the Rockport. Rock Is
land and st. Lawrence Railroad, $50
miles long, and extending the North
Missouri Railroad to Western Iowa,
where the wheat crop last year was
81 ,3lS,0 600 bushels; the corn crop G4,-l
GOO, 600, and the total products $73 ,O0O,
900. Our Louisville exchanges, brought
by the same mail; contain the proceed
inHs of d tobacco convention and the
call OF a commercial convention to be
held in September. The New Orleans
papers are still dwelling on the mag
nitlCent commercial convention lately
adjourned from there, and Memphis
has not done recapitulating the results
OF similar gathering. Both cities are
exhorting haste In pushing railroads
due west to tap the Pacific. kentucky
is clarifying the Cincinnati and Chat
tanOOGa road, and we could fill columns
with like Inuterial-for which, accord
ing to the Republican, 1.-THE radical par
ty alone deserves the credit" We
should not have claimed the whole of
the merit from our own prompting.
The main part of the accomplishment
and all of the animating power we
know TO have been ours. On such au-
thority we accept the whole blame and
credit, and willingly confess or claim
that "the radical party alone deserve
the credit" for this state of affairs.