The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1869-08-25
Appropriations for the West, and Consol-
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We have again to 60 after small game.
The New Berpe Times, heretofore idiotic,
now shows itself o confirmed lunatic 1t
takes back what it has before said, and then
says it over again. It is clearly in very
befogged state of mind I.f.-.Ts..
Its owners, or controllers, we're sure that
consolidation would succeed. They there
fore specialized in real estate. Consolidation
failed The real estate has not made their
fortunes. Therefore the spectators are in
dignant. t. ..-
At whom2 a
At the STANDARD, and also, at Gov. HoL-
DEN. 1t charges us with being hostile to
consolidation. What reason has it to make
such charge? None at ALL ..1
The STANDARD has necer opposed corsol-
idation. The Times does not know to-day
whether the STANDARD is in favor of or op-
posed to consolidation. The STANDARD
has never expressed itself upon the subject.
We thought it to be a matter for the
stockholders of the two roads to decide.
The stockholders of the North Carolina
Railroad refused the proposed consolidation.
Is the STANDARD to be blamed for decis-
ion in which it had no voice?
The idea is absurd. 'i-'.
Some days ago the Times declared that it
had commenced war sin favor of the East
against the Northern, Middle and Western
sections of the State" 1t now sees that it
has gone too far, and endeavors to back out
of the unpleasant position in which it finds
itself. It. says:
Are we antagonistic to the West when we ask
for the East public measure which it will not
cost the West an effortto grant We are not;
every facility which the West demands to bring
their products to the ocean, which are Just and
right, we are in favor of granting, but when the
engines constructed for their benefit are turned
against us by few men to whom the "robbers
of Erie stock" are mere children, we protest, and
that too in the name of Republicanism.
How about the war, the Times an
nounced that it had commenced?
How about its declaration that " the West
demands millions more that its soil is
worth ~ l.a.
Has the Times forgotten those statements
We have not, if it has, and we are much
mistaken if the West forgets them either.
What "engines constructed for the ben
eft" of the West are turned against the
East, New Berne, or the Times Officer Is
the Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford
road an "engine" to injure the East? We
do not see how such is to be the case. 1t is
work which will benefit the East in the
same ratio that it benefits the West. 8
Or is it the Western North Carolina road
that the Times means If so, it is again
wrong. That road will do more to benefit
North Carolina than all others in the State
put together. 1t will be the connecting
link which win make an unbroken chain of
railroad IRON the Pacific to the Atlantic.
1t will turn the vast trade of Of the Pacific
Railroad through North Carolina, and there
will not be city or hamlet in. the State
which will not be benefited by it. % =,
These two roads are the monopoliesn
against which the Times "protests in the
name of Republicanisml" 1t LOOKS much
more as if the protest were dictated by real
estate on Bay River. '- '7-.a' i--' In
The public measure" for which the
Times asks is, of course, consolidation.
How is the West, or any other portion of
North Carolina, to force consolidation We
are aware that the people of New Berne
wish the two roads to be consolidated. We
do not blame them for SO wishing, and have
done nothing to oppose their desires. But
how is the West to = g granr'' what the Times
50 presumptuously demands ! We p
The stockholders Of the North Carolina
road have declared that they do not wish
consolidation. Does the Times propose to
force them into measure they dislike? Does
it wish to chain to them what they believe
to bea burden2 Does it wish the State to
disregard the cested rights Of the stockhold-
ers o. the North Carolina roada 1t cannot
be done. 'e'' ~
1fthe stockholders of the N. c. Railroad
are willing for consolidation, the roads will
be consolidated. If they are opposed to it.
no power on earth has the right to force
them into it, They were granted certain
rights BY the terms of their charter, and the
charter cannot be altered save at their re-
quest. ..s ~.
Therefore it is to them that the Times
must look, not to the STANDARD. pa
If the Times thinks to gain its point by
bullying and bragadocio, it will find Itself
mistaken. Its roarings are failures, and it,
attempt to play the lion hut still NOR,
strongly proves it to be an ass. ~
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