Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-21
ACROSS 4 RIVER.
How to Defeat Railway. CentraIizatlon-ln
What Consists Memphis Security.

Like States. railway corporations are
rapidlv consolidated. A continuous line
from New York and Philadelphia, dl-
rected by a single head and hand, Is eX-
tended TO st. Louis, Louisville ana caro-
and the Memphis and Charleston road is
only a link IN an unbroken concentration
of roads to great Eastern cities. The
whole system Of American railways con-
verges practically in New York, and is
s~ubOrdinated to the interests of monopo-
lists OF wealth in that imperial city.
Louisville has vainly sought to obstruet
this tendency to the Capitalization OF
trade, and, because b gauge OF roads
north differs from that south Of the Ohio,
it was supposed that a vast trade would be
concentrated at Louisville. Already man
ayers of Eastern lines are devising means
of surrounding difficulties encoun-
tered at Louisville. Cincinnati will
reach Chattanooga and Mobile, while
Jim Fisk and Edgar Thompson
propose 70 bridge the Ohio, that OBJ
structions encountered at Louisville
may be obviated. Memphis has suffered
at the hands OF these railroad conSolida-
tionists. The Memphis and OHIO, in the
hands of President Adams and Gen.
Boyd, one of the best managed roads in
the United States, Is necessarily a feeder
to roads nearer Louisville, and 1t costs
little more to ship a bale of cotton from
Brownsville to Louisville than from
Brownsville, fifty miles, to Memphis.
The same facts pertain to the Memphis
and Charleston road. Through routes
and consolidated lines render the rail-
roads OF the country an unit, subordina-
ted wholly to the commercial interests
of great terminal Eastern cities. As soon
as the Ohio is spanned at Cincinnati by a
railroad bridge directing the way TO Chat
UanoOga, and when Fisk and Edgar
Thomson have passed the Ohio below
Louisville, the whole wealth of the
South will be drawn into Philadelphia
and Net York, just as the same system
Of consolidation has concentrated the
wealth OF the Northwest in cities of the
East. In other words, Louisville and
Cincinnati, save to the extent that they
are sustaised by local manufactures,
will be absorbed by Now York, Boston
and Philadelphia.
CAN MEMPHIS EsCAPE ABSORPTION?
Memphis sought to render the process
of absorption impossible and there
fore Memphis railways were not suffered
to connect with one another. The reme-
DIV was worse han the evil sought to be
obviated. Lateral roads passed north
aud south within 3 short distance of the
CITY which were as FuinOus as il the hand
of Deity had dug mighty canals from Cal
70 and Louisville to Mobile Bay and New
Orleans and turned into them half the
waters of the Mississippi. Memphis dis
covered that the policy of selfish isolation
was infinitely more detrimental to the
city's commercial fortunes than the most
liberal concessions to railway managers
who sought the perfect unihcatiOn of all
railways cOnvergiug at Memphis. Such
are disasters that now threaten Louisville,
and the most liberal is the wisest policy
for that city.
PECULIAR ADVANTAGES OF MEMPHIS.
It happens, however, that Memphis has
a peculiar resource of good fortune which
builders and railway consolida-
cannot readily overlesp. As
Memphis is affected by trade and traffic
between the North and South, this city is
a magnificent way station. Its import
ance is only confessed as the number of
cOnverging roads is augmented, and thus
city becomes a point for the distribu-
ion Of merchandise, the more important
As the area of country rendered accessible
railways is widsned. IL the Mis- |
could be readily bridged, as the
above and below Louisville, Men,
might dread humiliation, but when
We reflect that the whole system Of
iUlf State roads cOnvergss at this
,oint and At Nicksburg in order
hat the South may have access
o the West and to the new Northwest,
becomes apparent that the Mississippi
liver not only gave paternity to the city,
,ut becomes a guarantee, written by the
and of OmnipOtence across the face of
he continent, assuring US that a mighty
commercial emporium mus stand here
Orever. When wealth and capital enough
ave been gathered to span this arm of
be sea, the greatness Of Memphis will
e so thoroughly established, and such a
multiplicity Of highways will gather
'ealth and population, that Atlantic cities
+ the North or South will struggle in
to grasp all the wealth and all the
OF the continent. The great
ess Of this city will be indestructible, and
iemphis will employ the same resources
resort to the same policy Of railway
onsOlidation that make New York, BOs-
and Philadelphia supreme monopo-
of the traffic Of the continent.
AN INEVITABLE NECESSITY.
It is therefore palpsble that Memphis
lust build roads west of the Mississippi.
American world moves westward
I'D Memphis greatness consists in hRv-
the shortest possible line, which, just
DIV, lies through Selma. to the Atlantic,
to the Pacific, which, until Fremont
lies through Kansas City and
Inshs. In fact, Forests Selma road
ID this to Kansas City are parts and
arcels of one another. These two and
le Little Rock and Fort Smith roads are
the last and first importance to this
tv. The wealth of Memphis is in the
lids of the West, and the security ofthis
ty against absorption is found in the
yamps OF the Mississippi, which terrify
ridge builders. II is this which post
ones, until manufacturers and fixed
.pulation may enrich the city, the con
,lidation Oflnes east and west of the
yer, and here and at Vicksburg, must ,
= concentrated vast independent railway 1,
10 spring into existence on I
side OF the Mississippi.
b. Bowenstein q Bros. will offer this
eek 10000 yards handsome Dress Goods
l2Jzc. per ~yard-worth double the
oney. Read their new advertisement. p.