The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1870-11-11

| 1t Is time that General GRANT or some
body else should undertake to regulate
popular suffrage.
SPEECH OF CHIEF JUSTICE DROWN.
We copy an extract from the speech
dclN cred in Marietta and reported for
the Atlanta Era. Those of our readers
who did not hear it and who have not
had the speech in full will be Interested
in the clear, able and satisfactory man
ner in which the Railroad subject is dis
cusscd in The following extract:
"The effect of the States endorsement
is this: She guarantees her credit upon
your bonds, and as soon as this fact is
made known, those bonds rise in the
market from Go cents to so cents, and
you are thus saved 10 per cent. interest
on the dollar. The State loses nothing,
because she is secured. She gains in
taxable property all along the line of
road for twenty miles on each side.-
The value of tie land is increased, as !
have said, from 100 to |, 900 per cent.
That is what the State makes. She
gains in the increased value of her prop
erty. She gains in the increased amount
of taxes annually paid in from this prop
erty. The State is the people taken to-
rether, therefore every man is benefited
bv the roads built under this system Of
State aid This policy, then, is wise
policy. 1t should be restricted within
proper limits 1t should not be lavised
upon roads that will not pay. But
where a section of country needs devel-
oping, and through which road will pay,
it is wise craftsmanship, it is sound
policy, it is solid common sense, and the
best interests Of the people of tho State
require that the Governor and the Leg
islalure shall give to the enterprise the
credit of the State; and let the road be
built and put through as rapidly as posi-
Bile, thereby advancing the interests of
the whole State as well as of a particular
section.
A great many people think that the
Legislature has gone too far and granted
this aid too largely and that the Cover
nor has been unwsc in sanctioning so
many of these bills. know it looks
startling when compared with the past
few years; but the people cannot under
stand and appreciate it until they lift
their ideas up to the level Of the spirit of
the are. Consider for a moment how
much will be the increased value Of the
property of the State if each of these
roads to which State aid has been given,
is built. Suppose the taxable property
is estimated now AT Sl00,000,000. In
five years it will be S200,00O,OOO, so
that for every road to which the State 5
endorsement has been given, built
through section of country where it
can be made to pay, the increase in the
taxable value of the property of the
State, is overwhelming. Therefore it is
wise craftsmanship ana sound policy for
the State to give its aid 20 all such en-
terpriscs. Where such roads are built,
not only will the taxable value of the
property along the line Of road be vast
" increased, but a new section of coun-
try will be opened up and developed
Take this section of country for instance.
know something about it. | was rails
ed in it. spent my youthful days and
my early manhood in it. | know the
necessity for its development, 1t is
beautiful country, with soil and eli
mate uncqualed, but it is not opened to
the world. 1t has no facilities Of trans
portation and communication. Why is
it that man in Gilmcr county cannot
realize as much for wha; he produces as
a man in Cobb county? 1t is because
Cobb county is located upon the line of
the State Railroad, and that road there
fore brings it near a market.
You will see at once what vast field
of agricultural and mineral wealth the
building OF a road through this mountain
country will develop. Grass, corn,
wheat, oats, and fruit, can be raised in
the richest abundance there; and the
whole wealth of this beautiful and fer
tile region is waiting to pour itself into
the lap Of Marietta. VIII you accept
itY VIII you embrace the opportunity
that is afforded, or will you turn cold
shoulder upon it?
If the people Of NIilIedgeville and
Baldwin county had subscribed 100000
they could have had the Central road To-
Gated there instead of at Macon. The
directors of that road were anxious to
come there. and they wanted just 800,
600 subscribed. But the people did not
want it, Baldwin county was wealthy
then. and could have raised the money
without difficulty. But it was problem