New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-04-02

American citizen TO have these possibilities
his Summer holiday. infinitely more than MS snai' -
the interest on the Government subsidy Dohds'
The announcement comes that the Kansas racine ran
way people have put their whole road under cohrac"
This means that we shall have by August-perhaps iaer
Denver united with st. Louis and Cheyenne Inc COM
petion OF the Kansas Pacific Railway Is virtually another
! route to the Pacific IL traverses Kansas, ana runs
through onethird OF Colorado. The increase OF pop
ton and wealth that follows Western railway INTO
| the open country is extraordinary Here Is Kansas
which, 10 ORTIZ years ago. debaable and unknown
Montana Wyoming. Now its population rapidly au'
yances the rank Of Hrst-cass State. Kansas SHOWS
the wisdom Of sowing good seed in good ground There
surdness-a lusty. hearty manhood about the people
that recalls the early days when they settled Lawrence
and Topeka with their Bibles and rifles Blessed are
those who pray but who when necessary can pray anu
fghtl We find Kansas filing up with the Jealous, the
enterpsng the noble manly citizens OF the East; WIN
emlgrants from Sweden and Germany; with tho Dest
classes Of foreign and home settlers from whose IONS
will spring mighty people. Those who read us future
see a Commonwealth well deserving the proud name OF
the OF the West This Kansas Railway Is
the backbone OF the State The Government never dld
| q wiser thing than its limited endowment.
The success Of the Railway justices the comb
dence OF the Government and at the same time estap
fishes a new principle in railway legislation. IL was
Thought when we enabled the road builders to carry the
Union and Central over the alkaline reaches OF Laramie
and the rugged sides OF the Sierras that money was
necessary as land and subsidy. We aided the Kansas
people TO build their road to Sheridan before we apa
| doned the idea When We did abandon IT, the through
line was built but the Kansas with its 3S miles, was lett
swinging out into the Plains. 1t was only half com
pleted and was indeed little than remnant But
the men who owned it-reOlute and sagacious men, Ike
John d. Perry Adolphus Meier Judge Usher, Carlos D.
Greeley VIM NJ McPherson-were not to be deferred Dy
a difficulty that seemed at the time almost insurTount
able To build ~ ilway in country like Illinois and
| and ffal . "A
in the country the Cheyennes and over the ysterous
.desert" that looked 80 darby Of the maps in our
early days was what body OF private gentlemen ever
| did There was hope from the Government. and so
they built it and advancing their own money, sought
in their aid the money Of the world at good interest
The money been loaned and the work goes on The
success OF this individual experiment means that Con-
cress will grant no more subsidies bond and mortgage
The Kansas Pacific Railway opens up Kansas and Colo
RADIO. Already the colonies begin to stream into the
| valleys Of the Platte aud the Solomon. We had MI
the other day. and he told US he would beeh
lis Union Colony" pilgrimage in May, with four nun
dTed families and that they had selected spot; Dut
will not say where they have selected II, except that
there no beautiful and enrapturng scene on the
continent There will be colonies over all this region,
barren" plains barren that they support
more buffalo than have OF domestic cattle in all the
| country beside. There are men among these road
| builders at Kit Carson-men as young as Palmer and
Greenwood-who will live to see three millions OF people
in the country now trayersed by the Kansas Railway
What nexti Away up in the North, We see the road
builders delying into the fresh soil OF Minnesota ana
beginning journey TO the setting sun. Content
with the land grant, these Northern people, under the
buoyant and magnetic leadership OF the genius OF Jay
Cooke are following the example Of Mr. Perry and his
friends and propose to build this road with their own
money What a royal endowment has fallen 10 the
Northern Pacific Railway Fifty millions of acres
wonder how many dukedoms and prlnclpahnes
they would give to the young Coburgs and
Lords OF Hesse, carved out in the proportions
| OF axe-Melningen and Lppe-Detmoldf Fifty
| millions OF acres, probably as much
land as in all NewEngand and upon this, too, rests
credit OF hundred millions OF dollars IL may look eK
travagant. and occasionally come across some yenera
BILE economist member elected on the platforms OF
Rerenchment and Imbecilty who regards such grants
as runous waste OF fair possessions We gave the
Kansas people 100000 Of acres-somethng more than
the territory OF the State OF Massachusettsand what
have they donei The lands We gave them were worth
nothing to us they the perllous hunting grounds
Of Cheyenne and Sioux OF no more value than so many
acres OF Moroccoin TRUTH great expense-with forts
and armies, and ever-bubbling wars. and huge trans
portation bills for grooming treasury We give this
railway what only hold at an expense, and the e1
pense yanishes for country occupied by railways soon
learns to protect itself. We have emigration colonies
famies-germs Of cOmmonwealths-and in ten years
the Republic will have another strip OF towns and farms
|
that only can be estimated by millions. Land given to
railways is like the earth which the farmer digs out OF
his irrgatng dches-all around is blessed with fertility
| and life and abundant harvests.
"Retrenchment and Imbeciy" have few followers
here and If anything is definite national policy 1t is
that In developing Western railways IL is well to give
one acre that the value Of may be rebled 1t is better
to fight Cheyenne and Sioux by rails and locomotives
| than even the brilliant saber Of Phil sheridan.
out OF the many schemes which, as said, darken the
legislative sky-in all processes OF conception and for
| maton-we have these:
T. The extension OF the Kansas Pacific, through New
Mexico and Southern Colorado to FL Paso on the north
| ern border OF Mexico.
H. The extension of the Atlantic and Pacific through
Missouri with the view OF ultimately pushing it to San
| Francisco.
H. The Memphis and FL Paso, through to San Diego.
| on the 32d parallel.
The building OF road along the 35th parallel and per
haps 32d is duty. The fact that we have one road
finished q second almost completed Nor this Kansas
Pacific practically second) aud third under way
far I'D in the north does lmpel us to extreme haste
| in further endowmens This FL Paso extension, how.
ever has merits Of It's own 1t Is proposed to begin at
| Kit Carson soue other convenient point, and run
through Colorado and NewMexco TO FL Paso-a town on
the Mexican frontier, the Rio Grandeand OF great
commercial and mineral Importance. 1t Will traverse
the country between the l0d and forth merdan and be
almost north and south road 1t opens up to settlement
the rich mineral NewMexican countries, settlements as
old IA the spanards and the Aztecs and TO us now almost
| a hidden land It is most populous territory
| not even excepting Utah-and population
| unlike that Of Colorado, for 1t came with the
| cesson Of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and represents
| the old Indian and Spanish remnant OF the
| Mexican domination IL stands still. Ii has neither
growth nor enterprise Its people can only ind market
for their hides and WOOL and precious Ores by YEARLY
cartng them hundreds Of miles north TO Cheyenne or
inf. afaH hu Ind a
farmers and miners fight their 10 market, as
and wide and de al