Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-04-06

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Reporter-Do you believe in ghosts2
Mr.. Train-NOt in your Briukley Col
lepe ghost, but there is q terrific power
In s~DfrituaIism which I cannot cOmpre-
/ bend. Eight million spiritualists &C
/ knowlege me as their leader; yet they
cunnot make anything rap when I am
present. I sincerely believe that 1 rep
present the spiritual power Of C~onfueius,
| Buddha, ZOroaster, Mshemmet and SWe-
denborg, but have what they did not
have, the practical experience Of the
tanker, the merchant and the railway
king. Otherwise how do you account for
the moral power 1 have with audiences all
over the wOrld2
Reporter-What do you think Of the
financial condition of Memphis and Shell
by county?
Nh. Trsin-I understand your debt
both county and city, IS mainly composed
of advances for railroad purposes. Nc
city or county can ever be in debt to bet
ter purpose Both should add to their
! debt for the construction Of a bridge
across the Mississippi, which will insure
you the future great trade of The nov
| sleeping empire of the far West, Every
] dollar spent in this way is well laid out.
1 For your ordinary expenses, I think your
| county andaeity should stick to the cur
rency basis. They should receive nothing
but currency for taxes, end pay out moth
ing but currency.
RepOrter-How do you ike TENNESSEE
Mr.. Train-If Memphis is a fair sample
| Of Tennessee, you have a magnificent
State. But you must bring your iron and
I coal together in a blast furnace, and put
your cotton and wool through your own
| spindles, to make your own clothes.
RepOrter-Whst do you think of the
/ Southern Pacific rsilroadf
Mr.. Trsin-A magnificent highway OF
nature. I believe in 1t. While I do not
believe in the land grab policy, I yet can
not turn my back on the Pacific railroad
land grants. 1t is no more han fair that
the South should have some Of the crumbs
that fall from the Federal table. AS I was
the first on the Kansas Pacific, so I was
on the Union, on the North and on the
South Pacific railroads.
RepOrter-DO you think our planters do
well to confne themselves to cOtton2
Mr.. Train-No; they should raise their
own pork, corn, wheat, fruits and stock,
which are always a check upon & glutted
cotton market.
Reporter-What do you think of the
Printers Union as an "Oath-bOund oil
garchy?"
Mr.. Trsin-I believe in strikes. Capital
and labor are too widely apart. If capital
has a right to organize in gigantic mOnOp-
Olies, labor has q right to organize against
capital. My motto is: The employer,
his rights and nothing more. The lsbOrer,
bis rights and nothing less" The charge
of "0sth-bOund Oligarchy" is like the
Ku-Klux Khan, a myth, which capital
creates to frighten labor.
RepOr5er-What~ proportion Of the peo-
pie Of the world are fools, what crazy, and
what sensible2
cTrain-The world isdivided between
fools and knaves, sheep and goats. POliti-
cal wolves go in between these forces and
fatJen on their ignorance and crime.
Japan and China are far ahead of America
in morality, education and honesty. II
the concentrated damned fools and knavss
ut Washington are sane, 1 sm a lunstic.
RepOrter-DO you think the Butler Ku-
KluX bill designed TO ecu Grant ia the
succession to the Presidency, by the use
OF military force to control the vote Of
Southern people?
Mr.. Trsin-Yes, But the engineer will
be hoisted by his own petard. God save
the Republicl
This concluded the interview. We col
lected our notes together, preparatory
TO a return to u office, and as we
did, we made this inward confession;
That whatever else Mr.. Train may be, he
is nObOdy's fool is no sardiue and is not in
Now, what is he2-a humbug, char
latau, knave, mOunJebank or eccentric
genius AIEE EA0E1 HAEMgA WIN LGaAE AE
above and who heard his lecture of last
TRAIN AND MEMPHIS MERCHANTs-THE
TRAIN ON a BRIDGE.
Yesterday, at noon, Mr.. Train was
asked TO attend the meeting of
the Board of Trade. He found
there two or three hundred gentlemen, all
10 hear him. He spoke of the future
IF Memphis, and of the natural advan-
which might be so utilized that this
would become the greatest city in the
Southern valley Of the Mississippi.
Especially did he insist that the Missis-
sippi should be bridged. He said that he
was q practical man, and, while he uttered
much bombBst and said many funny
he never forgot the "main chance"
was addicted to mOney-making. |
d What Memphis needs now
said the loquscious gentleman and
thinker, is q bridge /
across the Mississippi at this point. Did
C ever occur TO you how easily it may be
built? There are eight great trunk rail-
way lines Converging at Memphis. Each
# these should issue its bonds, Endorsed
y the rest, for a sum prOpOrtlOned to the
OF its wealth. The sum total of
hese bonds should be about IS, 900, 900, the
imposed cost of the bridge. Build it,
nd il need be let the city and county
rive or invest in it q million or two dol
ars, The task of paying is an easy one.
population from ali corners Of the globe
vii flow into Memphis. City and cOun-
~ lots and farms viii be quadrupled in
in productive value alone,
ut in salesble value. Within
i've wears there Will be more than one
hundred thousand people in Memphis,
nd the same relative increment Of num-
and wealth will flow into the ada
ent country. Every citizen will be en-
iched; and while any individual is impO-
snt for the achievement of such a task,
his city and county, by a combined effort,
n which your railroads are cO-WOrkers,
an eagily build a bridge across ths Mis-
When this end is attained, eve
Y railway south Of the Ohio, whatever
IS present purpose, will have its great
Elective point at Memphis, A network
f countless roads will be drawn to Chis
by commercial forces utterly ire
and Memphis becomes at once the
city in the valley OF The Missis-
.PpL
H PROPHECIES.
But did it never occur 20 you, said Mr..
rain, that the sun of Memphis glory
in the Westf Omaha snd Kansas
ity must have a cheaper route TO the
than is furnished by the rail-
.ay system of st. Louis and Chicago.
hese two western cities Of the new
0rthWest must reach tide water by
agencies Of transportation than ]
70 furnished by great iron arteries of {
)mmercs now uniting the west and {
Memphis is at the head OF peren- ]
ial navigation on the Mississippi. From
.emphis, the western traveller will have {
l8edy access to New Orleans, Mobile, I
snsaCOls, Brunswick, Savannah. Charles J
N, Port Royal and Norfolk. Red and
rkausas rivers, as well as the railroad \
Omaha. VIII deposit in Memphis
of wealth richer than those of /
hioh Grecisu fable tells. i
Nature has done everything for Mem {
his, and it only remains for this s
by d6yOting themselves to praGti- /
q tasks Of every day life and escheWing S
.~rtisanship, to win for themselves a
atchless glory, There is a mountainiof a
on just north of you, coal and pine 4
lids south, cotton and sugar fields on Il
cry hand, God nevsr made such an q
cOuutry-With such forests and C
Ids and rivers and faUltlsssness of cli- 9
ate. Is is a foul shame that the coats l
i'd breeches you wear were made in 81
that the cotton you buy must 3
~ tribute to the East on its way to q
lrope; that you send it thither and n
ing it back, and in doing this o
profits TO -ship-Owners and man 4
which should make your q
yn pockets plethoric Of gold. Your
,yerty Is due to your own treason o
yourselves, to your failure to CO. q
,erate in great tasks Of railway con- q
r%uction, TO your s~lothfulHess in using 3
.vantages which God and nature have a
a. your disposal. Bridge this river, Il
ID within the year in which the scheme o.
perfected, Ave hundred railway trains, q
freighted as I AM with the riches Of
will daily 90 out of tins mag Il
hcent city. W
TIKI EFFEJT. b
It is needless to say that MIR. Train
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