The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-03-28

people license and forward into the death
which Christian people have awarded
him. The heathen Lodbrog trusted in ven-
geance hereafter. What wonder that the
wretch Grady and his kind, if they have any
blurred conception of ChrIst's infinite love,
should hope for Justice in some world where
that love has other interpreters than here3
CHECK TO MONOPOLY.
From the NJ Y. World
We have already called attention to the
fact that the Governor Of Illinois recently re-
fused his assent to bill subsidizing a corpo-
ration whose functions are entirely beyond
the limits of the State, and we now record
the coincident action of the Legislature of
New Jersey in putting an end to all the
schemes of surrendering-the word used is
'leasing"-her internal improvements to the
great Pennsylvania monopoly. We rejoice
sincerely at both, or, indeed, at any manifes-
tation of State independence in this direction,
just as we did when Governor Geary had the
inconceivable audacity, the other day, to ask
his Legislature to look to the safety of the
sinking fund.- and see that it was no further
manipulated. 1t too late to stay the
mischief, but still it protest. New
Jersey is to be especially congratulated on
her escape Bad it is, better thousand
fold the Federal Airline than claiming a
community, now free from debt, aud im-
provements of untaiHted financial Oh sracter,
to the chariot wheels of an alien corporation,
and that too at a time when the tire of its
worn-out and attenuated credit is just COM
ing off, and the mass is slowly but surely
sinking to the earth For all that we have
had occasion to say on this subject the reward
has been, naturally enough, the insane
ribaldry of local press to which sub
timely Indifferent; but at the same time an
expression of confidence on the part of con-
siderate and sagacious men in the same
region, capitalists too, in the forecast
we have ventured on that is very crafty
ing. When We intimated that the Vice-Presi-
dent of the Pennsylvan Company had quite
as much as he could do i'll managing his three
hundred miles of road with its branches aud
the express companies and the Legislature
and the dependent but sometimes mutinous
municipalities, without winding up the iusol-
vent estate of Mr.. Oakes Ames and his asso-
ciates, great was the wrath of Philadelphia
Typography. '.The doom of New York is
sealed, says one silly paper. ''The World
reeks with falsehood, and is redolent with
malice, cries another. The imagination of
one sees Nineveh typifying New York the bat
| building his nest under Washington's dis
mounted statue in Union Square, and the owl,
| bird of wisdom, perched on all that Is left of
| MIR. Lincoln; and yet within hundred miles
of this malarious Mosul, on its branch of the
| Euphrates, Philadelphia, a joyous capital
|
boats. The other sees in us the base assassin
of Philadelphia prosperity. Now the truth
is, as we have all along averred, and as seus-
| BILE men in that excitable community begin to
see, it is in the interest of Philadelphia we
write-our New York interests being only in
directly and remotely involved. Had the
Pennsylvania company got control of New
| Jersey, in what way would Philadelphia have
been injured or New York hurt !? Way station
as by the course of nature the former is now,
it would, in slang phrase, literally have been
'snowhere" had Jersey City and not West
Philadelphia been the terminal point. But in
more material relations than such as regulate
stations and switches is the question of in
terest material to our Philadelphia neigh
bors. Where would ruin fall most heavily in
| case of q collapse-on us or on them? On
the relatively few New York capitalists who,
on their own account or as agents for foreign
constituents, hold a portion of some of the
| multitudnous strata of bonds on which the
| great scheme rests, or on the city of Philadel-
phia, an already debt -burdened muncip Atty,
its banks, and savings funds, and insurance
companies, and trustees, and widows and
orphans We could manage to survive,
much as we might deplore it. Not they
whom, angered at what in no unkindness
we say, we put on their guard We are safe,
thanks to Governor Hoffman's prescence,
who long ago, at some risk to his popu-
larity, saw the danger of the intrusion of this
corporation within our limits, and warned il
away. We believe, as we have said, that
Governor Geary's instincts prompt him to
revolt; but what can he, poor man, effect
with Republican Legislature owned by this
company and the press throughout the COM
monwealth subsidized? If our vaticinations
are unreasonable and unfounded, they do no
harm in this camp. 1t only inside of
Troy and Jerusalem that Oassandra aud
Salome had SO uncomfortable time, and we
know what happened to those increduloas
inland cities. But the forecast of the future
rests on axioms of political and economical
science that never mislead. No instance can
be cited of corporation being anything but
an ultimate failure which acts under different
charters and is amenable TO different resp ~
sibility. Witness that monument of discredit-
able ruin, the Atlantic and Great Western,
with its three charters and its Buffalo exten'
sion. The distant purchases aud leases (foI
y q 900 years lease is an unpaid-for purchass)
sRsnnsylvania company put it IN the
- NO company ever Was sue
6sred except with singleness