The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-02-03
THE CIRCULATION OF THE DISPATCH
Is LARGER THAN THE CONFINED CIR
CULATIoN OF ALL THE OTHER DAILY
NEWSPAPERS OF THE CITY.
Communicated.
ANOTHER EFFECT.

ana crushlng one 10 the NANNY QCtu2n9
Interests of Virginia, will inevitably follow
the introduction of the monopolizing Penn
sylvania company and its parasitical Union
and Empire Transportation Companies,
whose immense dividends are taken from
the pockets of individual shippers.
Philadelphia is the Mecca Of the Penn
sylvania company-the goal for which it
runs.
To build up and maintain the factories OF
Philadelphia, by which its immense popu-
lation is sustained and is being SO rapidly In
creased, the Pennsylvania company will
take from and through Virginia the raw
material now Worked by our own manufac-
turers and place it in the hands of Phila-
dclphia operatives. What blow to the
tobacco manufacturers of Richmond, Dan
vile, Lynchburg, Petersburg, and others
along the lines of our railroads when through
rates Qayoring Philadelphia) on leaf tobac-
co and overwhelming odds of Philadelphia
competition is brought against them.
Our manufactured tobacco now finds re-
muneratiye markets in Philadelphia and
| the western cities, and thousands OF our
poor people find employment in its pre-.
paration. How will it fare with them when
the raw material is carried to Philadelphia
to be prepared for those markets?
Make the figures. Count the cost, peo
] pie OF Virginia, before it is too late.
Fredericksburg, Petersburg, Richmond
and Charlottesville, have their manufacto
rics of cotton and woollen fabrics. Hun
drcds of working people are supported IL
comfort by them. Are they to be deprived
of the means Of earning their bread, in or
der that Philadelphia manufacturers may
be secured against competition!
PittSburc, in Pennsylvania, 1856 mile:
from Philadelphia, offers her evidence that
the Pennsylvania Company, with its Uniol
and Empire Transportation "Wrong,'
and lis Philadelphia mission, has rulnet
her milling interests.
Her millerS cannot buy grain at their vel! d!
doors and sell their flour in Philadelphia Il!
cheaply rs Philadelphia mllers can affort
the flour made from wheat purchased a
| Chicago.
! All rail TO Philadelphia from Richmond
will be less than 2jG miles, and we shall bt
more in the power of our giant competitor
Our splendid mills will be forced to limi
their operations, and many operative
turned away to seek in vain for other EN-
! ployment here.
| The hundreds of men and thousands o
women and children dependent for thei
bread upon the Nail Works and the various
machine works Of Richmond, will bewai
the short-sightcd policy which compel
them to seek that bread elsewhere.
| For the convenience of traUeNers we neet
the all-rail line to Washington. 1t is now
being rapidly constructed for Il portion o
the way by the much-abused Richmond
Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad
Company, and the missing link can hc sup
piled without additional legislation, there
being already ample authority given.
We do not need parallel lines, one of which
will belong to this Pennsylvania company
whose heaven is Philadelphia, and whose
profits are the Union and Empire Transpor
| tation Companies.
The ruined harbors and railroads Of Fir
gnia, her closed factories and suffering
poor, will testify to the folly Of call rail
| to Philadelphia, controlled for its whole
length by a Pennsylvania company.