Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-11-16

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f0rtte purpose Of nominating candidates
f7- mavcr snd other municipal Offices.
TfgE DEATH STRUGGLE BETWEEN
Two TIE
There can be hsncsforth little sympathy
bstweea 81. Louis and Memphis. Mem
phis has steadily sought sn alliance Win
St LouIs. Louisville ssssnted to our pro
nositious. and hss made Memphis q great
distributing point for its commerciGI
wsallh. s.. Louis, on the contrary, Mss
z5ssdfl~ refused 70 make sny~ advances CT
soss7e 20 sny terms. In 1859, there ives
bzla In st. Louis s railroad convention.
IL this Memphis was represented by Sam
Tsts and others proposing 81 once toeXteEd
the Memphis (Hopsheld) and Iron Noun
lain rosd to the Missouri line, if st. Louis
would 90 the rest. Our city was then
authorized, in q to perfect this scheme,
20 subscribe three hundred thousand dol
lars TO the capital stock of the Memphis
and st. Louis road. OUr propositions
wers then and hsye been ever since stead
fv reiscted. Instead Of seeking access 70
Memphis. St, Louis has extended the
Iron Mountain raiIrosd 10 Belmont, ard
elected an alliance with Mobile, Y the
Mobile and Ohio, snd with Nashville over
the Nashville and Northwestern road. By
these means st. Louis strips Memphis OF
Commercial resources on the eastern side
OF the Mississippi.
On the river itself, st. Louis Is even
more rEvsnous. Instead Of acting az Lou
-syiIe hss done, making Memphis a great
distributing point for -four, bacon and
manufactures, st. Louis subsidies steam
Eoat=lIRes. The Chamber Of Commerce
contracts with adventurous n~syigstors OF
tbs lower Mississippi, agreeing that any
loss sustained shall be made good. These
steamers, like Inc packet line from thss
city which sscends White river, and Ike
ak St. Louis steamers which make
Shreveport their objective point,
MI orders for planters n merchants
3. So Louis prices, adding only
the cost OF carriage, Such is the business
conducted by all st. Louis steamers that
touch at points slong the river between
Memphis and Yicksburg, On land snd
water, everywhere essJ and south Of
Nemphis, there are retail drummers Of
St. Louis, sI cooperating TO destroy u
terry, root and branch, tho commercial
existence Of Memphis. OF this we have
no night TO complain, ard have thus far
only proposed to contrast the conduct TO-
ward Us OF the two cities, st, Louis and
Louisville. Cincinnati once made Mem
pms It's great distributing point for the
southern valley of Bhs Mississippi; but,
IupsIsd by the example and conduct OF
St Louis, Cincinnati, as sOon Is the con.
dition Of the Ohio canal Will admit, viii
place three steamers in the trade between
Shreveport and Porkopolis. It is
thus evident that S.. Louis would
nc. only crush Memphis by her
own weight Of wealth and commercial
power. but hss indu5sd Cincinnati to
ad0ps ssimTsr policy that must result, To
agr6stsr OF less extent, dissstrously 70
the commercial fortunes Of Memphis.
IN Whss consists the final effective rem
e5y2 How are We to escape the clutches
OF sn-grzpIng s.. Louis enterprise? We
hsve not the aggregated commercial opu-
Icncs Of st. Louis. A great c~onhsgrstion
hss swsps sway no rival Of Memphis,
thEt Memphis may cast mightier shadows
over the plains and valleys Of the West.
A population OF fny thousand cannot
compete with the accumulated gaias ola
oily Of " hundred and 5fty thousand,
Is there 40 way Of escsPs7 Must 81.
Louis, Ike some monstrous anaconda, 4
o1circls Us in its stesdily contracting |
coils, snd finally crush out the very life
blood Of cur existence? The facts exist
precisely As here presented. The picture
is ov5rdrEWn in none Of It's details
Every Memphis tradesmsn and steam.
boat owner sees them as given here.
WHAT is the single and sure agency of
relief?
Suppose The railroad system, CONVEX
ging a. ST. Louis from the West, over
spread Arkansas instead Of Missouri,
Kansas and other remoter States, and
gathered il sill its vast wealth at Mem
p5is2 Would not the end sought be per-
fsolB sstained2 on paper tho solution Of
the problem IS therefore easy. The
prime vital necessity Of Memphis, in
his struggle with the great COM
mercisl emporium Of the West, is the
construction Of the Memphis and
KaBsss City road. Us line b.sects the
mighty western system Of st. Louis
rosds. It VIII give TO Kansas and States
beyond, and 20 western Missouri, e
shorter and cheaper route to The sea than
that through st. Louis. Il was in recog-
milton of this pzlPsble future dan
ger hist St. Louis has persistent
ly refused any terms OF direct
commercial relations with &c. Is was
because Of facts here presented that st.
Louis, unlike Louisville, refused to aid in
the perfection OF n direct road between the
two cities. II was plain enough 70 St.
Louis thst, II this and that city were {
plsosd upon the same footing, Memphis
become the focal enter Of IN i'm {
parial western trade. It was seen that, :
with U cotton TO exchange for n~ortbwsE-
tern products, and with northwestern {
roads 20 gather here these products, Mem I
phis would instantly become the drst or Z
market for ell such supplies for :
the WhoIe southern valley Of the Missis- {
5ippi. Memphis would supply It's Gus 4
.onsrs, without subjecling them 70 P
,bs, ges first made By st. Louis, or Cinoin- Fl
slnnsti. or Chicago. Memphis, by means n
this -KsHsss City road, can furnish b
ne Gulf States with .~cerssls and
bacon at first cost. II is against
his result Of the perfection of Memphis a
railway system that st. Louis q,
row makes, and hiss ever made, an sg- r.
war, and in these simple pslps- n
De facts consists the absolute necessity n
or the speedy ccrnplstion Of the Memphis p
ND Kansas City road. It solves the ques A.
ion, cuts the 3 dian knot, assures the d,
,erpetuity OF OR rospefity, relieves Us in
I the crushing weight Of The omnipres- N,
n. Commercial power and supremacy OF y
L. Louis, ard gives Memphis 3 fixed an v
horsge in q secure haven CT repose. n,
Such Is The death struggle between two n,
ties; and It IS death 70 Memphis and =,
oundlsss power 20 81. Louis; OF, ii 81
Iemphis aohisvs the task proposed, AZ
Lsmphis becomes the st. Louis Of the =.
3uth, and the relations OF st. Louis 10 an
viii be those Of Chicago to st. M
outs. Even while we pen this sentence,
le telegraph tells the story, as reoited in .
mother place, thst st. Louis has finished N,
he Atlantic and Pacific lire, three hun do
red and six y miles southwest from that =,
~, TO its point OF intersection with the p
.sDsaz snd Texas road, almost directly -,
Of Memphis. Can Memphis stand Va
III while the world movssR .ei
ira