Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-15

ST. LOUIS OUR CHIEF BENEFACTOR.
s. Louis seems little disposed to have
direct railway connection with Mem
phis. Louisville and Cincinnati find
in Memphis the richest and most gen
erous consumer and distributor of their
products, and while rivers give Is direct
access to these cities, Northwestern rail-
way lines are not the less over-crowded
with freight and passengers. Bacon,
flour, and Western manufactures OF all
descriptions, as well rs iron and coal, are
drawn by Memphis from the Northeast,
and simply because we have no direct
railway line to st. Louis. We would
Drefer to have in Cincinnati, Pittsburg,
Louisville, and st. Louis competing
markets, but such are the facts that
when Guickues5 Of delivery becomes an
important element OF value in a COM
modify Memphis must buy from Louis
yIle O Cincinnati. st. Louis absolute
IL wastes wealth and energy in evading
tbe necessity of a direct connection with
Memphis. Wise as the city has been,
and full of enterprise, it is strange that
ST. Louis railway-builders do not direct
At least one single line from the great
central city of the continent to another
HARDLY whisky Observation-Disclosures
and controlling trade involving eighty
millions annually. Memphis might be
made thoroughly, as it is partially by
the magnificent Memphis and st. Louis
Packet Compsny, a most prosperous
suburb Of st. Louis, and the
closer the relations between these
two progressive cities the better for
both. No one denies the utility Of the
packet line, and yet there are CONNER
cial tasks Of which it is incapable, and,
moreover, exactiOns upon its resources
would be multiplied by railway lines,
euriching the country and promoting
intercourse between the two cities. St
Louis is surely blind, or thoughtless, or
confounds vast distances overleaped
with acquisitions of commercial wealth.
If Memphis had direct railway access to
st. Louis the scheme of connecting
Memphis and Kansas City would not
have been conceived and popularized.
st. Louis renders the execution of the
purpose an imperative necessity. While
st. Louis proposes TO extend lines on
either side of Memphis into Southeast
ern and Southwestern States, always
avoiding Memphis, Memphis directs
lines west and northwest of st. Louis,
that Kansas and Northwestern States
and Territories may have cheaper routes
to the ocean and direct access to the
South, which consumes and does not
produce articles exported from the new
Northwest. -Four different railway cor
porations, from different points west Of
St Louis, are engaged in the con- ,
struction Of roads designed to
the Mississippi at Memphis.
Df the resources Of these corporations we !
not accurately advised; but that ST.
selfish, a~ll-grasping policy is
suicidal we DO not doubt. However rich ,
Memphis may become, st. Louis, if the =
commercial relations Of the two cities be I
intimate, Wil gain most next after +
Memphis by the prosperity of Memphis. r
Memphis, naturally a lower faubourg of +
st. Louis, as was Carondelet, is repealed o
" every agency that st. Louis can en- !
10y. Our trade, except as controlled by r
he Packet Conn any, is driven to Louis {
III md GsunEs.nu#S nraa ~ -wAaw 10
ecure cheap food we must resort to re-
cities Of the Northwest. st. G
Iouis would grasp and ~mOnopOlize our e
csources, and hedge us in on every q
land, and railways are extended with n
his purpose on either side of Memphis. a
IN either side the country is enriched, I,
IS population multiplied, its wealth
augmented, but Memphis is
lot wholly impotent Geographical and
laws are unchanged. The
southeast still finds its shortest route to :
he grain and bacon fields Of the North ],
vest through Memphis, and western
viii seek an outlet to the gulf
rough the cheap Erie canal that ON
ipotence dug AT the foot Of the nights on /,
-hich Memphis stands. Just now the ii
58duct Of st. Louis is detrimental to
ur prosperity restricting the extent of
'ir trade; but when Greenlaw, Tate and
have executed their plans Civ
X Memphis access to the riches of Red u
liver Valley and of Texas, and Ford ,
I'd his associates, or either Of three U
orthwestern railway corporations have
1nnected Memphis with cities on the
.ansas Pacific road, then all that st. =,
.ouis has done to enrich and populate
he West will enure to the aggrandize-
of Memphis.