Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-15

ed and can be made to pay, why can
not our route
THRoUGH THE HEART OF TIE CONT
NENT,
q thousand miles shorter than tn
three northern ones, and on a "a
healthier aud more direct route than th
southern one, free from ice and snow
free from deadly m.asms and malaria
be q far better and cheaper and more dc
sirable route than any 81 eli the rest
It Is on the direct line from China an
India OF u west, and England, Franco
Germany, Spain and Italy, and a
Europe, on the east. On one side Of u
lies teeming Asia, with her seven hun
dred millions Of people, with their ricl
wares and endless products, eager 70
trade with all European and America
markets. On the other, lies Europe, wit
nearly four hundred millions Of the mos
enlightened and highly civilized peopl
on the globe, with every human indus
try organized, active and infinitely pro
ductive-the steam engine and Goa
making their production greater thai
that Of five thousand millions cOull
be without those tremendous agen
eies-and all those people anx
ious, intensely anxious, TO have
the whole world for a market
And Memphis is in the center OF the
great natural highway OF world com.
munication for all thesei She is Ger.
tain some day when our road is built {
become a great mart of distribution fol
the products of Asia and Europe
throughout the Mississippi valley and
the South. She will become the center
Of a trade so vast in its proportions a
to be almost beyond the power of com
putation. L shall be asked why, if OuI
route is the most natural and direct,
capitalists have not already built it? ]
answer capitalists do not build roads
with their own funds. They seek the
aid Of others for great routes
ACROSS THE CONTINENT.
They obtained from the national gov
eminent grants Of lands vast enough to
make an empire. On our route west OF
Arkansas the lands that are of much
value belong to the Indian races, who
would not donate them for railroads.
Hence capitalists have taken other and
inferior routes for the sale of the lands
they could get, and other advantages.
But the government, if we take hold Of
the work Alright, will ultimately be
compelled, in common justice and i'm
partial right-dealing between sections of
one common country, to aid US. If it
could give lands, sure to be worth hun
dreds of millions, to inferior, snow and
iee-bound routes, it can certainly find
some means to aid US. 1t will require
patience and years Of untiring labor to
secure what we are entitled to, but if we
are true to ourselves and p~ersevering il
will come. Our proposed railroad has
nothing in it that is impraeticable or
chimerical.
THE WANTS OF THE WORLD.
require it. When Whitney, thirty-fOur
years ago, proposed arailrOad from Lake
Michigan to the Pacific he was pro-
nounced an insane visionary, but already
four such roads are either built or in pro-
cess of construction, and ours will be the
fifth. We must have an iron railroad
bridge over the Mississippi. Then, in
twenty years time, Memphis will have
twenty railroads on each side of the
river, d%iyerging like an open fan, and all
using that bridge. Our city will grow
then with rapid strides, until it becomes
the Chicago, and ultimately the New
York, of the South. The government
must aid us TO attract immigration to
the South. In accord and full sympa-
thy with the administration and the
great heart Of the nation, capital viii
flow here as it has done to the North
west. We must have
BANKING. CAPITAL
in some way, and some efficient legisla-
tion-State, and perhaps national-to
render banks safer repositories Of the
peoples money than sOme Of them in
our midst have proved to be lately.
The South must have immigration. II
must be warmly welcomed, and eneour-
aged in every way possible. We need a
million more people in West Tennessee
alone. Twice that number could find
here, or create for themselves, happy
homes. With a large population it
would be far easier to establish and main
tain in full vigor a good system Of COM
mon schools, with a large producing
population, the burden of cur present
taxes and of our
STATE AND COUNTY DEBT
would become but O trifie. Every inter
est would feel new life, every face
would grow brighter, and every man in
the community, as he became more
prosperous, would be happier and more
contented. The laws would be mere
easily inforced. Crime, now so rampant,
would be greatly diminished, because
more certain Of being punished. Our
own beautiful city of Memphis, II it
would grow, must foster manufactures.
Let US make Memphis a city Of peace,
good order and law. Build up factories.
Let US work up much Of our cotton,
instead Of sending it in the raw state to
the ends-of the earth to be worked up
and then returned to us again. Let US
hear the music of the spindle and the
loom instead of the click Of the revolver.
Let US seek TO have
IRON MILLS AND MACHINE SHOPS
on a large scale, as so many cities else
where have, with not half Our natural
advantages. If we had factories and a
widely diversified industry, poor women
aud girls, who now are driven to earn a
miserable pittance by sewing or harder
means, would be far more easily enabled
to earn an honorable livelihood and to
assist those near and dear to them who
are suffering and destitute. Our me-
chanics have a right to State laws that
shall give them an efficient and reliable
lien for work they do. We want still
better schools and more of them. /
have mentioned a few things not
in the grasp Of national legislation, be-
cause they seem to me to need fire.
quent and constant mention until they
are secured. Give to all men equal,
civil and political rights, with a good
education and q fair start in life. Then
will constantly grow purer and
and the whole community will
daily become more virtuous, more en-
lightened and more happy. Ourcountry
may now reasonably hope for four years
more of peace, Of stability and of pros
The old world is to-day gToan-
in the throes of
FINANCIAL PANIC,
of failing harvests, crippled industry,
prices for fuei and food, with di-
minished production and lcanty means
Of payment. Commercial TevUlsion and
widespread disaster threaten England
at this hour, and all over Europe dis
content prevails and the gloomy spec
ter of the dreaded International and the
appals King, and Kaiser,
and Car. Our country feels the effect
Of the terror and suffering across the At
but feels it but family. The
before us is hopeful. The
finances Of the country have
been administered under Grant and
Boutwell, with wonderful ability and
splendid success.
The currency Of the land will gradual
" rise in value until in two or three
it will equal gold, and the country
will have attained to specie payments.
The business interests, the good faith
and the honor of the country alike are
safe under Grant. Honesty, fidelity and
integrity will continue to prevail in
every department Of the government.
The
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM
so earnestly urged by the President will
be carried out, making fitness, capacity
and true merit the qualifications for of
fee, instead of a mans politics merely
hainO tha Onfv fest. as II has been ever