Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1872-07-27
RAILROAD MONOPOLIEs.

A. Baltimore correspondent Of the
New York Herald learned from the
Pennsylvania delegation that the whole
Kuklux scheme was concoctcd in the
interests of Jay Cooke and Tom Scott
to further their schemes of monopoly.
Cooke built his expectations of mil
lions upon the Northern Pacific Rail
road, and Scott was eager to monOpo
lie leading roads in the South. As
the Southern Pacific Railroad bill
passed about the same time with the
bill for the Northern Pac6c-to de-
feat the former as a rival to the latter
az well ~ to depreciatc railroads gen
orally in the South, for SCOTS benefit
the two men concerted the villainous
scheme of SO reviling the South as to
give Congress prctcxt for putting it,
under martial law and to make sure
of success, j. Scott, a Senator from
Pennsylvania and attorney for Tom
Scots Pennsylvania Railroad Ring,
was made chairman of the committee
So 90 South for the fabrication Of lies
upon which the force bill was to be
fprndcd The conspiracy succeeded.
j Cooke has realized his expectations
from the sale of the bonds of the
Northern Pacific road, whilst the
Southern is languishing if not dying,
and Tom Scott has control of southern
roads from The Ohio to New Orleans.
When such soulcss mouopolies-
such dangerous combinations of capt
tai can buy up the Federal Congress
and through it sell the South to the
Graspnc monopolists Of every great
interest, North and South, are we cen
surablc for warning the people of the
dangers to be apprchcndcd from such
unscrupulous combinations? Is it a
crime to advise the South to build and
control its own roads and to run them
10 its own scaboard cities rather than
TO Northern ccutCrs of trade? Is it
absurd to suggest that the border
States supply to the cotton States the
place now filed by the Northwest, or
that we should give to Clarksville the
preference over st, Louis, in offering
facilities for the trade between here
and tie Ohio rivcr2 The absurdity
- in supposng that the farmers can be
materially and permanently benefited
by competition which serves TO per
Irtatc their dependence upon grasp
ing and miricnaly ncighbors, when
true wisdom and enlightened states
lnau,hip demand the concentration of
Southern skillaud energy upon the de-
Vclupmcnt of all the varied sources of
wealth and power lying undiSturbcd
IN the bowels of the earth, inherent in
our soil and climate, and awaiting only
the touch of the intellectual and NOR
al force which have so long been dor.
mlut undor the narcotic effect of su.
pine dependence upon others and apa
thctic Indifference TO the blessing,
which nature has layishcd upon us.
In view of such future as await.
rs whole south ualcr Tia influence of
~ wise aud concentrated effort at dc
vglopment, how trivial are the ohicc
tious based upon the consideration o
ccut or two, more or less for wheat
or tobacco, for the present. No class
of people are more deeply interested
than the iirmers, in wise system o.
development for thoir own section, be
cnlse no market pays 80 we'll as a HON,
market. We're the country dottct
over with factories and they tenante'
Iy slillcd mechanics, the Farmers
could sell higher aud buy cheaper, be
cause coniiguity TO mlrkct would re
move the necessity for Intermediate
agents whose profits and siealage nov
swell the cost of what tho farmer m9s
huv and lessen the price Of what h
has 10 sell The less the ire'gh, sn'
commissions. the greater the chance
for profits with all who keep posted
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