The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-07-08

ed in the regatta on Charles river on the 4tb
was afterwards broken to pieces by the storm
She was valued at $50.
We are informed that the splendid standard
of the irish American Relief Association. car
ried in the procession ON the Fourth. was
painted by John B. Hudson, jr., in 1865.
The Anti-Ogdensburs Railroad Meeting
Some two or three hundred people gathered
at City Hall Saturday evening to listen to the
last protest of the opponents of the Ogdens-
burg loan Samuel d. Carleton called the
meeting to order and nominated Gen. James
d. Fessenden for Chairman. Gen Fessenden,
| on taking the chair said. the question is wheth-
er we shall loan the credit of the city to the
amount of -, 100000 on a second mortgage on
the property of an insolvent corporation The
pledge of the directors that they will call on
the city for only 81 100000, is of no sort of ac
count. do not wish to question the honor of
these gentlemen, but they cannot keep their
pledge. In my judgnaeaat it will require more
than So, 500, 900 to build this road. The ques-
ton is whether all the people of the city shall
be taxed to enable few to make money Mr..
Fessenden proceeded to express his doubts of
the consttutionality of the loan act and quot
ed as an argument, the legislative action of
Pennsylvania and Illinois, forDidding cities to
loan their credit to railroads. The next point
in the gentleman's address was that the paying
parts of railroads is the end nearest the sea-
board The history of the Portland & Ogdens-
burg road shows that its present value to the
New Hampshire line is actually but $685. 900;
and taking this as a standard of valuation and
add the exhibit of business thus far, it is APP
parent that the city of Portland must not only
pay the interest of the bouds, but inevitably
the bonds themselves, and large annual sub
sidy to keep the road running.
Stephen X. Dyer was appointed Secretary of
the meeting.
Hon. Francis o. J. Smith was then intro
duced. He began by paying long and fnlsome
compliments to Gen. Anderson, and, on COM
ing to the subject of the evening, said:
There are no men who have played into the
hands OF Boston so ctfectually as the men who
are promoting the building of a railroad through
the Notch of the White Mountains; and they
have changed the railroad policy of Maine to
play into the hands of that CITY, Portland has
invested all her strength in railroads under the
mistaken notion that railroads create popula-
ton, and population brings wealth. Massa-
chusetts struck out before Portland was in her
swadling-clothes a railroad policy of the mar
row guage, and meant to make every part of
New England subservient to this system.
She began also to manufacture for the other
continents. John A. Poor struck out the broad
guage in hostility to Massachusetts, and for a
time he triumphed. The Grand Trunk and
the Bangor and the e. & N. A. roads were
built under this system What was tbe re-
suit? Boston meant to control the business of
Maine, and corruptly, or in some other way, in
cnnnectlon with some of your men, conquered
your system, and now she runs the narrow
guage to Bangor; and say it advisedly that
! the guage of the e. & N. A road is to be
changed and she will push her policy to Hall
fax. The Grand Trunk il all that is left to YOU
of your policy. You complain that the Grand
frank cannot do two-thirds of the business that
she ought, and you are going to lend money
to build rival road, under pretext that the
distance is reduced fifty miles, instead of help
ing by another rail on the Grand Trunk. am
going to prove to you before before 1 leave this
stand that the Portland & Ogdensburg road is
in the Interest Of Boston, and that Gen. Sam. j,
Anderson is mistaken in his action. Now what
Is the evidence? Gen. Andersons pamphlet
says the z. 81 o. road will add 25 OOO 600 feet of
lumber annually to Portland Where does he
say IN his pamphlet that it is to go? Why to
Boston! And are We going to invest So, 800, 900
to furnish the employment hauling lumber to
two or three hundred laborers, and allow a few
dealers to put little more profit in their pock-
cts? ANT
w hCh you Ctil ItdCu Misunderstanding cOrDOrl-
tions yon increase population. This road will
be built if Portland does not invest a dollar
And here Is Sam. j. Anderson's testimony to
the fact. Sam Anderson says in his pamphlet
that II Portland abandons the road the Eastern
Railroad or some other corporation is now,lying
in wait to build it. Boston influence runs the
trade OF Maine by you, undsturbed by any in
huences OF yours, as easily as the lightning
passes through the cloud. Boston has robbed
You OF your railroad system, by the alliance of
nj f,lnr ma, ,Nf II
the Portland q Ogdensburg interest, and YOU
have become but flag station. MIR. Poor pre-
dicted this in the celebrated Waterville conyen-
ton before consolidation was affected but he
was mistaken when he said Maine could not be
transferred to new masters. 1t has been done
and your masters are in Boston! 1t is feasible
to build road at some cost over the immense
grades OF the mountains but when you get into
one of the terrible storms of that region how
are you going to get out? The idea of the ter
rible avalanches of the mountains terrifies Bos-
ton capital Satisfy them that you can build
the sroad as you say you can, and YOU can
triumph over the forces of nature, and they will
do the work and thank you for letting it alone
This scheme will be another Hoosac tunnel
Can you do as they do in Massachusetts,, make
the State pay the loss? The history of this
road, if ever built, will be almost every wear
the story of starved train and death-visiting
calamity to the traveller. Every passenger who
undertakes to pass through tina notch upon a
railroad, if he don't take the precauton to
make his will before he leaves home, will take
shovel with him if he leaves his carpet-bag
behind. Now il we cannot satisfy Boston that
we can overcome nature, why in the name of
God are we going to put our paws into the EN-
bers to haul out chestnuts for her capitalists?
One point more Why do we go to Vermont
for trade? Boston has stolen your trade; and
it you can't keep the business of your own
State can you get that of New Hampshire and I
Vermont, which is now entirely controlled by
Boston. predict that you are going to lose ali
your trade by the selling out of the Maine Cen
trail and BY consolidation. predict that if you
do not put your hands into the treasury the road
will be built, and quicker than Portland can do
it, and you will find that three-fourths of the
advantage will flow to Boston, If Portland
won't build it, Boston WILL if they can make
their peace with God and nature