The Portland daily press., 1872-06-15
Additional Facilities for Business

II ever anything was put beyond controver-
sy by weight of testimony and by the proofs
of experience, it certainly has been that to
prosecute business successfully in Portland,
in competition with other seaboard CONNER
cial cities, better and greater facilities for
moving freight and merchandise must be had.
During the controversy upon the Portland
and Ogdensburg loan, nearly every branch of
business of Importance here carried on, has
through some of its weightiest representative
declared such additional facilities to be indis-
pensable, not merely for further development
corporations but even to hold our own. The
Hour and corn merchants, wholesale provis-
toner's, fish dealers, lumber operators, dry
goods men, crockery and glassware sellers,
hardware dealers, boot and shoe manufacture
ers, wholesale druggists, iron manufacturers,
IRON dealers, etc., have given ore consenting
testimony to this effect. As matters now
stand their efforts to build up and maintain
permanent and profitable trade with the in
terror are to a large extent rendered abortiye
by deficient means for prompt and cheap
transmission of goods. These same Portland
AAASASh"hOS eihlu iHduuidCbuItIS nave
testified that such facilities as they need will
be furnished by the Portland and Ogdensburg
railroad.
Now the prosperity of these merchants and
manufacturers carries with it the prosperity
OF all, for it diffuses itself by an inevitable
law throughout the entire municipal body.
More business calls into use more land and
gives all land more value. More shops and
warehouses and more dwellings are needed,
and masons, carpenters, painters and other
artlilcers lind their labor in demand. Labor
OF every sort finds a larger field for exertion.
Every class feels the effect. Every class is
benefited. To insist upon the view, accord
cordingly, that aid to the railroad will in
crease the burden of taxation is practically
false. The road will increase our bulk of
business. 1t will compel the Grand Trunk
to lay double track, and do our transporta-
ton promptly, thus further charging our
business. Taxation will be diffused over
larger number of persons, and greater
breadth of property, and will be relatively
lighter rather than heavier. Taxes are not
felt to be heavy where business is good
But when trade decays, manufactures Ian
guish, ARTISANS and laborers fail of employ
ment, capital lies idle or goes away, and real
estate is unwanted and unsought, then
taxes and all other obligations become intol-
cradle to be borne. Seeing the new and most
promising developments as to western extern
slons and connections of the Portland & Og-
densburg railroad, we deem the completion
OF our part Of it work of immediate neces-
sity and of unquestionable sound policy.
LOOKING at the matter simply as politic-
clans and not as Christian men, Republicans
have every reason to be gratifed at the neg
lect of Congress to reenact the Ku-Klux law.
For it will be simply impossible for the sum-
mer to pass with its intense political excite
ments, without an attempt on the part of the
ex-Confederates Of the South to control the
negro vote by intimidation and Violence
And FLY any chance there should come with
1.-THE flying gold brown October Greeley
lsh result OF an election or two, nothing but
the interpostion of the federal government
could save the freedmen. in many localities
from the most cruel persecution. We
are fully warranted by the experience
OF the past in anticipating these results. The
Rebel yell dlacdys arises, whenever there
seems to be a prospect that all restraint on
the cherished power to kill negroes and mob
school-teachers is about to be removed. The
e1ect OF these things at the North is imme- |
date and tremendous. 1t drives all strao-
glers back into the Republican ranks. and
frequently assists in the cure of chronic
office-seeker and sore-head. But such adj |
vantages are bought at too great price.
OUR READERS will all remember how the
closing hours of the late Congressional ses-
sion were rendered disgraceful by the conduct
OF Gen. Morgan, who gave the lie, vociferated
and made inarticulate noises as if he were a
mere member of the English House of Com
mons instead of ''the most august legislative
body on the face of the globe,'' as all good
Americans like to call the House of Renre-
sentatives. And this is the manner in which
Democratic paper characterizes the pro-
ceedings: "The advantage of this affair lay
decidedly with General Morgan, whose GAL
liant and manly bearing on the floor on this
and other occasions has gained him the high-
est respect of all who know how to value such
high qualities.''