Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1872-12-17

waste large sums of money in the
construction of rival route is urged
upon TenneSseans, and not because of
any necessity for its creation. To
Gen. Malone, more than any other
living man, is due the existence OF
the great through route, known as
the Virginia & Tennessee Air Line,
by means of which, in great part,
the revenues of his own line have
been more than doubled in five years
past, and the ability to reduce local
freight rates attained. To this line
are the East Tennessee and Virginia
and the East Tennessee and Georgia
roads indebted for all the prosperity
they have enjoyed, beyond that Incl
dent to the recuperatIon of the coun.
try. and that, at times, despite the
obstacles their own management have
thrown in the way. Facts are stub
born things. President Wilson says
that he seeks to escape Mahone's
tyraunical course" Now let him
say, wherein Gen. Malone differs to
day from what he was one year ago,
when president Wilson. in his own
handwriting, contracted to sell to him
the control of the East Tennessee T.
Georgia road. Ifno difference exists,
and he was a proper man, even
deemed worthy then to control this
property, is not the charge against
him wholly untrue? Admit that he
is tyrannicIe and Arbitrary, (for the
sake of argument) and if he was then
precisely what he is now. how will
President Wilson escape the
charge Of having been willing to
transfer his road and the interest of
his people to man, who is both SO
tyrannical and arbitrary, that it is
necessary to spend three million of
dollars and abandon four millions of
property in order to escape such
monster? This reasoning won't bear
discussion, and hence it is that the
Press and Herald will not let its rea-
ders be informed.
IL is said that two routes will secure
a better outlet to the Southwest -
Are the 9 not two routes now, one vid
Charleston and one uia Norfolk p
The North Carolina line will be no
additional route at all. because it is
simply change of route for a part of
the distance. and then returns to the
single line between Knoxville and
Chattanooga, with the disadvantage
of forcing freights over a longer
route. Our Southwestern friends
will not be apt to derive much adran,
tage from such charge.
1t is not because of the necessity
for new route or a more satisfactory
connection at Bristol. that these men
are seeking to reconcile public opin-
ion to the adoption of the North Car
olina passage. 1t is simply the alter
native for the success of Tom Scott's
plans for the transfer of trade, from
Virginia cities, Baltimore and New
York, to the city of Philadelphia,
made necessary by the failure Of Gen
eral Malone to become party to his
nefarious schemes. Concsious of this
great fact we have cndeavored to pre-
sent to our Virginia people the cOnse-
quences involved in the success Of
those plans, which comprehend as an
integral part the passage of a Free
Railroad Bill, that the Richmond and
Fredericksburg road may be forced
to become a party thereto. Were it
in our power to reach the people of
East Tennessee, it would be an easy
task to convince them that their prop
erty is b. loaded down with debt and
a material part abandoned, for the
material greatness of Philadelphia,
and the personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of
a favored Ring. But this privilege
is denied us Men love darkness
rather than light when the deeds
they perpetrate are evil, and so this
Ring enshroud their actions that the
true intent may not appear.
"But time at lasts sets all things evon."
The day of retribution will come.
Over the schemes of this Pennsyl. |
vania monopoly the clouds of retribu-
ton and defeat are gathering, and it
will be we'll for the friends of the |
Press and Herald that they gather in |
the fruits of their treachery before it |
is forever too late.