Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-01-16
! CHEAP TnANsPORTATTON.

CHEAP TRANSPORTATION.
! Senator Sawyer, Of South Carolina,
is now preparing bin, which he will
shortly introduce, for reference to the
committee Of Transportation to the
sea-board, providing for granting the
right of way to the Eastern and West
ern Railroad transportation Compa-
nies. The preamble Of this bill will
set forth the important problem as to
how to obtain cheap transportation
from the upper valley Of the Missis.
sippi to the Atlantic Ocean, and urg-
ing the necessity Of constructing
first-class railroad, feet Sk inches
gauge, built and equipped with the
view of transporting heavy freight
with rapidity and economy. 1t pro-
posed to run the new road from Port
Royal, Beaufort county, South Carroll.
ma to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, with
branch road to st. Louis, entering
Missouri near the Arkansas hne, at
the 36th parallel. The route from tho
South Carolina seaboard through Ef-
fingham, Tatnall, Twiggs, and Travis
counties, Georgia; Randolph, Jeffer-
son, and Marion counties, Alabama !;
Itawamba, Marshall and De Soto
counties, Mississippi; Shelby county,
Tennessee; Crittenden, Cross, Pount-
sell, Sharp and Fulton counties, Ark.
Oregon, Howell, Texas, Laclede, Ben
ton, Cass, and Jackson counties, Mo. J;
Wyandotte, and Leavenworth coun-
ties, Kansas, indicate the course Of the
main road, while Powell, Shannon and
Jefferson counties, Missouri, indicate
the course of the st. Louis branch. It
is claimed that as soon as the necessa-
ry grants Of right Of way can be OBJ
tanned from the Government and the
States, that enough English capital
stands ready to build the road.
There can be no question about the
fact that cheap transportation is the
great question Of the hour. Fit were
not for the Railroad monopolies which
now exist corn could and should be
shipped by rail, at . fair profit for
carrying it from Iowa to the seaboard
and thence to Liverpool, 20 that it
would to-day bring our farmers fifty
cents per bushel in Ottumwa. We are
of the opinion however that the Gov
ernment is the only power that can
break the monopoly, either by regulat-
ing the ffeights by law, or else by the
charter and subsidy Of a great through
stock and freight line. which shall
forever remain under the control of
the Government.
Senator Sawyer says that European
capitalists stand ready to build this
road, but until it can be shown that
they are less avaricious than ours, it is
hard to see how we are to be afforded
relief by this new proposition.
The late John M. Palmer, of Illi-
nois, was conspicious fraud. He
has been for years candidate forI
either house Of Congress- and finally,
utterly failing, he issues the follow
ing sour grape blast against Washing
ton, in his farewell message to the
Legislature of Illinois, to-wit:
1T Uus at Warrington that dis
(..sn - Ill 4 L.
ures that made rebellion possible, scere
organized in the Congress OF the uni
ted States"
Welll Ex-Governor Palmer, suppose
your statement to be correct, (but it
isn't, because the virus Of the rebel
lion was Matched and nurtured in the
democratic party, all over the coun-
try, of which party you was promi-
nent member until your got to hank
ing after Federal shoulder-straps. -
Wasn't all tho measures to save the
Government matured and carried out
at Washington Would you there
fore abolish the Federal Capitala
Governor Palmer, you have been
weighed by the people and found
wanting and that is what has given
you tho poll-evil.
TMton.
Theodore Tilton, the nasty apostle
of the Golden Age, has written the fol-
lowing letter sbout Victoria Wood
hull's charge, to-wit: that there has
been Grim con between his wife and
Henry Ward Beecher:
174 LIVINGSTON STREET, BaooKLYH,
n. r., 1872. My complaining Friend
Thanks for your good letter OF bad ad-
vice. You say: "How easy to give
the lie to the wicked story, and thus
end it for ever"
But stop and consider.
The story is whole library OF state
ments-and it would be strange If
some Of them were not correct, though
l doubt If they are. To give gener
al denial to such an encyclope-
dia of assertions, would be as vague
and irrelevant as to pick up the Po-
lice Gazette with itsltwenty-four pages
ofillustrations, and say, "This is all