, 1873-10-09
2naftSonnd 9ispateh.
The Growing Danger.

gentleman made the 1OiiOWlnS Polnte0
alIusion to the manner in which the
great railroad and banking corporations
are quietly but surely stealing away the
liberties of the people. He says:
1.-THE events of the last eight years
attest that our institutions only survived
the shock of armed civil strife to en-
counter the more perilous. because 81
lent, insidious and unseen, agencies that
have debauched the spirits and under
mined the wrecks of many an illustrious
heroic people, and strewn the path Of
ages with the works Of many noble fab
RIGS. That profound work of the most
accomplished and psilosophic genius of
the French race, ''the Grandeur and
Decadence of the Romans, a book that
in these degenerate days should be in
the hauds of every thoughtful American
may be epitomized in single pregnant
sentence, that the course of that people
was from virtuous industry. economy,
and simplicity, to wealth, from wealth
to luxury, from luxury to RIGHTEOUSNESS,
from icentiousness to moral decop'po-
sition and decay, and consequent na-
tional extinction. The splendid vices
among the great, the corrup-
tions first diffused throughout the high
places of the State, gradually pervaded
every rank in society, and produced that
general detection of its citizens from
probity, from duty, from their ancestral
faith and virtues, which ultimately
wrought the subversion of republican
Rome, and prostrated its liberties at the
feet of Caesar. We are repeating this
history at fearful pace. The shadows
that darkened upon the great republic
If Pagan antiquity after the lapse o
nearly thousands years are rapidly
around the great republic of
The Christian era ere it has reached the
first centennial year of its life. The
debased standard of honor in public
conduct, the scandalous impunity fol-
great public offences. the open contempt
for law. the speculation in Office. the
extortion. the bribery, the profigacy in
and morals. that reached their
highest pitch in republican Rome, are
features in the moral phys
iognomy of our own times in republican
The vennlity of the Roman
'orun, in its worst days. was not more
aagrant than that lately revealed i, the
judiciary of the most populous and
powerful of the American States. The
iniquities sanctioned by Roman Sem
ate have their analosies in the recent
of an American Congress.
The society that produced Claudius
and tolerated his crimes and debauche-
ries with indifference. has its counter
part in society in which Tweed and
his accomplices can successfully elude
the laws and enjoy in security the fruits
Of their unpunished felonies; in which
a Eisk could mingle the Impurities of
his lust and the most audacious villain
les with the gravest coneerns of State,
with tho administration of justice, with
the form and substance of legislation
itself"
THE PUGET SOUND LAND R1NG.-The
New York Sun gives ALI account of an
had with Mr.. Samuel Wilk
son, the Secretary of tho Northern Pa
cific Railroad Company, from which the
is all extract:
Reporter Charges have been made
against officials Of your road in regard
to the location of your western termi-
nus:
Mr. Wilkesoa-That is because we
have located terminus where nobody
lives, and the people of Olympia and
Seattle are filled with rage and spite.
At Olympia, when the tide is out, there
is room for only few vessels, and Sc
attle is not th harbor we want. Taco
E.a, the terminus, has better harbor
than New York. The statement that a
United States war vessel could not find
there is false.
The Puget Sound Land Compal y, of
which 80 much las been said, has never
bought foot of the Northern Pacific's
Ian /. They took land from the Gov
ernment sections. They do not own
foot in Tacoma. The Northern Pacific
owns Tacoma. The Land Company
had an office in this building, but since
these changes were made were obliged
to leave. The Land Company has not
been sxtinguished, because its charter
is valuable for other reasons
Reporter-How are you going to con-
time the construction of your roed?
Mr.. Wilkeson-The Sioux Indians
have expressed such decided antipathy
10 the rattling of train of cars through
the buffalo range of the Yellowstt ne
Basin, that we feel constrained for this
Cur W uDSldiu ltOIu NOTh III tuclT luTlS-
diction. Yet the work On the line from
the Missouri to the Yellowstone will be
let this day probably, and the road will
be built most assuredly. On the Pacific
side tho Road to Puget Sonnd will be
finished this month, and in operation
from Kalama on the Columbia to Taco
ma, the western terminal city q distance
Of los miles. We own o line of steam
boats on the Columbia River, making
, connection from Kalama to Walful,
a distance of 285 miles.
This sams Samuel Wilkeson was as-
,ociated with Thomas Fl. Garfield in
1863 in exploring Puget Sound, under
of the Northern Pacific
Company, and joined in pri-
;ate report to the Board of Directors. in
which Commencement Bay. upon which
be terminus is located. is described,