The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-12-11
TssE RAILROAD WAR.
1.-THE King L. Dead; Long
Live the King"

1 Hne HAAn& Is Ake1os Long
Live the King"
NHP. G0Pre1G, Of HEae HAL
aJnhOre and Ohio, Ihe
Coming Man.
From the st. Louis Republican, Nov. l.
Vanderbilt and Scott are nc
longer our monarchs; for the day
has come when they must bow
their heads to the new king
Garrett is the coming man, and
there is every promise that the
laurels of the future will wreathe
his bow instead of theirs. Reel.
ected president of the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad last week for
the sixteenth time, he has every
reason to believe that he has as vet
but begun his career of usefulness.
Already, however, the accomplish
ed facts of his past lite mark him
the possessOr of true greatness,
and give the happiest augury that
he will secure real fame in the fu-
ture. The people will begrudge
him no increase of power, If it be
used with the same notable regard
for the interests of the country
which has heretofore characterized
every undertaking of which he has
been the animating spirit.
His history and that of the Bal
timOre and Ohio railroad, during
the sixteen years it has been un-
der his management, are full of
of ri Linn looonna Roth aro rwhal
ly unlike that of the great trans
portation lines of the North and
East and the money kings by
which they have been conducted,
in that they demonstrate the fact
that success and prosperity may
be achieved without . resort to
extortion and oppression. For
this reason Mr.. Garrett stands
out to-day as the most prominent
representative of the honest and
legitimate as opposed to the chi
canery and corruption which have
marked the railroad management
of such as Scott, Vanderbilt and
the innumerable smaller fry of the
same ink. The prominence of
Mr.. Garrett in this respect has
been greatly increased during the
past few weeks, owing to the fail
ure OF the effort made to inVeigle
him into the Saratoga combina-
ton. All the seductive blandish-
ments were futile, and are likely to
rebound directly to the benefit of
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad,
since they have brought the poll
cy of that road into sharp and IA
vorable contrast with its powerful
rivals to the north.
Rightly or wrongly the people
have viewed the Saratoga COM
pact with suspicion and apprehen-
sion, which the parties to it have
been powerless to allay. Its as
serted design has been economy,
but the conduct in the past of the
men who have originated this COM
bination gives small reason to ex-
pect that the general public would
gain anything by this economy.
The New York Central, the Erie
and the Pennsylvania are scarcely
the roads from which to expect
much consideration for the people.
Commodore Vanderbilt who has
watered the stock of the New
York Central. until the modest
eight per cent dividend which he
pockets yearly amounts to forty
or fifty per cent. of the actual cost
of the road, has assumed q new
role when he appears as q public
benefacter. He finds fitting asso-
ciates, however, in the managers
of the Erie railroad, who are ask
ing dividends on q nominal value
of $780, 900 for their road, and in
Mr.. Tom Scott, who complacently
gobbles all the bankrupt roads
within his reach, and then cries
retrenchment and economy that
the people may reimburse him
for his ruinious investments.
Such is the picture on the one
sido, and now mark its contrast up
on the other.
Scrupulous honesty and econ
omy appear to have characterized
the management of the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad at all times, and
by these legitimate means it has
secured a success alike remarkable
and unparalleled. Greater obsta.
cles impeded the path of its pro-
gress than stood IN the way Of
any similar enterprise, and these
have been surmounted successful
ly. For nearly five years the fires
of war ragged along its whole length
and it was q herculean labor to
preserve the line of the road from
nearly complete extinuatiOn. The
close of the civil strife, however,
found it's resources in such excel
lent condition that enterprise and
energy have effected for it the
most extraordinary deYelopemeni
within the past ten years. By its
agency mainly the most remarka
BILE trade revolution of the day
has been accomplished, and in les:
than four years, in fact, Baltimore
has been raised from comparative
insigniflcance to a position of &C
knoWledged importance as q sea
port. Its exports have been NOR
: than double within that time
standing $12, 900, 600 in 1870 ant
$l5.372, 1858 in the first six month
of the current year.
To Mr.. Garrett and his coabju
tors in the management Of tn
!, Baltimore and Ohio railroad a
a most the entire credit for this IN
exampled development is due
Elsewhere we republish q lette
from Mr.. Garrett presented las
! week to his company in acknowI
e edgment CT his re- election. Th
y modest and unassuming way b
relates the manner in which thi
great revolutions was brougt
= about will do much TO strengthe
IS the good opinion already so gene
Y ally entertained of him in ii
West Perceiving the possibilit
of making Baltimore q leading SCI
: port by the establishment of a lin
!, of steamships, he induced tt
: Baltimore and Ohio company
: undertake the effort wholly unaiC
: ed, accepting in the beginnin
d the almost absolute certainty f,
d immediate loss in the end of IL
h first year he rightly forsaw woul
In discourage most people from Al
further prosecution OF the wor
Hence the railroad built fol
p steamers and an alavat0r Nth /