The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-11-30
The Meeting Of COngress.-The Presi.
dents Message..PTospectS Ahead.

Sllustther more important thhn IN
hmcr session. The New York Repubii
olsanrday, (hO new administration or
gnn)-prCtcnds to outline, to q CertGi
extent, the forthcoming message OF tn
President on two pOints-viz-thO en-
ploymant Of labor and the rCsuscitation o
tie Industries Of the country. On thea
points we quote from 1t as follows;
1t seems, as we arc at present advised
that il is not improbable that the Presi.
dent, in his Annual Message, will recon-.
mend the employment Of labor upon al
the public works OF the country, present
and prospective. He may go much fur
Iher than tho completion Of existing
works. Il Is not improbable that he will
suggest comprehensive system oil water
Hlh rail communication between the
Atlantic board and the West and
south, In the interest Of cheap transporta
ton. Ifho should do so 10 his forthcom-
Ias message, no will not want for SUPPORT
either In Congress or among the people
The impression obtains that tho President
Is thoroughly In earnest In the direction Of
tue immediate employment oil labor and
the revival Of tho industries oil the country
IND Rt the Government cost II necessary, !,
We notice that the suggestion Is thrown
out that the President may possibly favor
The completion Of tho North Pacific and
Texas Pacific roads by o government sub.
stiy, or Endorsement oil the bonds Of these
roads. Such proposition would proba.
bly, encounter opposition from 0 portion
OF tho public press, There Is so much
vIrluous indignation already manifested
tn9t Mr, Thomas Scott cannot get his
Texas road through without great diff
Guilty, and the employment OF a strong
lobby Without pretending 10 favor this
scheme, or the appearance OF an extra
lobby on its behalf in Washington this
winter, we are free 10 say that ii Is likely
to receive considerable favor, il not the
direct encouragement Of o subaidy.
The readers of the ISTsLLIGENcRR
will recolect that we referred few days
sso to the formidable scheme, above
limited at, in regard TO subsidies to the
Northern and Southern Pacific railroads =
the roads knowQ as JAY CooKE's and Ton
SCOTS at tho approaching session OF
Congress. It's not unlikelyLhat the scheme
llr aid 10 these new roads will embrace in
them other subsidies, such, for instance,
AZ the one sought for by the Pacific
Nail Steamship Company--the line that
carries the United States mail between
Sn Francisco and China AT this time
i! is impossible to form any idea as to the
extent Of the combination Of interests that
will be enlisted to induce Congress 10
grant aid to these projects. 1t is not i'm.
possible that the iron business also WILDE
intluentially enlisted, for II once railroad
Building Is Sc! going again the msnu!ac-
lure oil pig iron aud OF rails, and every
other species ofrailroad supplies, is bound
TO improve.
We are prepared therefore to see form.
idoblc lobby organized at Washington
this winter. Out OF the 299 members OF the
present Congress only about 100 10 1876
have been elected to the 44th Congress
1t is well known that Congressman on
the eve Of taking their leave Of public
life arc much more susceptible TO lobby
influences than when they sre successfully
riding the treachGrous sea OF popular
favor And aside from this fact, there
are not lew persous who really believe
that Congress ought 10 grant tho aid
asked Tor by the two Pacific roads. Such
persOas reason this way: II the govern.
ment endorses the bonds Of these roads it
does not follow that the nation will lose
anything by the operation. The roads
offer 10 turn over their franchises, land
grants, the track already bnIlt, and all
their machinery, as security for the pay
meut Of the principal and interest Of the
bonds necessary TO complete them This,
il IS contended, is security enough to the
government under the circumstances.
That ia taking into consideration the fact
that the aid thus granted will resuscltate
industries now Frustrated, give q
vast amount Of labor to persons
unemployed, increase tho revenues
Of the government, and materially
tend torestore confidence and prosperity
to the cntiro country. This is the spe.
Cious argument that will be industriOusly
piled, and with great effect, perhaps, on
the expiring members OF the Fortythird
Congress. And il, as is intimSted by the
Republic. the President is in favor Of such
policy as this, the scheme set forth will
be well nigh irresistible. As the winter
wears away, and the cry comes up from
the unemployed all over the land for
work, the pressure will no doubt increase
in iavor Of doing something 10 induce the
idle capital of the country to invest in
new undertakings. In fact, the argu.
ment now is that We never had so much
unproductive money in the country, and
that 1t is the duty Of the Government 10
initiate policy that will set 1t free from
the reservoirs where 1t. is locked up and
distribute it like SO much life.giviDg
blood throughout the channels OF trade
1t is also contcnded that we arc really los.
ing more in the way Of wealth that might
be produced, was the labor Of the country
employed, than it would cost even sup
posing the government would have to
pay the interest on these bonds: The
labor Of a million oI unemployed people
Is a source Of vast potential wealth to the
country, and, conversely, it is source of
depletion and ultimate poverty to the