Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-12-24
RIVAL CORPORATIONS.

The investigation into the operations
by which the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company lobbied through its subsidy is
likely to be very profitable to the people,
in blocking the road by which many of
the subsidy-seekers now before Congress
hoped to obtain the assent OF Congress
to consummate other stsalings Of vast
sums of the peoples money. Thoagh
there ore members of the present Con-
gress, who at all times were entirely un-
scrupulous as to the manner in which
they sold themselves and the interests OF
the people, they are now particularly so,
and would welcome any means by which
they could at the same time fill their
pockets and revenge themselves by in
juring the people who have rebuked
them. Luckily, however, these fellows
have not entirely the command OF the
situation. In the ranks of the Admin
istration party (it is misnomer to call
it the Republican party, for the great
mass of that party have no sympathy
with the venal knot of men who OF late
have ruled the country, there are many
men of Acknowledged and actual ability
They view the situation clearly and
Justly, and they know that giving cor
ruption the rein or INDUCING in even a
questionable or imprudent course mean
political ruin, nothing more or less
Therefore il the Pacific Mail investiga
ton proves that members Of Congress
and the Senate we're tempered with. thei
they will not dare to pass any subsidy
measure, for the same opprobrium viii
stick to them and cause the well.
grounded suspicion to become current
that they were bought also. They cannot
afford this, and as there is no moral
doubt but that $780, 900 was applied to
influence Congress, and but little doubt
that some of the circumstances will leak
out, the exposure will probably
be sufficient 10 stop all othel
subsidy measures for the present
There is another side, and an amusing
one, to the affair. The Pacific Railroad
men have been suddenly taken with I
virtuous fit, and they and their news
paper allies are busy making wry face
at the Pacific Mail and holding thei
hands up in holy horror. Yes, they arr
terribly shocked. Poor things. The,
stole fifty millions, and owe twenty mil
lions more for interest, which they wi
never pay. and yet they are terribly eA
ercised at the comparatively modes
steal of the Pacific Mail. The truth is
that company is a stumbling block in tn
path Of the railroad, and consequently
benefit to the public. Its existance
the sole obstacle to the plundering exac
tons OF the railroads on fares an
freights, and so long as the two corpora
tons can be kept apart and really Ell
gagged in legitimate competition, the &c
vantages to the public will be so gref
. that the subsidy received by the Pacif
Mail will be of no Importance. The oil
ject of the railroad ring is, if possible,
force withdrawal Of that subsid.
which, If done, the Steamship Compan
will probably be so crippled that it wi
be compelled to accept any terms dictate
by the railroads. This, to the people
this coast, would be a public calamit.
and especially to Nevada. The citize,
of this State have from the first been Il
spoil of Stanford, Croker & Co., ar
owe them no good will. The mimi
interests o. Nevada have been cruel
taxed for the benefit Of these magnate
Not pound of machinery or supplies
used in this State but from which an g
orbitant tribute is exacted for railro
charges, which ore at least as mu
again as they ought to be. However,
are in their power, and what they do
Nevada at present is fair specimen
what they would do in the future if tn
could squelch the Mail Company. II
therefore to the interest of all the re
dents of this coast that the rivalry
tween the corporations should contin
and the assault OF the railroad upon
Steamship Company should not be 8
cessful.