The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-06-08
The Bogus Express.


,f fiddle PADDLE from one OK. r. on the
.uhicct of General MAuoNE's express " when
is no express at all--and the Dispatch 'u
chiefly ON the Dispatch. or. F." makes
great many assertions which arc utlcf'y Will
OH, loundation-espccialy is this so IN con-
Meeting us with ADAMS & Co., with whom
we have no more to do than we have win
the man in the moon. In no way nave we
co,,cn information from that concern; in no
way has that concern had the rcmolest con-
nc,iion with the course OF this paper To-
ward, tho misnamed express on the Atlantic,
Mississippi aud Ohio railroad.
I'm the name Of reason, is there not enough
in the suflrriugs OF large community
10 Justify us in the complaints we have MADE
against the management Of the Atlantic,
Mississippi and Ohio railroad? Where Is
the sense or p,opricty of hunting for ether
reasons when that is sufficient? Can man
never speak n wo,d for the public welfare,
for the good of a whole community. without
being charged with personal or partisan
motive? They who make such charges
where the reason is good and the motive
plain convict themselves of being mere
pdriiSUns.
1s,. We say that all the world, save this
community. erj,ys express tacilities-that
such facilities are withheld from this city, to
IFS great injury, by only one railroad, but
that is one OF the most important in the
State--aud we say that that railroad is bound
by every consideration 10 secure to this COM
munity these indispensable facilities.
81. We say that every considerable rail.
road in the United States except the Attain
tic. Mississippi and Ohio Railroad, contracts
with ADAMS IL Co. TO carry the express mat
ter over it. Every railway in the State eN-
cept the Atlantic, Mississippi and ONO
| railroad makes this contract with ADAMS "
Co. Why this exception? The only an
| swer We: made is that it is the fault Of ADAMS
& Co. Ii The fault be theirs prove it and
give Us a better express than theirs.
Sd. The public have nothing to do with
the disagreement between General MAnONE
and ADAMS & Co., although they think it
strange that such Il disagreement exists no.
where else. The public wants The benefits
of the ex press facilities that prevail every
where else, and will not bc satisfied without
them. 1t is General MAmoHE'S business TO
afford them. If he condemns ADAMS d Co.
then he must give us some satisfactory plan
In place Of theirs. Ii he will neither accept
theirs nor give something as good in place
of it, he is incompetent for the position he
holds, and ,be sooner he is out Of it The bet
ter.
The public is rot to he put off with the
sen>cIeSS and demngoecal ordinations about
"ioreigncr>," "loreign corporations and
"Eirginia for Fir.inian>." Give Us express
facilities. That is what we want. IT, is POOR
consolation to the sutierers-to the men who
are losing constantly and suffering daily for
the want of those E.ciIi:ics-to be told that
they are denied them because General Ma
HONE thinks it necessary in fighting the - for
eigners." True, they may ask does he not
borrow money from - Foreigners and is he
not an ally of "torrgners y; but they will
be pushed bya repetition of the story.
"Jick the Giant Killer" is killing the "for-
cignerS." Sleep on till he kills them all.
1t will be long sleep. if they take it. But
they will not. The express, which, SO far as
the taking of packages from anybody to any
body else, from anywhere 10 anywhere else,
is concerned, is Ito express at all, but hum
bag. undecided aud indciensibe-muSt be
altered and amended or substituted by an
other. This must be done, or it will Kill
General MALONE dead.