The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-06-12
tynress Facilities.

are given all bulky, heavy articles. In weight
and hulk the contrast between articles trans
ported by regular freight trains and by the
express is very wide indeed. But when We
come to consider the rdiuc OF things ship
ped the comparison is greatly altered. We
should like very much TO know what it Is, u
that were possible. Certainly in the indus
try and enterprise of a community the
freigh;s by express are very important, and
comprise large part of the trade of pros
porous city.
Therefore, when the President of the At
lsntic, Mississippi and Ohio lire deprives
Virginia towns and cities OF all such facill-
ties he does them all and the Stale very great
injury.
When we consider that every other people
in the Union, save those in the Virginia
towns supplied by the Atlantic, Mississippi
and Ohio railroad, enjoy these privileges, we
are led to ask why is it9 Why is it that the
A,lsu,c. Mississippi and Ohio railroad can
| not make the same arrangement to supply
the Virginia towns that arc made elsewhere
to supply other towns with the facilities. of the
express Wereally know no answer but this:
The president Of the Atlantic, Mississippi and
Ohio railroad thinks that be has better plan
| than the world ever knew, and this plan he
means to carry out by forcing all the rorid
to do as he does. IL we say that he possibly
| 0, cr-e>timates the excellence Of his plan, we
are told that we are ignorant and influenced
| BY the express 10 oppose General MALONE
1t matters not how much our people suffer
and how MICH they are wronsed-al OBJ.
| lection must be st1rd, all criticism >ilenced,
by the charge that either objection or criti.
ci>m adverse to General MAHoSE Is proof OF
intidrity and corruption.
| Well, for one we do not mean to accept
! the latter horn of this dilemma. We speak
in behalf of the people of this city and Il
vast community, and we mean to be heard.
General MALONE attempts vain thing-he
is doing the people Of Virginia very great
harm, and however his reputation may be
dan,ssed by opposing the whole world in
the matter of express facilities, if he contin-
ues his opposition he will prove beyond
question his utter incapacity for the place
he holds, and he will he removed from it.
Mark the prediction.
We say that thee is no man in Virginia
| who so much needs The popular favor, and
no man from whom the popular tide is so
| fast ebOing as General MALONE. This is not
the time to be denying the people of The
principal towns in Virginia express facilities.
| They cannot be denied with impunity. The
fate Of the man who denies them will be
soon settled. Let General MALONE beware.
| We take no account Of the dispute, or
alleged dispute, between the Adams Express
Company and the Atlantic, Mississippi and
Ohio. We have not the remotest alliance
| with either. But we do think it very strange
| that there should be no difficulty in the way
| of express facilities anywhere out Of Tir-
g%nia! Certainly there is no claim on the
Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio railroad TO
the motto "Virginm for Nirginians " as long
us the people of Richmond are denied eX-
press communication with the people OF
Southwest Nirginia--the very garden spot
OF the Old Dominion.
We mean to war upon General MALONE as
long as this is the Case. He has no excuse
| whatever for it. II be has better system
than The ADAMS Company let him put it into
| operation. He should not dream Of dis
| carding the one without putting as good
one in its place. 1t is faithless performance
| Of his contract with the public to do so. 1t
| is gross reputation Of his motto, "Vir-
ginia for Virginians," to conduct an express
| merely for the benefit of Baltimore and New
York, while he repudiates all obligation to
his own fellow-citizcns to do all he can TO
advance their trade and stimulate their pros
peritv, If the Danvillc railroad is deln-
quent it is his business to make it comply
with its charter-it is his business TO give an
injured public the advantages which he has
taken from them, or lie must stand tefore
the world taithless and condemned public
servant.