The Arizona sentinel., 1874-03-28
RAILROADS.
The Texas and Pacific.

bitlio C1dH tndt or rduTOdQSs It IS an ever present and ever recurr-
 Ing theme. Not only is it the
 chief subject of discussion in leg
 islative halls, conventions and Hobbies, but everywhere. in the counting room, in the shop, on
 the ranch, on the land and on the
 Sea, it comes up, old but always
 new, worn out, but always fresh.
 And theresis no wonder that this
 Is so. Railroads have been and are the great agents of commerce
 and civilization. Wherever their iron arms have been stretched
 even across trackless deserts,
 where the home of civilized man
 would never have been made but
 for their agency, they have not
 only opened the v'ay but carried
 the emigrant and the traveller.
 By them many an oasis has been
 found, furnishing a beautiful and
 happy home that would never
 have been discovered, or if dis
 covered would never have been occupied in its fssolation, but for
 the railroad. We are a friend to
 to this great civilizer, which, not. withstanding there may have
 been corruption, and mismanage-
 ment in some ofthem, has carried
 more substantial blessings in its
 train than any agency than Pro-
 gress has ever had. 1t has con-
 quered the savage, subdued the
 wilderness, made the people of
 the earth more cosmopolitan and
 homogeneous and caused the
 desert to "blossom like a.rpse 2
 But we have fallen ousE S%S5e'
 A most sensels @evll times.
 arisen s::ssss opposition h
 c:e7ro railreaads. It comesr -1pally from ( b---4se5-ldema- gogues,~ corrupt pot-house poiiti- cians, and soulless legislators, who rode into their seats upon the senseless hobby. Look at the crazy emasculated leaders of the mi>erable Dolly Warden humbug in California last year!
 It is sickeningto see the class of men that the citizens of that great State were duped into electing to i their'legislature upon that insane issue ! Oh, for the bolts of Jove Oh,, that; we had for a while the direction of the lightnings of l Heaven '! We would drive bolt 1 direct to the rotten heart of every | corrupt politician in the land !- men whose. brains are composed | of writhing reptiles, and who walk the earth crying "reform," while the slime of their corrup. tiOn is dripping from their finger ends!, But they have spent them selves and the opposition toraiL roads will go down faster than it went up.
 The Texas and Pacific Railroad is acknowledged by alIintelligent men, to be a great necessity And we trust there will be wisdom and fairness found in the present Con- gress, to accede to the reasonable of Colonel Scott. In the building of the Texas and Pacific Railroad, we do not wish. tos be understood as among those who 'decry the Gen. tral Pacific. That road has had fearful odds to contend with in the deep SHOWS that have fallen upon its line: But all sensible f and reasonable men know that 1 that road has been great blessing to trade, to travel and to civiliza- tion, and if it never was impeded by snow it is still wanted, just where it is; and the Texas and Pacific is also wanted from it's geographical location, for distant from the other route. There is room and need for both roads and we may say for the extreme northern road. No one or two roads can possibly do the already vast and increasing carrying trade