The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-11-30
T,he gouthern paoiac Road.

rssnd 20 piedg;ng the credit Of the Govern,
,nsnt for the construction of another road.
The Commercial lets OFF the following Fl.
gia'y ccoh paragraph: 900
|. The South Is notinteres.ed, as prominent
men or that section yeeem to suppose. The
sec, toral argument Is a weak one, and must
: OF prevail either for the North or the South
Pacific line. We do not, above all, want the
government to pledge It's credit for the con.
ssrucsion of aroad across a vast desert to aid
iotiustry. TIE legitimate aid that the Gov.
crnnent can sff,rd industry Is 10 omitting TO
en- barrass tidy DETERMINATIONS. The way to
help business that industries may flourish
aud Il bor thriye--is to give the country hon
est money, aud thereby the assurance of sta..
bility in values" . Isl. IS Il 80
To begin with the last opinion of the
Commercial, we say that the country is more
10 need of honest public men than so.ealled
honest money. The present currency is bon.
est enough for everybody but the money
changers and the large body Of dishonest
pnhlic men whose devices for the retention
of power Ia their own hands and roboing
the public treasury are honest enough ZOE
nobody but themselves. 1t is these dtshon-
est characters that have voted such immense sc.
SUMS from the Federal treasury for building
two Pacific railroads, and who now assume
that il is wrong, and there must oe no more
OF ii. They are too late in coming 10 rnls
| conclusion. , Had they abstained them
selves from taking money out OF
the treasury for northern railroads they
could not be censured for opposing ala
! to southern road. 1t is too late, after the
| North has, gotten so much, to say that tine
sectional argument must not prevail either
for toe North or the South" And let US
say to the Cincinnati Commercial that the
South is a better Judge Of its own interest
than is that paper. ...-
The proposed Southern road when built
will be the great artery of trade and travel
between the oceans. It will never be sus.
pended or account of the weather; it will
be The most efficient, most rapid, and safest
road between the Atlantic and Pacific, be-
cause its grades aud curves will be the east
est, and because there are no dangers from
alterations Of temperature.
These superior merits alarm the northern
cities. and their presses oppose the road for
alleged reasoDs which are even to the men
who urge them no reasons at all.
They haveflelped to spend millions of the
railroad treasure-paid by the South as well
g. the North-to Northern Pacific lines,
large part of which was perverted to private
corruption by the Credit.Mobilier. 1t is too
late TO attempt 10 defeat the measure for the
construction of the Southern line. Apart from
the 'caim for that road on the ground Of fair
ness and sectional justice, the national in
terest demands that another efficient line OF
road to the Pacific shall be built. The whole
people will rise against the outrage Gus mo-
nopoly that,now exists, and demand that pro.
lection against its grinding expressions
which competition alone can give.
1t is gratifying to US at the South that q
highway thus Indispensable TO the neeessi.
ties of The nation will be Of immense ad-
vantage to us. 1t will become the first road
on toe contiuent-it will be never interrupt
ed by climatic causes, will operate cease.
less,y and vigorously, and will serve the
warts of travel aud trade for a considerable
part of the year when the present Pacific
will be seriously interrupted and beset with
perils and discomforts of an alarming charac-
ter. d. 80,
We can well imagine why the great cities
that fear the trade or good part of It
that is thrown upon the Southern road may
be scattered and not find its way to their
wharves should oppose this road; and we
know that those interested in the present
Pacific road will fight against the proposed
one because they are wise enough to see that
it will be the great trans.continental highway,
and that theirs will be forced into decided
infeliority in regard to popularity to bust.
n ess, public usefulness, and thrift. Except
a little personal hostility in the South tie
opposition to the Southern Pacific railway
proceeds wholly from jealous cities, and
owners of, stock, and the holders of bonds
In the prese Mt Pacific railway.