Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1875-02-05

/ sta',o' in life is Indefinitely postponed
and Count Shouyaloff and his Imperi.
master must wait, Micaw belisl, for som
thing 10 turn up.
The Om mnihus Railroad Bill.
! The most active men in Congress ar
those connected with railroads. Colone
Thomas Scott is working like beaver I
: secure Government aid for his Texas Ps
ci!ic Railroad, and is combining other rail-
read influences SO that the railroad inter
est will appear IN the House as 4 unit
The latest combination outlined looks |.
F the comp elton OF the Texas Pacific b.
two companles--one from the East ant
the other rom the West, forming juno
ton somewhere III Arizona or New Mexico
a. might be determined by the progress o.
The respective companies. To this end {
being prepared, granting to any olhel
company meaning, Of course. the South
rrl Pacific the ights and privileges orig
;naliy granted to the Texas Pacific This
bill, # il should psss, wo.lI open thi
Fexss Pacific enterprise to tie Southern
Pac:tie-in other words, 10 the Cenra
! Iacltle-to the extent the managers nigh,
ciio+ 'se TO engage. They could stop at the
Colorado, or build a thousand miles be.
you'd. according to the relative speed of
the two companies in building The
ea Stern portion of the railroad would con
tlnue one trunk from the point at which
the Southern Pacific ght cease, to about
The 10Th meridian. near Marshall, in Tex
as, where the junction Of the Texas Pa
citc with the Atlantic and Pacific will be
effected. The eastern terminus of the
Texas Pacific is Shreveport. Louissana;
and the eastern terminus Of the Atlantic
and Pacific is Springfield, Missouri The
Atlantic ana Pacific has also acquired the
line from Springfield to ST. Louis. The
Texas Pacifie has in operation 3l5 miles
OF road. with 22O miles i'll process Of CON
| struction. TIE Atlantic and Pacific has
completed 1o5 miles west of Springfield.
which, with The road between Springfield
md St, Louis, gives them 1856 miles in
operation
Tn 81. Louis Board Of Ira lie has issued
IN able memorial to Congress in favor Of
extending Government aid to The proposed
railroad. The speedy completion Of the
RAJ IS urged as d military necessity. A
southern fro tier of fifteen hundred miles
is detunGeI Ly s.ri4s Ut ..i,'ary out
p9ss, and u airrad near that frontier
would greatly reduce the cost Of giiarding
it. There is a belt Of territory along this
frontier over thr e hundfel miles MD !.
c;yeri G five huurca thousand sqaare
miles, from which indlstry has been ox-
c.uted by Indian rayages. The tenpea
tue of this whole region is about thc
same as hat Of Tennessee or Virginia.
and lis agricultural resources are equal to
those OF airy part y the Union 4 rail
road would furnish the meats Of prfec
Ijun against Indians, and thus open this
vast country to immigrants. The Board
further argues that justice 10 the Southern
and central portions Of the country re-
qures another route to the Pacific. I hat
alr ally built by Government aid places
Southern cities at Il disadvantage. The
Pacific trade is practically closed against
them by The superior facilities enjoyed by
the merchants Of Northern cities. |; is
also Ergsl that a sec md route is needed
to furnish healthy competition AGAINST tie
first.
The arguments Of the St. Louis Board,
from their standpoint Of view, are conclu.
sivc. A wei conducted railroad through
the southern portion Oi the United States
along thu 32 parallel, would be Of vast
benefit to the whole country II cannot
be denied, ether, that there is justice in
the demand of Southern cities for the
sam" facilities TO compete for the Pacific
trade a, lave been given TO Northern cities.
The Government aided the Central route,
that is. the Union Pacific aud Central Pa
now it must aid the Southern
route, and also the Northern. When
commeLce to give, ii must
give impartia.ly
Each secl!On naturally urges its own in
teres's a. paramount to those Of any other
section. Each locality wants its slice from
The public pie. If they say Government
ALL shall only be exte, ded TO enterprises
Jf national importance, the question fc- |
mains 10 be decided, what constitutes La |
ional Importance, and Who shall decide |
HAT is and what is not national impors |
ance? We might, perhaps, leave that
question to the decision Of Congress, if We
,Duid feel assured that their deliberations
would not be influenced by interested
parties.
l DO not know that death will be our
ast waking; ! do not know but we may
iavc deeper senses yet, which death now
nay not touch a1G open. Perhaps we
lave ranges Of facilities, one within an
,ther, each within its own world and
nodes ot being, SO that We keep walking
~, stage ater stage, to brighter realms
orcver ant ever away toward God, the
ential life and glory Of all. l will not
but who shall say Il at we may
lot 10 all eternity, at some of lis stages,
lie TO more outward life and wake up to
more inward and real one. that, after
ve have lived out the life nt one world
new one will open more
rightly and objectively, where there is
igher order Of existence, and God reveals
i,nscif in diyiner splcn ndOr-alI coming
rom the successive waking up into in
.nser ife OF faculties that sleep already
githin us? Be that rs II may, let US lay
up as first truth, Il all Is not sleep. |
ut waking This is our sleep; our dull
fe II 'h.se sluggish bodies. Death wakes
) ou, OF this, and then it is morning. 81
Il. Ii Sears.
A Sacrai.4entu lawyer remarked to the
Durt: I'll il nv candid on;u;nn Jn1se