The daily gazette., 1875-03-13
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islature for Issuing bonds to the amount
Of $685., 900 to aid tn building Of several
railroads in Kent and SUSSEX counties.
And we very much fear our State will
be saddled with this debt From ap-
pearanocs tho bill will pass the House.
notwithstanding every momber from
New Castle county will vote against it.
Our only hope Of defeating the project
will then be in the Senate.
mass meeting in favor Of the msa-
sure is called to assemble at Milford
to-day. The call is flaming one and
well calculated to lead the people astray
The Peni"sular Nesos aud Advertiser, pub
ished at Milford, an extreme Radical
paper, accompanies the call with an edi-
torinl article over q column long in ad-
vocacy Of the passage Of the bill, from
which We take the following:
THE railway enforces habits OF promp-
titude, illustrates the value of time and
shows the power Of discipline On the
disk OF Its dial no shadow is allowed to
inger. Our timetables are IL absolute
as the laws of the Medes and Persans
the locomotive has employed our Legis-
latureS to devise new codes of laws for
its government, and into every Grade of
modern society has the interests Of the
railway extended. The multitude of en-
gineers, mechanics, workmen. clerks
and conductors, who are kept IN employ
ment In the service are an important
element of our industries.
And what an enormous supply of iron
timber, and other natural products the
-ailway demands every year! In the
manufacture of its necessary supnlies
how many new trades have sprung up
and are supported!
As the overflow Of the Nile .nricies
tina plains of Egypt, SO has the network
OF railroads over the land enhanced the
value Of the soil. They have virtually
irrigated barren wastes, and made not
two but ten thousand blades OF grass to
grow where hardly one grew before.
Landed interested especially feel the
potent influence of the railway. Its
mission ID to bring market place with
In easy reach of every husbandman. Gus
toners to every workshop, and to give
increased life and animation to every
pursuit"
All this power has been illustrated by
the Railroads OF our own State. Our in
dnstrial system has boen transformed
and infinitely diversified, and the aegre-
gate wealth Of the State immensely en-
haneed. But the ultimate possibilities
are not nearly. reached. We want more
Railroads. Those now existing have
made imperative demands for more.
The leading products Of our land are
quickly perishable, and must be speedily
marketed. To this end we need-urgent-
ly need, and must have new feeders to
our Ocean Steamship Line,
A bill now before the General Assembly
contemplates moderate and reasonable
State aid to promote important and Cd.
sential Branch Roads and extensions.
No parsinonious plea should prevail
against so wise policy.
part OF this contemplated systom Of
improvement is the line from Milford to
Smyrna" Milford and Bay Shore Road"
The State Is asked-nct to give, but to
lend its credit to the amount of Sl50, 900
for this work-to Le secured by a first
lien upon the Road.
Are there a hundred men in Kent and
Sussex Counties who can be found to op-
pose this?
Certainly ninety per cent. Of the peo-
Pile are III favor of it-ardent friends of
the measure; and it will be fatal and fool
lsh policy to withhold the aid demanded.
such appeals from such paper ought
not TO have any weight with Il Demo
cratic Legislature. The editors of that
sheet would be the frst thereafter to de-
nounce the Democratic party and charge
1t with running the State into debt and
with what other evil results that may
TOW from the passage of the bill.