The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-11-21
TIE TIXAs PACIFIC RAILROAD.
Shall it Belong to the South or Shall st.
Louis Monopollze It2

The conclave ofmen representing various in
;ereste affected by the Texas Pacific Railroad
who are to meet in St Louis next Tues lay
November %, will be confronted with varie.
~ of paradoxes. Whereas in view Of the
fact that Congress had Literally endowed SUM-
dry corporations to build roads from the Pa
sifc Ocean 10 the Mississippi River through
the northern and central portions Of the
Pacific and Mississippi slopes; and whereas
The southern portions Of those slopes
seemed equally entitled to Congressional
savor, Congress authorized the construction
Of q railway from San Diego, Cal, on the
Pacific, nearly along the thirty paral.
lei through Southern California skirting the
North Mexican boundary, crossing the Rio
Grande at FL Paso, and after crossing through
the northern tier of the counties of Texas.
terminating at Marshall. in that State, whence
roads IN operation or in contemplation would
continue the line to Shreveport, to Monroe,
to Ficksburg, to Montgomery, and strike
she other oceans tide water at or near
savannah. Equity demanded this grand |!
trunk line in behalf of the Southern third |
Of the North American Republic. 1t was
deemed just that South California should re-
ceive fayors similar to those extended to the
Northern part of the State Arizona and
Southern New Mexico had claims as equitable
against the government OF the whole country
as Nebraska, Idaho, Wyoming and Utah
Texas and the Indian Territory had reason to
hope that they might be favored by paterna
government, even as Kansas, Iowa and Min.
nesota had been favored years before Lou
isiana and Arkansas wanted a little of
the same consideration that had been
shown to Missouri, while Mississippi, II
Alabama and Tennessee thought them {
selves as much entitled to fair |
share of the resultant benefits of Federal !
bounty as were the great States Of Illinois, j
Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky. 1t was the t
sommon property and the common treasure +
of the whole country, including all the South, :
that built the more Northern roads to the Pa |
ciic, and it WAS merely a sense of justice that @
conceded to the South the same benefit in G
much smaller proportion. :,
The questions which now come up are b
startling. Will the Texas Pacific Railroad be W
Duilt ut all If built, will San Francisco de-
rand San Diego out Of the Pacific terminus
Will st. Louis and the enormous influences :
there concentrated change the line of the pro- q
posed road so that instead of passing -
through Marshall, it shall be diverted from its
iirect course two hundred miles east OF 10
Il Paso, and then run in q northeasterly ex
direction to St. LOUISE Shall the road be at
lnished as contemplated, or shall it be in
aade another Of the radii of railroads ~
bat now center at St Louis Shall sti
congress- by fixed decree, make all transit 'h
rom ocean to ocean tributary to St. Louis
is eight hundred miles from the thirty-sec- SCI
nd parallel; must it, therefore, be made the o s4
,rminus OF the Thirty Second Parallel road n,
has been more benef ed by railroads fos- fac
red by Congress than any other city must vel
/, therefore, monopolize all other congress. 20
nal railroad favors for all time to come? m
ust the land grants in Texls for road run be
ng due east and west along the thirty yei
cond parallel be SO perverted as to a po
'come grants to aid in building q road no,
r the exclusive benefit of ST. Louis as its
stern terminus? Shall an ambitious city, ~
led by facile railroad chiefs and grasping the
onopolists, cheat Texas. Louisiana, Arkan the
5, Tennessee, Mississippi and the whole LIS
nth out of fair expectation founded on IN n
lemn pledge of our common government ? a %
Let the Pacific Railroad along the 32d mu
rallel be built as intended, and as justice fais
mands, from San Diego to Marshall, or to ata,
cksburg, or to Savannah and after the is v
and Southern trunk is completed let South cole
a or Western cities and States make branch U
ads to suit themselves. Ii Congress favors get
9 branch by grant of lands or guarantee Gen
bonds let it favor all other branches to the for
M ov,o,,t. ~. reIa
- .Ao n"ui7 u fo"S'n anu gov
tce let not the vital interests of seven or eve,
hit great Southern States be made subservi- from
to the ambitious schemes of the monopo- posi-
IS domiciled in a single agrees h tao !;
western CITY. Let the interests, ton
nmerce. progress and future welfare of but
10 millions of people be weighed against pre'
'se Of a city already favored by the govern '''0
MT most enormously. Let Congress deal Pr
,es.lv with tho Soptb ora oor,I ~, abou
~ ooipei VIC IT, of hi
tents of bounty to employ it as agreed and cert
i understood, and according to the terms adm adm
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yptian bonds is estimated in Wall street, licsn
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