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infants. Ia 1t not tatne Tint these abc-
t'otlc'l, lnsty bcggars sl.ould be dismissed by
tho lrns.Comn,issiona.n aud required to
work for their own brratl?

tho Alms-Comn,issionoEn aud required to
work for their own brratl?
sCIrEMEs or PUB TIC PLuNDER,
The Nation speaks III Tie diApusstion to
in1ate tho currency a,sl tho desire 10 have
gnilroads h,,itt at Tie Goter,,mcnt expense ~
tho two grcat polisical dn,usiona Of our time.
"n Ind hoped the Ans rican people had re-
covered from tile latter. 4 long and costly
experience, which wns first exposed in Credit
Moa;licr Rcandaia and which finally culnli-
natcd in tho panic OF 1873, did tho busincns
for the West, and NO IL, not believe that.
ontaitle Of eon1o atnbi% ious pioneers md
fioncy-srasping Epeculais1ra, thero aro any
people In tho East or VI st who desire to cx-
pertinent airy further with zailroad-huilding
upon Government subRilics> 1t Is not SO ii,
tho Sonth, however, which seems deter
mined not to benefit i.scH from the
experience elsewhere, but 10 50 all
over It again for ;;acmselves Tho
political condition Of Ii . South accounts
to larga extent for the prevalence Of this
delusion. 1Iaving but rt,.enly been recon-
structed under tic s1,perr;.io Of tho Federal
Government, mud many -! tue States pre-
ferring still to depend nr.,n tho int 1larcnco
Of Government oflce-liolL,-.s in their politics
rather than tako An inde pendent position,
tho patornal notion Of Government Is moro
strongly fixed in tho Scot h than any other
section Of tho Union. A3led to this de-
pendent feeling Is one Of sectional jealousy.
The South imagines TINT he North and West
had nl tin benefit of Government mid during
tho years Of tito Rebellion. and those i,nne-
diately succeeding. They seem to ignore the
fact that thin wns all their own fault, since
they were making war upoa tho very Gover1,-
ment from which they nov, demand aid and
ono Of tho grpunls on which Subsidies nre
now asked fur tho South il that she nlay rc~
guin, through Government MD, tho ground
which she lost by her own folly. This is
whit their sole argument in favor Of ToN
ScoT1's FL Paso Road subMidy really amounts
10.
Tho South has largely escaped one of the
two popular dolusions OF tho dny.--that Of
cheap Rhinplaase1s, s,-nnd he leading nows~
papers Of tho South dcserz q credit for this
fnyorablo condition. But They arc Ms much
to blame for intoxicating thu general misap-
obtains among too many of tho Southern
people relative to subsidies. Not long neo
the Southern Commercial Convention made Il
general demA,,d for Government railroatls for
the Cotton States, and this Il rs been followed
By the Cotton Exchange Convention, which
WIS in session at White Sulr Eur Springs Inst
week, With direct recommendation to Con-
gress to nccede to ToM ScoT:'s demand, and
to proceed Immediately to tn, construction Of
tho FL paso Poetic Railroad at tho expense
Of the nation, It is significant and discour-
aging that this bad Recommendation was
agreed to without discussion. So prompt
and unanimous an action shows how
strong hold this scheme las tnkon
upon tho Southern mind, and foreshnd-
ows tho danger that tho strength OF the
Southern members Of tho mex. Congress may
be sufficient 10 control tho Democratic ma~
jority, which depends upon the South for its
main strength, to voto the desired Federal
guarantee. There Is but ono bane6t tint
could como Of this. It would certainly kill
of every prospect OF SUCCESS which the Dem.
oc1atio pnrty in tho North now has, for no
party committed to the exploded fAllocy of
voting away tens OF millions Of public moneys
for tho promotion Of private schemes can
ever command the confidence Of tho North.
But, desirable as tho domiso Of the Demo-
critic party would be on many accounts, 1t
would bo deasly purchased at the cost OF
hundreds Of millions Of dollars, to which the
voting Of tho Scor1 subsidy would eventually
lend.
No have repeatedly pointed out to the
| South that long stretch Of tuilroad running
through an arid, rainleas, md uninhabitcd
| district, to point on tie Pacific slope whcro
there is no commerce, is not calculated to bo
| of much benefit to the Southern people in
! ciscs or country. We have also repoat-
ediy drawn attention to the well-cstab-
| liahcd fact that, il tloso were business
! demand for tho road, and there wcre any
prospects Of its being profitable, there would
be s...icient private capital forthcoming to
! build it. It has also beon sufficiently demon
strated, and recently, too, tint abnormal do
vclopmcnt not only is not profitable, but eu-
tails aorious consequences upon the Govern
mont and all parties concerned But thore
arr onn or two other considerations which
certainly onght to have weight with every
| citizen ut tho South who contributes to the
support Of the Government. The cost to the
South Of the ToN ScoTr subsidy scheme will
not DO represented merely by its pro rata OF
what that single buhsid, will entail. Tho
granting Of tho ToMsco1r subsidy necessarily
means tho granting Of other subsidies, for it
con only pass Congress by the old system Of
log-rolling, whereby tho representatives Of
one aection will vote for it only in cons:dera-
ton Of some other subsidy for their con-
stituency which the representatives Of the
other section Ggree to support Thus,
if Ton ScoTr gets a subsidy for
his scheme, it is pretty cestain tia.
the Jar CooKE Northern Pacific will also ba
built at the Government expense. But the
voting away Of the public moneys, once be-
gun again, will not ond hero. There will