Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-01
Colonel SCOTT.

Our Washington correspondent ha
been interviewing Colonel Tom Scott
A narrative of the interview will b
found in another column o. this paper
Scott thinks that the work OF railway
building now going on under the aus
picss of the Central Pacific people IL
this State IS simply for FEEDING roads tc
their main line; that they will no,
build road anywhere 10 connect with
anybody; and that If the proposition Of
the Texas Pacific COMPANY Is beaten IN
Congress, the Central Pacific Company
will stop building" He says, and We
believe very truly. tina; they are max
ing all this talk about building to defeat
and not to build a Southern overland
road" that their game is to defeat the
Texas Pacific" and by this means
..save their Pacific monopoly" We
ask the readers of the Post TO give this
Washington intervieC close aid care
ful perussl Colonel Scott evids utly
understands the nature OF the monster
which IS trying to defeat the construc-
ton of mis- rival transcoutinentai saIl-
way.-Sdn FrQaciSce F0st.
We believe that Colonel Scott puts
the right interpretation upon the acts of
the Central Pacific Company. They
POSSESS at present the most complete
railway monopoly in the United States.
What they control on the Pacific Coast
IS as absolute tyranny on a large
scale a the Camden and Amboy Rail
road in New Jersey formerly was on 4
small one. Stanford, Crocker il Com
pany are the personal owners of the en-
tire railway system OF the Pacific Coast.
Within a year or SO, Senator Jones and
his associates have built little railroad
running from Santa Monica to Los An
geles. As soon as this line was opened,
the Southern Pacific Company
which is merely side-switch line of the
Central Company 's-immediately put
their fares and freight tariff At 50 low 4
figure as to make it impossible for
Jones railroad to do any business prof
itably. This illustrates two things:
First. that the Central Pacific Com
pany's policy is to smash all competi-
ton; and, secondly, that while compete
ton lasts their policy is to lower their
charges for travel and transportation.
The people of the Pacific Coast are
lamentably blind and Indifferent to their
own interests. They should recognizs
the importance Of the proposed compel
ing transcon,inental line Known as
SCOTS Texas Pacific and make a move
ment, by meetings and petitions, legis-
iative action and otherwise, to gain fox
him and his measure the favorable &C.
ton of Congress. Instead of doing
this. however, they are quite indifferent
to the fate of SCOTS bill. God helps |
those who help themselves" and tie is
not very ready to help those who do not
help themselves. The wan. OF the |
times in this part OF the world is cheap
transportation. The Central Pacific |
lords it over all our interests like an alb
Solute monarch. We are at the mercy /
of half a dozen of hard-headed, grasp
ing men whose policy is NANTES. i'll
the fact that not any of their money is
ever invested in any business enter
prises outside Of the strict line of rail-
way building and the holding OF their
own. As Scott says. their policy is to
feed their main line. Any railway that
has an Independent ownership and e1-
istence, any project which looks toward
tapping the railway system of California.
Nevada and Oregon will be crushed by
them if possible. This course. selfish
a j: is, is natural. Wealth begets an
appetite for more wealth; power awak-
sns longing for other worlds to con-
9uer. But still self preservation is the
irst law of nature and We Of the
Pacific States are not doing ourselves or
,ur interests justice so long as We neg
ect to come to the assistance of such a
scheme as this of Colonel Scott 's-a
scheme which looks to competing line
II railway from the Atlantic to the
acifc.
THEEENTUCKI LEGISLATURE which
people who have not =
,undredth part of the interest in the
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