The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-25
THE NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT, WEDNESDAY JUDY 10 1871.

that tb,s pteat strike will drive baek the com.
t,,sstrp vi The Mississippi Valley tV its iiatllfnl
eIlannel-the Mississippi. river.to seek an
s,,get Ia The ocean at New Orleans, which
always ought to have been, and soon will PC,
iha Y,ieetssl seaport and largest commercial
etni,6rintn In the Western hemisphere. Ana
every man, woman and child whp feels inter
este III the future prospects ana the gerlhn NH
Will satisfaction any event that promises tg
hastet that contamination soaevotitly wished
for.
look unon The hoy horror which some
That occurred in Pittsburg, as hypoefitical
aant. These grasping railroad tnagnatea
have brought all their troubles on themselves
and deserve not al atom uf syinuathy.
fTbnt4 hive np doubt laid by sufficient
aitthv iurre flehed and estofted from the
WEST and South. to last them the remainder
If their lives but may God IN bis mercy hove
pity on the great MASSES Of the laboilng
poor tt.,,z, t,,..
teen sadly overdone and run into the ground.
rio benefit to be derived from railroads has
bpen mitch ovetestimated. II Is only where
rrinu,ii,eatiot, by water Is Impossible that
railroad lines should he tQ1steretl, put ,iildef
MIR artificial and unhealthy mode OF pro,
eadufp rivers and CANALS have beer, neglected
and set aside and costly rail lines petted AMI
patnpered And instead Of building Iongnn,-
final lines, which any sound system 81 pollti,
and Important ones, only, lattttidtnat lines
hive lately been built, until the country be-
tween AZ. louis and the Atlantic looks like
b,lpe ptldron or n Russian war map. IN my
opinion the only latltudinal J. lines alsotit.ely A
Pacific foads one to San FRANCISCO anu
| The other 10 San Diego n road from
| Lake Erie 10 New York, one from Cincinnati
| 10 the Atlantic, and one from New Orleans N
| to Texas. These roads are absolutely needed
| the country could manage 10 get along with
out most Of the others, II our noble river syss-
ten were properly improved and made Use, Of
| Speaking Of latitudnal railroads, there is
aase ,iuflt before our eyes-ths New Orleans
and Mobile rad. Can you, Mr.. Editor, or any
If YOUR readers point out to ne how New Or
| leans or Louisiana has been benefited by II I
Let The millions Of bonds attempted 70 be
filehed from the public purse and the endless
Let its starving operatives, who work In fear
and trembling ON less than Pttsburg wages
| for bloatetl capitalists who despise everything
and everybody from the South, answer Let
the shiyering victims OF the Lizzie dlsaster'
who. half burned and half drowned, tretn-
bliuglv asked for transportation to New Of-
| lsans In vain. answeri Let The ruined Mis-
| sissippi sea coast-oite, In the days OF the
Laura, Creole and Canelia, The seat OF pros,
| uerity and pleasure, now bankrupt, rtlllea
and almost deserted answerl
know, Mr.. Editor, that II addressed such
language to the manager q any other view new
Orleans journal he would roll bis eyes Ia holy
horror and go into Mysteries pit the bare Idea
that Our railroad magnates should be so II
reverently spoken Of But trust that you
are not SO completely subdued, by the eneryatr
Ing influence OF an occasional fteea ticket h
close yottr columns 10 calm and dispaHsioft-
ate discussion Of matters that affect us all 81
vitality. =,
/ would Fain coll your attention TO the In
consistency Of ,degreeatns Federal inter =,
ference in purely State matters In one III
stance and commencing II In another o
giving sauce TO the goose In Louisiana bn
denying It to the gander In Pennsylvania
But fear have made my oom,in,,,nicatlof
already too lengthy. and will, therefore
close only once more, Mr. Editor. let M
beg you mol to anathematiae anything TIM
viii bring back trade to New Orleans
FuANH HEtpERHoFf.