The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-18

VINO determines under the proyis-
ions Of Tom SCOTS I'LL how many
bonds per mile he is to receiver He
las demanded enough to build two
such roads at present prices Of labor
and iron. Ii Scott make only $40, 600
per mic he will have Mt the close Of
his contract, besides 5000 miles of
road, 1920, 900, 600 clean profits, and
having steamship lines crossing oceans
aud seas in all directions to feed his
Philadelphia road and its branches, $"
he will control the worlds commerce
aud become an infinitely digger man
than old Grant" The government Is
creating force within itself which
must become, if Scott and Huntington
live twenty years, greater than the
government itself, and the government
provides that they shall never die.
With It's railway employees and switch
tenders, of whom Martin is chief, and
Throckmortons and station agents and
fifty thousand or more telegraph and
other scrvitors Of the omnipOtent cor
poyation whose road begins at Phila-
dclphla and ends at San Francisco, its
steamers departing daily in all direc-
- " To hrIp ,r
pack the worlds richcs-with all these
| agencies Of supreme power over money
and men, Scott and Huntington will
WELD greater power than the Rus
sian autocrat. They are now securing
incnt which will make them more po-
| tent than the government. If any
question the verify of these state
meuts, they need only sum up the dol,
lars and cents secured by two men.
Huntington controls day in CalifOr-
MIA roads that have cost already $50,
| 600 900. The trunk line from St.
Louis to San Diego will cost 800, 600,
600, and this more it costs, as the bill
! is drawn, the better for Scott and
Huntington. The Memphis, Nicks,
burg and New Orleans branches will
cost, il ever built, and they will not be
while st Louis and the bridge com
pany can prevent it, $50 1000, 900. The
road from Vinita to st. Louis, anG
thence to Philadelphia, including the
bridge, now in the hanos of Ton
Scott, cost 500, 900, GOO. The little
"feeders" from Dallas and Sher
man and Marshall and Texarkani
are worth trile of $4,000, 600
The sum total Of wealth, aside from
the land grants of Texas and that o
the Federal government, worth 500,
coo 900, thrust upon Scott AMI Hunt
ington, exceeds 5000, 600, 900. This enor
nous sum is not, like the Duke OF Suth
crland's, or of Westminster, or the Roth
schilds's wealth, invested in land anC
houses, or in different government
stocks and bonds. Every dollar shape
the action and affects the food and raj
ment of an active voting and tightin:
employee. Cities and States are at tn
mercy of the mcrcicss corporation
Jay Gould grasped half such roa'
rs this, and dozen Panama steam
ships, and New York City and Sa
Francisco were shocked and their trad
throttlcd. Here we have sum tota
of wealth conceded by the governmen
and railway corporations and terminc
cities to two men, in its immensit
staggering cvcdulity or comprehension
, When thrown into the scales in pres
Dental or State elections it will shape
at the will % the California and Phill
lclphia potcutates, the political dest
, MES of the country. Add to the richie
and power Of these two men, rs wielde
inside the Union, that which their sui
ordinate steamship lines will exert
1 every civilized country, and we ma
= begin to realize the future power of
corporate body which, even now, 5
lcnccs congressman and paralyz2s trut
- and impcls each organ of opinion alon
o the route OF the proposed road to d,
uouuca those that speak plainly rs il
famously corrupt.
The day Is not distant when the COT
70 poralions OF the country, created an
endowed log the votes OF men calm
! themselves Democrats, will control I'll
p country, shape its legislation aud ele,
; It's presidents. For this end, whetht
consciously or not, Lamar tolls, an
vt he once claimed to be a State
! rights Democrat. We are curioJ
70 to sec whether this bull, impo
p rug no restrictions or limitation
Of power or OF perpctmty, and prohlI
iliug no combinations or concentr
q tons of bounlleSs wealth, aRd givIu
4 more than imperial authority ov'
men, cities and States, will be SUI
r ported, in its present shape, by me
b pretending to be States rights DEM
e Gratis.
We would have a Texas and PaC
tic" road; the Register would have
L PHILADELPHIA, s.. Louis and Pact
, road. We sought To- have IIuntiugtC
j. recognized by the State rs Tom SEQ
, had been, and preferred two to OF
great corporation, the law TO prohib
' ,hvir con, o,ldation. We sought