The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-07-28


citizens of thirty-one OF the most
wealthy, influential and thickly pop
ulated counties of the State. These
counties having, according to the lat
est national census, a majority of the
aggregate population of the State, of
nearly $4,000, who would be much
better accommodated if the Capital
is located at Clarksburg, or at some
convenient point north of the city of
Charleston.
The people of these counties repre-
sent the greater portion of the wealth
and pay into the State Treasury two
thirds Of the State taxes. 1t is APP
parent to any one who will contem-
plate these facts, that the interest and
convenience of decided majority of
the people of the State would be bet
ter promoted if the Capital is located
at Clarksburg than at Charleston, a
point remote and inaccessible to the
citizens of the most populous,
wealthy and business portion Of the
State. Certainly, without doing any
injustice to the people of the Kama.
wha Valley, the people of the north
ern section of the State who represent
the greater portion of the relative
wealth and pay two-thirds of the
taxes which support the State govern
ment, may justly regard their own
convenience as paramount to that of
theHninority, who pay less than one
third of the State taxes. IN view of
these facts, can it be reasonably ex-
pected that the majority of the peo-
pie of the State, whose interests and
convenience would be best promoted
by =, locating the State Capital at
Clarksburg, should throw aside every
personal consideration and vote to To-
cate the Capital at q point remote
from the wealth and business interest
of the State.
We are admonished by our broth
rem of the Kanawha Valley "that it
is as convenient for the people of the
northern section of the State to get
to Charleston as for the citizens of the
Kanawha Valley a. get to some point
further north" Which is the easier
and less expensive, for Mohamet to
go to the mountains or to bring the
mountains to Mohamet?
DO reason and justice demand that
the majority should sacrifice its in
tercst and material convenience to
those Of the minority, by voting to To-
cate the Capital at point that will
incommode the greater portion of the
people of the State for the accommo-
dation of the less?
1t is urged by the advocates of
Charleston that ito give the people OF
the State a fair and equal distribu-
ton of the State institutions, the
Capital slfoald go to Charleston"
This might all seem fair and rca-
sonable enough if Charleston had an
easy, direct and cheap communica-
ton with the majority of the people
of the State, but unfortunately for her
sho has not these advantages, there
fore, if the Capital is returned to that
point, the people will suffer inconve-
nience and serious detriment on that
account: Justice and every consid-
Grafton of right would give the Capt.
tai convenient location. The pco
pie, or more especially the represen-
tatiyes Of the people, Of the northern
section of the State don't desire trip
round Cape Horn or to cross the
mountains of the Moon to reach the
Capital. What they want is con
venient location. ID.
The Great Railroad strikd.
+ 1r'ati WHEELING, July 23d.
The present dcplorable condition
Of railroad affairs is the outgrowth of
false and unnatural business trans
action, adopted by all the leading
roads. On the part of the Baltimore
d Ohio road it is 0ccasioned by con
cealed fraud and unprincipled sham.
Some time ago the stock of that road
sold readily at $1.s5. The cause of
this high figure was false returns of
it's property, and in this manner. In
making it's usual exhibit, showing it's
standing in the financial world, it
placed it's surplus fund at the enor-
nous figure of thirty millions of dol
lars. 1t showed something like hun
'dred million dollars worth of proper
ty...It showed large net earnings, all
of these conduced to make the stock
of that company take bound to fab