The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-22
THE JUGGLERS AT WASHING.
TON STILL AT 1T.

THE JUGGLERS AT WASHING.
TON STILL AT 1T.
Throckmorton is gong to civllize
the Indians and redeem the Pan
handle and make Texas happy by ZEN
deavoring," as he tells US, "to get
Congress to endow the Waco branch
of the Central as it endows the Texas
(St. Louls) and Pacific road" This
Waco branch is to be the sop to Ger
berus. If the Cerberus-the press
of Texas had not growled Throck-
morton and Lamar and the Tom Scott's
Credit Mobilier would have neglected
Texas utterly by giving the State
nothing for its priceless domain except
that Indian reformation and blessed
ness in the Panhandle of which
Throckmorton dreams. But Tom
Scott's Philadelphia and ST. Louis
brldge-owning associates, in whose be-
half, it is said, Eads is preventing the
construction of ship canal from New
Orleans to Barataria Bay, had forgot
ten that the most profitable and short
est route from the Pacific to the Allan
tic lies through Ell Paso and Galveston.
Is it not plain, in the presence of this
fact, that these railway builders have
not been considering the necessities
of the country or the trade between
the two oceans ? 1t is absolutely an
afterthought::with Throckmorton and
Lamar, two devout lovers of the South,
that the Central Texas road shall be
furnished with enough money to ex-
tend the Waco branch to the Pan
handle. What Texas wants is a road
from El Paso to Galveston, and not
from the Panhandle to Galveston.
Mark you, too, this afterthought of
Messrs. Throckmorton and Lamar is
not made by them part of the bill re-
ported from the committee, but is to
be tackled on, "a possible amendment, in
the House. The original bill will
hardly pass, andsthls proposed adden-
dum is only tuD thrown to the whale.
1t is designed to quiet the nerves Of
the people of Texas and is confession
of the gross fraud practiced upon the
commonwealth, not in behalf of St.
Louis and Philadelphia and the Penn
sylvania railroad, as we vainly i'm
agined, but for the conversion of the
blessed Indians, of whom Throekmor-
ton and Lamar are suddenly desper-
ately enamored. But the diversion of
the road to the northwest from Fort
Worth is designed, as stated by
Throckmerton, to promote the civiliza-
tion Of the red man. 1t Is intended to
make the route from San Francisco to
St. Louis and Philadelphia the shortest,
and the route from San Francisco to
Galveston and New Orleans and Nor
folk the longest possible. ~c..r e.
St. Louis already has a road, and a
road controlling with despotic selfish
ness all trade and travel into Texas
from the Northeast. It is an extension
of the Texas and Pacific from Texar-
kama to st. Louis and Philadelphia.
There is another route to st. Louis and
Philadelphia from Sherman on the line
of the Texas and Pacific; but these two
highways are not enough. New Or
leans and Galveston can compete with
st. Louis fairly if the Southern cities
have branches diverging at the same
points from the trunk line of the Pa
clfic road. But fair and honest COM
petition with Galveston and New Or
leans is not all that st. Louis would
and must have. The branch to that
city must diverge north even from the
Panhandle of Texas, and even at or
near the one hundred and three or one
hundred and four parallel of longi-
tude. ..-
Mr.. Throckmorton tells US that his
Waco branch of the Central road, en-
dowed and extended to the Panhandle,
will unite with Tom Scott's Pennsylva-
MA Central (sometimes called the Texas
and Pacific at the one hundred meri-
dian. st. Louis must have the through
route, the main trunk line, diverging
from Texas three hundred miles west
of the point of divergence of the sup
posed Waco and Galveston branch.
One good result may be accomplished
by this supposed proposition which
Mr.. Throckmorton will make that
Philadelphia and st. Louis may vote it
down. He will conciliate the Texas
Central and the press that belongsto it,
and hoodwink Waco and rope in
Senator Coke. 1t is a very delusive
proposition. 1t does not come as part
Of the committees report. 1t is sep
arste amendment proposed to be made.
1t will not be accepted, and Mr..
Throckmorton surely knows it. Why
did he not make it part of the bill re-
ported by Lamar This tub thrown
to the whale will never float and we
greatly fear that Governor Throckmor-
ton will sink with il.