The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-12-25
will build without dollar of subscription

| from the South
REASONS FOR DISTRIBUTING THE TEXAS PA
CiFIC.
What that company wants Is n clear title 10
| he right of way through the Territories. Gov.
Brown says they have it. already IT is true
that Congress. In 1876 passed n general law
authorlzlng any company to build through
any Territory and giving it certain privileges
but Congress reserved the right to alter
amend OF repeal that statute A repeal before
q company had acquired vested rights under
that statute would leave no right to any com
pany, except it might be by territorial lcgisia-
ton But even that is subject to the approval
Of Congress. Besides, Congress granted 10 the
Texas ana Pacific in 1871 and 1879 ls0o600o
| acres Of land sce Gov. Browns address, y. 90
| along the lin" which the Southern Pacific will
| occupy II permitted These acres were Mt
once Withdrawn from the market by the gov
eminent. and are claimed to-day by the Texas
aud Pacific. That company having failed 20
comply with its duty to build should no
longer be permitted to hold in mortmair-
yes literally in dedd handa those millions Of
acres They should be placed on the market
again and Mt once, SO they could he bought
from the government by settlers along the
line Of the Southern Pacific as it progresses
This is but Justice tn any company that will
build with It's OWL money, ~ road through
n region go uninvitnp in agricultural re-
sources Every available arabic acre ought
to bo on the market to yield something for
local freight.
Gov, Brown cannot see why the Southern
Pacific opposes his demand for subsidy. II
will be % much harder task Tor him to give to
Congress or To you n satisfactory reason for
his opposition 10 II company which offers to
tho South, free of cost, u public highway to
the Pacific, and for inportuning Congress Ia
vote away money enough for that purpose,
to be handled and spent by n Pennsylvania
company which for years has been handi-
capped by It's greed for railroads which for
many seasons has been torpid Of healthfuI
diet and digestion, with seventeen northern
roads III ttS anaconda stomach, and which,
like Mark Iwains jumping frog, is shotted
down to the threat and Is yainly stretching
its neck for n leap to the West while held to
the ground by its jockeyed body in the East
THE PENNSYLVANIA MoNoPoLY TO BE HELPED
OttT OF THE TREASURY.
GOV Brown. finding ii necessary to meet
the objection to The immense subsidy asked
for by him. pleads a SET off against the South
| ern Pacific. The process of ratocination Ito
say nothing Of the progress in the art Of logic
by which he makes out his defense. is almost
original He says To You in his address that,
to permit the Southern Pacific to build to El
Paso, with lis own money, would be to grant
further aid that is. would be the giving Of n
subsidy by Congress. And he arrives at this
conclusion In the following novel method.
He says: "Whereas Congress granted.
IN 1864, n subsidy to the Central Pacific
Railroad Company, and whereas, some
Of the stockholders in the Central Pa
clic are also stockholders in the
Southern Pacific, new therefore, IT oil of the
stockholders in thh Southern Pacific wero tn
use their own money in building from Fort
Yuma 10 FL Paso that would be further
aid, or as bad MS granting another subsidy
| now to the Texas and Pacific A ndoTses q
note for Il for Sftd6 payable ten years after
date and sells the note to G., gets the money
| aud seeks To invest the money IN u house. p
then asks to indetse his note for $4,000
| that he may buy the same house. A SAYS,
| L l.. q.
| ing BIS note But, says y, IF you per
nit u to buy that house with that money it
| will he rs bad for Won as II you were to in
dorse for me fnt 10000 more and let me buy
the house" "ThM roni No." Gov, "No. sir
hat wont dor ftDpgressionut Record pns-
| siml
| The people of the South cannot be convinced
| by this logic. however much they may adj
rniro its desperate ingenuity. They are not
| tn be so easily overwhelmed as was poor
| Moses. in the Vicar Of Wakefield, when a very
similar syllogism was hurled at him by the
| Squire. 81 proceed to observe the concatena-
| ton Of Heterogeneous circumstances, proceed
! ing in n reciprocal duplicate ratio, NATURAL Y
produce an analytical dlalogism, which IN
! some measure proves that the essence OIL
spirituality may be referred to the second
| predicabe.
The people Of the South want n road to the
! Pacific, and want it mot twenty years
hence and they must not be charged with
stupidity If they fail to 500 that the govern
ment will be in no better condition by becOrn-
ing liable for over SG00O0 900 the amount III
interest on your bonds at per cent for fifty
years. than It will be by allowing the South
ern Pacific to do the very work proposed
without any further aid" whatever
But the Southern Pacific has satisfactory
reason for Offering this subsidy. Let 1t be
remembered that the Southern was authorized
to build to Fort Yuma, and to connect there
with tho Texas and Pacific The Southern did
not then object to the subsidy Of forty million
acres given to the Texas and Pacific. But
since the Southern has complied with the
Iaw has built to Yuma it does object 10 "A
fresh grant Of subsidy which will enable Mr.
Scott, without dollar Of stockholders
money, to build n road to run side by side
with the Southern Pacific, built by q private
company with its own money. This would
be unjust. especially as the rates Of freight
over the Southern Pacific will be under cor
troll Of Congress.
Besides, the Southern Pacific cannot afford
to wait in u desert for the Texas and Pacific
to come to it over n stretch Of 1850 miles,
! especially as this cannot be done without u
subsidy, and there is slight hope Of one from
! Congress. The Southern Pacific would wait
perhaps forever II it depended on the Texas
and Pacific for an eastern connection. Hence
that company desires action by Congress, so
rs 10 know whether another company the
Texas and Pacific will be paid by the public
to do what the Southern Pacific intends to do
without pay.
now Is THE SOUTH AFFECTED ny THESE
RIVAL PROPOSALS?
Gov Brown seems to be serious when he
speaks Of "ohiectiens ITO tn" Texas and Pa
cific subsidy which are being seduOusly and
mischevousIy circulated for the purpose Of
defeating the present bill, by dividing and
disturbing the Southern mind in its hitherto
almost luminous support of the measure"
This company and the granting Of subsidies
must have grown wonderfully since was in
the Senate. True, ! was from the beginning
Of this application. by Mr.. Scott opposed to
his scheme. examined into it carefully wher
in the Senate, and my conclusion then was, and
still Is, that Mr.. Scott does not mean to de
fraud the stockholders Of the Pennsy lvana
Central and its feeble adopted foster children
respect him too much to think so i'll Of him.
cannot believe he wishes to take bread out
Of their mouths and put it into ours. And
believing this, ! was not, and am not, willing
to give him what little bread the South has To
feed his numerous railroad family
IT Congress is almost unanimous for this
subsidy, the people certainly are not. The
House resolution paSSpd during the Last see-