The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-05-21

a favorable dispositions and reciprocal SEN
+tmens amongst the sections. When that
zine arrives, should the bill be lost. there IS
no telling when the opportunity may come
aeain. eve must take the current when
At serves, or losesour ventures.
ID AS we said formerly, In this new bill iH.s the
sHusYiSaroN monopoly would have the west
ern terminus OF what would then in nocke-
~ no called /, i. Southern Pacific railway.
The line would he disiointed, composed OF
ave corporations, which would utterly de-
seat ANYTHING like unity, homogenettS, and
syigor; and that Is exactly what the HUNTING
TON corporation seeks; because It g mas us
). completed trans-continental line, ana Mr.
HUs11SGToS has declared that. that one line
Is altogether sufficient for tue trans-conu-
mental commerce OF the country.
what HUNTINGTON desires is to econ1ine
Ssthe western terminus to San Francisco. He
i proposes now not to build aroad from san
Diero eastward, but to build line from
San Francisco to San Diego, and thus COM
mel freight and travel to take its way Usa
San Francisco or to go back on themselves
: and down the coast to hunt fora place OF
departure.
II there is any point clear in Federal
. legislation with regard to trans-continental
] railways IL is that those works shall be1nde-
nerdent. and shall be made each for itself the
! agent of development and Ire artery OF the
commerce that naturally would find trans
portation BY it the shortest and cheapest.
Defeat this object OF their construction, and
OF course immense Injury must be done to
commerce, development, and public conve-
nence.
Five little corporations in pie would be
a GOOD dish to set before King HUNTING
TON, and proof OF the folly OF Congress
and its faithlessness to the true interests
of the nation as well as OF the southern
States. 1t would bea proof that miserable
individual Interests and the greed OF cor
rupt c,rporations were made superior TO
the great Interests Of the nation.
WHY should the monster Of the Union
Z Central Pacific seek to gobble up the Texas
Pacific line rather than the Northern 1ane,
which has more land than the Texas-Pae'tlc.
and e liberal subsidy besides, which the
Texas-Pacifc has not: This is the rub. 1t
Is because tie Northern line is undesirable,
and because the Texas-P Pacific is tie choicest
and best OF traIs-continentelr routes. 1t has
. easy grades. low SUBMITS, perennial spring
Temperatures, no obstructive weather, anu
may be operated without intermission all
the year round while the Central-Unlon
!. has sharp curves, heavy grades, SUBMITS IN
I, the clouds. obstructive weather, one hum
). dred and fifty miles Of snow-sheds, and
: must be interrupted frequently, and must
always encounter perifs that are unknown
10 the Texas Pacific line.
It is. no wonder that greedy, rapacious
corporation Ike the HUNTINGTON company
should fear the competition OF such a line,
and should seek by all imaginable contri-
vances to avoid it. ii
With the clear intention to make the
trans-continentaI lines independent, with
the knowledge that the public welfare more
demands that the Texas-P Pacific shall be in
dependent, for many reasons, than any othe1
highway across tue continent, what eifront-
. ery it is in the monopoly. company to pre-
sent itself before Congress and demand
that the Texas line shall be put in Mr..
/ HUNTISGToS's care to dry-nurse. 1t is like
putting the lamb under. the motherly care OF
the she wolf. All independence, all vigor OF
the mose important of all lines, would be
. Mt an end. i,
= And how can Mr.. HUNTINGTON, the rep
resentatiye OF the most corrupt corporation
that ever existed in this country, offer to take
this great enterprise into his guardianship?
Can there be any assurance that he will re-
specs the public interests and be fair in his
administration 2 Was he not the arti6cerof
the Credit Mobilier corruption? Was he not
s tine yelled prophet wi no stood in the shade
iof poor, old Mr.. AmEs- and escaped pub,
lie DETECTION whilst congressmaR, whose
shoes be was not worthy to untic,' was.
sent a seapegoat to the forest, and from
thence to the grave? What have we seen
the past winter but conviction, in effect, OF
Mr.. HUNTINGTON for. practices jnypocritical
and censurable in endeavoring to deprive
the Government Of its rights? Senator
THURMAS's bill was, the answer to that in
troduced on his behalf that was tantamount
to a plea Of '..not guilty. !" But Senator
THURMAY'si bill fixed, the 'sgnilt" upon
him, and it was passed by the House with
only two dissenting voices! Such thing
is without precedent. and presents ade-
-cision rare and damning. '3-.s
Still the monopoly president travels the
streets Of Washington and persistently plots
and schemes TO defeat the. greatest project
for the promotion of the national welfare |
ever conceived. Il lie breads 1t, as do all his
colleague and to defeat it he even plays
the part Of the MEPHIsT0PHILEso OF the Fed |
eraI capital. .iata..i
" We cannot see how it IS possible that 80
Important scheme an tiiatssof the Texas
Pacific railway shall be, handed over under
such circumstances to such q man, and to |
rapaeious monopoly J, which settles down
upon the Pacific coast. and, Ike family OF
starfsh enyeIoping q bed OF oysters, sucks
mp oil lie and leaves only empty shells aiter
them. Every highway that pays toll-eYeryI
ferry and steam line in Caliicrnia-is sub,
ordlnated to this oYerbearing corporation
this incubus that must be uncomfortable and,
that in time must be overthrow.
: But why submit the southern frRns-conti-
nento, line to the tender mercies Of this Fra-
paeions and merciless cor orations 10 cam
not be done by honest means. The sacrti L