The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-05-22
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Ssf ne return OF the hESaI&aIuNg INuhVpVfy
jby circuit from defeat TO reIcw tue at-'
ten,s,s to stsal The rights and franchises
morally and geograph icaily due 40 tne.
Texas-paciac Company a1iases some pub
i'd men Of nice discrinalna tioas but the
E,nonopolsstic MEpHIsTopnILEs u not sensi.
tive, and pereeives not tie inaprop riety.
The question arises, How can Congress con.
sent. 10 cenade the greatest OK national
works 30 the hands Of q corporation that
has iuss been convicted Of an attempt % &C. &C..
maud the government OF millions OF dol
liars There's the rub. s.s ss
But the MEpHrsToPHMEsa and bis follow
ers cannot see Il exactly In this light. They
hesitate NOT to come back after their defeat
before committees In the House and the
senate and hazard again che contest in
which they appear rs greedy monopoliss1ts
en,ieavoring TO deprive enterprise OF Its vi
tally. and, to disrupt the unity and con-
tinuity OF great national work, to tue last
ing and airreparable injury OF the nation.
An this, too, for no higher or holier motive
thai, that OF promoting the: power and IN
creasing the profits Of q monopoly the most
corrupt aud INSCRIPTIONS that ever existed
in this land. 51. S.,
This is the real state and nature OF the
strife now going on, before the nation ana
| in the halls Of national legislation. a'7
How do congressman look upon its HOW
| can a senator who voted that the HUNTING.
TON corporation was guilty OF outrage upon
rood faith and OF intentional fraud vote to
entrust that corporation with the greatest
Of all lines of transportation in the
nation? How can a member OF the
House Of Representatives vote to give
such ! corporation monopoly OF
the entire Pacific coast? of the. Paclhc
ports and all the railways that lead to them
from the Atlantic States9 All but two
members OF the House voted that HUNTING
TON was guilty, and that the company OF
which he is the head was guilty with him.
viii they think Of trusting this leader and
his followers with this immense power over
the commerce of the Pacific? Will they
accord this unprecedented power aud con-
troll to a corporation that they have unani-
4 meusly voted to be unworthy OF conn
dence?
The rights of the people, their liberties
| and the freedom Of commerce are not Things
! to be trusted to the untrustworthy, nor is
that competition which is indispensable to
/ commercial freedom and personal liberty to
be strangled by betraying the nation to
s,ob, . nonono)y as that OF which Mr.
HUNTINGTON is the head.
oh, no. MEPmsTopHILEs may try and
try, and work and work, in bis seductive
4 WAYS, but fail he must. How can he hops
to triumph in view Of his inglorious defea'
in his brazen effort to divert from the Ma
tional Treasury millions that belonged te
it? Senator THURMAN's bill cut OF the Die
phistophilean tail and turned back Its
lhorns. a.
The Texas Pacific, If there is any force in
the claims OF justice and the counsel OF WIS
dom, must succeed in its entirety and It's
integrity. The Federal Congress intended
in chartering the trans-continental high
ways, that they should be independent.
vigorous, and competitive lines; and if this
were not altogether so. all justice, all moral
ity, all public welfare, are uncompromisingly
against eonfding the rights, interests, ano
security " the people TO men convicted Of
in6delity and intentional fraud.