The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-11-17
THE TENAS PACIFIC RAILROAD.

THE GREAT NEED or THE TIMEs--TRE or
POSITION IT Is ENCoUNTERING, ETC
Ex-Governor John G. Brown, Of Tenncs.
see has written an open letter. addressed 10
the people Of the South, on the subject Of
the opposition of some Southern gentlemen
to the completion of the Texas Pacific rail
road, in which he fairly meets and demol-
ishes their objections and shows that the
building Of that road would not cost the
government single dollar, while the peo-
pie are now taxed Sl0,0O0,00O annually to
pay the interest on the Union Pacific steal.
1t is the owners Of the Union Pacific and
the Huntingdon Pacific road who are inter
ested in the defeat Of the Texas Pacific road
Huntington has an immense interest in both
roads, and the great monopoly proposes To
retain the entire carrying trade and subject
the country 10 their cXorbitant charges
The Texas Pacific would be a competing
line, and its competition would establish a
healthy competition which would bring
travelling and freight charges to a
reasonable figure. Nearly 100 miles of the
Texas Pacific are already built and in sue
'Ncoihl 'llNIdllplt' anu
his co-workers have already spent millions
Of dollars in buying members OF Congress
to defeat the Texas Pacific road and they
can well afford it if by so doing they can
retain the immense business over their
road.
The building Of the Texas Pacific is now
the great need Of the South; in fact its ex-
i.tpp1n alnAlt l,nnnls - al
southern man who votes against the bill
may be put down as voting against the
known wishes Of his constituents, or as
having been bought by the Huntingdon
monopoly.
Governor Brown shows that the road will
benefit all sections four countryand that its
completion is "a necessity. The closing par
agraph is as follows; but what do want
to impress upon you is this, that a Southern
Pacific connection to be useful to YOU and
To the country must be an independent and
competing connection, one which shall be
open 10 all who desire to use
ii, AID upon which the rates shall
be under the direct supervision
and control of congress. so that the farmer,
INC nltItlldHl. llit manufacturers inc govern
ment itself shall he free from the extortion
and the power to cXtort OF the existing mon
opoly. Any connection, even if such we're
built, which Is a mere branch of the exist
ing Central Pacific monopoly subject in
the arrangement of its rates to It's interest,
limited in its connections to what it per
mits, free as it is from the wholesome con
troll Of the National Legislature, would be
not only delusion but an added danger.
1t would he simply the completion of the
most gigantic corporation known to history
since the days Of the East India company.
more powerful even than it was in the time
Of its undisputed authority, for the COM
merce OF the continent will bc the stock up
on which they declare their dividends, and
the great public highways of the nation will
be tolcd by their bylaws, They might as
well be permitted to levy customs in your
ports, and taNes upon your rivers. And
you know little Of their spirit il You think
for moment that To them YOU will be any
thing but dependent and subject tributa
rics.'