Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1878-02-08
rexa. and Pacific Railroad.

To the LditOr Of the Herald;
Il seems from a recent interview
with Mr.. Money, a. appears in the
NJ cmphis Appeal, Of the eth ms',,
that the railroad question il be.
coming an awakening suhjrcl
to bin, and well j, may be so,
when be iinds himself alone among bis
colleagues, and equally as lonesome, in
the hearts of his constituents in refer.
ence to this measure. He will 6ud
still further cause for explanations and
interviews when the resolutions Of the
Legislature OF his State greet his eyes,
and the Joint letter of the members OF
the Legislature from his ID strict isre
ceivcd. Mr.. Money continues TO be
alarmed by the Vinits branch, when ii
Is already removed. 1t reminds
me of an old gentleman's horse
which became daily frightened at a
grind.stone lying on the roadside TO
The nearby village. The old gentleman
had it removed, thinking his rides IN
future would be more comfortable, bu'
the horse, remembering the grind-slone,
frightened, Or AFFECTED 10 do so, at thp
same spot every day. Mr.. Money, the
grind. stone ia gone !-theVinita branch
is removed; Zen why continue 10 talk
about it! Nor can Mr.. Money per
ccivo how the Southern Pacific aud The
Union and Pacific can be In The same
interest, aud thinks that "B." has dis.
played great ignorance in t ese things.
If two roads are built by one corpora.
ton, run b, one corporation, and own
ed by the identical same set o.
men, cannot see how they can be
otherwise than precisely in The same
interest Is not the Union Pacific II
Huntington concern 2 aud will not the
Southern .nciGc, If ever built be in the
same Interest? But We say men sci.
dom comp 0gdiHSt their own inter
est, aud To. II is not the object OF
desire OF Huntington Il Company tt
bui,d this 10 1T At all. but they timplN
desire 10 Kill 81 the Teas dRd PdciH,
or day Southern rOdd. This conjecture
may be ignorance, but If so, il !. very
widely spread. Tho Uaion Pacific
and the Central Pacific constitute bu
one continuous line. They are a
essential to each other as one party d
the human frame i5to another. The
two companies 'orm a unit In ever!
particular, ami II matters not which o.
the two, or whether both together
owe the S29,0O0,00O of back inter
est. They act in concert as to paymen
or nou.patment of their debts, as they
do in all other matters concerning lhGil
grinding monopoly.
Decisions in the Supreme Court wert
not difficult 10 secure in a few year
gone by. This Credit MObilier monop
oily had vast influence and powerful
temptation held out for venalism, tina
spread from the Vice Presidents de'b
through all of the rami6CatiOns OF otllc'
end power. But II certainly cannot b.
a settled question, as Mr.. Money state
"that the interest would not be duetht
Government until the principal becam'
due" Ii so why is II the Government
Is now preparing the claim aud VIII!
is Congress calling for an adjustment
Such contract would indeed be con
sidcred novel aud foolish, by any pIaiI
common sense man, yet, as befor
stated, the decision may have becl
made 10 suit the peculiar exigeucies 0
the case. The Credit Mobilier rd
rery pocerful-decisions we're easy
But we return to the Vinita branch
Mr.. NJ. still irAimates he has no hOstil
| ity TO the Texas aud Pacific, but lha
qrind.Stone, the Vinita branch, still
irightens him.
II have no hostility to Texas Pa
CiGc bill with eastern termini not high
er-any OF them-thau Memphis" say
Mr., NJ, In this interview. Yet, in III
same breath, he says the Stephens bill
which, we understand, is strictly 30
parallel roai, is TO go as high up as s.
Louis. Great discovery AnothC
griud.s.onc! Such q thought neve
entered the brain Of any man in hi
widest meanderings. Are Stephen
Brown, ct al, to quit the South will
out a cause and go NorthH
we luluh hShlu tuat 4hl' thouSg
greatly mistaken in reference to Ii
south being opposed 10 the Texas an
Pacific, and favorable to the Souther
Pacific. Those who are opposed
the Texas and Pacific are opposed
any bill at all.
But there Is one thing Mr.. None
oonnot we'll mistake or question-th,
it is the unanimous wish Of his Stat
in Legislature a asembled, and also
his constituents, as expressed by jOll
letter of the legislators OF his DistriC
aud the universal tone Of the press,th
they would be pleased to have him d,
vocste free and independent Southcl
route, and THAT is the Texas Pacitl
rhey have appealed TO him through Il
Legislature, through the press, and a
) ter all this what will he do? We sbe
see. b.