The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-01-27
COL. BEN MARTIN
viii Not Vote for Tom scott's Pa.
cfie Road,
notwithstanding the Action Of the
West Virginia Legislature.
MAs1llNoroN. Ianllnrp pa la,
Hon. Geo, II. Megal, Speaker Of he House Of
DeleqaLes Of YEt Nrainia::

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MY DEAR slR:-l learn by dispatch II
inc newspapers with some surprise, tina
our legislature has passed 4 resolution In
Strqeting tne Senators and requesting tht
kspf YES toYQte for the Texas Pa
Gihc Railroad Subsidy bill. lam SO conf
dent that this must have been done mad
yertentiy,, or at least upon q very imper
iect knowledge Of the facts, that l venture
70 address you IN regard to two or three
points on the general subject, in the hope
| ihat you at least may not allow this decis'
ION 70 stand without better understand,
ing oi ne questions involved
!FTse " should be known to our peo-
PIE that the Iexas pacihc bill, as reported
from commlttee, calls Tor the endorsement
ot the United states upon q minimum
amount OF 81, Io0,OOO OF the bonds Of that
company, running htty years, and bearing
nVe per cent. interest IN gold, thus binding
tho Treasury to pay out 70 capitalists
u ,9SI ,6UO IN gold annually, or an aggre.
gate o. nearly S9I0OO,OOO in oil, for inter
est The bonds are upon !, 400 miles oi
toaaa, apS are % the rate OF $1,000 per
mne ior tne easy portion and $So 900 per
m,l mlie ier tne harder portions OF the route.
rms ls more than enough TO build and
equip the road at the present low prices
OF lapor and-material, and 1t will leave a
large proht 70 the builders without re-
9uirlng them to put in another dollar oi
melr own money.
second. Col: Scott, the President OF the
pennsylvania X. X. Co. and Of several tribu.
iary concerns between Pittsburgh and st.
Louis, IS also the Presidentand chief man
ageT oil the Iexas Pacific. There can be
no uouDt, think, OF his purpose to make
ne ilne from Northern Texas TO tho Pa
enc SUBSIDIARY and .subseryient to his
rOads norm Of the Ohio rtyer-that Is his
great motive IN getting up this scheme to
MAKE the government build more roads to
ieesuhi oSefgrowni monopoly. West Viz
glnlaShas nothing to hope Tor, but much to
lose, by the adoption oil such a policy.
Nelther OF the great trunk lines which
cross her territory, need expect to get q
passenger or car load Of freight destined
70 or from the lar West, II Col Scott and
ms allies control both the Atlantic and Pa
enc ends OF the through line. They will
pc made 70 work into each others hands
IN spite Of statutory provisions. No set OF
men IN the country ought 70 be entrusted
Win so large and dangerous power.
Ihlru. II turns outthat one other com.
pany, and perhaps more, offer tO build all
tnat Is essentia! Of TINS same Texas Pacific
Road, eltner without AID from the govern;
ment or with very much less, as you will
see py the Dill OF Senator Johnson, of
virginia, enclosed herewithp than the
sum asked py tnls Iexas tacihc Bill. For
instance the San Francisco end otthis
S2nd paraleli road across the continent,
was originally required e. be built by a
California company, and that company
nas already IN operation continuous
me from that city nearly eight hundred
miles eastward t9'the interior OF Arizona.
where Ills rapidly progressing, mile a
DAY, average, OF track being laid. at,
tracted by the rich silver and gold
mines oil Arizona, and backed by the
rich mines OF Nevada and California, and
her wheat fields, these capitalists are now
constructing the western half OF this rail-
ROAD line in order TO accommodate such
local traffic as oilers and to participate in
the through business. IL IS only reasona-
Die tosgppose that the wealthy companies
controlled py the pennsylvania magnates
might with like ease and propriety, con:
struct me eastern haii across the plans ot
SH;d across thet 1ns1s
gSI'I NJ pssa ,'Is ios snbS ~ SIn 6S6 on ns
milo ~ and I otbera M wonId % 5s o. a,Sd y ~ ~ Pes so
aon, S tbe ssma % porto aS tbe eSos " = pso;e uy %
on .Eo 'Hv sSa S termS ;tbnH. @ SH ana aiiot;On
vi 9th t tha Ss Iines @ north % "ttSe nhio "tA'toH
VIZ, Fonrtb , T9 II Will % he ssan @ tSareioro 4ho,
nnGar No ous to ve;a ,h;s
money mons ss ths road IL bn;Id;nS as ,UtS fsst @ as
could Be e. desired without % resort T. to t't tbis IN