The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1879-03-11
LANDING AT MARIETTA.

~We clip the following from the
Enterprise of the 9th ms.
AS Barnesville interests will be serious
ly damaged By the opening of the B. &
S. w. the appearance of this attack is
not likely to surprise very many people
in Monroe county:
The Bellaire and Southwestern
Railroad.
EDITOR ENTERPRISE Being subscri-
Der to your valuable paper, and seeing
you have no correspondent in this part
Of the dark hills, we venture short ar
ticle for the Enterprise. We will first
say, we are not in the habit of writing for
publication, neither do we pretend to be
competent to do so, but the fact is. there
is large class of men in this county,
known as the stockholders OF the B. & S.
W. Railroad, for a majority of them)
who can have no hearing, through the
press of this county. 1t is presumed by
some, that there has been some crooked
ness in the management Of said road, and
thereis no available means Of finding
out very much about it. The press is
dumb to the wants OF the people. Meth
er of them will publish anything that
would intimate that the managers OF said
road had ever conceived the idea Of
monopoly or selfish motives. And it
appears that large portion OF communi-
ty acquiesces in the same belief. They
(the managers, seem to exert kind OF
magic influence over press and people,
and have had full swing ever since the
organization of the company, and have
never made an intemized report, (abit Of
news eagerly sought for by many.) They
act as though they were not accountable
to any body for what they do, or else
they are afraid to make a report One
thing. we would ike to know is whether
those who went in 80 strong In taking
stock have payed up. The company, (ol
their representatives, have made and
published kind ofreport, which is about
as clear as mud to ordinary minds. l,
shows the company to be heavily in debt
and states the amount paid out for con
structiou, right Of way, cross ties, rolling
: stock, interest and discount, Office fx
: lures, fuel, oil, &C.. which looks like th,
l general expenses Of constructing ani
, running railroad. They then insert al
item, which they call general expenses
! eighty-nin hundred and forty six dollar
and sixty five cents. We would like t.
3 know who got that amount, and wha
general expenses mean. We suppose
means that amount gone where peopl
generally supposed it would. There is
' right way of doing business, and il the
. have done it that way, they should not b
I afraid to let those concerned know il
4 We all want the road, and all we ask i
the fair thing. All the poorer class Q
< lahoring men, we believe, have paid thei
r subscriptions, some of them forced to d,
d it, while others who are atle TO pay, hav
o not done it. We would be glad If som
e one who knows, would inform Us in re
J. gard to the Indebtedness of said roa6
who will pay it when due. We have n
o hard things to say against the Board c
It Directors: so far as we are acquainte
J. with them, we believe the most Of ther
J. are men who are disposed to do right,
notinauenced by designing men. Thi
a article has grown too long, and we wi
e close it for the present. FAIR PLAY.
ol WooDsFIBLD, March /, 1879.