The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-04
WHAT RsILResD AUrLDERS
ARE DOINS


Tter, cGn;if nt4i sm is tie cream O.
of every railway owner and builder.
Ja7 G,l:d OWES three thousand miles
of raiISSy lines aud Vanderbilt three
thoustnd III re, two men thus graspiug
the continent. H, w5o Las ,rsv rsed
these roads, which Could owns, is
am z Il wl:cn T,ncnb iing their tc-
diOu4 cnSrh and eno:m " cost and
value. The w bash, CT n o'idated with
the S j. L ,Eis aud K.nssa City and
n IthsIn P..cifr, the Missouri P4cfc,
the III n P4cifis and its C-n'ral
Rranch, extend from :he Ohio TO S.u
Francisco with lateral feeders baiong-
lng to the system mo:e thcn a thousand
miles long. Gould gave Garrison his
check for So 500, 600. and GArrison's
profits were 81. SOD 000 We do not
have such Transactions In Texae, tut
our iai!@ay "wheFs aud builders are
drtamias, kc those of the E,s', #
Spanning he continent. Here il is
more than q Thousand miles narrower
than where GGuld's r, ada arc curved
about the b-l'ed globe. When Texas
railway mansgers have achieved their
purpose, GouldS and VandeIbilts vii!
i1d themselves forced TO buy this
shortest route from New York through
East Tennessee and Virginia and
through T,xss to San Bias or Mszltlan
on the Pacific coast. While we are
dreaming of these possibilities and de-
ing nothing, even nothirg to turn
backward from New York the CONNER
cill aOd mircr riches of Colorado
aud ARR ma, which should pass through
Austin to the seA, ard while owners OF
the International are only talking OF
San Francisco, hardly daring to point
mndestly to Laredo, the owners of the
A-chison, Topeka AMI S4uta F. arf
adding 8 mile each day 10 the length
of their real, designed to cross Hun-
Iiugton's Texas and Pacific, and finally
reach the Pacific a; Guaym4s or San Di-
ego. But the primary design of this
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe road is
to effect the perfect diversion from
Texas and from Texas roads of all the
wealth that comes from the West to-
wards s.. Louis. Scott's Texas
Pacific and its extension from Texark-
ana to s.. Louii is designed to
be thwarted Of Its purpose,
and Huntington and Gould will direct
the wealth of the West and of the ORR
ent over she shorter line from Santa
Fe to 81. L ,uis. Tom Scott and Sam
Allen will have not passenger or bale
of goods from Huntington's railway.
There Is no recourse left Scott and Al
len. They must build a road of their
own frcm Weatherford, even to Quay
mas or SIN Diego. Huntington and
Gould If partners, az alleged, contro.
votes ennu II wijh Vanderbilt, TO con-
,rol CArgr=ss 4ad S;att and Allen and
louisville and Els Tennessee roads
will appeal to Congress in vain. There
will be no concession to S ;ott's Texas
Pac, fic and Huntington wall force every
bale Of goo0s ana every traveller t"
and from the two oceans, TO touch at
San Ere%eitaoA ea%a,to ASS Ia oiher words, if we
or 500 miles of railway, from SIN
Diego to San Francisco, needlessly.
But;Huntington and Gould ere enriched
and the people and cities along SCOTS
and Aliens roads cry out iu vain. New
Orleans, Charleston. N1rfolk and Gal
weston derive no adyantsae from the
construction of this great 81. Louis
trunk line of Huntington's Texas and
Pactic." lis misnomer and will be
until the Sunset road be extended to
Ell Psso, and Tom Scott's and Aliens
Iron Mountain road terminate on the
Pacific coast.