The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-27
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me west virginia senatSrship asa Mr.
Camden.
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Editors IntelllGeneer. -. -
light in regard 10 1.-The development q our
State by railroads and by the iuprsye'
ment OF navigable stream" In connection
with Senatorial aspirations. There Is
really charming naivete, at this day, IN
offering gentleman's extensive connec-
lion with railroad companies a. q reason
| for bestowing upon him Senatorial honors.
The request for light, however, ought to
Tie Psrkersburg branch Of the B. { Q.
railway, OF which branch Mr.. Camden Is
A director. in the years 1878 8, in connec-
tion with the Laurel Fork 4 Sand Hill rail-
way lcharged IS cents per barrel freight on
crude oil from Volcano to Parkeraburg,
distance Of twenty-five miles, and to-day
are charging forty. cents per barrel, while
the Pennsy lyania railway in connection
with the Cleveland & Marietta railway are
CARRYING crude oil from Oil City. Penn, TO
Marietta, o., Q distance OF about three
hundred miles for forty cents per barrel.
The freight by the Allegheny Valley rail-
yay and Ohio river from Oil City to Mari.
alta Ia only fifteen cents per barrel, while
the toll alone, charged by the Little
Kanawha Navigation Company, in which
Mr.. Camden Is large owner and perhaps
director, is seventeen cents per barrel
from Burning Springs to Parkersburg.
about forty miles OF "navigable tream."
While Mr.. Camden's Navigation Company
Is charging the poor, sickly v. Va. pro
ducer seventeen cents barrel toll on his
scant production, he informs the writer
that 1t doesn't cost the Standard Company
over 1--WE cents barrel to pump oil from
Butler county, Pennsylvania, to Cleye-
land, a distance three times the entire
length OF his "navigable stream" Mr..
Camden, being q member OF the Standard
| Oil Company as well as Of the Little ka'
lnayha Navigation Company, to use an
old term, "has his bread buttered on both
sides"
Having shown how much these railway
and river improvements have done in de-
yelopiug one OF West Virginia's industries
we would beg leave to call the Journals
attention to the true railway problem in
which the people OF West Virginia and OF
all her sister States are interested, viz:
'tHow can we check the tendency on the
part OF consolidated corporate interests to
perpetuate, through the requirement OF
political power, the abuses which they
have found it to their interest TO- perpet1-
ate." The shameful manner In which
the Standard Oil Company, Of which
Mr.. Camden is member, has con-
spired with the railway companies
Of the country to force corner on the
entire oil business OF the country, and
hold it for years, has been so thoroughly
exposed that one might be pardoned for
the editor OF the Journal TO be
acquainted with the facts. The following
extract from q report TO the New York
Chamber OF Commerce by the Committee
on Railway Transportation throws some
light on the development OF ambitious
by railroad aid: "Eow obliv.
ious OF their obligations as common car
riers, and how regardless OF public rights
are the great trunk lines, is illustrated by
their making an agreement with the Stand
ard Oil Company ARTICLE A. to protect 1t
against loss from competition" The
manner in which such an agreement
is performed Is illustrated by the
following fact within the writer's
knowledge. On different occasions
the general freight sgent Of q prominent
railway tomPaAyi WHoA aPRASa1Sh 49,
been made to him for rates OF freight by
outside refiners, has Immediately reported
the fact to the Camden Oil Company and
asked If It did not control the oil trade 81
the point named, and the Camden Oil
Company has replied, "Yes, that is our
meat"
As to making choice between Bourbon
and anti. Bourbon tariff and anti.taritf
Democrats, it is well to bear in mind the
significant admissions OF Jay Gould in
1873, where he testifes as follows: "We
had four States TO look alter, and we had
to suit our politics to circumstances. In o
Democratic district was Democrat; in
a Republican district was Republican;
in doubtful district l was doubtful; but
in every district, and at all times, l have
been an Erie man" So with Mr.. Camden
among his Bourbon friends he is Bour-
bon; among his Republican friends he is
progressive Democrat; but everywhere,
and at all times, he ia a Standard man.