The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-04-19
TIE JEWE7r BOOM.
A Builder, Not Destructionist.
What Ia Thought OF His Claims as a
Presidential Candidats in Ohio.
gCincinnaii Enquirer. April iol


Fifty years ago there we're twenty-two
| miles Of railroad Ia operation In the United
States. In 1910 the numheF of miles m oper-
alton did not equal 1900, and they were fewer
than 10000 In 1860. To-day there are In oper
alton In the United States $4,000 miles of main
track railroad, with 2s,oee other miles of sec
ond tracks and sldpgs. In this vast industry
more than forty-tiv hundred millions of dol
lars ts4 5es 94e 7s3 in 1879 invested, and Its
gross earnings exceed five hundred millions
of dollars annually. IT furnishes employment
to many hundreds of thousands Of men. III
| Ia great productive industry, for transpor
| tation increases values.
| In this country Of vast distances, aud Of
| measureless productive power In the in
terror transportation is Inevitably the pro-
| found industrial problem. the broad prob
lem of peace. Enormous as ts the railroad
| system of the United States, the railroad
| veins and arteries are only about one-sixth
! es frequent in this country "a In Great
Britain and Ireland, aud the American
railroad Ia still IN its Infancy. In this
broad land covering twenty-five degrees
og latitude, ever which the Gun can journey
twenty eight hundred miles from the
Atlantic to the Pscitic-nearly one eighth
Of hls daily eourse-without quitting
| the realm of the one flag; whose
frontier fringe is ten Thousand miles
in length encireling three million square
miles of land within which the Steamboat can
follow the silver thread of one continuous
river course four Thousand miles to the gulf
some of whose INLAND lakes are vast, ssltess
seas: with twenty-three millions Of people
engaged In agricultural pursuits; with agr-
cultural exports amounting TO 5000, ,NO0, 600 In
value, and producing twenty billions OF
bushels of cereals, producing more than
five millions of bales OF cotton. of coal, sixty
millions OF tons: of iron and steel ten millions
OF tons-tn a land thus spread, and tore-or-
dained to euch industries, transportation Is,
of necessity, the overtopping peace problem.
The eyes of the American people naturally
turn toward the men of command upon the
commanding questions, At the close of n
war men look over the freshest and hloodest
battle field to find a President. because IL was
the soldier that met the problem Of that hour
And SO, In this hour whose need ia civil lib
erty with peace and business prosperity, 1t ia
natural, logical process that has turned the
eyes of many toward a regnant man In All
imperial industry. It ls not now a problem
{ of blood, the questions are those of placid
enterprise under the liberty of constitu-
tlonal democracy. Aud this is why the name
of Hon. Hugh J. Jewett has been prominently
mentioned among the candidates for the
presidential nomination at Cincinnati in June.
The foundations for the success of Mr..
Jewett were laid early and broad and deep.
{ He was equipped with the training of schools
. In early life. His education and training as a
civil polity, He was United States district
attorney while yet young. He had given
J sufficient attention to public questions, and
, was sufficiently In the public eye to be the
! Democratic candidate for the Governorship
of Ohio nearly twenty years ago, and, after
ward. to be sent to Congress from this State.
: His political alliances are strong, and his
acquaintance with public ;. Questions
: cratic principle - 1t runs In, the
blood. He was drawn into railroadlng to
,, be a conservator of Industries s-not a des-
troyer. He was called TO this great depart
ment of human enterprise rs friend of pro-
g duction-not all enemy. 1t was In the heart
of the great West, not In the cooperative
atmosphere of New York, that he learned the
. railroad need of the country. Hehad learned
In broad Ohio that In order to conduct rail-
road for the benefit of itself It should be con
Quoted for the benefit of the farm. He has
q seemed TO regard railroad property as. In
g some sense, public property, whose conduct
q should be reasonably deteTental to public
opinion. A talented and thoughtful writer
I ID New York, a Republican, has said within u
month: ''But II ia perfectly we'll under
4 stood In New York that his connection
q with the affair of the greatest and
most unfortunate railroad In the country has
been triumph. He seems TO be equally well
indoreed by Vanderbilt, by Scott and by Gar
! rett, the presidents of the three rival lines,
, They have found him a man of his word, of
strong and reliable character and with cor
I
/ production and public opinion, Raised among
the people In a Western State. Mr. Jewett
/ knows better than Eastern railroad prest-
4 dents what Is due to an observing public. In
the East railroads encounter public opinion
/ less than the interested opposition Of lobby
men. strikers and speculators. Mr.. Jewett 8
character has been Endorsed In all the diff
ferent employments he has gone through"
MIR. Jewett, better than any man OF his
time, measuring his work by its difficulties,
e and in better spirit, has met the absorbing
/ business problem of his time. WitE unsur-
passed administrative effort with creative
= power he laid his hand upon melancholy
z and scandalized property which repre-
sented, perhaps, one hundred and fifty mil
lions OF buried dollars and lifted 1t into re-
, spect, esteem and value. He has shown ex-
ecutive qualities of the highest order In al
. fairs OF the greatest magnitude, under circum-
stances of greatest intricaoy and embarrass
: ment He has been builder. not destruc
: ZIONIST. From boyhood he has been able tC
recognize civil liberty at sight. He is in
e herently capable OF Democracy He has beer
: strong enough to unfold the great business
g problem Of the hour In the palm OF his hand
as 1t were little thing. His name stands fol
g happy industry as against political wrang
0 ling; for the business prosperity OF the whole
= country as against sectionaiSm, for The
. energetic. harmonious arts or peace What
= ever the result OF the Democratic Nationa
: Convention In June. the name OF Mr.. Jewet
will be prominently and properly before 1t.
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