The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-03-05
SELECTILITERATURE.
STORY OF AGREAT MONOPOLY.



! the world he hadlothing. and there we
no steamboats, + railroads. He W;
thirty-iive years Id when the first loc
motive was put ito use in America.
When he died, raroads had become I'll
greatest force innodern industry, al
Vanderbilt was ii richest man of FL
rope or America, al the largest ownt
OF railroads in thworld. He used til
finest business braiof his day and til
franchise of the Sta to build up kin:
dem within the reptile, and like kin
he bequeathed his salth and power t
his eldest son. Banoft'o history of tb
United States and IT railroad svste,
were begun at the she time. The hi.
tory is not yet tinisht but the railroad
owe on stock and bids 81. 600, 900, OO(
more than twice ounational debt @
81. 22o, 00o.O 600, and t; the people IN
nually $3.50, 600, 900, o and a half time
more than the covenants revenue las
year of 1914, 600, 000.More than an
other class, our railro men have de
veloped the country, Il tried its insti
tutions. The evasion almost all take
by the New York Cent Railroad ha
thro~n upon the peolof New Yorl
State more than fair are OF the COS
of government, and illuates some o
the methods by which trich are max
ing the poor poorer.
| Violations of trust by Gilt Mobiliers
Jay Gould's wealth and e poverty Of
Erie stockholders, such,rruption OF
legislatures as gave the life Mail its
subsidies, and nicknameGew JERSEY
The State of Camden 1 Ambov,"
are sins against public anrivate faith
on scale impossible in THIRTY days of
republics and corporationsA law suit
still pending, though beg,ten years
ago by a citizen of Chica,to recover
the value of baggage destru by the
Pennsylvania Railroad; JudBarnard's
midnight orders for the Ering: the
surrender of its judicial intey by the
Supreme Court of Pennsylvs at the
bidding of the Pennsylvania lroad, as
charged before Congress president
Gowen, of the Reading Rad; the
veto by the Standard Oil Comy of the
enactment of law by the Peylvania
d legislature to carry out the Piston of
the constitution Of the State every
7 one shall have equal rights Ole rail
=. roads,-these are a few Of tmany
i things that have happened tell the
( Confidence of our citizens in the s and
lrthe administration of justice. other
system of taxation has borne aavilv
sapn the people as those extortionsl in
Capabilities of railroad chargeshich
! Caused the granger outburst in thest.
"ll}nd the recent uprising in NeWrk.
!. I'm the actual physical violenc.itb
Siwhich railroads have taken theirhts
,tio.f way through more than one Amau
unity. and in the railroad strikes OFT;
to nd 1877 with the anarchy that cam4b
ID lem. there are social disorders We ld
remover to see in America. These
NL'nts in railroad history show mef
''lon e points where We iail. as between,
n d man, employer and Employed
' bic and the corporation. the State
: citizen, to maintain the equitie
government and employment
O,Jpeople, by the people, for the peopl
,n,,a )ur treatment Of the railroad pr
isneda " will show the quality and cali
on on Dur political sense. 1t will go far
1SSshadowing the future lines of ,
IN. to al and political growth. 1t may in
whether the American democra
.ohe. lall the democratic experiments Il
! heSI. preceded it. is to become exit
+ Stouse the people had not wit enou
re. virtue enough to make the comm
ne Cas- supreme.
, .,'a remarkable series of eight railrt
Uav fs, which began during the Cent
acres Exposition of the prosperity of {
'nnd. century and the perfection of {
IN FIX; utions, culmir ated on July Is, IS
strike on the Baltimore and O
,ovrue lad at Martinsburg, West Virgin
'o $50 pread into the greatest labor {
Lookince on record. For fortni.
hie. settwas an American Reign of Terr
G b,,nus, ave forgotten it,-that is, it
sam KEITH us nothing: but if Freeman O
inches. ais to finish his History of Fede
entlon' lment from the Achaian League
redt OF Sisruption of the United States,
~, n.'n M,t Mi"'ve more than one chapter to {
rom dateising of 1877. The strike at NJ
e was instantly felt at Chica
,ltimore in the stoppage of sh
In a few hours the Baltim,
lio, one of the chief commerce
AH of Maryland. Virginia, Ohio,
and Illinois, was shut up. I
y Epread to the Pennsylvania. I
the New York Central railroa
the Great Western lines, W
Muntless branches, as far west
esssand Topeka, aud as far south
quit farrr River and the Texas Pacific
ms Ernenmm,Msesng of the railroad employees
on the roG country was expressed by I
y" of those of the Pennsylva
@"' to its stockholders. The sto,
" were reminded that "many
'lr i'n Dads men did not average wa:
e''s o'"' than seventy-fve cents day
e influence of the road had be
far m, Cars destroy the business of its b
Cornshelier,s, the oil producers, for the p
Wise, > feelilding up individual interest,"
S . ,rr,s io' IS the RESULT The traffic
Rcdstead,sappeared from the Pennsyl'
Of Ten dollaiad, and in place of 1000, {
that am amount; year, although shipmel
Ser. payable ess of last year, your road "
Hip HESS. arcely half the amount. T
iocKiEN' Ancld have enabled your compa
Personal proenough for a living The ;
refers pointedly to the abu
A 40 EGight lines. rolling stock co
AssssSl other railroad inventions
g 9gINei "ss!ssl%business into private poke
ic; 29x55 iifingmen followed the exam
ss high Eli!toad employees. At Zanesvi
,. OF. = soT'a Kaimanufactories stopped wo
ment aoSe ", ieeceased to export petroleum
Granary 22xs mills, foundries. and rein
''us'' '4N-' bland were closed. Chica2
nj sale. If nt'incinnati, all the cities lai
? EStntc ayen, lad the same experience.