Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-17
GOWElI.
HIS SECOND TALK.

0OWEN.
HIS SECOND TALK.
Exposing RaiIread, State and AUniciPsl
CoFrups1oD.
To an immense audience in the Phila-
delphia Academy of Music last night Mr..
Gowen was introduced by General Patter-
son, and after the rOars of applause with
which he was greeted had subsided he
plunged directly into his talk. He said
that the future prosperity Of the city OF
Philadelphia, in addition to the develop
| ment Of the state, could be better pre-
served, improved and enlarged by develop
ment within the state than by anything
else. If Chinese wall could be built
around the state and all of its products
turned into the city, Philadelphia would
be twice as big as New York. Every
dollar of capital of the Philadelphia
| s Reading railroad was invested in the
state, while $50, ,OOO, 900 of the Pennsyl
vania railroad company's capital was
invested out of the state. The policy of
the Reading railroad was to benefit Phila-
delphia, but the policy of tho Pennsylva-
mia railroad was not only to sacrifice Penn
sylvania in order to secure western lines,
but also to secure avenues of transp0rta
ton in this state for no other business than
to prevent business being done which
would inure to the benefit of the state.
The case of the Sunbury s. Erie road
was notable example. This road had
been built for the prosperity of the state ;
it had been seized by great corporation
and rendered Of no account. Why? Be-
cause if it had been developed it would
have stricken down certain pet industries
which the ring that conducts the Penn
sylvania company conducts for its own
private interests.
that the sole aim of the Pennsylvania rail-
phia to New York, and numerous statistics
duced in support of the argument. "What
is the policy of tho Pennsyivaniaq' ~ he
asked. "Why, to develop the West, to
give to New York capitalists the cream of
Pennsylvania products and to bring here
the barren husks of the West for shipment
to Europe. And what 0.her Western
efforts in favor of Philadelphia amount to?
Why, one great manufacturing establish.
ment like the Baldwin works is worth more
to the city than all the foreign trade she
has ever brought US.
"What is the moral and what is our
duty?" Mr.. Gowen went on to say. ''Our
duty is to strive to win back a portion Of
that trade which has been given up in
favor of this fleeting chimera of Western
trade, to develop the untouched portions
of the state and to foster and encourage
the industeries Of Philadelphia. The
Reading railroad would have done much
in this direction had it not been OBJ
structed by the Pennsylvania railroad,
which is pulling tho wires for the puppets
who arc parading themselves as the
saviOurs of the road. l have called
you here tonight, because I believe that
the Reading road is in danger of being
captured by the Pennsylvania. 1t is not
SO much my business as yours. say it
because believe it; because of the signs
of tho times because we have c;rcumstan-
tial evidence SO strong that no man can
doubt because it is to to the Pennsylvania
road that owe all the reverses with
which I have had to struggle. Its directors
or stockholders in our financial institutions
have refused us aid :; the counsel in the re-
cent litigation were these affiliated with it !;
tho London agents of the litigants are its
emissaries its subOrdinates have bOasted
that when the new management came into
control the Pennsylvania aims would be
served"
Mr.. Gowen then alluded to the news
papers in general terms, saying that with
one or two exceptions they had said all
that they could against him, and one that
had been very bitter, he was glad to see,
had become civil. The Ledger he men,
toned by name, stating that there were
many reasons why Mr.. Childs should be
SsNckv -
MIR. Childs's respect for titled persons. An
foreign bond and stockholders, Mr.. Childs
could not help going for that side, and
this was not to be wondered at, as he had
perhaps had it represented to him that
that would be the winning side. Mr..
Gowen sale, however, that he had en-
gagged friend of his in London to speak
to marquis, if the case became desperate,
to take sides with him ; and marquis be-
ing higher than an earl Mr.. Childs would
have strong inducements to come over.
But as still stronger inducement to MIR.
Childs he had thought of enlisting prince
on his side, and . prince Mr.. Childs Ger
tainly could not resist. There was another
reason that might have excited the i'll feel
ing of Mr.. Childs, and that was his rivalry
with him in writing obituary poetry. He
said that he had prepared stanza relat-
ing to himself which Mr.. Childs had heard
of, and since then he had become jealous.
The speaker then repeated the verses as
follows:
"AffiictiOn sore long time he bore,
The deferred bonds were in vain;
Two DEGREES of court were against him,
And this relieved him OF his pain,
Gone but not forgotten
"The recent decision of the supreme
court, " said the speaker, ''is another evil
dence of the Pennsylvania influence. l
do no like to criticise the motive of the
court in its four-to-three decision, but
when men Of the eminence of Judges
Sharswood and Turnkey say that the de
cision is not law, it is no contempt of court
to say here, as say elsewhere, that there
is only one power in the state which can
control the utterances of the court. You
know who that is without my naming it.
say that the Pennsylvania railroad is at
the bottom of the whole thing"
The concluding portion of the address
was devoted to the consideration of what
the speaker described as "three gigantic
evils" viz ): The unjust acquisition of
wealth on the part of railroad officials
the unjust discrimination in rates in favor
of particular individuals, companies or
firms, and the corrupt control of political