The Phoenix herald., 1882-08-18

ss,me party III California, in express
 ing the spirit of the Rowe resolu-
 tions as cardinal principle of De
 mocracy, iRie d to indorse such Il
 theory. It is 'o prevent corporate
 com binsfions, and, through those com binations, corporate ID Inopolies, that the IaboIing mems parties, and
 the Democrat. party, elsewhere than ia Arizona, have passed similar but stronger resolutions than the said resolutions of MT Ro ye. But railroad combinations are those iE point. Now, what are the facts of these railroad combinations in the nation and in Arizona. and what was the intention of the Rowe resolu- tions and the cause of their being tabled by the influence of the rail road wing of the Phoenix Conven- lion? Railroad combinations on mence about fifteen years ago, both in this country aud in Europe. Gov erlments Became alarmed. Even the arisiocra'ic government Of Eng lane quaked befor the visibly coming power. Prussia alone has met the case by commencing 10 buy up the railroads and ran them as government enterprises. France and in the States of our Re public, they have commenced to take the bull by the horns. and pro
 hibi:cd in many of the States con- peting lines of railroad from con solidating. Among the States that first passed this law was the State of Ohio: but Jay Gould thought through the power of his purse and influence of lis combinations 10 de feat this law n Ohio. He effected the orgauiz4tiun and control of the St. Louis and Terra Eau;e, Indian spolis and Terra Haute, and Indian apoIis, Belle Fountain ai d Gleve- land railroads, and consolidated them in one corporation under the name Of the Bee Line. This was all well enough, and was legitimate -a.a te1p-ise, but his ambition did rot stop there. lie must control com peting lines in order to control the
 price of freight and fares. 50 he got control of majority of the stock of the Baltimore and Ohio to CincIn-
 natl CT some other road, and also q road from Dayton to Columbus, with branches from Columbus to the main line, and also from Gin cInnati to Dayton, and from Dayton to Union. But a minority of the corporators bucked. They took il into the courts, and the courts sci aside the combination and dissolved the combined corporation, declaring it to be in conflict with the statute of the State of Jhio prohibiting the combination of parallel and compet
 ing lines. The old officers tool charge of their respective lines and the combination failed But what las this to do. it may be asked, with inc Phoenix Convention, in the ta- bling of ths Rowe resolutions? II has all to do with it. It is the req son why they were tabled. Th' macnates of the two competing line. of Arizona, the A. & P. and the s
 P. with the Ohio decision before them, and taking a horoscopic view of the near future, they could set Arizona ard New MexIco as States of our Union, with a sovereign pow
 CT over railroad combinations, wheI courts could not be so easily han dled as now; when Legislative as sembles Of Arizona could not b
 bought up for s2O,OOO; when politi cal conventions could not be ruI and the difere1t members bam boozled by the sophistry of rail road attorney and two subsidized 1 editors; when tAeir monied inhu
 ence might fail them, and the peo
 ple, through their Legislators
 might undertake to assert thei
 rights. Hence, they conclude the,
 had better bury present quarrel:
 and get chartered cousolidafio
 before the legislative power on hi
 subject passed from the Congress
 the United States to the LegislatuI
 of the State of Arizona, and thu
 procure vested rights with whic
 future Legislators could not inter
 fere. It is true there is another ot
 feet inten ded to be effected by tn
 combin ation now before Congress
 namely, the regrantIng of the pull
 lie lands to the respective railroad
 and it is against this regrant tha
 one of the Rowe resolutions Wf
 directed, and althou 5h there shoul
 have been another resolution direc
 ed against said combination, t1
 whole question could have bee
 raised in the campaign this fall h
 this one resolution. You talk gilt
 ly of the vested rights of railroa
 charters and corporations, when tn
 is the principal object of this 1T
 tended combination before Congres
 and of which Democratic principle
 properly and boldly asserted by tn
 party in Arizona might have d
 feated- You prate about oppositio lines as the proper means to regl late freight charges, when to ner tralize, yea, to make impossible Il regulating influence of cppo+ir lines is the principal objecs of lhi combined charter, sought Co