The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-05-17
WASHINGTON LETTER,
Nan and Why DeLesseps is Hated-The
Cupidity of the Letter Writers.
vhy he ibhOrs Them-lierodotrS and
peLesseps-Why the
Railway MOnopOlists Would Break
Him Down.
rbo Greatest Benefactor the Country
has Ever KnOWn-HOw
Aud Why Congress Should lnterpose.

WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE antipathy of
many eastern newspapers to DeLesseps is
accounted for by gentleman who accom-.
named the French engineer on his first
visit TO Panama TO inaugurate the task of
un.ing the two oceans. DeLesseps was
supposed to have vast sums of money. He
WAS honored by all sorts of attention in
Boston. He had reopened a canal, al
ready dim memory when Heodotus
was gathering materials tor his history
from archives of ancient Egypt. He had
rad the story told by Humbolt, that pre.
historic races used an artificial waterway
from the Mexican guilt TO the Pacific ocean,
He was an enthusiast, perhaps as well as
prsctical Inquirer, and spectators in sensa
tiona literature deemed HIM proper sub.
ect for ingenious practices upon vanity and
ambition. The Frenchman was kin div,
generous, polite and lavish in hospitality,
When he went down to Panama, forty
OF more correspondents" with
DeLessep's assent, accompanied
him leading members of the
press gang, representing leading eastern
papers, we're taken to
PANAMA.
ganiZed his plans liked the beginning point
Tor his great work, and was about to sail for
Europe, when the correspondents he
came clamorOus for "backsheesh.n One
representative OF one great daily demanded
$4,000 as the price of the kindness of his
great newspaper. DeDesseps was dum-
founded and at last enraged by the exact
tons OF his guests; he cursed the mob and
went his way. They worked their passage
to their several houses and have never
ceased TO revile the Frenchman.
Theretored do We fluid the press of the east
full OF laudations of every scheme involving
the con suuction OF a route for traffic and
travel between the two oceans, to destroy
this OF DE Lesseps. Therefore the inter
minable discussion of the Clu2ton Bulwer
treaty and of the Monroe Doctine. There.
fore is De Lesseps the victim of persistent
rldicule and denunciation.
MONEY SUPPLY INENHAUsTABLE
1t is all well enough. The work at the
isthmus progresses and Paris supplies the
money as lavishly as De Lesseps expends
it in consumating his scheme which
will finally constitute the only lust
and unpurchasabe highway betwee
New York and San Francisco. All the in. |
iluences OF money, OF newspapers and of
railway monopolists are devoted to the pur- |
pose of retarding the construction of the
Panama canal. Huntington and Gould and |
their organs are chieiest of the French. |
man s reyilers. These men have monopoly
OF overland routes across the cor tipent. !
only interrupted by the obstinacy of Texas
and by the failure of congress to repeal the |
Rutabaga constitution of Texas
inhlblung the consolidation of
roads within that commonwealth. |
De LeSsepS IS the greatest benetactor
OF the people of the United States, the |
foremost antlmonopolist of our time and |
dIrest enemy of Gould and Huntington now |
living. No wonder he is reviled, ridicued |
ana constantly misrepresented. When his |
canal is opened, as it surely will be, unless
the railroad monopolists force congress to |
lnlerpose, the rates OF fare and freight from |
New York to San Francisco will be lessened |
onc-halt, and there will be wailing in the |
houses of Huntington and Gould. Mica |
ragua ship'canal and overland ship-railway |
schemes are constantly concocted to induce |
congressional interposition, not so much in |
heha,t OF these schemes as in
d lstili,y to DsLesseps. He must |
be broken down or the rans-coutinental |
railways must loosen their grasp upon the |
purse of the whole country.
THE REAL DANGER.
The only danger affecting the political |
ana commercial fortunes of the United |
states, is involved in the construction OF
tins Panama canal by foreigner, arises
from the danger of DeLesseps' sale of the
property, before or after its completion, to
the present owners of Morgan's line of |
steamers and of the Central and Texas a. |
Pacific railways, Infinitely more danger
Gus to the country is such sale than any
to arise from the ownership of the
canal by foreign friend or enemy. II |
rance own the canal, and hold it through |
sheer naval force, We still own the trans |
continental roads; but if DeLesseps sell the
canal otne railway owners. America is !
hopelessly enslaved. The country's com.
merce becomes the prey of the spoler
l me only restriction that congress should |
impose upon DeLesseps involves nothing |
more than the prohibition of the transfer of !
The ship canal to Gould and Huntington. I
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