The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-02-02

partisans-for or against any one
of the railroad companies proposing
to build through this county.
We want every one Of them to have
an equal chance.
The West Virginia and Pennsyl-
vania company has complained, and
probably has some ground for COM
plant, that our people--at least,
many of them--are inclined TO sneer
at their enterprise; to throw obstacles
in its way; to give it the cold shout
der and manufacture public senti-
ment against it and in favor of the
b. Il o. by asserting that the former
has no money to build road and the
latter has millions.
We do not believe any intelligent
citizen, with any grain of gratitude
or public spirit in him, is taking this
course.
To that class of men who are SO
cold blooded that they cannot find
any cause for gratitude or have any
sense of appreciation fer the self
sacrificing and heroic efforts of the
West Virginia company in trying to
build us railroad, we have a few
suggestions to make.
We don't know whether the West
Virginia company will succeed in
building a road or not. But we do
know that they are in good faith try
ing to do So We know, too, that
they are doing it without asking any
assistance from this county. We
know further that if they succeed we
will haye everything to gain, and so
far as any public OF private subscrip-
tion from our people is concerned,
we have nothing to lose. If they
succeed we will have a railroad of
incalculable value and Importance to
this county-and that, too, whether
the b. Il O. builds or not. If the b.
i O. does not build, the West Vir-
ginia company is our only resort. If
the B. & 0. does build, we want the
West Virginia road as competing
line. We want it, therefore, in any
event, and we want it badly-we can't
afford not to have it.
There is another thing we know
about it. We know that behind the
w. Va. d Pa. project, there are bust
ness men; men who have sense enough
to know what they are doing; men
who know what it costs to build
railroad; men who are capable of
making and comprehending a bust
ness contract. These men are men
of personal integrity and honor, and
they allege that they have made bus
mess arrangement and have pledges
of support from the Pennsylvania
Central company that will enable
them to build railroad if they can
get the right of way. As an earnest
of their faith in their own project and
of confidence in their plans they have
put their hands in their own pockets
to the tune Of thousands of dollars,
and are bravely bearing the heavy
expenses of getting the enterprise on
its feet, out Of their private purses.
We state these facts in the spirit
of fairness to all the enterprises. We
are not the apologist of the w. Va.
d Pa company; we are not the apollo
gist of the B. & 0. company we are
not the apologist of any company to
the exclusion of any other We want
both roads. We are opposed to ex-
Guiding any. We claim that there
is room in this great valley for all
that want to come. 1t is folly to say
otherwise. We believe that both the
West Va. and the B. & O. are in good
faith intending to build. We believe
we will have two roads if our people
will let them. Any man who arrays
himself against either road is an enc
my to the county. Any man who is
so narrow and blindly partisan that
he can't give his hand and heart to
help either without opposing the other
is fit for nothing but to be made a
-tie-and he wouldn't make a
very good cross-tie, at that. What
some of our people want is little
more horse sense and horse gratitude
that can appreciate the pluck and
and spirit of men that are laboring to
lift this county out of the dismal
swamp of isolation and business
decay.
j. NJ. Mason, Esq, of Charlestown
is making an effort to ascertain what
proportion of the debt of Virgins
should be assumed by West Virginia
He has prepared pamnhlet discuss