Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-29
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blts attorney, thougn - themselves o,,1y
are not welgnty. MI. Depew y sen.,o
man Of about fity years OF age' wen euu-
Gated and bred 70 tne pfoiession Oh .''eia
which he has followed, AZ the ATTORNEY y.
the Central railroad anu Mr.. Vahderpht
exhibiting tendency 70 digress into poll
tics, into which he naturally turned, fol-
lowing the business interests of his em-
ployers. He has an established reputation
As an after dinner orator, and is good po-
1,t,cel anoaker hut there ia a bottom to
~ h;s denth as LAWYER, and as a
railroad president he is vet on trial The
,,-assrt ,... effort 70 oneli the competition
wI,;ch has nroved 40 expensive to his COM
,,arv saems 70 him to he the panacea for all
the conntrv,s woes. He thinks that with
the railroads prosperirp the whole country
,v;,, bo prosnerors. reversing the more ma
tmra, nronos;t;on that with the country
nrosroro,s tbe railroads will he. He con.
a;dar. that comnet;tion ia had for the rail
rnods th.t what 10 had for the railroads
10 hod for the country consequently rail-
road comnetition ia had for the country.
Ha reaches this conclusion logically upon
az. thaorv that tho countrv,s prosperjty
waits unon that Of the railroads.
This reasoninp gives fair impression of
Mr. Depew as a LAWYER, statesman and
railroad president. It is excusable in him
in the latter capacity; but it is in vain
that he appeals to the country for conf
liencein thessoundness of his opinions after
this Fhibition of hheir quality. Conse-
q Mr.. Depew has to say in crit
q M {tion of Pennsylysaria. in ,t'''.
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-'6eosso Oh ,.s SodSse' even
barring the fact that MT. nepew ID 'he eS
attorney and present preslaen. OF corpo
ration whose pro!ects are ci'''iiei'eeo ny 'h'
action OF pennsylvania
AND tne OPINION Is very weak Ill 'he al
3gumenk ~ makes. MI. Depe" Is 30 conii
dent OF ms wisdoin anu Juoe'leht, 'nat II,
Y lures 70 argue the ques',oh. ne wo.iic
peen sarer IL ne hao ioiioweo .he eA
ample OF the wise Judge VINO decides pu'
abstains from giving ms reasons. "A
weak argument Is a very Dad thing
to offer to critical pubic. Perhaps Mr.
Depew did not know that his argument
was weak; which would show that he is
weak.
He states the case IN a way which ne
evidently considers to be striking; as 1t is
but it is strikingly bad. He says that
twenty. y.seven gentlemen united to build
railroad, and got tired OF it after they had
built some culverts and done some
grading, and proposed to sell out
their charter, rights OF way and every.
thing they had to q rival company,
which was the only party capable OF tax
ing; and then the attorney general of the
state steps in to forbid them selling to the
competing company, which was the only
one that could buy. so, to be logical, he
declares that the state ought to tell them
60 on and complete the road and that it
VIII guarantee them against any loss in the
transaction,in which they had engaged only
to make money.
Mr.. Depew's opinion as lawyer Is that
there is no ground for such an action, and
that it will be so held by the courts.
If it is, it will be under a weightier argu-
ment than he makes. The twenty seven
gentlemen undertook to build road
wholly in a state which forbids, in its
in any way consolidating Therefore,
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