The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-01-13
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Pacific Railroads as Dishonest 1ncor-
porations.
The Herald makes the following
graphic display OF a great land s'efl;
con July z, 1888, in the city OF Fam,
burgh, Scotland, the California redwood
Company was organized with plenty ol
CAPITAL at its back. The directors we're
Scotchmen. The president WIS an In
glisbman. r Under the Timber
Lands act q man can claim one hundred
and sixty acres provided he is a bona .fde
settler. All right. Keep that fact in
sight. Four hundred men were engaged
Al Gfiy dollars apiece. Some Of them
were ignorant of the criminality OF their
deed and some of them were %scouudTels.
At any rate. they fled into the Govern
ment Land Office, registered their indi'
vidual claims TO one hundred aud sixty
acres Of this valuable timber land, swore,
OF course, that they were actual SELLERS
and, Of course, peTiured themselves, then
went across the street to a notary public
and signed n deed conveying the land TO
the manag of this Scotch syndicate.
-Four hundred bogus settlers at fifty
dollars per head put this English presi-
dent and his Scotch company in posses
sion Of sixty four thousand actes OF the
most valuable timber land on the globe,
worth, as Putnam, the expert, estimates,
TWENTY-FIVE milliO!. dollars 81 the stump.
Before President Cleveland went tothe
White House and put check to this in
famous land robbery foreigners had got
possession OF a tract of territory in the
very heart Of this country more than
twice the extent Of Ireland. They hold
il to dav. Il Is a disgrace 10 the Repubii-
can party. never 20 be forgiven, that they
conceived at such an infamous pr0ce
durc. They went ont Of office uOuc too
soon for the good Of the Republic.
And now comes this California Red
wood Company, with It's Scotch directors,
its English President, and ia foreign
capital, and 10y sheer hocus pocus lays
claim TO sixiy.fOur thousand acres OF
timber, whose market price Is almost be-
yond computation.
"The Utrald has exposed these rob.
berries, and now it is for the American
people 10 make known their will.
The land for honest settlers and the
hammer of the law for the syndicate that
would rob settlers Of their rights. That
rule must be enforced if we are 90 be
saved from disaster
Mr.. George Jones and the New York
Tines are getting ready to support DAVID
Bennett Hill for President.
We base this assertion upon the follow
ing declaration printed cOnspicuously by
Mr.. George Jones yesterday IN the Ismes:
Governor Hill, as an aspirant for the
presidential nomination, is simply too
ridiculous to he taken seriously.
DO YOU think that the conclusion which
we draw from the appearance at his time
of this significant paragraph Is unwar-
ranted. or that il involves TOO violent q
wrenching of the machinery of logic ?
If that is 50, it is because you do not un-
derstand the New York Times, or know
Mr. George Jones.
Read again, and more carefully, what
the Times has to say about Governor I'LL
as a candidate for the Democratic nomi-
nation:
Governor Hill. as an aspirant for the
presidential nomination, is simply too
ridiculous to be taken seriously"
LOtl tfIlt lulEf hhlA " WIN NAtAA
what the Times said just four years ago
concerning Governor Cleveland as a eau
didato forthc Democratic nomination
"Nothing could be more prepOsterous
t than a nomination to the presidency OF
Governor Cleveland"
In the case of Governor Iil, il is sim
ply too ridiculous In the ease Of Gov
. ernor Cleveland, " nothing could be more
% preposterous."- ~ J. SIN
Two reports are before Congress from
7 the p ciic Railroad and Investigating
l Commission. Both concede that the pee
, ~ulatiOns to which the corporations have
been subjected by dishonest directors
! amount to practical robbery, and suggest
the prosecution OF the guilty parties.
A perseyering individual, after cOnsid-
r cradle encouragement, has at last OBJ
. tanned the Consideration Of charges
against certain millionaire spectators
for apprOpriating trust securities OF the
e Kanaas Pacific railroads, and they will
probably be submitted 10 a grand jury
for its action.
What does all this mean? Is it really
9 true that the men who have amassed MI.
lions Of wealth by their utter disregard
OF law and of justice, who have wiped
out the invested earnings of thousands OF
honest men and women in the gratihca-
G ton Of theft lust for wealth, who have
stolen into corporations only 10 rob and
. wreck them, are at last TO be called 10 al
T accounting NY World.
r In his new capacity Of leader OF the
:. Republican Senators and constructor OF
Issues" for the use OF the party, Senator
4 Chandler doubtless represents the view:
of the active professional Republicans
p. Senator Sherman indeed has come for.
r ward promptly 10 file q cayeat against
l the claim Of Mr.. Blaine, or Of anybody els(
but himself, to any share In the honor'
or amoluments Of the tariff issue. II is
c true that the Senator from Ohio had be
C fore undertaken to pre-empt the sectional
r Issue, but he cannol have really supposed
that he would be allowed TO DO so
There are too many men who have fought
more fercely and conspicuously for thciI
] native land after the wag was ended
n. Y. Tines. =
y When We remember the halcyon day,
Of iobbery and roguery under Bill Chan
der and Arthur aud Belknap and Co, /