The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-06-12
COMMUNICATION.
EDITOR SIN:

the fact will be readily recognized
that the Railway of today has taken
| the place of the wagon road as the
channel of commerce and intercourse.
If found to benefit the common
wealth on the whole, such change
should benefit all parts alike, and not
| Tear down one part TO build up an
other, nor bestow favOrs and adj
vantages which enable certain in
uiVidualS OF communities to suddenly
| amasS enormous wealth, by the de-
StructiUn Of other wealth, the OveI-
throw of other business, or the
serious infringement of the CONNER
cial rights and privileges of other
individuals.
| the incalcultlhe good which has come
to this generation through the
modern Railway. 1t has wonderfully
developed every material resourSe
and Quickened every industry. 1t
has brought the producers of Texas
and California into more intimate
relations with the consumer of New
York and London, than would have
| Geen possible TO the producers of
Western New York State a century
! ago.
1t has called into being by its own
necessities, rolling mills, fOundries
and machine shops, such as otherwise
would never have been dreamed of.
1t has compelled the development of
iron and coal mines and mining
machinery, until our miners put to
shame the genie and the gnomes.
1t has built homes and cities in the
trackless wilderness, brought the
good and i'll of modern life into all
rural neighborhoods, and made even
the Great American Desert" to
blossom as the rose.
All this and more! more! very
much more!
And yet strange to say, it is a fair
question whether we would not be
better off without one mile of Rail
way in all one land.
AS we have seen in a former paper,
it Il as demanded the exercise of one
of the highest functions of Govern
ment in it's creation, and as we shall
try to make clear in your next issue
by your forbearance, it has disturbed
the just relation of competing dealers
and manufacturers, and the diStribu.
tion of profits which were somewhat
equitable, and mercilesslY trampling
under foot every principle of com
mercial justice, has enriched the
rich by destroying the poor.
For evidence that it has debauched
the innocencyGD of maiden legis-
lators we do not have to go from
home, nor search the records of the
past. 1t is written on the last page
of the history of our state, with the
shameless effrOntery Of Tweed.
Not content, with violating the Eve
like purity of beardless youth it in
vades legislative halls, and, ladened
with the spolls of robbery and infamy
Keeling with tntemperance, seethins
with social iniQuity, it would stiflt
the las sob of Liberty with tho haR(
of violence and l;iaCe the acknow
lodged teoIo of it's own designs il
highest fields of political power
, Were there left to freedom, the un
| tramelled exercise of the judicia
f function, hope would still he ours
but when justice is not supplante
by the fawning appointments Of
!, Subserventand sycophantic executive
anxious for reelection, then court
are boldly defed, and summons an
, writ treated with lofty contempt.
e Is there adequate compensation 70
\ all this in material prosperity! Ha
t the nation which has voluntaril
surrendered its commerce into tn
J. hands of an arbitrary and irrsepoI
q sible power. gained anything to max
d good the loss of personal indepent
Il ence and confidence in public equit
d of its common people! We thin
r that in a Republic these losses,
f complete would be irreparable an
n they are fast approaching consume
f ton. GoADsTICK.