The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-05-15

misunderstood, y said the senator Then he
added reflectively: These great commune
ties, that were only separated by the system
of slavery have since its destruction been
alienated by factions that have estranged
them only TO prey upon them, and to main
tain political supremacy by their alien
alton Unfriendly legislation has imposed
intolerable burdens upon their energies; in
vidious discrimination has been made against
their products; unjust tariffs have repressed
! their industries. While vast appropriations
have been made to protect the harbors of the
Atlantic and the lakes, and to improve the
navigation OF inconsiderabie streams, the
MissisSippis waters are left choked with its
drifting sands. Eads, with his daring ener-
gies, undertook at his own risk the gigantic
labor of compelling the great stream to
dredgs its own channel to the sea. The ulti-
mate coalition of all the political forces of
this section is inevitable. The west will then
secure its emancipation from the control of
the Atlantic seaboard. This is one of the
events of the near future. We will then
treat these Atlantic and Pacific appendages
with justice-in fact, l might say with moro
justice than they have hitherto shown to u.s."
"Then the west, you think, senator, is to be
more potent than the east in working out the
destiny of this republic?"
THE STAR OF EMPIRE ALREADY GONE WEST
WARD.
''The intellectual energy of this country
hes already transferred itself to the west.
The west is now the theatre of the combined
energetic and potential forces of New Eng
land and the middle states At this moment
there are more people of Connecticut ancestry
living on the western reserve in Ohio than
you will find in hesitate of Connecticut. The
future triumphs of the Anglo-Saxon race will
be accomplished In the valley of the Missis-
sippi, a vast empire in itself, and not in the
valleys of the Thames, or of the Hudson, or
of 'the Delaware. The people at large very
| little know what a tremendous undercurrent
of thought, involving grand ideas, is moving
with irresistible force throughout the whole
length and breadth of the west One of these
elements of public thought in this great re-
gion is the unifcation of the continent"
"As western man, senator, you have
taken a lively interest in the question of
transportation. From an ironical remark
you made should suppose that you did not
find things much improved by the interstate
commerce lawm
THE CONSTANT AM OF THE SENATOR'S LIFE
''To assist-and stimulate the development
and Improvement of the vast water system
of the interior basin of the continent, extend
ing between the Allegheny and the Rocky
mountains, from Maine to the Gulf, has been
one constant aim and endeavor of my public
life / have no sympathy with those political
economists who would array the poor against
the rich with the empty and sonorous dema-
gogism which asserts that there is an ire
preside conflict between capital and labor,
and that would make indiscriminate war
upon corporations as the natural enemies of
the people; but we are confronted with many
economic problems, chief among which is
that of cheap transportation, and ! believe
its solution lies not in representative legisla-
ton, but in competition between water lines
and railroads Under TIE constitutional
power of congress to regulate commerce be-
tween the states, | have no doubt of the au-
thority of the government to assume either
partial or complete control of ali the great
trunk lines of transportation and to regulate
the burdens that are imposed upon the pro-
ductive labor OF the country"
'How can that be accomplished"
ut can best be done by establishing uni
form rates of freight, so as to prevent unjust
Determinations between way and through
carriers, or 10y an intelligent system Of in
ternal improvements, opening new or i'm
proving old rates of transportation to the
seaboard. The Atlantic communities, by their
superior thrift and vigilance, have secured
advantages which have enabled them hith-
erto to dictate terms to the producers of tho
vest. They have constructed thousands of
miles of railroads and watered the stock by
countless millions of dollars upon which the
dividends are paid from the exorbtant rates
that the farmers of the Mississippi valley are
compelled to pay for carrying food without
which eastern commerce would lnnguish and
che population starve. The great carrying
business of the country is under the absolute
control of q few persons, upon whose edicts
depends the prosperity of the nation. By
their combination they are enabled to fix the
price, control the supplies create fictitious
demand or artificial scarcity, and thus dis
turb the whole basis of values in the COM
mercial world. With daring and admirable
genius those monarchs have devsod and with
inconceivable energy they have constructed
q system of highways the most wonderful
| known to man"
''Ycur friendship for the waterways does
not interfere with Your admiration for the
greatness of the railroad senator1"
1.-THE capitalists of Boston have bored
tunnel five miles long through q mountain of
granite at an expense of $50, 000, 900 to reach
this region without ascending an Insignificant
elevation OF 800 feet and to shorten the dis
tauce but forty miles. New York has
the Erie and the Central with their connec-
tons; Philadelphia and Baltimore. other in
dependent lines, built at stupendous cost,
climbing mountains by inclined planes or
piercing them by tunnels. crossing great rivers
by viaductS that are miracles Of engineering
Skill, all to persuade our produce to flow to
their respective markets. If they would share
the expenses of transportation with the pro-
ducers, then there. would be less cause for
complaint; but the rates are established high
/ enough to paw interest ON the bonds. divi-
dends on stock, the cost OF operation, deteri-
Grafton and waste of plant and extravagant
salaries to swarms OF ornamental officials.
Those who are familiar with the railroad
legislation and Jurisprudence of the last dozen
years and reflect that these gigantic expendi-
lures are derived from the revenues of the
roads can readily perceive why corn that may
be worth 81 in New York in ordinary years
only brings twenty cents in Missouri and
Kansas. But nature, SO bountiful to us in ali
things, has not left us without peaceful meth
DDS of redress. 1t is not necessary that we
should use the railroads of eastern capitalists
nor pay tribute into the cofYern OF eastern
merchants
You mean the water cure, i suppose, SEN
atorz'
1.-The water cure is what l mean Water is
great blessing when put to its proper uses, p"
said the senator, smiling sThis great valley,
the great grain empire of the earth, has no
natural connection with the Atlantic sea-