Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-02-08
RAILROADS.
The Views of Chas. TrumbulI Hayden Up-
 on the Subject.
TEMPE, Maricopa County Ariz.(
 Eahruarv 129O

TEMPE, Maricopa County Ariz.(
 February l, 1890.
 To the President and Congress of the United States, Washington, D. c.
 Monopoly with the power of pre- cedent has followed the immigrant to Arizona, and is now asking Congress to allow the people to subsidize it to build two gerrymandering railroads to several mines, on lines where popu- lation has not and is now likely to center; simply feeders of great mo- nopolies, without effecting the natural competition which is the safety of the people and the only certain means of teaching corporations lessons of wis dom.
 Arizona is trisected by trans-conti- mental railroads and another railroad continental in its coming proportions is built north from Guaymas, Sonora, to Calabasas, Arizona, and south from the Northern Pacific railroad in Mon tana, through Salt Lake City to the coal fields at Wales, in southern Utah, thus pursuing direct line south by natural water sheds, would cross the Colorado river just below Lees Ferry in Arizona, where the level plateau approaches the perpendicular banks of said river at the only place practi- cable to span its sublime canyon at | the elevation of four thousand feet, and said line continuing south to Flag staff on the Atlantic < Pacific rail road from which place thirty-tive miles of railroad is built and seventy miles is surveyed entirely through valuable pine forests to Strawberry Flat on the | most direct line and favorable levels by way of Phoenix, Florence and Tue son, to Calabasas, Arizona, uniting the principal towns of Arizona and pass ing through the greatest present and prospective agricultural development that water storage. will produce.
 Within fifty miles of said line has been mined four-fifths of the mineral products of Arizona between said tim ber belt and Calabasas, thus connect ing the vast timber and coal fields of northern Arizona with the mines and agricultural valleys of southern Arizo- ma and Sonora, Mexico, where timber does not exist, bringing the two transcontinental railroads into natu- ral completion, producing development of immense advantage to each rail road. which could be no more con trolled to the advantage of all parties without competition than our general
 government could remain free without two political parties with the proba- bility of third party taking advan- age of the wrongs or errors of the par ty in power.
 Said railroad would be the natural line of commerce from the torrid western slope of Mexico on a
 central direct line to Montana and
 would distribute the coffee, other trop ical products and the sugar that saic slope could produce equal to the is lands of the Pacific and unite oul country with people who raised tC the highest plane of modern civiliz ation of one of the native race (Bonlt; 7 Juarez) instead of this commerce flow ing to a more distant people owe whom our institutions would have les . influence, approached by ocean com
 merce the prototype of perfect despo
 tism and the destroyer of the famil! circle on which all good governmen rests, without the power of reformin! it's labor conditions by strike, war l like condition that imperfect humanit. travels to higher levels which tn
 wrongs of railroads produce as the.
 plant the family circle. The intelli
 gence of Arizona wants this railroa,
 completed at once from Calabasas t. ! Flagstaff as good paying investmen | that will enable it's owners to produc
 the sidetracks upon which monopol . is attempting to wreck our citizens who have an overwhelming desire t T. subsidize anything that will give ther the power of supplying their own pro ducts to their own markets in homes t competition with the states and terr 1, tories.
 r Subsidies and tariffs, like war, ca u only be justified by necessity for prC $ lection and it takes d perfect mastt Ie of the situation to know when the II should be granted or made. Tn l' American Congress proved to our pc, V pie thai when we can trust our neigl m bors and they have confidence in u ,n U, tariffs disappear.
 1a Subsidies to railroads with the va No accumulated capital seeking payiI
 investments will cease when manage
 of railroads are able to work on Il h line of their own interests as truly e
 pressed by Senator Leland Stanfo
 in his analysis of the "rights of ra
 roads "inlhIs reply to the question T.. asked him by the New York chamb
 of commerce. "Their interests are
 intimately connected with the gener
 prosperity of their patrons that tn
 are compelled to study the interes ew of the latter, and there are no pc ut pie so earnest in their efforts to fix 12 rate so low as to encourage the ger is ral industries of the country as "a of road managers themselves" Senat ,m Leland Stanford has ever been one
 the leading controllers of t i'll. Southern Pacific railroad, which Id always charged very large per ce A. more for freights on Arizona produ' to consumed within said territory tn he on the same kind of products freigl = ed from other states or territories
 be consumed within her borders a
 at the time he wrote said lines { ust manager of the New Mexico < Arizo o's. railroad did and have always held
 all the products of Arizona at Bens'