Middletown transcript., 1891-07-30

polite presentation of an annual pass
and aspirants for high political honors
are sought out and paid retaining fees
of enormous proportion merely to
quiet that latent but innate desire for
the good of the people.
We may ask when all this will be
changed and as truthfully answer,
some time after the millennium. But
with all the disadvantages under
which the people labor, there is yet
hope. There is clause which appears
in. acts of incorporation granted by the
Legislature Of Delaware, which states
that the right to revoke charter is
reserved to the Legislature. The man
who provided for that reservation OF
power bestowed upon the State of
Delaware gift which is of inestima-
BILE value and which may be enforced
at an early day. When the people of
Delaware have been goaded to the
proper point of desperation the charter
of the Delaware railroad company will
be revoked and the gentlemen who
now set themselves up as the masters
Of the people will piteously beg for a
new franchise.
That franchise will be granted, yes,
cheerfully granted, but freight rates
and other charges will be fixed by law
and the people will see that that law
will be obeyad. The State Of Della
ware has ever been ready to bestow
almost any gift within her power upon
persons who were willing to build
railroads through her territory, even
going so far as to loan for such pur-
poses her credit, what is the result ?
We see the great monopoly which has
acquired these roads built with the
peoples money, asking the Legislature
to so arrange matters that this money
shall remain unpaid and the people ex-
posed to a system of plucking and |
squeezing never before rivaled. When
the State aided these roads it was with |
the idea that lnproductiue territory |
would be opened to settlement and
productiyeness, but this idea has never
materialized because the railroad peo-
pie simply went in for the greater por-
tion of the value of the produce with
out regard to the rights of others.
The advance toward that era of
which will dawn when this
Peninsula becomes the market and
fruit garden of the north, has been
Systematically hindered by common
carrier whose chief directors ars said
to be financially interested in the de-
velopment Of lands further south. The
people of the Peninsula and especially
of Delaware, must rouse themselves
before they are bound hand aud foot
and send men to the Legislature who
are fearless and honest, men who can
not be beguiled into fancied security
BY a few stale yarns and counterfeit
If good fellowship, men who are alive
% the Importance of the duties laid
lpon them, men with brains enough to
keep them out of the clutches of un-
men, men who cannot be ,
Fought.
The cry has gone out that 1.-THE
land Of monopoly is upon your throat
md cannot be shaken off )" is there
me man in the State to-day who is
Wiling to repeat as his own those
words of an aged Senator and highly
espected citizen of Delaware /? Wei
. not think SO and we glory in the
elief. In the State of Delaware there
re men of nerve and talent who have
ever been called upon for public duty 3
rho will quickly prove the falsity of
elief which ascribes to a corporation f
he power to stife the will of the peo-
le men who would extend to the il
railroad and her attor- t
eys every courtesy and guarantee 10 a
er every right, and yet who would 0
emand and enforce proper regard
Or the rights of suffering people.
here are men of rare ability who ask
be people for honors of the highest I
Magnitude and who are totally unfit q
0 represent single school district in =
,e Legislature, simply because they :
re carried into the camp of the enemy C
' a love Of gain. The time has come l
hen men must line up and take sides; g
hoover is not for US is against us and .,
. be great or small on his head must h
'st the consequences of evil deeds. j
he press should aid in proper ad- a
stment of this question and it is the Z
lty of every editor to try to under 3,
and that an annual pass is a small h.
ice for his manhood, and while it /,
ay, in some quarters, be considered il
% value of his soul he should. remem- y y
IT that ample service is rendered for m
favors granted and stand forth like bl
man. doing that which he knows to %
right and. rendering to his State ~ ~
at measure of service which he right. 90 q,
lily owes.
vo additional Select Excursions to Sc
sehoboth. Del. or Ocean City, Md, el,