The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-11-03

by the people, through the govern
menl for their own good.
| The ownership of the rpads hy
the government is no more patern-
al than management ef the postal
service, the granting of patents or
the construction of n national road
from Washington to ST Louis. 60
long as the nations continue barha-
rians - as to go to war, the national
ownership Of the railroads j. Of the
first Importance as part Of the
war departments just rs necessary
as to have navy for the same par-
pose.
Bnt the chief and nnsnswerablr
argument why the nation should
own the railroads is that it will very
greatly promote the prosperity Of ali
the people. Carrying passengers at
the least possible cost will invite
travel to every part of the country
This will tend to make the people
acquainted with each other over all
the country; will allay prejudices,
create friendships, extend confidence,
increase trade throughout the coun-
TRY, nnify the nation in the form Of
the highest and best civilization,
and will be bond perpetually to
strengthen the state and the national
government.
Jeaiousies and prciuaicies removed
the local productivcness of the diff
ferent parts OF the cou.try Under
stood, the cheapest possible cost of
transportation Afforded, each part OF
the country would devote its indus
tries to the production of the val
ues of which the climate and soil are
htted. With TIE greatest amount
of values produced, hsw great would
be the interstate commerce, The
nation 10 almost a world within it.
self. With industry, fairness and
honesty, in a generation or two, there
would not need to be Il really poor
person in the entire country. But to
have such management We shall need
statesmen, not politieians-men men
of brains, heart; integrity and true
patriotism. The nation is wasting
by the atrophy of moral and civil
impurity. The deople have little
confidence in politicians or Ia the
political parties. Still they are de-
coyed into the parties and there
kept in chains by the necromancy of
the artful politicians. To-day there
is not in the United States an intel
ligeat man of moral integrity enough
to make him good citizen who has
any considerable confidence in the
republican or the democratic party,
or in their partisanS to work out u
successful destiny to the people un-
der our form of government.
Can there be any solid reason Civ
on why the people, as the goveln-
ment, should not own the me4ns Of
carrying products and value to all
parts of the country just as letters.
etc, are now carried by the laails?
The gain to the farmers alone i'll
five years would be elu nal to the cost
of the rca.ls. The reduced rates ts
the travelling public would. in five
years, pay for the roads. The prodi-
cal waste of the last two congresses
in sixteen years, would pay the prin-
cipsl for the railroads. Then. if
the matter is SO plain, why do men
so oppose it? The general answer
is. s.They love darkness rather than
light, because their deeds are evil"
It is the curse of party; the love of
self; the l;.ziness to think; the oppo-
sition to what is novel: blind adher-
ence to the past, together with the
innate love of wrangling to humbug
the people-;lll these stand IN the
| way of this and of all progress. In
religion, in science, in politics, in
law. in medicine, in the arts, men
hate what is novel worse than they
hate what is evil. The principle is
a nightmare on the worlds progress.