The Washington times., 1903-09-01
The PeQbA's S F0rum.
The Three Americas Railway.

To the Editor Of The Washington Times:
Organized and unorganized formal and in
formal, regular and irregular, clandestine and
overt. quasi-principled and unprincipled sordid
and inSidious; all sorts Of accordant and discor-
dant and unserupulous efforts have been made,
and are stu making. to oyerreach and despoil
me completely in the mon.entous matter Of my
projected ntercontinental railway through the
three Americas; an obviously material and wide
! ~ melorating measure Of matchless magnitude
and importance, which was originated by my
sell nearly thirty-seven years ago; that Is to
say speaking with the perfect exactitude of in
v'olable veracity, on the Both Of November 1866
since which date the unequacd enterprise has
held me TO itself so entirely. so steadilstly. 50
| exclusively, that it has been almost impossible
for me 10 divert either my thoughts OF MY ae-
tions in any other direction whatever.
The latest ard By no means the least amazing
Of all the queer and culpable manifestations OF
guileful and guilty endeavors on the part OF
certain individuals among the demonstrably un-
just and dishonorable and immoral portion OF
mankind is the recent and naughty and high
handed formation Of a powerful syndicate or
corporation in Oklahoma, which, as would APP
| pear from the graphic news articles published
| in the press on the 25th instant, aims 10 con-
struct and operate. wholly in its own interest,
my proposed three Americas railway, without
ever troubling with so much even one
| little word, written or verbal, the mOmen-
tous subject. What immodesty, what presump-
tion, what arrogance, what audacity!
Though l have never had the honor Of per
sonal acquaintanceship with any member Of the
| potential clique or company of Western col
| leagues in this herculean undertaking. yet
| find pleasure in thus recognizing them as not
being absolutely amenable 10 any allegation that
they either 50 narow-minded or % short
/ sighted mot to say stupid as are numerous
men. or creatures in the form Of men, whom
/ have long and frequently spoken with. right
here in the East, in eager and urgent regard
TO this far outspreading and superlative new
world affair.
| On the contrary. it is plain, it is indisputa-
| bic, that our long headed and broad-breasted
ard strong handed and sure-footed fellow-coun-
| trymen of the great West, quickly and bravely
pounding forward beyond their balky and be
lated brethren Of the East, have herein clearly
evinced a much truer and fuller appreciation o.
an intellectually meritorious and far-reaching
and most valuable proposition.
| Yet, bearing constantly in mind the inevita
bic coming of period Of just and final reckon
/ ing, the West, like the East, like the North
| like the South, like every society. like eveTy
| association, like every community, ike every
nation. should never fail to yield prompt obe
| dicnce to the mandates OF equity and wisdom
which 50 truly teach that the exercise OF might
without right is always worse. in a fair anc
general accounting. than the feeble-minded ant
futile career of a stolid idiot Neither in pri
vate life nor IN public life should success in
any sort OF wrongdoing ever be patiently bornf
or assentingly tolerated among the American
! people. HINTON ROWAN HELPER.
| Washington Aug. 30.