Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1878 — Jealous. [ARTICLE]

Jealous.

The Indianapolis, Delphi & Chicago narrow gauge has been compelled to succumb to the inevitable. The ouly engine of the road is lying disconsolate in the » itch, and cannot be resurrected without the aid of another locomotive. The company has sent to Columbus, Ohio, for one, until it arrives the road will not be operated. LaFayettc Journal. The sciutilations of green envy shine through the above like a “rot ten mackerel by moonlight.” When the Indianapolis, Delphi & Chicago l'ailroud begins to carry freight and passengers between Indianapolis and Chicago twenty-five per cent, cheaper than the vaunted Kankakee Short Line dare do, the LaFayette people will conclude that the narrow gauge is not tiie road which has “succumbed to the inevitable.” —Delphi Times. “Since tiie remonetization of silver, etc., there is nothing left of tho platiorin for the Democracy to make a tight upon.” Such is radical and if they could only imj ress upon the people fie idea they wish to convey, all plight be lovely. But, the radical t arty is responsible for all the finan rial evils and misgoveriunent from which the country lias suffered. The people know this fact. The cutting down of expenditures, tho remonetization of silver, and aft tho refoims that have been established, and otheis proposed, are of democratic origin, demanded and forced by a democratic House upon au unwilling radical Senate and fraudulent administration. The people know this, too, and the “Smart Alecks” who attempt to convince them to the contrary but ex- ) i bit a vast amount of foolishness and presumption.

A few days since, at Washington, Jay Gould attempted to aflproa h Hoti. Jns. E. McDonald, Democratic United States Benator from Indiana, upon the affairs of the Faeifte railroads, being considered in the Judiciary Committee, of which Mr. McDonald is a member, and was informed by the Senator that he would listen to no statement or propositions except in eomttdttee and in the presence of all it* members; and Mr, Gould was furthermore, emphatically invited to make himself scarce. As a result of radio*! legislation these great corporations have it in their power to rob the Government of two hundred millions of dollars, if cot more, and they will do it, unless throttled by the Government through such representatives as McDonald, Voorhees, Thurman, and others of the Judiciary Committee are experting themselves to perfect such measures as will proven' this ‘two million grab.” These railroads have made vast profits. The BanFruncisco Alta boasts that the Central Pacific alone has netted in the last twelve years a profit of $45,000,000 which is being invested in the construction of other roads. An exchange very forcibly remars: “There is but one way for a Government to deal witli this kind of piracy. What justice and fair dealing demand of these corporations, is too plain for litigation, and can be exacted from them without negotiation, arbitration or reference to court. As yet the Governments is sovereign and the corporations are but its creatures. It has the taxing power, tho power of .self-protection, tiie expressly reserved power to engraft upon our Pacific railroad legislation any new provis ion which Congress may find ueoesary to protect the interests of the publie Treasury; and this power ought to be exereiso » in the most summary and effective method which the ingenuity of Congress can devise. The fuilure or hesitancy of Congress to exercise it, is a betrayal of the Government and a shameful surrender of the people’s sc.ptre to u freebooter baud of capitalists.”