Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1874 — The Great Railroad. [ARTICLE]

The Great Railroad.

President’s Message on first page of to-day’s paper. Read it. „ The Sandwich Island King is a mark of special attention as a visitor in this country. , ~w A bill has already been introduced in Congress to repeal the notorious “press gag” law. but no action had thereoa. In the State of Indiana at present writing, there are 1,199 Grangers with an estimated membership of about 60,000. . A bill has been introduced in Congress to amend the constitution so as to forbid Congress from ever making anything but gold and silver a legal tender. The prohibition law in Massachusetts, after a trial of many years, is pronounced a total failure. The probability is that a local option temperance law will take its place. The Logansport Journal: TKe moderate Democratic programme is to pat the three last amendments to the national constitution through a “gradual course of extinction.” The idea is expressed nicely. Miami county boasts a book agent who sold 6,000 copies of the Polar World, in Wisconsin, the present season. Miami oonnty should stop producing book agents for the next 6,000 years, says the Indianapolis Journal. The proceedings in the House of Representatives were formally opened with prayer by the chaplain, Mr. Butler, who among other things prayed for the purification and increased power of the great •engine, the press. Governor Hendricks says that under no]circumstances could he be induced to accept a Senatorial commission so longas his removal from the Governor’s chair would leave the Executive Department of Indiana in the hands of a Republican.— Stand from under, and let us weep.

Hon. Jasper Packard, editor-in-chief ■of the Laporte to Washington on Thursday, the 3d day of December. An exchange now plaintively asks, “Who will continue its old squabblings or kick up new ones while the editor of the Laporte G. is in Washington?' 1 The devil, of course. During the past year the Christian denomination has erected sixty-two church edifices at a cost of from $1,500 to $2500 each. There have been added to the church 11,000 members, of which €,OOO are missionary converts. Other items from the annual yearly reports show a large increase in the wealth and prosperity of this church. Our exchanges are discussing the idea of erecting a new State House. Some concede that Indiana needs a new one — needs it badly, while others believe the cost of erecting it would involve us in a State debt from which we would never be able to recover. But the objection might be claused with the impossibilities, as every thinking person will readily see on the face of it that building a State House cannot possibly bankrupt the State, which is certainly amply able at present to commence the erection of such an edifice. It wOl have to be. done some time. It will undoubtedly cost just as much then as now; and we are of the opinion that the sooner such a building is commenced that much sooner Indiana will be rid of a structure which is fiaid to be, not only a disgrace to the .State, but the smallest, “tueked-up,” “weak-kneed” thing in the Union. The first fruits of the “Independent” Democratic victory in Indiana are seen in the recent decision of our Democratic Supreme Court, excluding from our common Schools the colored children of the State. Notwithstanding our constitution provides that the Legislature “shall not grant to any citizen or class of citizens, privileges or immunities which upon the same terms shall not equally belong to all citizens” and also requires the Legislature to “provide by law for a general and uniform system of common schools wherein tuition shall be without charge andeqully open to all” yet our Democratic Supreme Court wisdom delivers us from this terrible dilemma by declaring that the people of this State, at the time of the adoption of our constitution, didn’t mean that it should be applied to the “nigger,” although he is taxed for the support of these schools, equally with others. As separate schools cannot gem erally be provided for these “niggers,” their numbers being too few in most localities, this decision will go far toward saving the pure (Democratic) caucassian from 1 oing'distanced in his “larnin” by this inferior race. Now if our Democratic Solons in the Legislature will only make it a felony, or a; least, a finable offense to teach a “nigger” to read—which action on their part fun be sustained by many “time honored”

Democratic precedents—then and not till then can the average Democratic any restrictions “ferninst democracy ” •‘Fathers, protect ns from nigger equality." Goto the RAILROAD STORE for Prints and Muslins.

When we consider that not one dollar can be secured in New York for the building of the Chicago k South Atlantic Railroad; and when we consider the fact that the monied men of the Metropolis are fighting the enterprise with their vim and venom; and when we further consider that the rival eity of Philadelphia has offered to purchase the bonds of the road upon the most favorable terms, we can form some idea of the importance of the road, viewed from an Eastern stand point It it fully understood in New York that the road is a commercial necessity, and that its construction is only a question of time, and they think a very short time at that The great railroad monopolists and railroad minds of the East are already speculating as to the probable financial effect the new road will have upon the great established lines between the East and the West. Commodore Vanderbilt, the great head center of the Eastern railroad interests, has been interviewed in regard to the matter, and while he looks upon the early construction of the entire line as a certainty, he “thinks it will not hurt the Central and Erie roads much.” The word “ much ” in this connection has a special signification, and means that Mr. Vanderbilt’s well-known sagacity teaches him that the Chicago & South Atlantic Railroad when completed to its Southern termini will divert a large and profitable trade from New York. It means that both the heavy and light weight wholesale merchants of the West can deal direct with foreign manufacturers, without paying a tribute to the avaricious and aristocratic “middle men” of our great Eastern commercial mart It means that the opening of this great through route from ocean to lake—from the Southeastern seaboard to the great Northwestern metropolis, the key to that rich and undeveloped country reaching almost to the setting sun, will be the signal for the erection of extensive works for the manufacture of the various cotton fabrics in the beautiful and fertile South, thereby saving to the Western consumer the freights upon the raw material from the cotton regions of the South to the New England factories, the advantages of the cheaper living and cheaper labor, together with the profit that the New York merchant must have for standing between the maker and the retailer of the goods.

Eastern capitalists whose interests are not interwoven with the successful or retarded growth of New York City, are now forming a company and- will soon put a line of steamers from Charlestou to Liverpool, thus placing our energetic western merchants not only upon a par with the merchants of New York, but in some respects giving them advantages not enjoyed by the metropolitan tradesman. While the advantages to the beautiful and fertile valleys along this line will be great, it will more directly benefit the cities of Chicago and Indianapolis. With a ready and profitable southern and foreign market for the vast products of an extended and productive territory; with the commercial advantages to be derived from negotiating direct with both home and foreign manufactures, together with the additional advantage to be derived from th^direct shipment as well as purchase of southern products and tropical fruits, will give these two enterprising cities a prestige and power to be derived from no other source. The sagacity of those Eastern capitalists aided by the history of commercial revolutions and the rise and fall of cities and of sections, has inspired, yea demands the constant and embittered opposition with which the enterprise is met in the New York market. This opposition, however, when the causes are known, will call to its aid hundreds of warm and enthusiastic admirers.— Delphi Journal.

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