Show JUDGE JERE BLACK toe eminent constitutional lawyer has been asked for an opinion as to tho legality ol railroad discriminations EO general especially in the west Judge Blacks reply ia published in New York and some of the points be makes appear in our telegraphic columns this morning The distinguished jurist very properly holds that railroads which are common com-mon carriers have no right to discriminate dis-criminate against individuals or locality local-ity and thinks it would not be difficult diffi-cult to prevent the evil by legislation But in this latter is where the gentleman gentle-man h in error Legislators ctanot be found to make the Jaws acd provide pro-vide for their enforcement The railroads I 1 rail-roads are more influential with the I lawmakers than the nennln nnrl CA ex twuu ercis6 greater power It ha I come to be that conimunitiei all over this country are more 01 less at the mercy of railroads I which can defy the people the same as they have so successfully done in I California There the people undertook under-took to bring the roads into proper subjection but failed miserably The I Central Pacific with its branches and connections is more powerful than the milliun of people in California and can and does laugh uc the squirming of the manes to obtain their rights And so it i in greater or less degree all over the republicS j republic-S Now and again the railroad companies compa-nies quarrel among themselves as they have lately been doing in the west and the people reap tha benefit but those periods of loosening of the screws are few and far between So long as the roads hold to their combinations > combi-nations the publio squeals in vain for reease from the bondage placed r upon them Judge Black refers to a freight charge of 2 50 from New York to San Francisco 1 00 being the rate from New York to Salt Lake and characterizes it aa a gross viola lation of legal principle Bat will the gentleman say how to remedy it Will he tell the people of Wyoming of Idaho of Utah or of Nevada how they can prevent the railroad discrimination dis-crimination that is daily robbing them Many articlea are now taken by water to San Francisco snd brought overland to Salt Lake at a considerable consider-able saving to the Bhipper and pretty nosrly everything wa get from tha1 sat i could be profitably brought by I the same roundabout way were it not j J for the long time spent in the paisagei It is also said that some good ore actually ac-tually carried by rail from New York to San Francisco and reshIpped at the latter place for this city We can all wish that Judge Black had the making and enforcing of the laws governing railroads when equal and exact justice might be expeoUd by t e people end the railway stockholders stock-holders but wo fear it nill be a long timo before the people are free from the power of railroads and able to prevent discriminatons |