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Show THE TEXAS PACIFIC RAILROAD. The languago of the BOuth to northern north-ern viuitors in: "We cannot understand under-stand why there should bo any hesitancy hesi-tancy in helping us to open up the southwest after your pooplo in tho north have compelled us to assist in helping you to build your thousands of miles of Pacific railroads across canons, and over sierras, and through rocka and deserts. You spent something some-thing like 450,000 a mile on Pacific railroading in the northwest. What reasonableness is there in denying us assistance in developing the southwest?" south-west?" Tho bold attempt of tho Central Pacific ring to estop the south from getting any help in building the Texas and Pacific from the Missouri to San Diego on the Pacific coast ia especially exasperating to tho south-em south-em business men. Said a Texas banker and cotton broker to a correspondent corres-pondent of the Chicago TimeB: Now, you say the northern business men want to do the fair thing by ui down hero. Very well. You northern business men have given to a ring in Sun Prancisco upward of. 5 50,000 000 of the public money of tho United States to build a railroad from Ogden to Sau Pranciaco. That ring has grown enormously enor-mously wealthy, and has mt paid bick ono penny to the Unitod States treasury. That same ring, for tho express purpose uf prolonging tho despotism of its monopoly, mo-nopoly, has built a road from San Francisco Fran-cisco In Los Angeles, over the deadly tnnd dfsort, hundreds of miles around Port Yuma. Por what purpose? to rob us of an argument in favor of obtaining1 a rofiHonablo loan, pronurly secured, by which tho soi.th should sccuro railroad connection wiih tha Paciliu coast. And how did the Central Pacific ring build its so-called Southern Pncitlc branch down into Arizona? "With its own money ? No, sir. With the money it lias dishonestly withLold from the Unitua otflteB treasury, it spent, say, 157,000,000 on building its anti-Texas and Pacitic line. It will ask coneress next winter to Riiaranteo tho bonds of this o'lU'rpriso of spile to tho amount ot ?li0,000,0u0, and the congressmen will become so frightened by the demand, and so barrnssod by the Central Pacilic bribed solicitors and paid lobbyists in and out of Washington, tbat thcjuEtand reasonable demands of the south for such aid as is actually necessarr will bo scurcely listened to. Is that what you northern business men call doing tho fair thing by tho business men of tho south ? |