Show THE WAR wan vwe do not allude to the un pleasantness between the gallant gaule and adamites Ana mites nor to 1 i ther movements movements of el against t the khedive Khe diye we refer to the fierce antagonism which is splitting the large railroad corporations of the country into two hostile camps v 0 there are some people who mean well ot adt r reason ill who rejoice and glory in railroad fights because they believe that the latin adage durbus I 1 tertius gaudet el C where two quarrel the third re rejoiced joicA applies to the general public as the benefited third party when tho the two combatants are raili road companies this is a very erroneous idea railroads neither run nor fight with the least con aide ration of public weal when one road cut tho rates under those of another it docs does so not to save 4 money for the public or the commercial community it does so to cut away the income of the competing line and absorb it within its own capacious maw all the railroad magnates do not express themselves aa as bluntly as vanderbilt did who ie is accused of having eaid said the public be d d I 1 but their actions betra betray that their thoughts are not running in in a very different channel of all the railroad corporations corporation 8 directly affecting the people of the west especially the people of utah the union pacific railway co ia is the most powerful and unmerciful ittle one we do not wish to rail 1 atit at it 1 business is 6 business the world over the large fish swallow the little onee ones and the string strong crowd the weak to the wall and sometimes even through it railroads arc are not established on sunday school principles neither dd do the sublime truths of odthe the sermon on the mount aunt cut any figure in their policy the only help the people have against the exactions and extortions extort ions by monopolies is to be looked for in an honest legislation both in washington and at the capitols of the various states buchow but how far the day ia distant when the nations elect rep will protect the peoples interests and rights and clip the claw claws of the grasping mo monopolies nopo is difficult to determine it is A far very far off indeed blean while some delusive consolation is derived from the compe of the paralleled lines and the companies which look to the same pastures to feed on at the present moment it looks as if the rail read war had reached the summit of fierceness tho the telegrams gives the latest developments to which we refer our readers who arc are per hapa wearied of hearing of tho the transcontinental association tho the tripartite alliance etc As the omaha bee rightly observes the new pool can hardly bo be called a tripartite for in addition to the Z original parties the tho union pacific the chicago rock island and the chicago milwaukee st paul U it now includes the ch chicago icaco northwestern and its connections the sious sioux city pacific and the k ir chicago minneapolis st paul alo also the wabash and missouri pacific roads it is undoubtedly a combination all in favor of the union ion pacific but the lington quincy having a direct line from chicago to ogden connecting there with the central pacific and having thereby as much it through lino to san francisco as any other transcontinental road is its naturally a rival of odthe the union pacific bifi co and cannot enter the p pool ool upon the terms offered the result is that the new combination is all against tho the chicago burlington fc quincy Qa incy ae mattere stand at date there ire are two gigantic combinations ar signed against each other the foree ces on one aide side marshaled by bj the union pacific those of the other samp camp led jed by the C B Q lehat what tha ia outcome will ho be is hard bard to io db vine ville for with railroad directors as with talleyrand language ia is created to conceal the thoughts one thing is certain our trade relations were seriously injured andin and in many instances ruined by the unsettled condition of freights and consequent unsteadiness of prices another thing is very uncertain and that is the intimation iu in the dispatches of thursday night that the thoc C P is siding in with the U P that would indeed be a spectacle of the lion lying down not with the iamb lamb but with the tiger we take that piece of information with a measure of saline admixture A prophecy is published in the omaha bee anent n ent the colossus of roads which has one foot planted in ogden while the other tramples on omaha and it is interesting enough to embody in this article A new ker made by betting that tho the union pacific would drop to 75 during 1883 and ho he now bets that in 1881 it will decline to 50 and that in 1885 the road will pass into the hands of a receiver lie ile bases his beta bets upon an alleged conspiracy on the part of gould and associates to depreciate the stock and wreck the property we are afraid this pessimist is ii too sanguine so to speak in hia hi gloomy forecast we have very little faith in railroad competition experience has demonstrated time and again that competition coro cow petition is always followed by combination and in the end the railroad is bound to be a monopoly me and my wife my son jolin joh n and hie his wife us u lour four and no more since writing the above a dispatch arrived from chicago which which contains one consolation for the people of the territory however fierce the war may go on round about our commercial interests are to enjoy the ble blessings akings of peace and renewed prosperity the dispatch says A meeting of the roads interested in the utah business from missouri kiver river on which ft a sharp war has been in in progress for several weeks was held hero here friday it was de c eded to form a poof pool and restore the old rates taking effect on monday next the pool is named tile utah traffic Association and includes the central pacific union pacific Burli burlington ligion A Mie missouri denver rio grande and atchison Atch topeka santa fo fe george 11 II daniels has been chosen commissioner |