Show BENEn beneficial CIAL BUT TO WHOM with gould the Vander bilts the rockefellers Rocke fellers and their several friends controlling the northern pacific the uni union 0 n pacific the central pacific and the southern raci pacific fic not to mention the santa fe the northwestern and a half a score of others between the missouri and the atlantic seaboard the calir railroad 0 ad situation in the united states is be becoming coming bucl simplified and the manipulators if not the patrons of these great arteries of commerce ought to be correspondingly elated but bat outside of ef themselves is an anybody Y really pleased at the outlook do the rival roads the competing lines which though by the devil are a long way from the deep sea do thesa these find comfort in the prospect are the patrons hold bolding any ratification meetings or sen sending d any congratulatory telegrams over the grand monopolistic centralization thus refracted or about to be effected well hardly mr goulds laconic decision that the western roads are not earning elou anoush b perpetually precludes any idea of rejoicing on the part of patrons of those roads at liis his implied determination to increase the earnings for they know that to increase the earnings means to increase the tariff not to find bad a remedy in the countless leakages which can only be detected and stopped by a system of the closest observation they know that with him the core care sought will wil I 1 ba be that which promises prom isea to be the speed iest lest not that which might and ought to be brought about by a strict ecru tiny of every part of the working ey system 8 they know that his treatment will ba be heroic drastic and applied to the still healthy parts not the lop ping offos off of decayed and useless members that eat up the substance suba tance which should go elsewhere that the western roads are not earning enough may bo be all very true but that is merely to say that they are not well enough managed it is pretty hard for instance to make a road earn dividends when it keeps I 1 in a its employ twelve to twenty lordly officials each with his private car it his a cooks clerks and backscratchers back bick and all of them perpetually traveling while each ones ambition is to gain and keep and show more authority than his fellow autocrats yet mr gould would probably think for a timo time at least that the cutting off of these expanses expenses would be an insufficient remedy and the further relief sought would inevitably come out of the pocket 0 of the customer the customer knows know thi sand hence he views the combine or compact or whatever the new movement may ba be called with tha the well founded fear that the concentration of vast capital always inspires it ie is well enough not to cross the bridge till we get to it and if when wa we di reach it it should be found less alarming than we thought why of course we will all feel feet very agreeably disappointed |