Source: Alger County Republican
Au Train, Mi.
July 28, 1888 Saturday

Another English Enroachment

The sale of the DSS&A to the Canadian Pacific seems to be an
assured fact. The interviews with the managers of the deal
show that a majority of the stock has been sold to leading men
of the Canadian Pacific, which is the only method of "whipping
the devil around the stump." And so another valuable American
property passes to the hands of the British, and we must sit
down and abandon all hope of any aid from this line of road in
the development of this peninsula. Canuck railroading is not
adapted to American ideas of business and as soon as the Cana-
dian Pacific finally gets its hand on the property, there will
be a constant friction between the management and the would be
patrons of the road which bodes ill for the congiguous country.
It is high time that Congress took this matter in hand, and put
a stop to ownership of American roads by English corporations.
The general offices of the Grand Trunk, which has a net work
of roads in the lower peninsula, are in London and the oeioke
of Nucgugab are powerless as against its enroachments on the
rights of the people. This state of affairs also renders nus-—
gatory the provisions of the inter-state commerce law, to the dam-
age of American roads and the enrichment of the British corpor-
ations. We believe in protection of every sort against foreign
enneachment, and so heartily do we dislike anything pertaining
to England that we should be glad to have her shut out entirely
from any business intercourse with this country. The control
she lost in the arbitrament of war she is trying to regain with
gold, and the watch cry of every true American citizen should be,
in unison with the Roman watch word against Carthage,"the Eng-
lish power must be destroyed."