This good-as-cash loan from the government was “assistance” and “incentive” given to the genteel promoters of the Union Pacific Railway: $16,000 per mile from the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains; $48,000 per mile through the Rocky Mountains; and $32,000 per mile beyond the Rockies. This was a liberal allowance, surely. Collis P. Huntington, long time president of the Southern Pacific, claimed afterward that the road could be built at an average cost of less than $10,000 per mile. More recently the Union Pacific Railway Company (contending with the State of Utah over tax burdens) proved before the Board of Equalization at Salt Lake City, by the sworn testimony of engineers, that the average cost of the Utah Central line, in a rough country, was only $7,298.20 per mile. The dear capitalist government was rich enough to stuff the pockets of the glistening, flag-waving traitors with $60,000,000 in bonds like gold as “assistance” and “incentive” for self-preservation patriotism. But at the same time this dear government could give the “boys in blue” only 43 cents a day in cheap rag money as “incentive.” These “enterprising business men” drank champagne and slept in soft beds; but the “boys in blue” drank water from muddy horse-tracks and slept on the ground. SECOND: The Union Pacific Company, it was cunningly arranged, might make elsewhere a private, cash, mortgage-bonded loan equal to the government loan, $60,000,000. THIRD: The noble Christian statesmen in Congress and the noble Christian business men (patriots all) cunningly agreed that a _first_ mortgage should be given for the _private_ loan of $60,000,000. FOURTH: The government (bunco-steerers inside and outside of Congress) cunningly agreed to take a _second_ mortgage on the road for the _government_ loan of $60,000,000. FIFTH: It was cunningly arranged by these business men in politics and these politicians in business that ninety-five per cent. of the government second mortgage loan should not bear interest _till thirty years later_; but that all the private loans should bear interest at once. SIXTH: The Railway Company was cunningly given permission to sell $100,000,000 in railway stocks. Stocks were sold to Congressmen and very noble Senators. Stocks were sold to these very noble statesmen below the market price.