The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-02-05 00:00:00

DUDLAY AND WALSALL.

r; Anil PIANOFORTES & HARMONI-
j juu ukts have been TUNED by G. F. GREEN
Professional Tuner, 260, CASTLE-STRICT, DUDLEY, and
959, STAItuRD•STBEET, WALSALL. Pianofortes Re-
silked, Re-strung, the Hainniei 4 Re-covered with Patent
Feltois used by the ynnet pcnmf nt fi •me.

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Lowlon.

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London.

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ackage, and if this is dine they wil,
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MMUMNI

In the various half-yearly meetings of the
railway companies which are held at this season,
the old subject of the passenger duty has been
discussed with considerable zest. Such of the
shareholders as have spoken have been practic-
ally unanimous in condemning the character of
this impost. There is little doubt that the com-
plaints of its working are devoid of neither
foundation nor excuse. It is only one of the
drains made upon the resources of railway com-
panies but it helps to swell their enormous ex-
penditure, and to diminish the amount available
for dividend. The expenses of railway compan-
ies are constantly increasing; they are compelled
to pay to the uttermost farthing for any property
they may purchase; and they are hourly ex-
posed to all sorts of claims, often frivolous and
unfounded, but which it is.at the'same time im-
possible to ignore. They are Obliged to pay
dearly for articles and materials which were
once far less expensive than they arc at present.
Wages and the price of coal and iron have ad.
vanced during recent years; yet whenever a
Board of Directors attempts to recoup itself for
losses by a rise in the fares, it is certain to be
met by clamour and discontent. Yet, when the
question is looked at fairly in the face, what is
it that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is asked
to do? The railway passenger duty amounts to
about three quarters of a million sterling annu-
ally, and the minister of Finance is urged to
remit it altogether. He replies, as his predeces-
sors in office have replied, that some regard must
' be had to the interests of the public, and that
the tax ought not to be unconditionally. remitted
While desirous to encourage that spirit of enter-
prise which has covered the land with iron roads,
the contention of the Treasury is that if this
impost were removed, the State must have an
equivalent. There is no longer an annual sur-
plus of three or four millions sterling, and if
nearly one million of taxation is repealed, an
equal sum must be raised in some other way.
Probably the mass of railway travellers would be
of the same opinion, and might point out that, in
return for the remission of the passenger duty,
some concessions ought to be made by the com-
panies. The cry has been " all or nothing "
but in this world we have often to be satisfied
with a give-and-take policy—one of accommoda-
tion on both sides.

Naturalists have told us of the enormous
number of parasitical enemies which beset and
torment certain animals, and boards of directors
would tell us that these might woll be compared
with the host of the assailants which ceaselessly
afflict a large railway company. Sometimes both
directors and officials, who are held equally re-
sponsible whether a travelling bag is lost, or a
a terrible accident takes place, occasionally turn
round fiercely upon their foes, or break out into
complaints respo.cting the ingratitude of he
public. After all, chairman and directors are
but men and cannot be expected to remain calm
and patient if they are habitually held up to
execration as enemies of the race or cynical
despisers of the lives and limbs of their fellows.
Still in return for the abolition of the passenger
duty, might not the companies guarantee the
the public that which ought to be ensured—
greater safety in travelling ? Vast numbers of
persons are interested in this question, using the
locomotive daily as a means of transit from
place to place. The Metropolitian Railway alone
carries a million persons over its few miles of
line every neck. It is a Remarkably punctual line
as, indeed, it need bo, but the same cannot be
said of every great railway corporation. Could
be clrried out, and the risk of ac-
cillineLnttli Y
saiii)tt•oportionately lessenad, the public
would be inclined to sympathise with the corn-
ssened taxation to
(r le
nthey do at present.
apl
samni maies
ch greatertnptohses iirb demand
extmot eanmntdatkhf)a
e some alterations in
the system of inanagemee induce
the which would
the public to resign itsel to the loss of the pas-
seeger duty ? Surely it is not unreasonable for
people using the lines to expect that all possible
zeal should be used in order to attain punctual-
ity in starting and arriving. The singular
anomaly is that, as carriers of goods or parcels
the companies are compelled to observe a reason-
able amount of punctuality ; and by an important
and wholesome proviiion of the Railway and
Can al I:rallic Act, they are preclnded frctn en-
tering into contracts containing unreasonable
icAmlations with the view of evading responsi-
bility.
to s il;flutbbuialti
tsycu,ocnnhtoraa
matter
stipulation
True, they may induce a consigner of
ue releasing
lratwi ohnat
wbtoehucelodmm
fthroemgooaldis themselves
eoe sf.
re-
garded ds eddi
tlib by
ti t
0 courtsee
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why
lhayw worthlesssaosmewh at shanni
Ida
r invalid
obli-
gations should not exist in regard to passenger
traffic. We often sea. ,conditions printed on
timetables, statingthat the company will not be
responsible for any delay caused by the want of
in passenger trains, lint why
sle filo stipulations ‘vhich would not be binding
on persons despatching goods, have power to
fetter the action of passengers ? It is obvious
that if companies were bound practically by the
dread of penalties to stle tirit their passenger
service kept good time, we s!muld have a now
gaaraetee .1r punctuality, and eunsLeitiontly for
the public safety.