Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1844-01-26

merchants in Montpelier who have transported Foods from B
Has nothing to the PROSPERITY pnd r s S16 Of
the y mas Sien laid roads uc Have
the mechanic? Would real Vermont rise if the public
more stage coaches dued past Improvements in nn
RS' s% he not not been evils why should further
rn s deny the utility Of % most perfect and cheapest Of al
ingenuity to state with some of argument but which are
objected that the very greatness of the amount of transportation
required by the business of the country is itself proof that the
roads, For said vast ansporton calls ora correspond
ing amount Of the means of transportation horses carriages pub
work for ee6cs Ds eSHp odu uo. sna
ence n FIRST sd no' $o This is ali the infer
present modes Of conveyance the produce necessary
Perhaps the best reply to the reasoning fairly
case Here then is community requiring vast of tanspor
Not the particular who drive who the
ports and the buyers of what brought from the ports men,
travel themselves others for travelling their stead When
cost him to I ednos & eda e and %a T
nkage from the Boston price, and allows the balance.
When this farmer buys goods of this merchant for his pork
poaon his time stagee board expenses
and fixes ece high enough to all these the losses and nu
the farmer the merchant and the teater all the inter
farmer For the transportation is ali either deducted from the
price of his pork and cheese added to the of the goods he buys
this respect his agents connecting him with MARKET paid by
S s aVs er s Segn and
this transportation pays from his own pocket It is his
with the merchant matters with whom he deals he may carry
his own products to market and bring back his purchases he
deal with who deals with
But at last way another he who produces things
brought him distance pays cost Of the transport may
escape his notices. but cannot be vaded; other pay for
The whole body of the United States
eneyen IN every hundred of the population and out of the Cities
of conveying their bulky products to the market and bringing
from thence the IRON salt -four mosses plaster and other heavy
modltles received by them in
Nor this the whole Of the burden imposed the agoulst
OF his family travel by the public coaches and that several respects
SEES by way. The Albany by Railroad
distance of $50 miles, 81 from Boston Montpelier by STAGE little
Por Boston, if Railroad made, eight
Single om @e V ssv aes OF Gne
bic moment Suppose the speed the be but three times that
third the number of upon the road and three ouhs of
the @ sent taken the T of hand and
dragged melancholy lengths of would be added to the indus
Again. the farmer in the interior nearly pecluded by the of
from the of certain indispensable the high
this Improvement lme abundant particular localities might
be- brought from the @a eaO e and p e ap
ca manures manufactured the cities could be advangeousy
buened with the of the products the purchases of the
a Pas 5ST clear be% psn Shaps that
advantage of MARKET occaoned by and engaged
money with hand which Immediately paid
IN community no more finds horses and carriages
would be hardly wise for keep and for the
than would for an individual to do So If there is cheaper
mode of conveyance the whole for the commodities of country
than those now in the of maintaining the deare falls u
ate on the consumer that is the whose products and
chases and persons conveyedhe who imagine them
selves be getting high prices ready their agricultural
products consequence of keeping and horses consume those
The agrcultural the only person interested; all
classes bear their of the expense all have
d and nearly all create values to be carried distant
ee The principal weight falls however the farmer and the
nature OF their occupations the great producers and the great
Of obvious reply they prove So
they will not suPercede other they prove So be folly
to maintain the dearer.
1t is however, by certain that the Rail
Roads tends ultimately diminish the power
country These roads only along great thorough
TO the line or the road the population and produce of wide
means from it this population and the commodities transported from
the city, must be distributed The reduced freight will add
TO the numbers and the amount of articles carried both
For the accommodation of travellers and the trade
and shops must be opened all along the that would not be
strange nearly the should be still
qned by the business of the country while, tme
distant markets are opened for produce.
1t objected Rail concentrate business
OF the country few hands give monopoly the capitalists and
is curious fact that every body tong capital,
and yet jealous of the capitalists every body commencing industry
wealth body aiming at earthly good and yet dread
ing the influence OF upon society There must be deuson in
mappehension it sad stered always by the envy andbad
of fallen nature seldom the selfish de-
signing men.
Without capital the fruits of past industry what could
future industry effect? capital is at this moment one Of the
obstacles to the progress of agriculture ITSELF
pursuits Business often conducted disadvantage for of
capital tend backward towards babarm The difference of
cese ages not chiefly in numbers or physical strength native
ing industry and ingenuity and handed down from generation
another The skies above the opens its
bosom u.s. @ same agencies OF nature minister But how
widely different the condition and ages distinguished by
M rendered safe by the law bors us truly
human minds or human hands What else the noble of