Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1845-08-07
THE CENTRAL RAILROAD,A AGAIN.

Ihe apologists and defenders OF thls
wre,ched thing say, ,hat,as an Offset to the
exemption from taxation with which the
stock Of this Route is blessed, the money
that it will cost to build j, is to be expend-
ed in the State Here is what the Watch
man says about it;
OF the three millions required, one mill
ion only is reserved to Vermont: this Is
really the sum which will be taken from
the grand list by the charter. But that
sum brings in double The amount g. e. two
millions from abroad) to be expended in
the State, 10 pass into the hands Of our
people for subsistence, land and labor, and
be represented IN some form upon the
grand list.
A beautiful admission is here made, viz:
that ONE MILLION OF MONEY wW be taken
from the grand list of the State by the
charter of this Railroad! This fact the fed
eral Waterman admits; but attempts TO
paliate its bare-faced enormity by assert
ting that he sum double the amount, that it
costs to build It "wilI be expended in the
State to pass into the hands of our people
70. subsistence" Glorious! very glorious!
Admit for a moment all this to be true.
According to the Register published
by the editors of the Waterman "The grand
list Of the State on phich The State tar is
made Out," one halt of the two folds be-
ing deducted, is $2,2l7,4 O5,s5. Now,
when this central Railroad has swallowed
one million of this, we should like to know
how the deficit is to be made up except by
an additional tax on the remaining 8 | ,2l7,-
405, S5' viii It not turn out that the
81 PIT ,405 must do for the State, what
2,2l7 ,405,e5 have previously donel How
much will the remaining 1917, 405, SIS
lack Of having TO pay DOUBLE the amount
of taxes in consequence Of the million that
this Railroad extracts from the grand list?
And now let us ask if the citizens of Ben
nington, Rutland, Addison counties, espe.
cialIy, and a portion of the citizens Of
many of the towns IN majority Of the re-
naming counties to whom this road will
be ofno sort Of benefit, not to mention those
to whom it wAll be a positive injury, are
willing to drag their sewet skins aud make
up in the State tax, the deficit caused by
the indulgence given TO those who will be
benefited by the central Railroad lfthey
arc, why, very WE'LL but We should like to
hear them say So
But, the money is TO "be expended in
the State" tina, it will require to build this
road and "is to pass into the hands of our
people for subsistence" Good! Please
gentlemen, Oliver "wants some more!"-
We will pass law exemptlng million Of
the stock in the Ru,lard Route from taxa
ton. We should then have of the Grand
| List" on which the State ta1 is made,
2l7 ,4O5, So! and according to the Watch.
man, this state of affairs would really be
bnefcial to the taxpayers Of the state, be-
cause the money that it would cost TO
build these roads "wouId be expended in
the State to pass into the hands of the peo-
ple for subsistence. How would il work
to procure this kind of "subsistence" for
the people of the state, by exemptlng the
entire Grand List from taxation tor the
benefit of Railroads, aud paying the taxes
necessary for the support Of the state and
lha, have heretofore been levied on the
Grand List, by the kind OF Subsistence
that passes into the hands of the people"
from the construction Of Railroads! But
the grand list is not to suffer, in fact, by
the exemption of million from taxation,
because, the Waterman says "lhat sum
Zone million exemped) brings in double
the amount g. c. two millions from abyoad)
to be expended in the state, to pass into
the hands of our people for subsistence,
land and labor, and be represented in
some form on the Grand List" Where the
Road runs it cuts up the farmers land an |
pays what it pleases in nine cases in ten
nothing like wha, j, is worth to the own
er; but this is benefit to HIM, of course,
because while he IS paying nearly double
the State tar in consequence of the build
ing Of the road, aud selling his land for
half what it is worth to him, the signal
that this Road has crossed our border will
be the noise made by from one to two
thousand spades and pick-axes forced into
our soil by the hands of as many "Coreign
paupers" (see whig papers) as they are
marshaled over our line followed by their
women and children ito pass into the hands
of our people for subsistence, land and Ia