Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1845-08-06
SALE OF THE RAILROADS

pow
pie viii ultimately need no o.her 10 bring them 10
the very conclusion We mos, tesife 10 see-lle
retention of the Roads in their own hands. In
an article OF last week, we handed ii in several
pieces 10 the cimpostor, passage like the
following, as nearly as recollection servers US.
In Ike manner let The Roads be sold this year,
and the result taking the revenue of "A as the
STANDARD for '46, will be the absts action of III, y
$50 33 from the State TO increase Eastern
wealth and power. Now if the State had con-
tinrej 10 be the owner, this SUN would have
gone to pay the expenses o; the Government, but
these expenses are TO be paid nevertheless and
for that purpose the people mast again pay the
same sum. as much more or less as the case may
be. Say the same, aud il will amount to S243,-
sou &c, almost one quarter of a million. How
do you like the pclurel Nor is this all where
,soeyer the controlling amount OF stock shall De,
there will the controlling Influence Of our CON-
merce be. Ii that be in Boson,lhen can Boston,
BY the impedimeits she can throw in the way oil
N. York, and other rival ciIes, exclude us from
those and co.fine US to herself alone. 1t in New
York or elsewhere, the case will be reversed 10
regard 10 such place alone and we shall be in the
same relative position.
Already is our Stale annually exhausted OF the
avails of her productions by our dependence on
the Eastern markets; shall we add to this the
HIN lreds of thousands of dollars which We pay
for carrying them beyond her borders ! Not
only so bul different sections Cab be favored at
the expense of others. The home market of our
State if the Railroad company shall be disposed
to 90 into specualions in our produce, Will be en-
tire!y at their control. In shoi, the possession OF
such " ork in such location vi! create the
frs, monopoly, which has ever existed in our
country for Sc superior are the advantages OF
the Railroad direct from 81. Joseph to Detroit,
>affordlng rapid aud safe transit to persons and
property all times, to the long todious and dan
gerous navigation of the Lakes, that no sor, Of
competition eau be maintained with it.
To sell the Roads then, is to say to such
company, .'heie, for SO much money we give
you the exclusive light to the carrying trade of
the State and of such other sections of country as
may find themselves SO situated as TO be forced to
avail themselves of your facilities
No parallel case exists in the United Siates.-
Every other Railroad owned by chartered COM
panies is either confined to short distance, or
sufftrs the competition Of direct wafer or other
communication. Thus We dscoursed of the dan
ger and inconvenience Of throwing cur roads iu,o
the hands Of monopoly; what then was our sur
prise TO see this very danger in the following ex
tract, converted into an argument for the sale,
unless, as we almost think. the Expositor, from
which we take It, is inclined 10 irony. The ital-
icising is our own.
IF the New Yorkers are foolish enough to let
Boston monopolise all the Railroads in the coun-
Try, we do not conplain-we are glad it capital
lists Of the latter place know well enough when
there chance TO make money, to take our rail.
roads off our hands, aud make them profitable by
finishing them, aud thus make the whole "wesl''
lwhen the Canada Road IS built) tributary to Bus
Lon at least live months in year, while IN. York
lies weather bound, oui Of our reach. They can
finish the roads and convey passengers across the
Stale Tor one halt what 1t now costs 10 60 round
BY water. Aud, ii The boats OH the lake will not
run so as 10 accommodate them, they ia six
months. place a fleet Of boats of their Orn on the
srater, and make money by charging little more
Than one half tine present price" e..
In the former part OF The same article the Ex>
posilor assures Us that the "Boslonans understand
well the loss and gaia of Railroads" and that the
business on tho roads. when finished would re-
quire, for three months in The year, 20 engines
on each road, and halt thai number for The re.
mander. s
Let US see a, this rate what would be- The a.
mount Of revenue from our works, Judging from
their present productweDess alone We shall
let the friends of the Southern road calculated for
themselves, we Ia Ike the Central.
The present number of engines in operation is
seven, one with double drivers equaIing two oil
the others, say eight. Ofthese the whole num-
Der is in business about three months in the year
aud three Of them the year round making an av
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