Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1847-11-11

policy Of the lake INTEREST," Will she not sell
out her present stock to spectators, rather than
increase it? And where, we beg TO ask, are we
to GO for aid, if not TO her? But deep as is the
interest Of every railroad company in Yer
mont on this question, we hold that the interest
of the people is paramount to that. 7Hcir inier-
eSis are with the railroads, and against the old
monopolies of the lake, on this question. Need
we say, that the freight money paid by Vermont
has been her heaviest tax. And rs to bread
stufs: need VIC refer TO what has time and again
occurred that in the winter and spring, through
shortness Of the supply, we have been forced to
pay an advance of frem two to three dollars, and
even more, upon evcY barrel Of -four. Is it not
true, too, that COMBINATIONS HAVE nEEN AT
TEMPTED Ito say no more,l for the very purpose
of extortiou in this matter? The people have
been enormously taxed in this respect; taxed
enormously In The cost Of freight and taxed in a
price made extraordinarily high mol because -four
was not TO be mad at the West-but because our
lakes and canals were ice bound, aud the flour
could not be transported So, too, has it often
been with ether articles; and all this has been
doubly onerous to the people from the fact, that
when, by want Of means Of transportation, their
supplies have been short and prices high, they
could not, for the same lack Of transportation dis
pose of their eva products. Thus the cost of
subsistence has been increased at the very mo-
mcnt when their ability to pay was diminished.
We speak, then, for Me people in this matter !;
VIC ask that the great grain market Of the West
may be thrown open 10 them; that they may be
redeemed from the sad extremitics to which their
inland position has often subjected them; that
their roads may secure the advantages to which
they are fairly entitled and their abundant re-
sources be made available in every market in
Montreal and in Ogdcnsburgh, in Buffalo and
Detroit, as we'll as in Beston and New York.
This is the picture We have been contemplate
ing this is the contest we have been expecting;
and though political and personal friends may
be estyangcd, we have from the beginning been
determined to be faithful to the interests Of the
people, come what may.
A word as to I" Ycrnont's" suggestion 10 delay
n decision of this question. A delay of this
question will be delay in the construction Of
the roads concerned. 10 the Companies this
world be serious, for the Vermont Companies
are paying G aad the Ogdensburg pent ON all
the capital paid in; to the stockholders serious,
for years agitation would deprees tl'ejr stocks,
and make them the foot balls Of stock gamblers
and spectators; TO the public serious. for it
would postpone all the advantages to be derived
from the roads. Besides, the parties Interested
have had fair notice and full hearing: the facts
are now as well developed, the principles involv-
cd are now as we'll understood, as ever they can
be and beyond all that we unders' and that the
bill itself provides that the bridge may be at any
time suspended or removed, ifthe public interest
shall require it. CertaiBly we can see GO dan
ger in granting the privilege, thas limited; and
it seems to that the grounds for granting notc,
are amply sufficient.