The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-02-12

We have received the eleventh annual Report
Of tho Public Works of Ohio. Would that
every voter in Kentucky could read ii 1t en-
bodies mass of useful information, and shows
too clearly to be misunderstood what free labor
can accomplish.
The two great works Of Ohio are, the Ohio
and Miami Canals, tapping the lakes at Cleve-
land and Toledo, and uniting with the river at
Portsmouth and Cincinnati. And see what
they have accomplished:
Original cost Of the Canals, $5,732, 1855
Revenues, excluding expenses, in
lS41, S,sU2
A right 'stiff" income And 4 sure one.
too! "Yes, but her debt is heavy one" says
one. So it is. Nor is this all. Ohio has made
apparently, not really, mistakes-that is. she
has unproductive works, az we learn from the
following table -
Cost Of Miami extension, Walhond-
ing and Muskingum, Ss,3oS,'4I
Revenue, excluding expenses for
ls4f, 1877 ,293
What was land worth along these improve
ments before they were begun A song
What was the price of wheat From twenty
FIVE to thirty-seven and half cents per bushel
Produce was Observation-Disclosures and everything
to be bought high, for want of facilities Of
transportation. And how has il been since
Land commands a steady value produce brings
As much a. il does in any part of Ohio while
articles brought into the country are as cheap.
Really, then, these unPrOduetive canals even
have added, and are adding, largely to the wealth
Of Ohio.
But lock at the results along the Miami and
Ohio In 1925, before the internal improve
ments commenced, wheat was twenty-five cents
per bushel-now it is Seventy. Flour is a little
higher in New York not enough so to make
anything like this difference. And Is for land
why, 1t requires a small fortune to buy good
farm now, when before these works were COM
menced, the best soil could be had for a small
sum-
Says the Cincinnati Chronicle -
"If we allow an advance of fifteen cents per
bushel on account of advanced prices at New
York, II will be full much, as the facts will
Justify. II follows then, that the public works
OF ONO nave ADVANCED tne price OF Wncdt 10
the Farmers, full Twenty-Five eeafs per bushel on
an acreage. Now let us see what this is
Wheat transported on the
Public Works, 100000 bushels.
IS cents per bushel, is s2,o00,OOO
Interest on the Debt for
Canals, 100000
Interest per cent, 8 per cent.
Increase paid by the increas-
ed value of wheat 1917 per cent.
Here then is q demonstration, that the Canals
Of Ohio, have increased the value Of the single
article Of wheat, permanently, 30 that, this in
crease to the farmer would pay all the Interest
on the Public Debt, and seven and half per
cent over 1t would in ten years, pay both
Interest and Principal on the Public Debt!!"
Here, then, we see the benefit Of public works
We see what State can do when labor is free,
and every facility afforded it to secure a reward
for its industry. We see how greatness is won,
and stable power gained and made permanent
Shall IL be so with Kentucky Voters, you
may make our State, what Ohio is, If here and
now, you say:-"Slavery, the white mans bit.
terest curse, a wrong to the black, an injustice
to all shall be no more"