Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-10-06
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factureTs' on the Determinations on the baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, in favor of freight and passen-
gers going the entire length Of the road and to
Philadeiphia. We have paid but little attention
TO the controversy on this subject which has for
some time claimed the attention Of the Baltimore
business men and consequently know but little
Of itmerits, but it does seem to us that an undue
degree Of acrimouy has distinguished some of the
controyersialisty, and that the matter might have
been much more probably examined in q dispas-
sionate and business like manner, and the result
would have been much more satisfactory TO al
concerned. We can well perceive why the COM
pany should not iniurously affect the trade Of
Baltimore; for 70 that city the road under lasting
obligations, though it may with equal ptopriety be
said that the city has realized her outlay already
in the substantial benefits, which she has thus far
even received from the Road; but while that be
tue' vet We can see no valid reason why this road
may not act as ea75sr for philadelphia, if Phil-s
adelphia has carrying to do Il is erroneous to
suppose that because freight is conveyed over thu
baltimore and Ohio BaiIroad TO Philadelphins il IS
thereby dtSeytsd from Baltimore.
The tue question IS where IS the market fcr
these products and WHITTIER do shippers look as
place Of salel Then comes the question of car-
rage, and Il one carrier viii take freight cheaper
than another, he Is favored and the other Is passed
by. Now it would appear from the drift of all
these articles, that soethng taking -four &C., to
Philadelphia. Whist IS doing it,, 1t cannot be
difference in teights for no one pTetends that the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad carry flour to Phila-
dslphia cheaper than it does to Baltimore. Is Il
Mo q o. .IsN2t
we Baltimorean, we should dislike an affirmative
answer to this question, yet the laws of trade
teach us that the product rarely passes one market
to 20 to another, 90 miles farther to find an equal
price only. Why is it then that Baltimore cannot
stop this freight in her midstI She surely should be
to pay as good price for articles for export
Philadelphia, and if she did, it would be rather
anomalous for freight TO pass her and seek p la-
deIphia. If the citizens of Baltimore, were to
spIace the axe at the root of the tree" they
would make it to the interest Of shippers to stop
their exports there and until she does so they will
find the better market by other avenues and de-
priye the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad even of the
perqlistes of freghts, which she would elsereceye
and add to her profits. In all proper subjects
the Road should aid to its utmost the city of Bai-
more, but trade cannot be forced cute its natural
channels of interest, and if the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad can, by a iudicious tariff of freights,
compete with Pennsylvania Central, for freight
&C., destined to and from Philadelphia, we can
see no reason why due regard to the interestso of
her stockholders should prevent her from so ing.
We feel proper interest nthe prosperity of Balti-
more, her roads prosperity IS our prosperity, yet
veoanvelI perceive how that company by neglect
inc fkro,,0H mot aopdinR II due encour-
agement, can materially iniure Baltimore, leopard
the prospects of the road, and drive into other
channels much of the valuable product Of the
west, which Is seeking the shores of the Atlantic,
and thus cease to be anything more than mere
Baltimore road, and lose that nationality which
we would gladly see stamped upon it as one of the
great highways connecting the Atlantic and the
Pacific. $3.50