Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1854-05-04

The Wing party has been denounced fol
building up "monopolies," because it has fought
Tor Internal improvements, one of the abuses
OF which we admit, is monopoly, but without
which our country would be wilderness. And
without the Wing party or its equivalent-some
P arty to build up, beautify and enrich the coun-
try, instead Of tearing down and impovershinp,
what would we have in the shape of Internal
Improvements? Judging by the avowed senti
mentsot the party in power,past and present, we
should have the whole of Oregon or none, Cuba
and war with Spain, the whole of Mexico,
and small piece of South America.
We should have no railroads, no turpikes
no Improvements in agrcultureo or manufactures
mo home industry, no guilty alton, except for
war. A standing army Of hundred thousand
men would De necessary in order to sustain
these warlike principles. They would eat out
the substance Of the country-rebellon anar.
chy, and finally despotsm, would be the re-
suit.
We only say that without the Whg party
or its equivalent such would be the certain
late OF our country. But there is, and
mast be such party'--Woe betde this country
when such an influence ceases to be exertej
The following article from the New York
Economist will illustrate in some degree the
practical operation of both political parties:
The United States army numbers aboutlO,
Ooo men, and they cost the country last wear
SS'S26'34 for pay, subsistence, clothing.
a. That is to say, $500 per man. 1t would
puzzle any one to tell Of what service were
lnsse men. living uselessly in barracks and
old forts, eating three meals per day, and tur.
nng out occasionally to touch their cans to
their officers.
The Illinois Central Railroad army numbers
ten thousand men also, and they receive from
the company $3, 700, 900. per annum, in re-.
turn ior which they labor twelve hours per day
upon work which gradually stretches itself
through the most fertile plains connecting the
great lakes with the Ohio and Mississippi riv-
ers, and ultimately with the Gulf of Mexico.
The relativeia advantage of these two armies
to society, present an interesting matter for
study, and are graphically sketched BY the
New-York Post. The prospective building
OF the great central rail read of Illinois alone
has added to the wealth of that State, in the
appropriation of wild lands. the sum Of forty
millions, within strip of but twelve miles in
width, and the actual construction of the road
will bring TO a ready market millions of acres
OF land now owned By the general government,
which were the road not constructed, would lie
waste for years to come.
The federal government employs 10000
men at an expense of eight millions Of dollars,
to carry muskets, The Central Railroad Com
Pany' employing ten thousand men at less than
iour millions; confers vast property upon the
State, upon the federal government, and upon
thousands of farmers. Year after year the
government spends its millions of dollars, eifec-
ting nothing. producing nothing, aud resulting
In nothing bnt the turning loose of idlers to prey
upon the industrious during the remainder Of
their existance.
The Illinois Company. by three years ex.
pendituie, establishes several hundred miles OF
iron rails through prolific farms, many of them
owned by the persons they employ to build
the road-men Of industry, vigor, wealth, and
intelligence. The United States in thirty wears
have spent $4,000, ,OOo, 900. enough to build
a double track to the Pacific, and they have
nothing to show for their money but some old
forts, guns, tattered uniforms and demoralized
veterans. s.--Hdnl Int.