New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-02-01
sgACs AND UtRBOEs.


ten between proximity to suggested improvement
and interest therein Thus ii improvement is need
ed On tie Ohio, he considers il a matter which only
the States bordering that river care for and 50 Of
the Hudson the Illinois. Lakes Huron, Michigan e..
Now the fact is often the Of this. We have
already noted Erie present and orcibe ex ample
Her citizens backed by the enlightened and liberal
minded State which fiyly eniods her, don't want an
obstacle formerly existing to cheap and easy transit
through their mids, removed on the contrary. they
cherish IT, defend ii, and finding that ii had been
legally and peacefully overcome, at cost to them,
the State or the Nation they rally their mob forces
and tear up the railway track and compel every thing
to be carried by them in wagons or to travel on foot
Why might lot New-York with equal sigacity aud
genero.y insist on retaining the distractions to nayi
cation at the Overslaugh, and Michigan cherish as the
apple of her eye the Saul Ste. Marie And II they
did-nsy ii they did not fit to abae them totally
at their own expense the other States would no
redress, according TO the plan of Douglas
The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal lies wholly
within ore State ar that the smallest next to the
ualest in the Union Yet Delaware is not alone In
decd is not mainly benefited by that work and if we
were required to name in order the States to which it
-N'N~N-
to begin ncr where to stop
lie harbor of Macknsc is wholly within the State
of Michigan 40 other State approaches within many
miles OF it. And yet Illinois, WiseOnsn,-nay, New
York five hundred miles away-has far deeper inter
est in that harbor than Michigan has SO have Massa
cbusetts and Ohio There is great need of safe har
Dor at this point and it essentially has to be made;
while there is neither local interest nor local
ability to construct it, 1t is needed merely az
stopping-place and refuge in bad weather for
vessels plying between Wisconsin, illinois and North
ern Indiana on the hand, and New-YOrk,
Ohio, &c, ON the other. Suppose the LegiSis-
lures of these States were asked to unite in imprOv
inc that harbor VIVA. delay, what cavng, what inf
Iite w1eglpg, would inevitably ensue! Connecticut
il would be said sends of her Eastwood clocks,
horn ns wooden nutmegs and other notions into the
West through the gateway at the mouth of Lake
Michigan and Why does not she help Aud SO the JOB
would be banded from State to State and proved
eryIo6ys busnesf, which nobody would undertake
DO you gay this implies Ignorance. narrowness and
the absence of satesmanlike views Well, how many
statesmen DO you suppose there are average Legsa-
ture How long is it since a a'her prominent repre-
sentative of Ills City at Albany, since State Sena
tor declined serving on the Committee on Canals on
the ground that he wac not aware that this City had
any interest in any Canal less twere the Canast
sewer
But again: There ia great need Of Harbors on Lake
Superior. at points hundred miles from any other
State than Michigan and where no other State can be
said to have local interest in their construction
But ask Michiean. to make or improve them, and she
VIII say. Why should this State especially Citizens
of New-York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts,
and almost every other State, are largely Interested
in Mining On that Lake and those States must help
"or we viii do nothing" And so nothing would be
done These cases illustrate principles. Can more
needed They are plenty as blackberries.
Now as TO the effect of Tunnage Duties These
must be paid by the producer or the cOnsumer-the
transporter 60 between rarely pays them As they
are both our oCuntrymeD, We should not deem 1t
accommodation OF Douglass scheme if it did saddle
the whole on the consumer But lie labOrs to
cajole tie West by arguing that the consumer pays
the duty we will overhaul bis position.
A farmer in Illinois or Wisconsin grows Wheat,
whereof the controlling market is for the present in
this City, or az you please in England He sells his
crop for the price less the cost of transport
ing il 10 market IfWhest be worth two dollars per
buehel here and the cost Of bringing ii hher from ais
barn be sixty cents it viii net him dollar aud forty
cents. very nearly. Now suppose the vessel which
brings il from Milwaukee shebOygan TO Buffalo s
cl argtd twenty dollars tunnage duty at the shipping
pot and tel more al Buffalo where she unlOads, does
any nan fall to see that the Wheat must pay these du
tcs7 We shall give for it here. because the
price will be governed by hundred different consider
atoms whereof the cost Of Wheatgrowing in WiscOn
sin is but Call it light what YOU please. that
farmer will receive so much less for his crop the
turnage duties amount to- and there is 10 help for IT,
And, as the world goes We must pay good deal more
than the actual cost Of the works TO defrsy the ex-
penses Of collecting keeping and disbursug these
same tunnsge duties. No better scheme than Doug.
lass for the multiplication Of useless Offices and the
sggrayston Of the burthens Of Government has lately
been concocted.
And al for what Who are the men that won't
vote for necessary and proper River and HabOr Appro
pristons unl useless and wastefu jobs for the benefit
oftherrespective consttuenciesare included in the bill
Are thes such men as JOSEPH GRIyNELL, WASHINGTON
HUNT, TRUMAN SMITH, JONI DAVIS, aud the Wing
Representatives generally Of Massachusetts Vermont
ard Kentucky Every intelligent citizen knows that
the votes of these do not depend local or con-
sideratior but are uniformly given for River aud Har
Dor bills, though made up by Democratic Committees
to suit the eAigeneies of the party The men who
regard tie Whole County theirs AMI not some mar
row segment Of IT, need sop TO induce them TO vote
for jUdieious Improvements il il the Csuslstreet
sfWer or Fl Of ~ ans tifat -eou;ra to Ia snsI