True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1855-08-08

prices Is lhey Hunetuate IRON Oay 10 uay,
keep careful account of wear and tear,
cost and charges, and see what your wheat
and eats were worth to you at your barn.
Your neighbor with just the same kind of
a farm, and the same produce, collects it
at the Railroad depot, most convenient to
him, hauling one, two or three loads day,
according to distance, steps into passen-
ger car, makes sale of his crop to arrive,
returns, loads the wheat on freight train,
accompanies it or goes on the passenger
train, receives and delivers the goods at
the depot, purchases and sends back the
return freight, and you and he set down
and compare accounts.
viii you please imagine the result, and
then ask yourself if right to use the
road, would not be beneficial to you p
Suppose again, your farm was forever de-
barred from the use of the road, aud you
wished to sell it, as assuredly you would,
in such case could you get as much for
it as your neighbor could for his, having
no greater productive capacity? But you
ask me if such cases could happen. an
swer cheerfully, not literally, but substan'
TALLY the same in part might be the lot of
all of u.s.
Foreign capitalists hold majority Of
the stock. They place their agents here,
render them eligible, and fill the board of
directors and all the offices with them.
Would their interest in the management
of the road be the same as yours? There
is as YOU must discover, wide margin be-
tween the cost of travel and transportation
by the road and the old methods. Whilst
YOU would desire fair dividends on your
stock, you would wish also to realize part
of this saving of expenses of marketing
in the shape Of increased nett value of your
produce, and IN the enhanced value Of
your leai estate, This argument applies
, equally to the farmer, The mechanic, and
, the merchant, to the producer and the con.
enn,or Whatever diminishes the cost OF
c2mi2ge, produces the apparent anomaly
: that whilst the producer reeAiyes higher
nett price for his products, Tie consumer
! gets them for less money, and is thus able
to buy, and consume more of them. No"
, if the producer and the consumer are
f also the carriers, is it not plain that she'll
f interests are identical, and that they arc tc
carry as cheap as they can? On the Other
7 hand, separate the interest Of the carrier
D from that of the producer and the con
G sumer, and he has a single interest, and
( that instantly become Is antagonist to that
S of the others. His single inquiry is, how
: large dividends can make? Of course
, be will push charges as near the cost as
he can. The wagon, the carriage, and the
, saddle are his only rivals. Are you will.
ing to look coldly on, and see such an es'
tate, already, in fact your own, pass into
: the hands of rivals? Once gone, it viii
C return no mGe. Come forward then a
V once, and secure the means which vii
e render it your interest to improve to th'
is utmost, whatei Ter you now possess, and in
:, stead Of investing money in distant lands
# and scattering your families abroad, inves
G it where it will react upon what you have
o and render yur community pattern o
d prosperity and happiness. A FRIEND.
e Steubenc'Lel July 7, 1855,