New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-20
in our National Councils will finally cease aud
determine on the 4th of March, 1861.
PRO RATA.


The albany Argus is the more immediate organ
of the Central Railroad in ts opposition to the Pro-
Rata bill, and here is specimen of the arguments
which it adduces:
"THR TRIBUNE . 1, moved IN TIL. advocacy Of pro-
rating eiehs BY idea Of right or Of general eIpedency
,rhei IL has sought make tributary 90 w political pupos'
and falling, designs to punish fer Its recusancy."
The most tangible assertion above quoted is
most wanton, fogitious falsehood. All we have
ever asked of The Central that it should not lend it
self TO be the mere football Of the Sham Democracy.
We want none of its patronage for ourselves or for
any Republicans; but we do object to its paying
thousands per aDnum to support 30 depraved
and calumnous a tool Of faction as The Albany
Argus. Let it withdraw its jobbing patronage
wholly from the partisan press, stop giving free tick
cts to its minions wherewith to attend political con-
yentions and refrain in every way from informed
ding with our State politics and Legislation, and we
ask no more
The Argus quotes from our columns an article
saying that
the cost railroads msuifesty
made M in part OF leading and twenty
lot. of goods carried miles eeeh must cost she Company
more than ON. lot jus. such goods cened three hundred miles
l,op for by his proposition Its pu.,ics and inequality
must be palpsbe 10 every unprejudced observer"
We stand by every word of that. We do not
wish any Pro. Rata bill passed that viii require the
Central or any other Railroad to carry freight ten
miles for a thirteth part of its charge for three
hundred miles, making no account OF the cost
of loading and unloading, nor do we wish any road
required to carry single tun of goods for thou
saudth part of its charge for thousand tuns.
What we demand is simply and markedly that the
Products and Property Of our own citizens be car
ried as cheapy, all things considered, as those oil
the citizens of other States. This Is naked justice
-iusce TO the Railroads as well as to the People.
If the bill now before the Legislature fails TO secure
this, we favor such modification as may DC heces'
sarv to make it what we advocste-a Dill "nich
shall fairly and thoroughly apPortlon railroad
obaroes IN railroad service. Let this be done, and
IL will no longer be necessary to send the
Stoves and Hollow Ware of Troy down
to this City in order to procure their transportation
bv railroad to Chicago and other Western cities at
prices that the manufacturers can pay and live by.
Then our railroads may stop keeping up an army of
freight drummers throughout the West, grabbing
freight from each other at prices that will not pay
wear and tear. We feel morally certain that Pro
Rata sbest for the Railroads as well as their custom
ers; and though we have stood out against legisa-
ton to compel it's adoption, We now waive that OBJ
lection, since legislation seems essential to the at
taipment of the object. Let us have fair and equal
charges and our Western FIGURING Mills and IN
terror factories and workshops viii have fair
chance to live, which now they have rot. We
heartily wish the Railroads would establish and
maintain the Pro-Rals principle by voluntary
agreement; since they do not we are now ready
10 gee il established by law.