New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-16

afternoon. These are al the passenger trains you
can afrrd to run; they would take all the passage
money you now do within 81 900 per month, while
the sayrr Of wear and tear alone would exceed that
sum, beside reducing your RAINING expenses enor-
mously. Ifyour road is ever to be revived it mu.t
be through retrenching its preposterous and horribly
wsstefu expenditure for running express trains,
cutiyatiDg its local business, ard obtaining new and
IRE advantageous connections westward. You
never did and never will make dollar BY competing
for the through travel that must come to you over
the Lake Shore Road. Do your best, and you will
sink money on that desperate enterprise till you
quit it.
And you, Messieurs of the Central! with the
best local business Of any road of equal length In
Americas business that may be largely increased
if you will cultivate and not throttle it, as you are
doing in the case of the milers and manufacturers
aforesaid-you can do even better business than
you are now doing bounteous as that is if you only
will. But you must quit considering all the freight
in the wide West as rightfaiy belonging to you, and
stretching your long arms across the Western ex-
tensions or connections of the Pennsylvania, the
| Baltimore and other parallel roads, in vain and
damaging endeavors to grasp every thing. Those
roads will unite with you in establishing fair and
living rates whenever you shall Dc willing; it is your
greediness that has reduced rates 30 owin thepaSt
| Prefer your rivals such an arrangement promptly
and frankly, and, if they refuse it, apply to the
Legislature for relief 1t is stl nearly two months
| to adjournment, and you do not need month
wherein to put everything on fair footing But do
not imagine that you can have all the freight west
of you to yourselves and then divide that lying west
| of other roads Examinations.
Indeed, il is high time stop were put to theper-
ricous system under which every railroad is intent
rather on grabbing its neighbors business than on
| nourithirg and doing its owL-a system which oils
the West with RAILROAD drummers taking freight LOT
prices that will not pay for greasng the car wneeS
| and besears the railroad treasures to pay this
myriad Of superauous freight.seekers lie reform
viii never be effected unless it begins aomeWnerei
| then why not here If the Canada Road shall
persist in carrying for nothing let it have monopoly
Of that profitable JOB; II will hardly be able to
coax the wheat and -four of the West to Quebec or
Halifax while threef ourths Of the surplus Of Canada
itself comes straight to NewYork.
AS to tie Chamber of Commerce and our per-
turbtd dry goods jobbers, if they think the course
they recommend essential to the trade of NewYcrk,
let them Try it themselves. Let them advertise that
they will sell goods to Chicago and further west FIVE
to ten per cent lower than they sell to own State
ard carry Chicago -four and Cincinnati pork to Liv-
erpool at half their charges on Rochester -four or
City packed pork, and We shall hold them consist
emily absurd. Now we must regard them as lending
their voices to swell camor of which they COM
preherd neither the nature nor the real purpose.