Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-04-27
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For the information Of those who may desire
10 attend the State Sabbath School COuven-
ton in this city, On the 9th Of Nay, prOximo,
We are requested 10 state that application has
been made bg the ecmmttee having the matter
in Of srps, to the managers Of all the railroads
leading into the city, and their immediate eon>
neetions, for half fare tickets, and that answers
have already been received from the Little
Miami and ths Cincinnati, Hamilton d Dayton
roads, agreeing 10 make such an arrangement
The COMMITTEES expect, in a few days, 10 be
able 70 make Gimilar announcement IN relation
to other roads 70 which application has been
made COiRmbEs SfGtssmGn.
We trust the liberal policy hitherto govern
ing Western railWsy management touching
half fares to Religions, educational, temperance,
political, &c important asssmhlsges, will not
be departed from. The interests Of the rOsds
and The people are mutual, and the ehsaPsning
Of tmvel to the masses when extensive move
msnts are dssirsbIs, viii do much to popular
izs the roads eonierring such favOTS, nOs only
with the people generally, but with the voters
who make and uanake LegiElhtuTes. The
present year will be ons of unusual political
excitement and mass meetings. The people
will be on the move, and If facilities are affOId>
ed and cheap fares, the roads will all reap an
advantage. Tbe tmes are hard, money, scarce,
and multitudes who would attend conventions
and mass meetings on hElffarss, viii have to
foregO such attendance at fell rates. Full
trains can be rpn nearly as cheap sS hAlf-fIled
ones; AMI 70 cut OF the facilities heretofore
afforded viii engen5sr IN will towards railway
management, to be followed, more than prObs-
be, By pro rata and other legal restrictions
annoying and injurious to railroad prosperity.
Il is better for corporations 70 harmonic with,
rather than jar with people who are SOver-
eigns at the ballOtboI.
Two very important religious eOnvocaions
are soon to be held, that Of the Baptists, in
Cincinnati, and the MothOdists, in Buffalo. At
the late railroad convention in Cincinnati an
attempt was made 10 TeScind the Iule adopted
by former convention limiting hAlf-faTe tick
ets to State Fairs, in order to give the BaptiBts
the advantage of cheap use Of the roads to
and from Cincinnati The motion, we regret
to say, was rejected The General Conference
to be held the first of May in Buffalo under
hslf-iares would attract very large attendance
of laymen as well aS elsTgymen, and not
single extra train would be required to accom-,
mOdste them. Methodist ministers, as a class,
ara the hardest workers and the poorest paid
in earthly wages Of any in Gods harvest
field, and are therefore less able to pay full
fafes.
The refusal to issue half fsrU tickets to the
General Conference has had the effect to seud
q large number Of the Western delegates by
the Grand Trunk route through Canada, which
exhibited no such illiberal spirit towards the
most extensive Protestant organization in the
States snd Territories Of The great Ohio and
Upper Mississippi Valleys. The Conference
viii be in session from i've to six weeks, and
hslf-faies would have kept up current of
travel TO and from Buffalo over the American
routes IN line
We cannot but think it short sighted policy
on the part Of Railway Companies 70 exhibit
unusual greed in this wids.awaks year Of
1850.