, 1866-01-18

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CfAssitication-Tho Concord Grape
O<aEe Seed from Tcxnx-Osa.e TIM
ber-Red Cedar Will make a Live
Fencc-yShat In u Live Fcnce-vatue
Of Corn Coos for Fucl-Efand Corn
Shelter yVanted-Valuc OF the Slate
and Pencif-To Correspondents.
from our OWL Corrttponden..l
CHAsrA1uS, Ill, jan. Is, 1868
Frclghts arc classtled by . convention Of
genera, freight agents, say Of Illinois or west
crn roads, while the local rate OF Transports
tion Ia regulated By each road- Where there
arc many tlings that need correction, yet
there arc two sides to nearly all these 4ucs-
tions. We sec no reason why the Legislature
is not as competent to settle the right as
between the railroads and the people as
convention Of freight agents. Both parties
have vested rights that should be gua1ded.
The doctor has the vested right to charge for
his services, aud the patient has also vested
right to be protected from IN overcharge; SO
Of railroads. They must be allowed fa1r,
even liberal price for the service performed,
and the people must be protected from their
avarice. There does not appear better way
TO settle this than that tho Legislature take
the matter in hand and do Justice to ali par
ties.
Abuses are liable to grow Up in corporations
reached by the people. Take for example
coal. Suppose my particular road desires
cheap conl; they need uot put up the tariff
to obtain It. Suppose they ASCERTAIN that the
average net cost Of putting coal on the cars Is
s18.i5 per car load Of ten tons, and that they
may need ono half Of az the coal raised along
the line Of the road. II is easy to say to each
coal bank, give US half OF your coal at the
net cost, and We will furnish you cars to ship
the balance. Now, suppose Coal Bank A
does not wish to sell coal at these figures,
what will he do Tor cars. Suppose he does
sell, and raises len cars day; i've Of these
70 to the railroad company without profit,
and the miner must charge the profit Of tho
ten cars on five. Suppose that fair profit
would be t6...5 per car, making the value Of
the coal 325 per car at the mino; but in this
case the value to the private Individual must
be 81 Is, making 1t cost him sj.a5 too much,
O. just taking tho profit Of the miner out or
the people Who use coal for domestic pur-
poses or In manufacturing goods that In turn
supply freight to the road. We can thus sec
how the people might pay IN Indirect fuel
tax to railEoad corporation without being
generally aware OF it.
fire wood ut any rate, simply that they may
monopolize its purchase. II the competition
Of the public In fuel enhance the cost Of
freightage, OF course 1t Is but right that 1t
should be advanced. Competition Is not mo-
noPoly while the former ia In accordance
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tect ~ rononoI;ns h,.t "ra so1aan saa 81,
oeInns NJ to H. unnn,a ns nav ~ ose oa-
The local rates on most, If not al of our
roads are too high In almost ali cases. On
first class freight nearly or quite two mills
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iiyidends. If the roads arc nj ioca1 hcnc1t Ia
the States, why allow man from the East to,
ride hundred miles on one of our roads nt
two cents per mile, because be has purchased
same train pays four cents? And yet this Is
common occurrence.
The local rates on farm implements, boxes
and bales Of trees arc out Of all proper
tion, and should be reclassed.
There arc times when railroad enterprises
pressed, but too often these havc arisen from
railroad wars On each other. II these corpora
tipns can be regulated within bounds, so that
people could depend on steady tariff, 1t
would be nll the better for the business Of the
State,
the railroads az well as for the people Of the
State 10 hare these things settled By law, so
MsH M. 49, pa I,;;,. mu,u nno" !Hen asuts.
and s,rinnslv curfail travail and il rnntdjv hs'
rettinr feeljne Of host;]i,y rot cnsilv ai1ov.
-ssi. ia cannot do WitlIonf tiese rad roads: y thsyy
have become necessity, aud therefore Il Il
ihr intcrcst ri every nne r. baVa this th;ne 70
rnfIed. To talk al farmers, raf1roai. nnj
tnrmers' Warehouses; Ia NJ foolish as to tair
of farmers colton mills and farmers, Sea- 10
Sno rcssels. Iet M nj nnn-ooch fhc s,snieet
With The conslderction that its importonce
demands. t'' ''"''
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This grape haslng gone up to the head ofthe
list, Is the feason Why i Is on OF the hands
81 nuTscfymen anu others, ihe people have
The vines Tor planning, and they will make
betteE Use OF them thah formerly, when IL