Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-03-28

liue OF roads comprises IL all In single
direct line OF communication up the
New England border from Sheffield to
Cranton. What Is below Is bat lime
stone. Berkshire County Is TO have
this outlet for It's marble trade with the
South, Ifex'eudod 10 the richer beds
OF Vermont the Southern customer
comes 10y this way To compare qualities
aud prices aud purchase where his wants
are suited 1t is the street in
which marble is sold. There are East
ern customers also for this luxury OF
the living and the dead, Of traffic and
art. The working prosperity OF Con
necticut is also accessible by the East.
ernmost line, and when the Montreal
through trade may be attracted to an
other route which New York Is engaged
in providing, the populous working dis
tricts, originally the line Of our people,
will respond to the old identity In an
increasing reciprocity OF intercourse.
These districts on the Housatonic
and Nsugatuck may be looked to also
as a school OF artiLsnship for our youth,
more than they have Geen, and ia the
interchange OF benefits supply TO us the
skill and capital OF the mechanical in
dustry, rstheY than the spirit o. it,
which We need
The grasp o, foreign monopoly will be
unlinked, when q new route, but i've
miles longer than thai by New Lebanon,
is opened by Pittsfeld to the deep water
at Hudson. from oar prosperous county,
and Bennington will resume again its
habitual relations with Troy, Albany
and the illimitaole West, and not me-
mace them any longer with a bosom from
the Soesety, more costly in these latter
days than the rifle with which oar faith
ers threatened 10 retire 10 the mount
aims, near hundred years ago. The
other proposed road, for which the towns
should mortgage themselves, would &C
complish in this regard no more, A
route OF thirty.three miles, aui OLD coa-
nections, will take the local business
inevitably from route OF seventy miles
into a new quarter, and, saying nothing
OF the West, the business for water
transport will 90 with the other, The
Rutland 4 Washington il sold in
deed beyond our management. but not
beyond our jurisdiction. 1t can and
will be held in subordinasi0u to the in
terests it was created to serve, and
happy will it be FOR Vermont il the fan
tastic tricks those railroads are repre-
sented as playing shall disabuse the pub
lie Of all subserviency 70 those eorpo-
rations, or those acting IN their name,
and place them, by minute and inexora-
bic legislation, harmless and secure IN.
der the rule OF the State The State, by
can renew tho old connec-
lions, and ensure their maintenance,
without the subscription OF dollar.
But even the State may have COM
petitor in Il rival State, whose legislation
is often controlled, as our own is liable
to be, by the interests or contentious or
Of railroad corporations.
Where the interests Of this controlling
capital may incline the policy OF q State
no man can tell. 1t may he to extend
its trade, it may bo to ipjure and subdue
Il rival. If Its own roads compete
against those in part OF smother State,
it may he expected, from political iDflu-
ences, TO .avor the former. a fair share
OF the eggs we count upon, therefore,
may ~ well be placed in another basket
and Massachusetts be trusted with
part when New York is so careless with
what she has. SHAPrsRURy.