The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1867-03-26

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Tls oorernar n The State las called
en- cstra ou % pass sueb laws q
NAV aaard raeito tbe people q the
se-fion. We trust tbat none - our
fe.loa etaars an tlg Nps 81 ether roads
ST. 8p5sd Is count tbe cost 81 this
session The people g this locality
have experienced more ihau tleir shau
81 railroad evils. ana deserve some cons
m. rat5on FROM TIE people q the more
favored sections 81 ihe state For ten
wears We have depended Tor railroad
accom- citations mon a foreign corpora
ton which bad 10 interest ID common
with us Al lhc efforts q those ten
years to increase our business, have
been steadily met 81 the depressing in-
Hueuce q the highest rates charged IA
the northern States And when the
enterprise 81 oar citizens has effected
An Improvement Of our condition even
under such disadvantages, the already
ezorbitant rates have been increased ia
proportion; for We were in tie hands
III men whose only limit'was our ablli-
to TO pay. il is said that some Eastern
rulers have So poor an idea Of what
constitutes the wealth and power Of a
government that they increase the rev
euues ofthe State BY eAhorbitant leyies
Oh private property and the richer q
man gets the more they take, until the
citizen finds that bis only refuge from
plumber is IN poverty 1t would seem
as though the officers Of the Troy and
Boston Company had taken lessons Of
a Turkish governor. Had they pursued
a more enlightened policy, the earnings
If their road vonld have been far great
er, and they could have left the State
with n knowledge that they were gener-
ally respected BY people they had BEN
Gifted instead Of being universally &C.
tested by people they had robbed
Cheaper rates Of freight would have en-
couragod business, and the increase Of
business would have made more freight,
As it was, they lost the freight Of every
b usiness which could not be made to
pay exorbitant rates. Quuries OF cheap
marble were unworked because the
business could not live under the Troy
4 Boston system. Manufacturers found
lit SO difficult TO compete with those
on other lines, that there Was no en-
enlargement for new business men to
locate. upon our road Lumber MGR
chants were unable to sell in the best
markets because it cost 20 much 10
reach them. Men in every business
were obliged to figure closely to tell
where their profit was coming from, af-
ter the Troy & Boston Company had
taken theirs. Laboring men knew that
a good percentage on the price Of then
necessaries went to CRAFTY the insatia-
ible thirst Of this railroad vampire.
! Men who felt an interest in the pros
Ipe.ity Of the community, were compell-
4 cd 10 endure the modification Of seeing
business which would have come here
i but for the Troy S Boston management
taken to other sections.
/ Such has been our condition for the
past ten years; and the Troy & Boston
Company, anxious to make their power
felt to our injury as long as possible
have now placed Us in a condition even
worse. BY permanently breaking tho
connection in pursuance Of an arrange
ment with another foreign corporation
/ they have forced all our business north
ward, TO give parallel line IN another
State the benefit Of carrying our freight
4 over its enure length at monopoly rates.
/ The whole business Of our line is nov
compelled to seek its southern outlet
by way of its northern terminus. And
at the point farlherest from connection
with the railroad world stands Bennlng-
ton, a large manufacturing town, hay-
ing one third Of the manufacturing IN
tcrest u the first Congressional district
Now it viii certainly be one year before
we can build an outlet for this busi-
ness, aud had we been compelled 10
wait loi the regular session OF the Leg
stature TO confer the necessary powers,
1t would have taken two yeas Aud
for every year the present state Of af-
fairs continues the detriment to our
section must certainly be estimated By
the hundred thousand
Therefore tie people Of TINS section,
for ten years the sufferers Of no COM
mon evil, now made the victims Of the
most infamous outrage recorded III rail-
road history, have called upon the State
for speedy relief While this is O mat
ten Of vital Importance 10 us, it is Of
sufficient consideration to other railroad
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