Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-04-17
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
The North American Review.

BILE. The contents of this number are, Mod
ern Italian Poets, by w. d. Howells; Brit
! ish Finance in 1916 Charles Lamb and his
Biographers, by Adams s. Hill The New
Jersey Monopolies, by j. r. Medberry The
Railroad System, by c. F. Adams, ESQ.,
Deaf Mute Education, by F. b. Sanborn
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, by W. F.
Howells Leasing, by James Russell Lowell
Religious Liberty, by c. f. North Critical
Notices Ticknor & Fields, pu blshers, l24
fremont Street, Boston.
The articles in ,this number of the North
american cover wide field and ought to
furnish entertainment for all of any Guilt
waited literary taste, well as for men who
are interested in the great problem now
commanding general attention, whether the
railroads shall be the servants or the masters
of the people
The article on British Finances in 1916
gives us some valuable statistics of the tnan
cal condition of England at that time, al
though it is rather too discursiye to be OF
great value as a lesson from which to draw
wisdom for our country at the present time
Inc WGllcf II eNldcHllt IL IItc-tiduoi p"'
while he makes some Just structures upon
the protective system " of England IN
1916. he forgets t. tell his readers that the
wonderful manufacturing industries, and
the amazing development of the resources of
that country, owe their origin mainly to
that protective system. England is now
prosperous in its approach to free trade, he
cause its giant manufacturing establish
ments, and its crowded population making
labor cheap and bread dear, leave its manu-
iacturcrs the control of the markets OF the
world. if they get their raw material at
. low prices. Free trade reduces the price of
. the raw material to the minimum, thus less
cnng the cost of the manufactured article,
and removing all danger of competition The
manufactures of New England are begin
f ming to work in the same direction, and are
= now more strenuous for low duties on raw
I, materials than for high duties ON manuiac-
tured goods This is the natural law and
while we expect that tariffs will remain up
on our statute books, they ought to, many
wears vet. we shall find that the natural and
not the manufactured productions of the
country will be hereafter the most clamor-
f GUS for protection. Coal and wood and iron
fought more persiStently for protection in
the Thirty-Ninth Congress than cotton OF
WOODEN goods, and the Middle and Western
+ States were no more in favor of frcc-trade
than New England
: The two articles on railroads are well
,. !. L.. IL,
monopolieo in New Jersey is graphically
written. and shows how defantly these mo-
nopolics resist all the rights of the state and
! of the people They have become strong
enough To control governors, Legislatures
and courts. They are like an absolute gov
ernmcnt. once seated in power INSCRIPTIONS
in the use of means and exceedingly difficult
to unscat. Occasionally they pretend t.
Weld to the popular clamor. but by 80 doing
they usually grasp more power in one hand
than they surrender with the other. y mo-
, nopoly with thirty millions of capital is a
dangerous power in state as New Jersey
has learned To its cost. The discussion OF
Tn" Railroad System : is a philosophical.
as we'll a. a practical treatise on the use and
abuse of railroads. The advantages of these
rapid means of intcrcommunication every
one admits and few deny that the managers
! of our railroads generally are oppressive in
, their rates and selfish in their use of their
franchises wherever they have no competi-
ton. Md this competition is lessening dai-
~ New railroads are built, lbut generally
I only 10 be controlled by some strong railroad
! already in operation. There is no railroad OF
amy consequence that does not have it's paid
. agents apd attornics in the lobbics of the
7 legislature Of its state, if indeed it docs not
r have them inside the bar Control of the
{ legislation Of the several states il now az
much part of the business of railroad man
ayers. as the running of their trains and
they would sooner neglect the last than the
, first. 1t is apparent enough that these cor
- porate monopoles will after while compel
the swindlcd public to rebel and one of the
.eravc>t problems of the future will be the
settlement upon a fair and equitable basis of
= the relations of railroads to the people,
+ whether the people are to serve the roads OF
the roads to serve the people. The articl,
in question hints at this problem, and dis
! cusses the various suggested solutions of il
admitting freely its difficulty, and the objec
tions that every proposed solution will have
to encounter. Such discussion will helI
thoughtful men in preparation to grapplt
? with the question when it shall arise
k The other articles in this number of tn,
North american, although less practical, :
n except the excellent treatise on &" Deaf-Mutt
Education, by Mr.. Sanborn, Secretary of the
! Board Of State Charities in Massachusetts
. are valuable contributions to current lit
:, eraturc The critical notices are especially
n worth reading, being full of apprcciativt
reviews and criticisms of the more important
recent publications. Mr.. Bancroft and Mr.
G Greeley also appear in this number in char
t acteri-tic letters explaining and iustifying
: their recently issued volumes from some I'M
: favorable structures which appeared in the
q january number of the Review
= The Diamond Dickens.
The third number of the Diamond Dick
: ems issued hv Ticknor 4 Fields contains with.
in its covers David Copperfeld, one of the
Il best of the authors novels The great pop
! uarity of this edition of Dickens is acknowl-
4 edged ON all hands 1t has led to the issue