The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-02-10
9ithmond 1ispatth.
WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 10, 1863.

TIE passtou for "'throuCh hnsinpss has
haen HE bsne OF too many OF our railroads,
a. well a. the potent cause for their faliure |"
render back 10 tho communities 'hat COZ,
s,ructrd them all the advantages these n ,
right to pSYect. Railroad companies nav
bean unable 10 cownrahand shat passenger
who only rode thirty miles might D" i,'r mo-
valuable 10 them than on" VINO Tone W.
hundred n becoming. through The liherahiS
Of their arrangements for his ac'ommoaat'on'
q resident on their line he shonsd mus w
likely to make his thirty-miie trip reRn,arN,
for months and wears, While ms ahh';t' Ia''
couid be rcckoned as steady 4 source OF r''e'
nrp as the interest on n Government bona -
Eao York Tribune.
This is nj! true. We have time and again
essavcd to impress this upon the railroad
managers. The policy is one which cannon
too often be urged upon them, nor can they
err in carrying it out to the most hoeral
extent.
1t may be said that we are now too mnch
frustrated and too deficient in means to JUS
tifv the roads in making much exertion to
foster wav-business. It is the very time
TO encourage that business. Lands are now
chaar. ANY fayors extended by road to
q
purchasers of land, and thus increase popu-
lation, freight, and travel. Upon the re-
turning tide of prosperity it would find thai
by the wand of liberality during the
drought it had struck fountain that
proved to be o never-failing source Of
business and profit.
hun
should he least influenced by narrow ana
contracted views. They nre 20 intimately
connected with popular interests-they ore
so entirely dependent upon the well-heinR
and thriftiness Of the peopIe-that they
can do nothing that may impair the pros
nerity Of those who live near them without
iniuring themselves. So far from being mn
COMPRESSOR Of the people, then, railroads
should be everywhere their advocates ana
friends. The people should be aided ny
every sort of accommodation that can be
afforded them. Paina should be taken IN
locating der0ts and switches, in forwarding
and delivering freiChts, receiving and let
ting off passengers, modern'ing charges,
ETC., etc, to promote the convenience OF the
home travel, give dispatch to business, and
encourage production and improvement.
No investment pays better than the invest
ment thus made by railroads. They increnae
their freights and travel-freight aud
travel which cannot he taken from them.
The through" custom may be diverted
from them by new lines or ruinous comre-
tition; but the business that they make
upon their own route-the local trade and
travels theirs forever. Why, then.
should railway lines spend thousands TO
control "throuoh " business and ruin the
"local by oppressive eXactions aud nnac-
communicating regulations Why should
they, like the foolish dog, throw away the
meat they have and grasp at the shadow
The cut throat pyatem of competition for
Through business" viii one day cure it
self. Competing lines cannot stand such
ruinoua strife, and what with compromises
and other measures it win in great de-
gree cease, and railroads viii hive q little
more time 10 attend to the interests Of the
lands they traverse.