, 1869-08-09

| Tic 1ca,ltrx uf TIE TElprsE will rcmuu.
lr1 ,hst. non,u months ngo, vlpn wc woro
urging n,un tho autAcrtieR uf Suw York
sLu necessity Of reducing tho tolls on
hrra.lHtufF@ rnssing shrough tho Esio Canal,
tho Albany drgns a.,aailod uA, anl churgoJ
III with ignorance md nudacity. Wo point
cd out then That tho original policy of that
c"'''.l ~"s to rssAblinh i FREQ highway from
thr lalrH 10 tiac-water, mud that 1t was
ncrcr intended TINT tho canal should l,c
held III n nourcc of roycnuc. Since the
opening pf 'lle cannl, tho Wess haa paid ihp
"riH'''4l conf VI The wurk lth pail for I'LL
,lo e5,hrgcmentx, ind Ill the, Interest on the
ta.,'ry invested; haa paid tho salasics Of
| regiment of of!!ceFh and, iu addition, hah
!sid into tl4o Nuw York Treasury sstn
sufficient to give To The Erio Cuil thu CD
1'aci,y Of II hhip canal. But New York poll.
siciuns have been deaf to all appeals for
justice. They could not fu1ego the
patronage" wlicl the carnl affords them.
Instead of enlurgiug the canal ont Of its
own surplus revenues, it has mortgaged
tEnse revenues to baild local ''joba," which
DO not yield enough scycnue to pay the aal-
AIRY of the Collectors OF tolls. Millions
II the revenues Of tho E1ie Canal arc cz-
pended annually TO keep these other bitches
in orItr, and othot millions Of tho sAnv
revenue Arc taken topay the debt contracted
IL build them.
1u the meantime the tolls are Kept up and
the wheat and corn Of the West are taxed
at score Of tollgates on the way TO feed
the people. The Albany -4ryus, eonsratu.
lated the Democratic party upon its Success
in defeating any expenditure to enlarge tho
business capacity Of the Erie Caual, and in
defeating any measure to reduce the tolls.
Ne wnrned that paper then that, however
jut'ilant the Democracy might feel, the peo-
pie of New York aud If tho country would
distinctly remember, and at the proper time
punish, the pruaigacy which thus tritled with
the public interests. Wecalled attention to
the fact TINT the cannl, instead Of being
great public highway md great public
convenience, WIS gradually ceaaing to be
route for the transportation Of breadstuffs,
and that the people of the West, having paid
over one hundred millions Of dollars 10
build it, nre now forced to resort to the
railways and pay them an enormous ta1,
which would bo unnecessary had the cannf
been made free as originally proposed.
Sooner, even, than We predicted, thu blow
las fnllen. In April last the people Of
Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana md Ohio
commenced sending their grain to the East
By ali rail, thereby avoiding the Erie Canal
altogether. What wns at first an expert
1nc1t hnA grown INTO rogulnr trade. The
gr1in not TINS sent hitler was forwarded,
Us usual, hr water to Buffalo, to be thence
sent by ch1lnl, hut in few weeks this trntle
declined, and since then it has been rarid-
'y growing to he thc rule to ship hence by
water to Bunalo, and thence by rail to New
York.
Thus the Albany .1r9u& Inns had realized
its assertion that the eanal Ind all the ca
.sacisy It'll business called fur, Tho canal
Inns now virtunlly ccnscd 10 lie a route for
:'readstnds, mud the people of the West
"aro very Gttlo what uses the Now York
democracy suay pnf it TO. This pnpeE hns
published, heretofore, mn elub,rato demon
>trntion to show TINT Il tho trunk railways
ruIning from Chicago 10 the Atlantic wcro
rrScs1rd from, tho l1nnls Of tho unprinciplc1
l1,,1l,ltrH who control the stock markets..
md tl,ciT profits wero applied 10 the if,-
psovement of the runtla, layinB loui,lo tracks
If steel rnila md incronning tho rolling stock,
iirey could move tho entire ftcigAts between
ths E.Ast nil,l tho Wcst, Mt profitable rates,
'!cfying tho competition even Of tho opual,
HIfll it8 prcscnt iockago.
l1lc railway transportation of 1ren|-
stufa, even nj tho present ratoa with
tllr limited stock un1 utility If tho roa.la,
hnR proven R'scceAs, nH compared with thAt
of lin cn,lnl with its lntta of toll,
The cu'1ntrr, when IL gota nco'lntomed 10
t1n ed nn'1 facility III tho moving If freight,
will no muro 80 back IL tho Rluw horse-boat |
sy~tetn ahnu it will do so for thu t,Wauporta.
tion Ut passengers.