, 1873-03-11

alogioa} lot liz tako fcw Of those which 1noss
tHoso Ia tie wsl,ole posta systom on tho ono ade
aud tho Union Pacific hallway on tho othor.
will not waste tin,e by moro than auggestlng tue
comparison. Tho 1oyornnont owned aud 1nAn,
tiio othor; Whlol, has boon tho prolific source q
corruption. But lot us come 1,enror homo. NOT
q yoar paaaos horo in Massaclluaotta, tint tho
esaaurc docs not entoriT;e eome eity or town
moro than into tho brcNd l,sstnoasi Cannot
aqucduot companies be organizod MS readily aa
gas companioa7 .I'hoIo is your analogy, nov
nv them viii, gas. Tho ono Ia owlod by tic
public, tho othor Is superyined by the Legisla-
trro. Arc your water hoardn always in tho lob
by7 Are thoy represented ~ tho hnlle Of legla-
woro, aud hayo nover known tho time when tic
cas companies wore not. Lot nB tako anothor
onso. ncre Is our educational GyRtcn'. Why
should tho Government ontcr into the school
pourco Of proAt2 Why not fenyo 1t to eompeti-
tlon and tho law Of supply and domand? Has
t}hs violation OF our Fundamental principle aa TO
governmental Interference with businoss undor-
takings proved fruitful source Of political cor
rurtiout I am not awhrn that esther your
coinmttco rooms or tho lobby ia. thronged by
your school-teachers Or thoir attorneys. Why
nre they not hore7 It is simply because .yon
havo not sought to divide tho ownership OF tho
eyaton from tho control OF the syatem.
Suppose you troatcl your schools na you troat
your RAILROADS. Huppose that you won't out Of
tho school business yourselves, and proceeded
to rcdula out charters to others who wont into
tho business to mako money. Then suppose you
won't to supervise and to rogulato-proyidlng
> that avory one should be oduoated, md that
worlngmen'a clt1dren should be educated at
leas than cost that such and such things should
bo taught, and TINT 40 much should bo charged
FIR t11ifinn nuI an on thrOuH1t all vo1r f,rGca-
donta for railroad legislation. How long would
1t DO before your Bckoo1-ton would have
on Education as muoh to do as this Committee
has now ? Fortunately, tho State has long since
entorod into oortaln Of ho!ow OF tho exception al
olies and Ito harmless, innooont, guilolsss eys-
tenn of supervision and regulation has boon
chiefly confined to railroads and gas companies.
WHY THE BTATE SHOULD TAKE THE TUNNEL LINE.
Ana gentemen If haye T.
vanced, may as woll state fow reasons why 1t
would be eminontly oxpodlcnt from d practical
point OF Wow for tho Commonwealth at thia timc
to assume tho whole of tho tunnel line. In the
,nent Of this enterprise will necossisate heavy
expenditure Of money. There is nodollar which
oould bo put into That line during tho next ten
years with my dogtoo OF Judgment, which will
Of bonds OF State road, with tho guarantee Of
tho commonwealth upon them, md boarlng m
interest OF @ per cont, could be sold ut par.
Money could in this way bo procured at tho
Credit N1obiller. Tho Endorsement Of tho Com
monwoalth ID good in money narkots whore
private corporations arc unknown: II you wish
through tho outlay Of capital at low interest 10
enterprlae, in this way you can do it boat.
RAILROAD ExpEn1MEN1s.
But thore Is anothor and worry important con-
eideration in favor OF this stop. Tho Legislature
1tx,%s 1,nf0 H,nF1
tit It has not my this year, it is tho first time
6nvd ever known them to bo wanting), divers
propositions looking to tho trial Of experiments
In transportation, Last year you passed a law
trains in and ont Of Boston; and I VOL romom-
bor that measures wero introduced looking to
tho worry cheap transportation Of coal. Thoso
experiments are asw~ya opposed by tho railroad
not easy TO disregard, They inaiat that tho
Logialaturo has no right to hazard their prop.
erty BY making thom try experiments for tho
public good, in which they do not bolieyo, but
Of which thoy must bear tho cost. There iH
roads over to private corporations to mako
money ont Of thom, it aoenas to me thoy have a
right to sny, " Wo cannot carry goods or per-
Bona at loss, and you have no moro righs to
compel us to do so than you havo to compel tho
Of cloth at d fraction Of 8 cent por yard" Yot
That Is exactly what you did as regards tho carly
aud late trains BY tho low of last winter. You
compelled tho railroads to transport persona in
certain trains at dead loas. Therefore, / saw.
If tho Legislature va''"a to pursue thoho oxporI-
monta {aud thare IL no man in Massachusetts
Who wishes to see thom pursued more than I do.
I have boon preaching tLom for yoars) they could
best and most successfully pursue them at their
own cont. II ever tho Stato owns a portion OF
lts railroad lines, then, aud not till then, can
those moat interesting e1periments bo syatemati-
cally and fairly tried. You may theEo test tho
advantage of cheap passenger trains and Of obeap
goal trains, and tho people. win pay tlio bills.
Now tho Legislature apporHons tho benefit to
tho people, and the bills to tho atooltholdor.
TERMINAL FACILIT1EB.
But it is aaid by cortain Of tho many counsel
hero preaont, 1T you make this consolidation
Of tho Boston l. Lowell with tho Fitchburg
Rond, what enormous terminal facilities for tho
now line will be Becurod in Boston. No such
they aro, rcady to your hand passenger depots,
freight depota, elevators, wharyes in deep water,
Everything indeed that il requisite" I agroo,
sir, that those iacilities arc very admirable. At
the aame time insist TINT tl1ere is ono way of
gotting oven better terminal facilities than these,
There is ono power which cen supply this limo
with grounds moro amply than those OF tic
Fitchburg and the Boston Il Lowoll corpora-
tious combined, aud that is tho Commonwealth
Prison is to DO moved away from Charles
town :--there thon is tho State Prison
ostato. do not know why that could
not DO easily and proatahly applied to railroad
purposes: But tho Commonwealth Of Massa-
chuHotts is no ordinary private corporation. It
can even doal with the United Sthtea Oh ter1ns Of
equality. Why may it not thou 90 to Washing
ton and say to tho National Government. "We
want tho Nayy-Yard for our State railroad :"
Would hor Senators and Representatives hnvo
gyeat difficulty In securing it? Tho necessary
measure, fancy, could Hoon be put upon ita
passage.
THE CONNECTIONS OF sTATE ROAD.
But it ia tahld that commonwealth cannot
hold or operate roads beyond the limita of tho
State; that 1t ia necessary tho tunnel limo pould
Btrotch out to Ontario, to Detroit nnl to Olica-
go,-yos, to Montana ANIL to Puget Sound And
this can only DO done through tho AGENCY Of
private corporations. These visions, gentlemen,
pnrta'c, porhaps, d littlo OF the nature OF day.
dreams, but yet, in al sobriety, ! would insist
thnt the Commonwealth is In quito as good
position az any private corporation to doal with
this class Of quentions, whenoyer they shall pro-
aent themselYes. Not that I care to precipitato
them to au uualviacd solution. After the bitter
nYueriruEo Ind two YaArH HKu. Wuutl yvk