New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-09-11
SpEFCH OF A. W TENNEY.

Mr.. President, merchants and citizens OF
New>YOrk: Many have been the questions which nave
heretofore from tine to time been discussed aud resolved
IN this Hall. But none of those questions have been
more important the entire people Of our Republic than
the one now under consideration. The subject OF Cheap
TRANSPORTATION concerns not banker, the merchant
and tie capitalist Of States alone but it concerns
the mechanic. the farmer, the manufacturer and the
consumer OF this entire land. To man OF wealth 1t
matters little what may be the price of barrel of flour
or TIM Of coal but those Of toll who earn their
daily by sweat Of their brows and the blood
of their hearts II matters much what they pay in dollars
and cents for the of life 1t Is to them an
earnest and sober question Workmen! why Is 1t that
you paying S and So for barrel OF Hour when you
should not pay than S. and perhaps not more than
81 The found in the great expense necessary
10 transport tnat barrel of -four from the wheadelds Of
the West 70 the grainmarts Of the East Why is it you
are obliged 50 and $40 for coal when you should not
pay than S. and perhaps no: more than IS TIE rea
ton is not Of tie scarcity OF coal nor the want OF
laborers the fault to be oand in Ezabethport or
In and around the markets OF New-York. The reason
is the great price charged by railroads for the trans
narration of the coal from the of Pennsylvania to
the coal markets OF NcwYork Why is it that the farm
efs of the West class poorer to-day than they
were five years ago. Why their farms more habtu-
ally mortgaged and the owners themselves deeper III
debts The answer is simply that the labor OF theT
hands has proved frOm the fact that
charges for transporting their products to the buyers
and consumers In the East. The question of cheap
transportation then applies itself directly TO the indus
trial interests Of the country and II we would have
general prosperity all classes OF our citizens, we
must foster and protect with jealous the industries
Of the Republic We must have the benefits of cheap
transportation at the farming interest of ILL
nois for the cotton port of Mississippi for the coal
muiIg OF Pennsylvania. aud for the manufacturing III
teress Of NewEngland. The interests Of the North,
South East ana West are mutual and reciprocal You
cannot you overenrch class OF citizens
without eOrrespOudngly impOyenshing another. True
prosperity depends not upon the prosperity OF
few upon the general prosperity Of ALL The draft
drawn sight upon the blood and sinews Of the poor
man win have to be honored and paid later by
the blood and sinews OF the rich man. what we want is
that every shall stand shoulder to shoulder with
LIS fellow man. aud that every branch Of industry shall
be the equal and the counterpart of oher, as We
40 forth lay the foundations Of new States develop
tng the untold resources Of this great land.
Ny,y-YoRK FIT MOVER THE RRFoRM
I honor here tonight the City OF New-York for the
ronptness with which this stand has been taken Ihis
is not the first that NewYork has taken her place
on the side OF right and the side OF the people Ihs
generation can forget how in the sprHs OF 1901
Uhsn our starry dag had gone down from the walls OF
trt sumter the capitalists and loyalists Of EewYork
assembled by thousands and hundreds Of thousands IN
UniOn-square and there resolved with manly he'ti
and declared that, cost what II might tis epuoilc De
worlds best trophy and It's last hope should not perish
from the earth Applause Thank Goo ~ Ionnu =
ke and saber left happy homes for heds OF car
mage. And after four years OF struggle homeWard te
a. was IL scarcely eighteen months are, when the
Queen City OF the West burned 70 ashes Eew-York
gave OF bounty, without measure and without price
Win food Then il was that we had cheap tTansporta-
ton SC hours at least between Chicago ana new
otoo when thieves we're at city treasury, the good