, 1873-03-11

| Whohco Is tllo bnninopu to coino AZ tiitigp ow
Arct hlerohahtllBe Inns Of lal0 nccnnullAtod horo
faalof Tint, It Guild DO removed THO Boston,
Hartford Il Eric Natlroad ia about to bo CON.
I'pottd, and may adj to tho accumulation. 1
haye nh impresalon that tho Stato, as a corpora
ZION, 'laH Honlo property In That limo, nl now 1t
1t ~ proYpo,o1 y to add another, TO ho worked nt
you will delay Tho tlmo whom tho money BunIs Ii,
tlo HARTFORD d Eric can bo recovered. And
when tho throo roadg, tho Boston l. Albany. and
Hartford II Erie; and Tnnnel llslcy, hayo thus
boen eqnippod md aro ready 10 operate. what
| may be tho result Of yonr operations II good
hnrvcsts In Europe should 30 reduce tho export
demand Tor produce that + not enough should l'o
potng, IN tho State and olsewhoro Boar in
mind TINT oven your ono IoBton l. Albany ropd
bringa into the State ok tiruos az mnny tons of
merchandise na 1t carries out, md that train
oyed neSf ra' % of R1g sfg+o cara must even 10
know II is horoby to doubt TINT thoro ia
great flood Of business ready to pour through
| this tunnel, but, 10 long au It ends at tho uu1-
son River, T cannot aoe Tho afgus of 1t. 1t tho
tho State must intervene and keep. down tho
price Of its transportation, why Ia tloro not n
ttlo army Of lroad capita eagerly seeking
to buy tho tunnel and eagerly bidding moro tllatl
gone out Of tho State into distant railroads
millions on millionn moro lnvo givon tho State
itself moro miles OF railroad, i'll proportion to
i!a M aroa and 10 ita population, th"n any otl,cr
llns ono milo Of railroad to twenty-aix
(onc milo to eight square n,ilos)
mos than W. Ggsnd Sns mile to
one mile. to 7-10 square miles. Yot not singlo
million ever wont into tho tunnel o1copt tint
forcod from tho pocketa of tho people by due
process Of tax lawa.. Tho roaaon is pnIr. It Is
business can honestly hny. that tho tupnol Will,
honce, as said befors, IL must DO tax, tax, Tux,
in some twelve or tfteon millions, and wo must
60 in twenty or thirty moro to get that baok
Vol. gontlomen, whom tho tunnel was frat pro-
posed wore to get it for two Or throo millions,
and 1t has cost about five fold. Wo nre now
promised the through line at an additional cost
Of. 1fteon or twenty, but who Gun warrant us
that four or iyo fold that auln may not DO called
for boforo the ond7
ital be considered per cont. tito proHent pggre-
/ gato Of State, county, and municipal taxation,
locally assossod and COLLECTED by tho City and
Town Treas.lrers, amounting i, 1s72 to s22 $685.
sand. absorbs 20. 76 por cent Of auch normal or
nafe:incomo; tho picayuno" addition Of g., ,O0O,-
GOO Tor the support Of tho State railroad would
carry tho average Of local taxation to 81582 in u
a7per cont income absorbed By taxation to 22G0
per cont. In pinin language, then, this proposi-
tion to tar tho State $2.000,000 for tho support
OF State railrond Is equivalent to proposition
cont on every city mud town in tho Common
wealth.
COMPETITION OF TIE WEST N MANUFACTURERS.
Are we to ontor upon the cloaor competition IN
manufacturing, on Which our State depends
(and BY manufacturing do not moan mere tex-
tiles, but NIL our great varicty) aro ne to main
tain md increase our manufactures, If wo nro
forced into competition with Illinois, for instance,
nar}f frrHY1 a1o HI
debt; with Indiana, almost FREQ from debit ? Can
wo compete with theso Statcs, eay, If handl-
capped with burden Of, dobt, tho magnitude OF
Which no man can tell 7-a 1ebt imposod OH the
| ho promoted by facilitating tho transportation
through OUR State Of great masaes OF food, that
only leaves tho car to paus OIL board the ship that
| will carry it away from MS laro had many
years experience in manufacturing, and, Of n1l
| tho CAUSES Of i'll success, heavy debt haa boon
| tho most potent and tere la no different rulo
Tor tile State; those Western statos, underlail
with coal and iron fnrniullcl with po,oer Buch aB
population, will put us upon our muscle il we
keop in our bost estate but load us down with
taxes imposed for. tho benefit Of Improbable
railroads, md wo may well fcar tho future.
Massachusetts; still lcBs for Doston,--now grow
Ing oven too inst for tho comfort md welfare Of
those who caunot pay high rontn, il artificial
onauoo ti,o ;aieultie Is Of onr psaition tlud IN
crease our disadvantage of distance from our
marketn. Especially have ! no fear
Neh 1Gs onT Bot5a 5srS s Ten ustna the reao ear
that Of tho British provlnccs-is allowed
| to como hero. But do foar, When By one statute
We place barrior equal to 1000 lnilcs whore tho
| Almighty only put 800 to 500 miles Of roal dis
tanoo, and with another statuto il in prop oaod to
overcome 1000 ailoa Of ren distance by MI nrti-
| ficnl cheapeninS Of tho cost of transportation
on 200 milos Of railroad that constitute part Of
T. tho ret Of tho WY not being BY any poaai-
Your rolnonstrants hnvo not failod to take
oognizanco Of the OWLS arising from tho incroas-
| Ing powor Of railroad corporations, and they
but they tony TINT it can bo found by creating
a railroad powor inside Tho State corporation -
Il part OF 1t t-yot inconsistent with it's proper
functions; and they respectfully urgo tlint tho
not differ from TINT exercised by private cor
poration oxoept in being more pernicious. We
would point out that while tho alleged evils havo
come from the influence oxortod by great con-
Bolidatcd lines over State Governments, tho bon
Gift now expected from the proposed consoliaa,
tioh under tho State corporation has actually
been renlized by railroad corporations ~ they
now e1ist, to-wit, great reduction IN tho cost
Of and In tho charge mnlo for tho work Of trans-
portation upon railroads. In proof Of this nit
sortion it Is to be observed that, although there
has been q great advance in the cost Of all TINT
ontors into tho construction, oqupmont and
operation Of railroads -said to be 10 to 80 po1
cent since the passage OF tho Legal Pcnaor act
in 1861, the general charge for transportation
to tho community has not been increased, ond
on many lines Of railroad it has been greatly
diminished. There ii no single lalgo clio:
mont III tho cost Of subsistence iii Mas.
anehuHetts that has boon kept 10 noar the specie
price of 1860 Nh tho price Of railway service
Even tho muoE-abusod Boston Il Mbany laail-
road carried morohandlso in 1879 ut q chnrgo Of
2.01G cents per ton per milo against 2.O94 contf
mar fila Wesf1rn T1Hi1ronI in 12E1 ht,f} thu
average charge on grain from Chicago to Boston
iB now about ia coMts por ton per milo.
l. Your romonBtrallts observe freIuont roference
to tho fact that corn is burned for fuel in Gome
distant parta Of tho Weat; but 1t should be borne
in miud that tho seltlors WHO find it chenper tc
burn corn worth only SO to 80 per ton. rathol
than to transport coal or wood, are chiefly those
who live upon lines Of railroad, tho construction
Of which baB boon mainly lnducod by large
ssA4.ta uf lautl from ilsu uouurmi <tuvor,imunI
nud It might, perllaps DO hold TINT had not tIle