Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-05-20
CHEAP TRANSPORTATION.
Resolutions adopted by the New York COnven
ton.

WHEREAS, The productive indus
tries ofthe United States, plantation
and farm, mine and factory, commer
cial and mercantile, are not only til,
sources Of all our national and indi
vidual existence depends; and
WHEREAS, All national products
are the fruits of labor and capital
and IS neither labor nor capital will
continue actively employed without
an equivalent measurabiy just; anC
WHEREAS, Graat national indus.
tries are only sustained and prosper
ed by the interchange of products Of
different sections; and
WHEREAS, The existing rates oil
transportation for the various pro-
ducts Of the Union, from one part Of
the country TO another, and to for
eign countries, as we'll as transit cost
OF commodities required in exchange
are 10 many instances injurious, and
TO certain interests absolutely des.
tructive, arising, in part at least,
from an insufficiency OF avenues; and
WHEREAS, The great national want
Of the nation, to-day. is relief from
tho present rates Of transit upon
American products; therefore,
Resolved, That it is the duty OF
the hour, and the mission Of this as
ISOLATION, to obtain from Congress,
and different State Legislatures, such
legislation as may be necessary to
control and limit by law, within
constitutional and legitimate limits,
the rates and charges Of existing
lines of transportation; to increase
where practicable, the capacity OF
our present water ways, and to add
such new avenues, both water and
rail, as our increasing internal COM
merce demands, so that the producer
may be jointly rewarded for his hon
est toll, the consumer have cheap
products, and our almost limitless
surplus find foreign markets at
rates TO compete with the world.
ReS0ired, That cheap transporta-
ton, both OF persons and property,
being most conducive to free move
mcnt Of people, and the widest inter-
change and consumption of products
Of different parts Of the Union, is es-
sontiol 10 the welfare and pr 3sperity
Of the country,
ReSolred, That constant and fire.
quent association Of inhabitants of
remote parts Of the United States
is not only desirable, but necessary
for the maintenance ola homogeneous
and harmonious population within
the vast area of our territory.
ReSoired, That the best interests
OF the country also demand the
freegt possible interchange of the
industrial products OF the varied
climates and industries of the United
States, 50 that breadstuffs, textile
fabrics, coal, lumber, iron, sugar, and
various other products, local IN their
production, but gen eral in their con
sumption, may all reach the consum-
or at the least practicable cost OF
transportation and that an arbitrary
and unnecessary tax levied by trans
fer over and above q fair TemuneTa-
ton for Investment, is burden up
on the producer and consumer, that
it is the part of wise craftsmanship
to remove.
ResoIred, That certain leadin
railroad corporations of the country
although chartered to subserve th,
public welfare, and endowed will
right of eminent domain, sorely fo
that reason, have proved themseive
particaI monopolies and become th
tools Of avaricious and inscription
capitalists, to be used to plumber the
public, enrich themselves, and i'm
poverish the country through whicl
they run.
Res0Irel, That many of the raj
road corporations have oppresse
citizens, bribed our legislature
and defed our courts and Judges
and stand to-day the most manacin
danger Of American liberty and t
republican government.
ReS0lred, That the present systeI
Of railway management having faile
to meet the just expectations an
demands of a long suffering people
must be radically reformed, and cor
troled by the strong hand Of law
and railway corporations compelle
to perform their proper functions q
servants, and not as masters of th
} people.
ReSolred, That TO this end we in
woke the aid of all fair-minded me
in all the states of the Union. in ex
GLIDING from the halls of Legislation
from our executive Office, and frol
the bench, all such railway official
railway attorneys, or other hireling
as prostitute public Office TO tho has
uses of private gain.
ReSolced, That, leaving ditferen
sections and interests that deslr
cheap transportation, to work OF
the problem in such a manner q
they may deem best, we earnestl
! invoke their careful considerable
their energetic action, and their resc
Lutte will, in regulating and control
ing rates of transportation, and j
giving remunerative wages to tn
roducer, and cheap products to th
{ consumer, untaxed by unearne
e charges for their carriage.
ReSolred, That we invite people c
the various states TO organize sub
sidiary associations, state, county
and town, to cooperate with ii
national association. That power
accomplish the purposes desire
rests absolutely with the sufferin
Z millions. Reliefis within their reaC
and control. United action and Il
near future will give us, certain,
its need for all time, and the good
ALL the true solution of the probe
of cheap transportation.
The convention appointed the 70
: lowing committee 10 prepare an q