Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-09-19
THE PENDING REVOLUTION IN
PRODUCTIONS, MASUFACTJR RES
AND TRANSPORTATION

transportation of freights; the mo
mentous matters having reference t.
the development of our vast mines
of iron-orc and fields of coal /; anG
the struggle toward an expression
Of their long neglected interests by
the Farmers of the Great West
these questions are of SO large i'm
portance as to demand, each, a sep
arate consideration, and yet they are
30 intimately connected one with an
other as to be almost inseparable
England is upon the eve of surrend
ering to America her long boosted
supremacy as an iron factor the
west is agitated by temper which
verges upon revolution with regard
to the moving of her products to
\ market and the people every
where are ripe for such action as
shall tend the more effectually to
bring the controlling agencies of the
great artificial lines of transporta-
ton to livelier sense of their res
possibility to the popular will and
purpose. If such of these great
matters as concern the politics OF
the times are in the hands of short
sighted demagogues who have a
mean personal ambition to serve, let
public men of character, party lead
ers of influence, and such news
papers as are earnestly conducted
for the advancement of true Repub-
lican principles take them out of
their present unworthy keeping and
give them form and tone and def
niteness of purpose. There is a
natural cause for all storms-popu-
lar tempests as we'll as tempests of
the elements and if the wider and
moro vital interests Of the Republic
demand the reconstruction of any
existing system, that of transporta-
ton or another, let the movement
have the benefit Of men whose mo-
tives take root in patriotism, and
growth from unselfshness of pur-
pose. Wherever Progress leads in q
right direction there should the
leading spirits of the Republican
party be found doing duty in the
van.
For many years the selfish inter
ests of the city of New York have
been an obstacle in the way of build
ing an adequate ship-canal around
Niagara Falls, and connecting Lakes
Erie and Ontario. Unfortunately
for the country the territory which
would have to be used in tho con-
struction of the proposed ship canal
il o part of the State of New York
and therefore subject to SO much of
the sovereignty Of that State as
can be perverted to the narrow pur-
poses of the metropolis and kindred
interests. 1t is for the reason that
New York thus stands in the way of
. better access to the waters Of the
S.. Lawrence that the remarks, here
with quoted as coming from Senator
Sherman during his visit to Canada
in pursuance of his duties as one Of
the Senate Committee on Transpor-
tation, are of no inconsiderable
significance. We quote from the
dispatches:
Senator Sherman said the people of
the West consume at the present time
two bushels of grain in moving one to
market 1t costs ten cents q bushel to
send whea. to Toledo and Chicago, and
If the West could send it for a cent less
by any other route that route would be
used. Though the States have built e..
600 miles of railroad, transportation is
s i'll insufficient. Canada has water
carrying facilities made by the hands of
Almighty God, and the Ohio people said
that If New York did not offer them ia
A. ~ THAR