The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-05-22
The Question of Cheap Transportation

The National American Cheap Trans
portation Convention, at its recent session
in New York City, adopted the following
resolutions:
WHEREAS, The productive industries Of the
United States plantation and farm, mine and fac
tory, commercial and mercantile, are not only the
sources Of all our national and individual wealth.
but also the elements on which our very national
and individual existence depends; and
WHEREAS, All national products are the fruits of
labor and capital and as neither labor nor capital
lent measurably just; and
WHEREAs, Great national industries are only sus-
stained and prospered BY the interchange Of pro-
ducts of one section Of the country for those OF an
other; and
WHEREAS, The existing rates Of transportation
% s Of
as well as the transit cost Of the commodities re-
quired in exchange arc, in many instances injuri-
arising, in part At least from an insuihciency Of
WmEsrAs The great natural want Of the nation
Spon American ppoducts tSerefore. ' " "'"'''
ResolUed, That II is the duty Of the hour and the
mission of this Association, to obtain from Con-
slation as NAV be Necessary to control and limit
by law, within the proper constitutional and legit-
mate limits the rates and charges Of existing lines
of transportation; to increase, where practicable
such new avenues, both water and rail, as our i'm
mensely increasing internal commerce demands, 60
our almost limitles surplus hnd foreign markets Ut
rates TO compete with the world.
sons and property, being most conclusive tp The
free movement Of the people and the widest inter-
change and con.umpticn Of tie products q ~
welfare and prosperity of the country.
Resolued, That constant and frequent association
Of inhabitants Of remote parts Of the United States
tenance Of homogeneous and harmonious popu-
lation within the vast area Of our territory.
Resolued, That the best interests Of the different
che ~ q the
varied climates and industries Of the United States
go that breadstuffs textile fabrics, coal, lumber
tSer proaucton but general aim t6s
may al reach the consumer at the least practicable
cost Of transportation, and that an arbitrary and
above fail remuneratiDa for inyestmept j. bur
den upon tbs producer md c0nsu1neE INT It is the
part Of wise statesmanship to reMove.
| tons Of the country, although chartered to sub
right Of eminent domain solely for that purpose,
become the tools Of avaricious and interruptions
capitalists, to be used to plumber the public enrich
rhSmselyes, and impoverish the country through
Resolved, That many Of the railroad corporations
have not only disregaIded the public convenience
ana property. D0t nNe oppfeeeeQ cltaz0n9, UnOeQ
our Legislatures and dened our Executive aNd
Judges, and stand to-day most menacing danger
to American liberty and to republican government.
Res0lued, That the present system Of railway
management, having failed to meet the Just expec-
tations and demands Of long suffering people,
must be radically reformed and controlled by the
| strong hand of the law, both State and National,
and the railway corporations compelled to perform
their proper functions a. servants, and not - mas
I tiers, Of the people. Esfle II M E..a.
Rssolced, That to thieeend we invoke the aid Of
all fair-minded men in all States Of the Union In
excluding from the halls Of legislation, from our
way oiscisis, 1siiwsy sstosns, IL S III
who prostitute public ofacet TO the base uses Qf mi
'a sssso asaa 14.e kasse Iii .ectiSn.sSa
interests that desire cheap transportation to work
| out the problem in such manner - they may deem
hest, we earnestly invoke their careful cQnddera.
ton, their energetic aqi0 - tAS4 .soYtss viii
ton, and iDgiving remuahEs3tve wages TO- the pro.
ducer and cheap products to the consumer, untaxed
by unearned charges for their carriage.
ResolUed, That we invite the people of the van.
| Gus States to organize subsidiary aeeocisdonel
State, county and town. to cooperate with the IA.
ton Association; that the power to accomplish thu
purposes desired rests absolutely with the suffering
millions. Relief IL within their reach and control
United action and the near future will give, - cor
tain - It IL needed, for an dime and tie good Of
an the true solution Of the problem Of cheap
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