Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-07-29

possible The State is but the aggregate of the peo
The people are the purchasers of transportation,
the EasShs aM sso raFdad
carriers and bound to carry for all when the price
shs named by the m by tRs e
badly determined by the laws under WHICH the several
fact fix it is different question.
1t is manifest that il the eompany be allowed to FIX
commodities very apt want all they can get On
the hey ay Set it too low Purchasers are Very apt
want commodities as cheap as they can be had 1t +
always hit upon the exact equivalent The consequences
ious, if made by the people If the company makes
the mistake and charges too much, no one Is Obliged
fore the railway is built has the perfect right to
hy the laws Of trade even if municipal law is Silent
carry products cheaper than the producer can carry
must also carry them at profit to the producer else
no Wheat to Chicago unless the roads will transport
at prices which viii yield profit to the producer
as for himself else he will soon have nothing to carry
the i'll the fable to endeavor to get two
golden sggs eaeh &C nd daE from Ills hen'he attempt 10 u
Under favorable conditions, indeed the carrier may
demand and receive than fair share Of the prof
its of production. Where such is the case when the
the carrier makes ffteen or twenty per cent
and perfectly to for It to & sy es to she GS
viii pay you for your road what it will cost TO bulls
build another" so the people are not helpless agans
on the contrary if the people set the the price, ant
set it too low, the consequences may be graver IN
1amd Or @ not run II the rates named will a6rd
slight return on the capital, existing companies ma!
like risks Ii the Will yield no return the roa'
case are alike ruined This expedent to be to-
hazardous To adopt, If a better can be found IL,
Another expedient is to build double track rallWa ~
between the Msssspp and the Atlantic over Wilif VI s.
any party run trains and all trains run with N n
ate M Is
The Iracticability of relief through government
action is being ascertained by able commission con
sttuted by recent act OF Congress g u,
a third exPedient and the most lnlortTnt J! oi ad.
that proposed by the state Committee on transports
or enlarge several different water channels betwee
the Mississippi and the Atlantic We invite your earnes
ed that by expenditure OF twenty mlIlos per yea
tor SIX or seven years, ne" tnaneis ias o he tri
product the Mississippi valley alone "a the sum
900 annually 1ne nEures are startling, but al
far from improbable The expenditure PROPOSED seen
s fridIHr Tie wealth. ot the nation not less tina
thirty thousand millions. He who has an estate
twenty dollars year tor six years Besides. natio
which has spent three thousand millions OF treasu
SI2O OOO.rO TOR prosperity.
done this much seems National Cover
meut Is TO do any thlns hateNsr t. Ghealeh Ca a@Is"
do it. The democratic party mas iors"9Fn % az s9'
: would not permit the Government +. remove an an .
structon from a harbur or a river 1t l. Naln 10 su
construct railways Bat We are NOT lett IL DOUBT as
their present dispositions Iw9 Eotes GIStR % uIrm
d amendment the river and haroor bill aud one III t
ali doubt that the Democrats like the B5uroons, ha
!. learned nothing good even II they have forgot an
Upon all these considerations. for all these reason
$ crats to tne ileAt III - sj i'ts. them uudone:
u r II you nave hope the future. and would re4li
that hope, urEe you To send heluo4lcails ana L
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