The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1874-04-23
ESTABLISHED IN
MARCH, 1S47.


This can readily be seen when it is esti
!, mated that 100000 tons consumed fol
motive power is equivalent to the labor oi
/, 133, 100000 of men for one year.
Now by calculation it is estimated
that there is in the known fields
of Jackson county alone l. 1.300,000,0 900 tons
of coal. If so iron furnaces were put in
blast and consume 1000 bushels per day
each, and two railroads were put in oper
alton, each running five trains day with
20 tons to each train it would take one
thousand years to consume and remove
the coal in jackson county alone, and
there can be but little doubt but there is
ore enough to supply such furnaces foI
the period.
/ 1 have said Ohio has done well since
the adoption of the present constitution
and so she has, but sir, it was not because
of the liberal policy, but mainly because
of her geographical position, she had to
be crossed by the great through line of
railroad connecting the East with the
Great West, and what have said as to
Pickaway county in this regard will ap-
ply to the policy of the State as well,
and l will not repeat it here. 1t is true
Illinois has incorporated into her new
constitution a section preventing coun-
ties, etc., from aiding in the construction
of railroads, and that too. like Ohio, after
a majority of the counties had secured
the roads they needed; but during the
| last 20 years she has improved her op-
portunity, when our lands were titled,
and built up a system of railroads per
fectly astonishing, and yet l will venture
| the assertion that if this poor privilege
contained in this 9th section is granted
to the counties of this State, that Illinois
will find herself in 20 years as far in the
rear of Ohio in population and wealth as
she was ten years ago, unless she changes
her Constitution.
| 1t is said that counties of this State
had invested in railroads before the
adoption of the present constitution the
sum of $8,000000. Of course this is dis
| tributed here and there all over the State;
twenty years have since elapsed, and if
in each individual case calculation was
made, as l have shown in the case of
Jackson county, it will be found that the
| tax upon the railroads and in other i'm
provements directly traceable to the roads
during that period, to say nothing of the
general advance of property, will in the
aggregate be greater than the total
amount of the money paid by the county.
If that is true to the past what right
have we to say with the experience we
have had in this matter, that the present
and the next generation cannot be trust
| ed with the control of five ner cent of
this nronertv to nledoe to secure like inn.
nrovements tn ena6Ia them to reach
| these mines of the necessaries Of civilized
life. coal and iron. to enrich them selves
and supplv the wants and demands of
others who must purchase these articles,
and give in exchange the productions of
the farms of the other portions of the
State, manufactured articles, and all
other tbings. needed to carry on this
great and GROWING but greatly crinnIed
| interest in The State of Ohio To saw HAT
| it is wrong in principle comes too late
! after the n0Iicv has been adontad in tbe
Stata for +orty vnors nnder ,ub;ob nil,
1;or,s of -,,oro ~ 49,, 1o-,;ad - :. -
nendeJ for III Jiroot hanaGt &c 80
pnIv p Of the neon1a of tba Sta+o TbPose P".e
at last wLp bave reoeived +be banaf;tS
would be stopped in any court of eouitv
anywhere in the civilized world from set
ting up such a plea. and ought to be in a.
body like this that is supnosed to he
capable of rising above every selfish and
local consideration and nronose rnIa of
action that will do eoual and exact instica
to all the people in every porti0n and
part of the State. But if is said individ-
uaI enterprise and money ought to bnild
all such improvements because the pub
lie has nothing to do with their manage
ment and yet it will be observed by read
ing the REPORTS of these debates that the
yery gentlemen who advance this theory
when any proposition is introduced
looking to the Limitation of mower eyer
cised bv these corporations or the men
who manage and control them, thew in
stantly about face, and terror depicted
in their countenance, proclaim aloud
that these corporations are controlling
the legislation of the State, and robbing
her people, and as these roads are in the
nature of nubIic works and nublic hioh-
wavs. the State as the law making power
ought to take hold OF, cortroI-a.aes--
late them and deprive the owners and
managers from all voice in the govern
ment of the State like other citizens
have, as if they were the greatest crimi-
nails in all the land.
Here then. we are to have the specta-
Gle in the State boastine of her schools
churches and enliebtened civilization
after private canitai has been invested
in her nnhlic works (for 7 take railroads
To he s1cb1 tn the time of over S2O6 OOO.-
! 600 under laws that were then in force,
now nronosinp NOT onlv to regulate by
nrb1ic law the nroner runnino of these
pnbIic hiqhwavs as I maintain. She as the
fo-,I L. ,1o,yer hos a right 10 do but
- = go, orrro,,oeod hv a const;tntional
,,ro1,;s;o,, 70 law tha efrono hand of the
SStota 80, {be +broots of those in
J;U;J,,oIs who have Invested their
monev in This great : interest. and
toraver prevent them from being
| boord in the conncils of the State nv dis
| ouolifvinu them from boldino q seat in
! H. T'eoisGo +,ro az, ;nterest eonal to I-I0
| r IL Fl IL oo1+L of +bo Cto+o no1,;no