Connecticut western news., 1875-06-25

OuuCC OA otC0AA, 1AA SbAS RSSAAA@s ~A~SSASN | of figuring freight tariffs seems indeed strange in the eyes of those who cannot see behind the scenes. The roads clear 8 respectable profit transporting coal from Rondout or other points on the Hudson, to Hartford at $2.OO per tun it is at least presumed they do, or they would not do the work :; and to charge the same price, when the same amount is ordered and the same conditions in every respect are ob- served, to land it at Lakeville or Salisbury, | doesn't give the people this way, who sub scribed for the stock of the road on the plea | of cheap coal more than for any other one benefit to be derived from it, quite fair show.
 It may be given in argument that the margin over expenses, hauling coal to Hartford at $2.O per tun is very slim that the price is put at that low figure in order to compete with opposition coal routes. up the Connecticut river. etc, but if the price at which the companies are necessarily
 compelled to haul it, is so low they can
 make little or nothing at the work, then the effort at competition at that point should
 be abandoned, as it is of no value; but to attempt to make the charges for the ex-
 treme western end of the road the same as
 at Hartford, in order to average the matter
 and sustain such competition the over
 charges here supplying the lack in what
 they ought to be in H., may be fun for the
 Hartford people, but scarcely rclished
 here. We find no fault that the Hartford
 folks should get their coal brought to their
 doors at low figure, and indeed would re-
 joice with them, if the road could afford 10
 and would transport it for them at no cost
 whatever, but when their Joy is at our ex-.
 pense, we'll ''grin and bear it" and be hap
 py as long as we can, but when it crowds
 as hard as the present arrangement for coal
 transportation, it is crowding the mourners
 o little too hard. We would not esseY to
 set price for coal by the cargo brought to
 Salisbury from Rondout, but that it should
 be very much less than it is now, is fact
 everybody will recognise.
 Our Uncharitable Brethren.-The great
 trial is drawing to close. Mir. Beach is
 about through his long and able plea and
 has shown himself prince among plead
 CTS. What impression he may have made
 on the petit jury remains to be seen, but
 there can be no doubt of the impression he
 has made on the grand jury, the great pub
 lie. His name will last as long as the Eng
 fish language remains.
 The above we clip from one of our ex- oka fro,,, Rork chiro ooupfu uyhooo oj } ltor is deacon of the Congregational ] church in the place where he lives. This ) sheet all through the trial has lost no opportunity to spread before its readers it's
 biased opinions, and although the above from it's columns of last week is not espe- cially strong in its animus against MT. Beecher, but expressing simply the exulta-
 tion of the editor over the efforts of Til- tons lawyer (Beach) to convince the jury and the world that Henry Ward Beecher is fiend incarnate, which he would be in the event of his being proved guilty of adul tery, it will serve us for text, from which
 we feel it bounden duty to make few remarks.
 That the people of the world should pre- judge Henry Ward Beecher guilty of the heinous crime of which he is charged and
 on trial, would not be strange, but for
 Chrtstt0ns, and more especially the minis ters and deacons of the Congregational f church, to be more ready to believe him, who is a member of their own family of christians, guilty, than any other denomi-
 nation or sect of our people, and to labor
 so zealously to induce others to the same
 belief, is scarcely to be endured.
 Is this disposition to influence others against the innocence of 8 brother in F Christ, before the trial is closed, proper manifestation of charity! St. Paul says of f faith, hope and charity; these three chris
 tian graces which support the entire fabric of the christian religion ''Me greatest ss
 c1arity." It would seem as if none were
 so utterly destitute of the spirit of charity as some of those to whom we alluded 3 above. Whether Mr. Beecher is as inno- cent as the unborn babe, or as vile as he would be in|the hypothesis of his guilt, is
 of no consequence whatever in the consid- ] eration of the proper exercise of charity before the truth is known: There is abso lutely no excuse whatever for this culpa- ble prejudgement. Having in view this s chiefest of christian graces, charity, and { thls great trial, consistency howls in her f rage at such doings.
 B It is understood that the evidence is now ' all in, and people have right to form ant r pronounce their opinions freely, and it i' ] not at what is said or done at this late houl Q that we complain of, but everybody knows v that from the earliest incipient stages ol this terrible scandal to the present time, { e large number of MT. Beecher's brother teachers in the Congregational faith, have ! been, like the widely extended jaws of thu d apaconda, ready to receive the carrion ant = the filth, and like the reptile, gave indispu- o table evidence of smacking relish fo .t their food.
 e Can we, with the above facts before us u be censured for comparing the conduct O ,'' the clergy m this trial, with that of thos ]. at similar trial which occurred eighteen hundred years ago, when one who wen about doing good was condemned, ant a when the priests and the scrbes stirred ul IS the multitude to clamor for his life, cryinl l. "Crucify him! Cruelty him." Will no 'I one, standing on the plane of humanit,
 alone, be confounded at such things! Ca1 Is those who preach charity, and have none at expect their teachings will influence thei "a hearers for good! St. Paul says further , ,' ''Though I speak with the tongues o z, z, men and of angels, and have not charity,