Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-10-11
LOGICAL AND SENSIBLE.

relative amenities and relations between
the people and railroads Whenever .
railroad after The usual season OF doubts
fears and arguments rs tn feasibility and
future profits and mutual benefits, /,
brought into a community, everybody
feels good over it, aud there ;S u marriage
Mt once between the people md the rail.
road, tor tho advantages at it to them are
easily ocognizcd and appreciated about
that time. But the SclttiHe', referring 10
the new railroad just commenced be.
tween Battle Mountain aud Austin. toll.
the story with its possible resultas FOL
lows
At present the people Of Austin pay
about $50 per ton for freight 10y team
from Battle Mountains. There are time
when they pay much moro than this
Passenger rates average about SIS fo
twenty hours Of martyrdom in a mud
wagon. The new railway will make i'm
portant changes in these figures. Freight
will be delivered IN Austin for less than
$50 per ton, and the fare per passenger
will not exceed 80. All this will be lovo.
" fora while, and Austin would not
swap places with any town on tho coast.
But there will como time when Austin
will forget the mud-wagon days, and de,
maud to ride for So and to get her pork
aud beans for 81 per ton. Then the men
who are now being doomed with anvi
artillery, and bonlired from the mountain
tops, will be viewed MS public enemies
Possibly everybody in Austin may not
think and talk this way, but it is the
most likely thing in the world that every
demagogue who has no other stock in
trade, will. In about three years the
parties who have usdermken to build the
Austin and Battle Mountain Railroad
will themselves bogin to doubt whether
they are honorable gentlemen in pursuit
ota Legitimate business, or highwaymen
whose chief object it is to throttle ard
plunder the public,
Yes, and the chances arc that in les,
thnn IA dozen years from now The rajuoad
company will get red OF nearing the old
story repeated .And nung ut them, that
their road could never have been built /,
it had not been for the assistance given
them by the county (S200000 of bond.
drawing ten per cent. per anuum) aud
will heartily wish the had never accept
cd such assistance. A aiIoad is dilar-
ont from anything else in the tmnsporn-
ton line, and is always u subject tor
wHichtul jealousy on the part of the mus
ses Of the people. The better appointed
and more hu-yund prosperous il itbccumes,
The grenter subject it is for envious re-
gaId and popular jealcusy. The moro
people are accommodated nud favored
the moro they ask. Let them reduce
rreights and fares all they plcn.e, aud "A
general demand will be mn1e form ,ull
further reduction, regardless ns to the
ability of tho company ln comply. The
priuCipal renson for this di.criminntive
pnpIlar arrogance toward the railroad is
that 1t is II fixture, and cannot help itself
80 to speak. Tho stage compnuy or
freight line cHn hnul oil It's arrangements
Mt short notice, telling the pepplu to ride
OF pnck. If they don't want to ply the Slip
ulalcd rates of fare aud freight but the
main property of the milroad company
lies IN It's long road, constructed ut such
"a hchvy outlay Of time, lubnr aud money,
aud kept up ut II continual hcnvy px.
penec. The mud wngon liuo iu bad
weather may even lose ils rates, but such
II proceeding on the part ora rnilropd
company would be- Indignantly looked
upon MS a foul conspiracy Rgnnst the
vested rights of the paople, nm imposition
not to be borne. Tho moro people nre
accommodated the more accommodation
they cnu stand and they look ospocnllv
to mllrond. tor it. The dusty Old citizen
wno willingly pnys AN cXorbitunt price tn
be joiled and banged nbou: IN u crowded
mud wagon over II roagh mountain road
Is thankful for the privilege, but ho feels
like lnndlord whcr ho gets into luxu
rious railroad passenger car. llo wants
n whole seat to himself, aud eyes the con
ductor with belIigerent suspicion when
he respectfully approaches for his fare.