Louisiana capitolian., 1880-09-04
THE RAILROAD
Liberty Herald.

4AAS
Liberty Herald.
Within the last two years tho business |
of our town and country has assumed
| all Importance in commercial and other
business cities that warrants the conclu-
sion that railroad is required, in order
to the full developing the resources OF
our community and supplHing its de-
mands. It is no longer necessary to
argue the advantages to be derived from
this enterprise. Allsee and admit them,
and the only quetion to he seriously con-
sided is, how shall we proceedto accom-
plish this work, the benefit Of which
will accrue to every citizen and proper
ty holder in the county. Many good
suggestions have been made by itsfriends
and combatted by those who are opposed
to doing any thing in this great public
work. We under rate our means when
we say we are not able to build the
road, for which we have charter from
Liberty to other points. Other commun-
tiles of less means than we possess, and
whose property does not yield as large
an income as ours, build roads without
the aid of foreign capital, and so can we
if we wisely apply onr resources. we
have money and labor that can be raised
to all amount sufficient for the purpose
of commencing the work with fair pros
pect of success, and when we have made
| a start by breaking dirt, the object will
| have been secured. In a former issue
of our paper we published the commune
cation of J. w. +. W., who showed con-
clusively that the want of this road
entails q much heavier tax upon the
people than a tax sufficient to build the
road would. He gave an instance of
the average family, and showed that
!, such family paid annually an extra
freight on few of their supplies which
was in excess of what would be their
proportion of the tax to build the road
upon the ad valorem principle. But his
statement fell short Of what facts have
warranted. He might have added many
other items upon which we pay freight
, that could be saved by building snch
road from our county town. Pointing
to the sugar farms, we could save an
. immense sum OH sugar and molasses, as
, we could then purchase at first cost from
, the planters, thus saving the freight
, from the farms to New Orleans, and
t the incidental expenses, and the profits
t too that we now pay not only to New
Orleans, but back to our county, with
Q the additional profit added that our
: merchants must charge on it. Think Of
e it, You pay the freight on barrel of
sugar, raised on farm opposite Baton
: Rouge to New Orleans, the drayage to
the warehouse, the wharfage, commits
sons for its sale to the city merchant
\ and his profit on the same to our mer-
chants, drayage back to the river, wharf.
G age again, unless delivered on board
t the boat, freight Oh river back to Port
!, Hudson, railroad freight to Clinton, dirt
n road freight to this county, when if you
II had road to the Mississippi river, you
: could get the same article at plantation
prices, to which would be simply added
railroad freight to our county, and thus
save river frei ght and all commissions
and profits of merchants, besides the
d delay of sending the article off 100 miles
further than it was when manufactured
and paying the expenses back to where
it was raised and prepared for market
a Quite another saving to farmers and
5. business men would be in the reduced
> number of horses and oxen to do all this
Il unnecessary hauling.
q Fear not taxation to build our con
'e tempated railroad; if you vote tax
II and the road is put in operation, YOU
It taxes will be easier paid then than now
It the enhanced value of your propert!
% will cause you to pay a smaller per cen
J. tage on it's value than you do at thi
v time. This has been demonstrated owe
a and over again in Georgia, and is agail
% attested in the neighboring county Q
e. Adams. Let us so ergetically to worl
n. at once and build this road according t.
il the charter: let us adopt the air lin
to principles, and save the expensive fun
id merry of civil engineers reports, and az
y. ply every dollars we can spare in til
I'd employment of hands to work on til
ne road bed, and the contract for buildin
40 the road can be speedily entered int
is with company, or let out by the mile
is or even shorter contracts to individuals
In as is constantly practiced in other Stat
nd of the Unien.
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