Arizona silver belt., 1888-09-01
Communicated. FREE RAIL TRANSPORTATION.

HALL i9ASSk-VEkAIiONs
 1 Tho transportation of passengers over the railroads of tte United States without charge is certainly novel idea, deserving Reconsideration. Think what blessing it would be in ways innumarable. How great the privi- lego of boarding train at New York City and riding across the continent to San Francisco free el charge? Let those whose prelongation of life de- bends upon altered scenes and cllmat- ic conditions, but whose limited means denies them the restoration to health that change Of climate and dsurround. 1 ings might work, find all at once this insurmountahle barrier of expense re- moved and every avenue of transpor- tation open Tor their accommodation, without money and without price, would they not esteem this the great est blessing, a boon inestmable?
 To the laboring class free transpor. tatien fer themselves and families offers the greatest good, and especially to the hundreds of thousands of unem- 1 ployed in the great cities of the Easl. who seeing every branch of industry supplied with dextroas workmen, and without tho means of reaching other parts e! the country where tbsir labor might be in demand, must accept the most menial servitude ln order to eke out miserable existence What op- portunities are here suggested to the man of energy, ambitious to rise in life, but who is sadly hampered by re- lentlass poyerty2
 The West would be benefited meal crlabIy by adoption of free passenger transportation oyer our railroads. lnnumorable mines of precious metals would be opened up and then stores Of wealth enrich the United States be- yond any nation of the earth, or the fabulous oppulencs of prlncipalities Of the east in past ages. Our vast prai- rios now desolate would be reclaimed by the husbandrnan, end the soil made to yield botintifu! harYestS to support the great industrial cities which would grow up on every side. teeming with life ard activity. Fearing to encroach toe far on your space, ] fcrego the mention of ether benefits which would fellow this great philanthrepie scheme How Is 1t to be accomplished doyou ask? Why by a discriminating ar. rangement of government subsidies to the railroad companies favoring those reads which sfEer the Jest facilities and traverse CT penetrate those sec ti0ns of our vast country offering the greatest inducem ents to settlement, and possessing the greatest latent
  wealth aud possibilities of develop ment,
 By pursuing such 6 policy of public benefaction the Goyernnmeut would satisfactorily solve the surplus prob- lem and tbc people would recelye some eompsasa ting benefits for the heavy burden ct taxation imposed upon tbem Instead of reducing the tariff on impcrtations, thereby deranging the sconomIc system under which eur country has prospsred, why nst ex- pend the surplus in the manner here suggested. Making every portlon of the United States easily accessible 10 ths citizen of locality no matter how remote, would assist greatly to 1 remove sectional preiudices. give peo. pie more liberal ideas equalize wages, | insure te labor constant employment, i and would more firmly cement the union of States, PROGRESS.