Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-08-07


tork who has found great difficulty,
Or any length of time, in obtaining 1t.
-.
Reasoning from such a standpoint,
We offer young men desiring TO come |
o this country, professional men and
,thers, all the encouragement sug-
sested by the foregoing paragraph In
other lines of business. With the adj
encouragement that lies In
the positive fact that this is one OF
the most equable climates on earth,
an exceedingly beautiful country, and
that the resources of the region are
greater than those of any other region
in the world, but they must be de-
yeloped, and will be. If not by you,
then by somebody else.
~
1t would be better for the country
and better for those of limited means
who desire TO come hither, If the rail
roads could work some plan by which
people could travel cheaper-those who
choose to do so, or to whom the cheap
est possible travelling would be a SIM
qua non. Not only is this the cast
with regard to travelling thither, bu
all over the country. The American
people are not so much restless PEG
pie, as they are practical people, whit
know Just as well when to let go al
when to take hold, and they have
the right, if they can get there, to q
and prospect for themselves, which !
4 the best place to start in for life, ant
in all the controversies and strif
about railway charges for travel 1t
strange that the experiment has neve
been fairly tried as to what effect o.
the receipts OF the roads such eN
tremely low rates as prevail in som
countries might have on roads here.
~
In India it became necessary to rC
duce rates to a point within the reac
Of the great mass of the people VIII
are extremely poor and are inclined Z
stay at home. Accordingly fourt
class train was provided with yer
mean accommodations, and rates wer
fixed at less than one-half cent a mile
To the surprise and satisfaction G
} the companies it is found that fourt
class receipts exceed all the Others an
pay for the expenses Of the whole. A
, our American people are NATURAL
larger travellers, have friends and re
: atives scattered over the continen
= we firmly believe that rates for trav
equally low would produce the san
results here on larger scale. But
get these low rates there has to be q
same efforts made that we're requir
. to get low postage. In the days
. 1910 ruin and all sorts of calamiti
!" we're predicted if congress dared to
IL duce the postage on letters below t
:, rates then prevailing, from 10 to
- cents, and that, too, in spite of t
~ example of England, which led
;" way. 1t was agreed that the pC
" people, the masses, never WIZ
u letters anyhow, just as tits s
= they never travel. They do n
w All the travel is done
Ia' some five or six millions, nea
nc all is done by one million. w
,e' tremendous results would ensue TO
iei country once the prohibitory char
'u' on travel were lifted. No one c
VI" suspected what grand things were
VI followcheap postage; few cOmpreh
ie their importance now. But we
y many of the greatest changes, refo
'u' and improvements In our social
" tenn to that extraordinary diffusion
'nE intelligence that followed on oh
az postage 1t gave that grand impul
Jus to our people under which they seel
DC to act with the ease Of an indiyiC
.oi by inspiring with intelligence and
~ monizing their minds. But gre
cry things must follow when Il
is a general intermingling and
sonal communing Of all these mill
cry of American fellow citizens. 1t is
in poor who enjoy travel and new SCI
~ the most, and who but for pre-
- rates would take long Journeys "
~ out hesitation, for they can liv
nV 10 their labor almost anywhere. In
do we open our schools to the chill
~ - of the poor to give them equal cha
'no with the rich, while all the adyant
,'"s from travel are denied them.
the THE DIFFERENCE