The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1894-06-16

Farm Products Nov ed at Reduced
Cost for Transportation TO Market
Centers.
David Lubin of Sacrament to in ad-
vocating plan for the more equitable
distribution of wealth says:
I lay it down as an anxiom that the
interests of our country can best be
served by protection against foreign
nations, and by absolute and unham-
pered free trade among the several
States of the Union. Now as long as
our territorial extent is almost as
great as the continent of Europe, it
is manifestly impossible to maintain
free trade between the several states
and sections as long as the factor of
distance creates an uneven charge for
transportation.
Broadly speaking, this is true of
every kind of transportation, but the
unevenness is felt in much greater
degree in agricultural products, when
transported in their natural states,
than in the average for manufactured
goods: A suit of clothes weighing
10 pounds and costing S15, may be
transported from New York to San
Francisco at about l per cent. Ten
pounds of peaches from San Fran
cisco to New York will cost about 25O
per cent. The reason is clear The
10 pounds of suit is so much more
expensive than the 10 pounds of
peaches.
This fact is of course we'll known,
and being so general is deemed fixed
law in the social arrangement. The
question remains, is it a just law2 Is
it law that has been factor in the
bettering of the condition of the hu-
man race? We may unhesitatingly
say that it is not so much law as a
custom. For law is no law unless
it be grounded in justice, and this
custom is not grounded in justice, but
in injustice, and injustice is never a
factor for betterment
just as soon as we examine into the
matter with unbiased mind, we find
that this custom, in it's general opera
tion, has done all that any unjust de-
vice can do in multiplying and main
tanning poverty, wretchedness, and
unhappiness. Wherever we turn oul
mind, be it in countries of the semi
civilized races, or in those the most
civilized, even though the natural
conditions be the most suitable fol
human habitation-as soon as the To-
{. cation is so far removed as to make
transportation of products almost pro-
hibitory, there will we find the major
ity always on the verge of destitutior
and beggary. And it is for this very
reason that the phenomenon takes
place that vast tracts of fertile lands
with all it's natural wealth, scarce Of
fers a crust or habitable shelter to it,
unfortunate inhabitants. Furnishing
in sheer revenge as penalty fol
maintaining such outrageously unjus
custom, the countless hords of immi
grants who flock to the more congest
ed centers, and fight with their more
fortunate fellow-man for the crust q
bread denied them at home. Ther'
is not single example on the globe
that can be shown in its operation
contrary to what is here set forth
The overwhelming disproportion il
the ratio of weight to value check
production and consumption to sucl
an extent as to diminish general com
fort and earning capacity, or, in othe
words is the main cause for povert.
NOT alone in the United States, bu
everywhere else.
While it is true that our country a
the present time offers an apparen
contradiction to the general rule
that the west and northwest, being a