The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-06-01
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Detroit needs the Pennsylvania railroad
There isn't any doubt about that
The fact is generally understood on all sides
Our manufacturers need the Pennsylvania
Our merchants the Pennsylvania \.
Evv home in Detroit where needs the Pennsylvania
railroad protection against the perlodieal ahe suen
IN This necessity the past hardw
Tn. peanut vend on the street needs the Pennsylvania lest
some day the peanuts fail o get here Il
WHY does Detroit needth the Pennsylvania
Because and bounds IN the past ~ years
n that time we have become AUTOMOBILE CENTER OF THE
WORLD
We lead in the production article representing the greatest
stride taken in quarter century of industrial progress
There people Detroit today by hundreds OF thousands
than there rs years ago.
shipments into the city are therefore heavier shipments of
the city and coming that e
almost identical facilities % greatly
in taking of the loads i
The fact that everybody realizes the need Of another railroad and
that railroad particular Pennsylvania pretty near
that there is BUSINESS here for the Pennsylvania,
1t means EARNINGS and additional PROFITS
and greater DIVIDENDS here for the Pennsylvania
The what the possibilities are In Detroit
REPRESENTATIVES of the Board of members of the common
council Pttburg and told the roads oc
there is a lot of bushes for to handle.
Pennsylvania told the delegation that taxes
Michigan too high
In other words the Pennsylvania wants itself
hut for all Michigan before the Pennsylvania Will accept
business profits and increased dividends from us
which would individual kicking waddns n
his pocketbook a silver platter.
There has been adopted in the common council now
since the members who went to the Pennsylvania re-
port looking readusment the taxation system of the state
This is the Pennsylvania railroad but Will not
serve in as In inducement
Reimbursement of the system that will relieve the railroads
Of the the relief somebody else WOULD
be nducemen and the Pennsylvania has suggested that nothing
less will do
In which connection The simply that here
which should proceed slowly and cautiously
This newspaper Pennsylvania railroad Detroit
question all but that the coming of this line would anOrd IN
res Of Detroit in which millions dollars capital OF good
and deserving citizens needed relief and question bout these
interests being entitled to relief
No question about great deal of Detroits future Depending
upon this additional railroad
But there two more facts IN connection with winch hee
question.
If this Detroit delegation gone Ptsbug inform barber
that there splendid opening here for branch OF his shop ina.
ne were running around in ofoot lack of
BARRIERS it is safe wager the barber would be the ground by
this time stood for transfer OF part OF the tax
uon barber shop heads people owning safety rzo
And again which the Pennsylvania objects
the the railroads that have been here right
along and taken its tracks and walked
Let us submit system be looked into for
honest and fair analysis by representatives
all the parties concerned only upon the basis the railroads
NOW IN THE STATE
To adjust system Offering nducement the
Pennsylvania to dangerous would also be
the Pennsylvania interest individual as to which, these
merger Joint ownership there always for doubt
system taxation Michigan represents
years of strife in Michigan and brought about only
through untng efforts the Pngree and his eutenant
undo in day by Judgment that which
was done only after years litigation expense the
people only realize this investment
should make all fair inducements possible to the Pennsylvania
locally as an individual
So going beyond that concerned and opening the
great question taxation system the state and exposing that
which has been accomplished undng believe
outeghing possibilities benefit that
here is a matter which should owly-very slowly