Show I 1 I 1 I 1 RAILROAD mattics MATT MAT TIms corporations are soulless this has has bounced against affe cuffs hem in ff ma many jt ay I 1 times and 1 11 uie the 11 larger the corporations the more emphatically liag bas the verdict been enunciated K now we know of no larger alipo corporations y f fa M V th on v s 1 11 I than those thos of the various railroad companies which span the american continent and the I 1 biec branches g of which vilich extend al almost most from center to circumference throughout our great and growing country As our readers s are aware tb these ese companies especially havo have been de denounced 1 by many journals for their discriminations in the rates of and passenger traffic and often with some degree of justice yet ruil railroads roads are not only useful but they th eyare re very beneficial institutions 1 I they have conferred almost I 1 incalculable advant advantages agoa 1 on the communities in all parts of tho the chiv world they shorten the dia dis I 1 and 1 time of travel between towns citi cities es oce oceans and nations b and have cheapened the prices of thousands of articles ot oi in a thousand ways bene filed the human race we know of n no 0 community who are more interested in railway matters than the citizens citi ens of ogden 1 situated as we are midway of the great transcontinental highway ity is already an tin important railroad and commercial center and audis is destined ere long to become greater importance in this respect ct As we have from time to time published in these columns a great deal that has been beeh said against monopolies and the discrimination of railroad companies in favor of some classes of patrons and against other swe think it but simple justice to theato hear what can call be said in p favor I 1 the railway world A tars 2 amii 0 the e antagonism arises for the from fam fl a 1 lo 10 1 r 1 11 1 l mo f saries cical U and industrial movements on the general welfare ye if are of the country says the worlin it is difficult to draw in P explicit terms tb etreo e tibe lane lon but the ge general principle baa long been recognized that every company is bound to perform with absolute impartiality absolu absolutely teli identical service it must carry at any given period for a riven sum all the freight offered of like character and quantity under like conditions by a host of shippers but the tile slightest variation in circumstances often creates a conditions abich may necessitate cli changes anges of accommodations it was stated in one of the debates on this subject during the constitutional convention that during the continuance of knopf oneff the unfortunate freight visors wars of a bygone period one of the tile leading companies of this tills commonwealth mon wealth was w aa obliged to meet eom competition by introducing radical changes in ita its freight tariffs six times in a A single day it ia is vain to end endeavor eavor to rules applicable to the formation of freight tariffs while tho ilia competing lines of other commonwealths and countries are left free to meet all the exigencies of trade but it should constantly be borne in mind that so fo far as freight tariffs affect the great m majority of the american people they arc ire more uniform than thin any other class of charges ages I 1 im in posed for any other service thore is probably not one axie shipper out of who ever obtained rates di differing in in the slightest eligh test degrees from those imposed at contemporaneous periods upon shippers of the same clans clam ing alike sen ice for all practical purposes pur posea theratus the rates of a given period anely approach ideal uniformity ity where variations from this rule occur buchas such as those resulting from the grant of an exceptionally low rate to a shipper who desires to have very large quantities moved at stated in ter vals the results of these discriminations instead of being injurious to this country are often in a high degree beneficial because it is largely by such relatively cheap movements of large quantities of bulky bul y materials that the price of the articles manufactured and consumed is cheape cheapened ned every man who travels on a railroad is to a slight extent benefited by the grant of a relatively low rate to a bessemer steel establishment V for by the movement batha bf the vast quantities af of ore and coal secured by euch such reductions in rates the price of steel rails is lowered and the character of I 1 railway accommodations improved this is a type of ma many ny other dive diveris rim inactions justified and required by all analogous I 1 conditions As a rule the country coun t ry i is s eni enriched imbed employment is furnished food ic is I 1 cheapened manufacturing industries are ur built up civilization is advanced and the circle of human comfort im tin meni inen iely kely enlarged by the discriminations which widen and crown the benefits arising from the en ormus cheapening of transportation which tho the crowning triumph of ilia ali loth century that railroad corporations and compates com are often mercidea aly ais lla rf ailt Z is w arde true and that they are ar growing enormously rich is i ux I 1 deniable AB As a apeci spec inen nell of this latter assertion read tile following from a western journal in relation to the wealth of tho the canadian pacific railway company I 1 it started out with a grant of tog miles of road built and ami in operation abnot her grant of 25 acres of land said to be wor 6 on oi i tile average 3 5 per acre and a government guarantee of the clear gift of to be paid by installments so to u 1 cli copon topon upon the com completion cletion of each vii section of 20 miles its charter cli arter exempts the tile road equipment and caly cepl tal tall stock from taxes forever and it has free right of way with all tha the material materials for construction and equipment free from duty the wh whole 06 mileage tobe to be built bythe by alie company is less than 9 2400 miles the eastern half of it will not coat cost more than a mile or the west ern half including pat sasto two ranges of mountains may ulay cost an ali of a mile or 1 0 0 a total probable cost of 0 0 01 of which the government pays leaving for ilia company but which acres of their land grant from winni winnipeg p eg westward will wl 11 pay they will ill then en havo have left their entire capital stock and acres of land for tho the construction of connections and branches and equipment and for the creation of connecting lines of steamships from montreal to europe at tile east and from port moody with australia china and san francisco at the west A company so rich in funds and exempt from all taxes tors for ever and so large a surplus ought to become a regulator of all the other transcontinental railways and force them into reasonable and fair treatment of the public tho the unrelenting war between rival roads has already resulted in in benefit to utah territory and will bring great advantages to ogden particularly this thi s will be prominently the case with the denver rio grande graude it R and its branches when it finally reaches the junction city the grading has already advanced to within two miles of ogden we may way expect cheaper fares and lower freight rates |