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Show every sectioa, especially the principal princi-pal towns, but its lolid head or responsible central board should be all residents . of one town for obvious ob-vious reasons. The cUyfts of such a hoard while begining", perhaps.at homo, would befar reaching and raultifarious;and if thoroughly up to their business, would always be able to make the very best bargain for all we wished to buy, and get the very best figures on all we bad to stll by being thoroughly thor-oughly posted on th markets east and west, and doing away with the middle men. In time they could almost al-most tell the people what to plant, what to manufacture for another season. Let us have a "Board of Trade,' let it be composed of men who can see Jthe interests of othtr towns besides their own, and let us give' them cordial, solid support. ".'Hi: M.AR FUTURE. A railroad, with all the changes and innovations implied by its presence, pres-ence, is "an assured fact. The long hoped fur, prayed far, ardently de-ired de-ired convenience for transportation transporta-tion is'at our doors. It has been so long in getting here that the most obtuse person in the community has had time to Sgure down to a fine point j-ist how much it will affect liim personally, and if he he has not done so ii would be well to taks the next sixty days and find the solution so-lution of the problem. For just how much it will change his circumstances, circum-stances, and whetker for good or bad, will depend very mucn on a thorough comprehension of the situation. Of course we inon that a great many people had these changes and results all sumed up five or six years ago, but back num-bes num-bes may not be available in this instance. in-stance. It i not the single individual individu-al so much as the community at large, ox a representation of the wealth of her citizens, that must deal directly with a railroad corpo-ration. corpo-ration. The free anil easy, "every man his) own agent,pnll one at a time-and an utter indifference to what everybody t 1 ;e,bdoing, "method "meth-od will not do under the new order of things. It is a golden oppportun-ity oppportun-ity if we can but rise equal to the occasion and meet the new order of things in a way to make ourselves masters of the situation, and not cringing slaves; to make the incoming incom-ing railroads a blessing and not a curse. 'l ake a short retrospect of the business done over the S. P. V. for this county, tlut, without going into in-to details, resulied in much loss to merchants, both in shipping grain and produce out, and in shipping merchandise in; and in the utter annihilation of some small but deserving de-serving enterprises, and we have a sample of the "every nun paddle his own canoe" style of dealing with railroads. Mcrchan's suffering such losses represent that they were treated with the greatest contempt, their letters of inquiry were never answered, and their losses seldom or never made good, and even if the injured party resorted to shipping oods by team, it did not amount to the dignity of a protest even, for vnat was tne patronage 01 one Millie merchant to the railroad? j Almost invariably they came back V) the swifter mode of transportation, transporta-tion, when their anger had time to cool, and the sting of the insult had ceased to smart; becaase we are a progressive comunity and slow transportation tran-sportation did not meet the demands , y business, They found after re- " peated attempts to have justice done them that it was better to suffer these losses,!!! silence conteniptable when considered singly, but immense in the aggregate, than to make a fuss about them, liut that did not make the conduct of the railroad justifiable justifi-able in the least degree. It is supposeable that a railroad is built to a section of country in order to profit b carrying freight for the people of the country, and that it would be as much to their interest to care for the needs and desires de-sires of their patrons, as it is to the interest of a merchant to be fair and honest to his patrons; and so it would be, and will be, provided there a.re two o,r more roads but where there is only one, they, like a other monoplises, became insolent, careless care-less and oppressive. It is not yet an assumed fact that San Pete will have two roitds. though It is as much a matter to be desired as that she have a railroad at all, becaust that will greatly simplify matters. Hut in the event of their being but one we mtx be prepared to meet it on business principals, aud with the expectation that they came in to this country to build themselves up and not the people of San Pete. This latter task is the problem that ties before us. How to secure the very best freight rates. How to vommund respect for the rights of vituvnst of our merchants, ind a respectful hearing in sueh cases ax those cited above. There is but one answer to tke questions. ques-tions. We m,et be united and deal with these matters in a business like manner. If th merchants of San Pete Co. had been united, and had entered a protest against the treatment treat-ment that they were receiving as a responsible body, who would stand by each other, the railroad company comp-any would have been obliged to have taken cognisance of the complaints made. If they had been given to understand that such . treatment would not be tolcrated,and that dereliction dere-liction of duty toward the Mantt -oj ment the withdrawal of the patrunage of the entire Mercantile fraternity of San Pete, there would have iieen no trouble.for the railroad is not running for its health. San l'ote is called hidra-headed because there are three towns within with-in her borders, that stand about vqual, when alt their advantages and disadvantages are sumed up, aad neither can lay claim to preeminence. pre-eminence. It is therefore something some-thing of a (pestion to which one of these towns belongs the right of leading out in the matter of establishing estab-lishing a vfioard af Trade" which is the unly way by which safety and system in these matters can be reached. There should be a county organization well represented from " U t'Ussts of business, anl from 7. ' . 7 |
