Daily Argus (Newspaper) - March 19, 1852, Madison, Wisconsin SURE YOU RE BY WIS. 1IAKCB, 1852. V 1: N 58. Speec b. of Hon. E. B. In March 8, 1852. A to incorporate the Fox River Hail Road being under con- moved to strike emt all after the enacting and ing this Mr. arose and addressed the riate as follows Mr. the proposition for granting a to the River Valley R ill came to my I did not anticipate the least difficulty in to its passage through tho Neither do i now that it will meet with or elective by way of attempted judging from what I have recently and I am convinced tint a most will be to the in I am n or cast upon honorable for a I not d I actuated by Uie granting f will tint it n of that Hut I a little thin should so suddenly have penetrated their Mr. will now proceed to the objections to this as I. have them and to adduce such in may think principal so far UT L hav are two in number and those two others of less The and most plausible inns legislate for the of any one in to the injury uf other is bad to our own to seek a out o n To the first I answer the object of till legislation or should to benefit the with possible in- jury to the I thai minor in of the most tant cases of to some in order that the greater may bo To prove the correctness of I liave only to luce which few will ami 1 think none Tho greatest liberty o the production of all hor or and are found in der tba While irio locality is another has u and to supply the In to facilitate this necessary inter- change of various modes ure In new and sparsely settled animals mostly either for or when the products of a country are tly over instead of inviting by holding cm the natural to say the 1 cy of a more than questionable Could any one place monopolize the whole trade of a great area of populous tile like some portions of our it is great gain and thrift to would be the it would not only be enabled to do a much greater amount of with less cap bin ing no near it would in a great the regulator of its own excuse that a few towns would bo were they not in all time to to continue this I come now to the objections to allowing our to seek a market out of our own Tin's has been considered to some nnd will be dwell upon but The thai a Slate tan do every thing within its own in to Us well is pre- man in ins liberty and the pursuit of his du and tiie pursuit of happiness imply J Jf but one or with bat common get all inasmuch a whatsoever ind above what it other modes and such as Hail boar in that the effect of all such is greatly to in- crease the aggregate and of tho whole il cannot in truth be that in making such im- minor interests not often greatly or sometimes totally Does any one deny I havo only lo point him to thai way once a crowded but n made solitary by the building of some unlucky plank or ll is well that the carrying of passengers and mails in this not on- ly employs n an ble ami lawful but is not monopolized by one I be told of the or of legislating and mAing cm account of injuring ness of carrying passengers by The same miy be said of all all labor-saving machinery th requires il will readily be that anything that is labor-saving is calculated to dispense with a part of that which was beforo found with more simple to accomplish a The consequence human superseded and driven from the has to seek in some other But suppose or nearly all of and manufacturing could done by machinery alone gate wealth of the world would bo ed. there would bo the more till the and tho serious would in ihe change of tion for those thrown out of towns and spring into from the effects of The interchange of buying nnd Celling rious mechanical aro and carried in such All these it is are important to the this would well might tho Township ly anything but advantageous say to the the County to the to the country al us the non 1 have no of any one becomes wealthy by Sute to the have no need ot to in the of large the earnings of the in like proportion does the latter become And the producing classes being necessarily much ihe and their calling tiie in- terest is to yield to the This has already been shown to be and against public Mr. it will be by a f- to the that this proposed I peculiar to portion running from Waukesha down the our must find a market could we consume all our surplus produce in our own tit in the support of manufacturing much ter profit to the State al be the even in that a market would still be for i ur surplus Not but immense nnd constantly increasing valley of ihe Fox to the is some miles in and 20 from the Lake This whole from Waukesha lo ihe State is one of most and best firming what would be thought of which would oblige every pound loud raised in ihe western to be at the verv nearest of bore lions of country in tbu By taking jt from s a ten miles along the lino cast of the and 25 the through to State and we have an area of 1200 square containing 000 or in this it is there arc 70 run of These are nearly all kept constantly running through tho necessarily produce a largo surplus ol a great amount of and other over and above the wants of tiie for own con- annually seeks a where upon ihe hike All at together with necessary inland or return is dune by 1 ii greatly 13ut, wholo surrounding country and in come to tho ind vidu il liberty in to this great ot Lin ami opportunities to the to ano also to tiie ion rally do the towns the the country tho You may be and probably will without a market for selling and a country would be as bad off as a ing ond to be compelled to sell to tbe or next nearest until at ter Lad as there along the it should reach ihe bike somewhere within the And all in order to build up and the State I how enrich the State What kind of think would bring the when it known thai long catalogue of or stood him ihe facturer of The would be And it iri to result would a great f Hing from the price paid to a these whole poo of pi on the manufactured throughout the length and breadth of this rich sect on ask us to grant them a charter fur a And why do they a-k it Simply because they are tired of hauling produce and from 20 to 50 exposed to all kinds of bad weather and worse would have a g re es r choice of which this road will ultimately ve have a to that n liberal and en lightened policy will in a So J it be as u matter of with every article of surplus it v. ill be that this state of is directly injurious to these tuo reat ut in tho same And the or what is by the must be by the all these er or and above the v. ants of three for their I 7- I 111 IUI ol and i i c J i i homo hud their out an- j town would be in a proportion us a ry improved and is the natural mutual yielding of or has this state of is imp the towns and or common must be Mankind can subsist without stimulus lor the budding of are cel. as this road is proposed to it there Milwaukee and Mississippi in places n us of the not be built beyond ihe State io inter- sect the Chicago and Galena then surely ii could not be objected on at one should this road that they in may be enabled i-o afford protection to the whole social I think it will agriculture the ii or ranks amony the first of these grout The ul- ling of soil is step from towards were grouped into they could not It hat tho the naturally take of those of the town much hater are bused on the This being docs it not follow the products of a Scale should be allowo to seek tho market that will pay of I count of ks lending into another suppose it should be over the State line to Elgin will be that the other will at ll will be seen that this will a choice of or man wa itl or out of it 1 his only From be slakes his and satiates with her as ihe earth will not bring in t necessary without thw cultivation of hor great Archimedean ingenuity of is in the con- struction of the of 1 think it will bo conceded the great all civilized a. of the tho not eqn is it not the case that a ket in which yon can the and buy is the most profitable to the And if to the why not to tho Slate I am persuaded that this one- policy against which 1 have been a careful It is I would ninch the lowns urM cities of my State being with the those of either Milwaukee or this state of iar as tin's trade is put the Uvo in direct ana the one which should the better would command tho more would not be right? it is ob build this and von injure the along the lake be- tween these two to some extent we by allowing the carry hid to a better to one attended with less expense in and more on the other should wo not grant this and in should this road not bd by the to bide the con- in ue to haul their in and and as at a ruinous wbai is. the the State at And is thu whether sent out at or ing passe d these of hands have already shoun and it only regains for lo as il all ultimately goes it inaners little to the at largo who carres it the more directly il is the greater the it would taku less of the to do I of handling and the consequence number of to enrich the Slate by their It is that this road w 11 injure other and other already or about to be of two or three lowns on the lake after having got appropriations from the gent nl in part to build their should they turn short and oppose other like Should they then say to all the other towns around the just keep out of our way if you for e want more appropriations for selves want lo Now don't come into the us asking for for you will defeat the objects of wo have got the start of end it is not proper for you to pose of our our anti injuring the growth of towns Would not sach a i receive what it would so justly indignant rebuke of every honest man we have its our gentlemen
