Home League, The (Newspaper) - September 26, 1863, Hartford, Wisconsin AN WK SATURDAY AT Hartford Washington County Wis Job Printing Ion t tills With nn of Typo lobbing i BUSINESS DIRECTORY Attorney ut Co i Win II Notary Public tu ami acknowledging and on hand Co Win from thu ID It A Jr Mall from tbu Wont fur M nnd and St Mil I 14 huld In 7 o'clock MILS tlic Iut of In I No A F 1 L A iTl tho und of ouch 7 o'clock I M H the J mid to 11011 ot tho Si of Ad will ut nil tuko mid Ac T HO MS ON EDITOR VOL: i is months three v v V Y A JC to of fo nun Halo I win J nt in II I-M door of WOH county Win fur nn will to all to prompting In i It nay tu and vicinity nmv to put KHUN V Hurl funl ono of V ho will fron tu of or any ol art N hunt my Wji II HOUSE It to Ilio oli In notify public Hint in- win runnel in romly willing lu nl Ho U T YOUNd CJ to nil MI-HI BOUNTIES BACK PAT AND M 1 1 G K en City Will Clio I tt in It tho who to cull upon cox AT Win PAINTING PAINTING mm I at PAINT an tUu of If you Jobs to bo to on JAMES E COOK Win a In and Clio or good of tu MKH ami to Juno J K COOK CONTINENTAL INSURANCE COMPANY CASH JAN to JULY 40 In without Incur Furniture other property nt by other II It CLOTHES WRINGER No 1 Family No Mud I u MI 00 7 00 0 00 6 60 U 00 13 00 30 00 NO a Vo H w IS run Mo I f f No li the Iu tho Agricultural Of Jliu Universal Clothes Wringer A can ft of In i Cow It lit in I A 1 n of will u Urge on Iu think tlic much more tlinn for ol 1 rul Hourly In but we It thai tho wringer be with C.v of nmy clou thu rollen upon tho looso from own make mul It it M good u new Wringer with U in k Durable without A la titty town of HI tho anil u c POSTER In color i T BAIL HOAD i AND IMPOSITION C What is lib object of the proposed i Con It conceded it is to competition and enable the variou lines of railroads their charges 61 freight and the full extent tha their the business of the State nnd City will permit The reports of ever road loading put of this City pro posed to embrace in the consolidation show that they are now always have been making a strong on the amount the have cost their present o and over on legitimate and necessary price of construe tion Then why an increase in the prices b currying and freight except to ex net from interests Stati extortionate profits Your committee can not sco how the farming and the business in crests Suite to bo by such n condition of things but think the can discover many ways in wil be crippled mid damaged The prices for carrying passengers and freights are already as high if not higher than on any simila lines of road in the United States It now costs the merchant at La or Prairie du Chien or McGregor nearly twice as to get a ton of goods from Milwaukee as i does tho Milwaukee merchants to get ton of the same class of goods New York The merchant in St Louis can get goods from Milwaukee by of about 400 miles nt fifteen 15 cents a hundred less than a merchant on the Missis sippi River can have the sump class of goods carried over cither of the Milwaukee roads a distance of about 200 miles The same that it costs fifty cents a hundred to send by rail to Ln di can be sent York City al the way by rail except across Lake Michi gan at cents a that it costs twenty-two cents per to sund to can bo Bent to New York at forty-five cents The farm rs in Dane Sank Grant Crawford Columbia Green Luke mid whose are more than miles from the Lake Shore and their farms not fifteen miles from a station anil no assert that their when they have an average yield of fifteen bushels to the improved lands at twenty dollars per not nett them granaries more than from 25 to 31 cents per bushel 1 That for the labor in producing the wheat the lurmor docs realize ut more than thirty-one cunts per tiny Within two years in the State of where there is an active competition between its various railroad the freight tariffs have been to almost prohibit tho marketing of tho Within one hundred of Lake Michigan sold from the farmer's bin at from five to ten cents per and within one hundred and fifty miles from it und twenty road linos it was burned for fuel Public at other to such as reducing the exorbitant charges of the of lines condition of things to make the State receive with favor the Chicago igc project Now we submit to the of our if such has een the condition of our neighbors in ois not two miloe distant from us within twenty-four icling lines of railroads penetrate with less han a dozen exceptions every county in heir will be the condition of Wisconsin with its different under one nnd all in a to skin the local business as deeply as owned and controlled ns they iii the main will be in New York The undersigned cannot how a sound public policy would allow of the farmers and business of he State to be more heavily fettered with rcight charges than they uro anch will bo when all the railroads of the Stale shall bo incorporated into one nige purchases and of produce will be railroad igcnts under their as nin as is to follow The mercy from cers It would be trolled outside tho State none in that New Jersey has the rates of passage bp they nre in New York business and ilic be to Other States by drawing wealth and impoverishing our to the of build tip those outside its It as there cotild ho to degrade and it has been the used as an argument in favor of it that is bo ower in t I OF 1 i 1200 a 4 CO 1 00 nurkcd i length or they will be continued Special Notices aad Exhibitions SO per Transient ainst f r ami gratis lent price on Irst not exceeding fire 14 fifty cents pass people of the Slate will then discover that the cor- which was ted to create to aid the fanner iu marketing lis products and the man to supply he farmer with his merchandize for a ate compensation have grown to be their and can dictate to them the terms on they are to have a business existence ml almost for them the precise sum if their annual incomes from pursuits i That tho object ot the consolidation iy tho non-resident owners is nn he prices on freights mid is cd by the parties themselves -In the tatter of it was thought had progressed so lar that its success certain with the enst and west lines out f Milwaukee it to be 1 in the commercial the New fork papers that those united would Iho business of the richest art of the Slate of Wisconsin and they secure competition they will be charge freights nnd to a dividend on the stocks tocks of the by WHtering after the consolidation homed east prices be be to earn nt least n cent oo uther than upon real The great bulk of this increase falL a poo the of competition with lines of the State prevent them charging creased prices through The other effects of a oly iu the all tlie rcight and be M to he liberties of the to This would bo and cousin the New II control the legislation the M t mu power in the iStote can consent a state of vassalage what limits while can b.c in other States in can enjoy that freedom from and which is rto the enterprise of that settle new A depreciation -in of real estate is sure to be the experience iu consolidation thus has such as should bo torthe believe it is but of a more extended degree iu store for them Three months ago tlie Milwaukee end of the Luke Shore consolidated with the southern or Chicago portion of the Before the it was if a principle shops of company the entire would be kept at Milwaukee Within ninety days from the time the consolidation was effected the workshops of the road wore removed IP A year ago there stir arid this city about on foot to have the Horicon road pass out of the control of Wisconsin men into those friendly to the Northwestern road and its out of the A lew weeks ago we were that the control of road hud been ed and its the rood prevented sale canic and the road was bid in by the new proprietors at the of the securities they 000 was the far as the The nett cost o to the com- informed was and the nett profits to the three proprietors securities each While the chasers of these securities ure realizing such monstrous the city gets but C8 cents on a dollar of bonds the company to construct tho and must lose the plead and buy np its cent dis- 1 The first including the fanr of Irom 20 to 50 miles in Portage every dollar of had not sold sixty days are openly and actively at work to have it con- with the road and orm a equal of Your committee have not time to report the promises made to and the arm mortgagors before the eu afterwards there any thing in le number zens of to sanction consolidation as n fixed policy for both this city the V number of miles of tlic roads Is about 862 The to which they ore to iut into The highest we heard is he lowest The probabilities are lie lies between these two hat the the will age per your are have present proprietors ot bc milt and equipped to per ff at of iVall St and the Kail road of for will of know the legislature would not tolerate H for people compel it to afford relief rata other By making a fictitious fifty per receiving cent dividend at that to ariti have been known of diluting stocks to The stocks however of most of embraced in the proposed are to low to hold out present inducements for- fraud in that direction inducements for dation consist mainly opinion in tlie power it will give to increase the for passages in Wisconsin or inj other words it is to exact profits from the business of this State and then perpetrate a swindle in ern railroad east Some probably that last the North western road was endeavoring to get a through the Legislature enabling it to consolidate or absorb the Racine and before ing the stolon from the files in the Secretary's before it was published apd the Chamber of Commerce of this city thought it of sufficient consequence to send n Madison to One of the undersigned had the honor to be one of that and he certainly thought then as now in aiding to defeat he was promoting tho best interest of the State and its cities They found the measure strongly urged by all the influence of the Northwestern Rond aided by the quiet proval and shrewd some of the ot consolidation in this city We can see lio the policy of consolidation with the Northwestern bo as disastrous to the public in- in September as it would have been in February nnd il the Chamber an affirmative answer to these T Three ago of con- solidation end of uniting all of the ting of this western uess repudiated with indignation the charge that they were acting in concert with the Northwestern road On the chief for project was Prairie du Chien the La and Horicon and roads to act of the and across it or take business from it or make or break con- with might snit their interests or pleasure Within intelligence has reached here so direct and positive that the fact can ho longer be denied that the managers of the Northwestern road in cordance with their and backed with the extensive influence of George Smith were pressing the project of consolidating all the roads in the State into a combination with it was about to be successful and it was freely ed of in business circles in cago that great advantages would be derived from it would draw the iness of Wisconsin Illinois and fence in and damage this city rival iu the wheat and Chicago's principal flour trade Then batik spec considerably of dollars If a 000 per mile the profit the enormous sum of over of if thi ive pose be the at or per the will realize profit of over Of The profits estimated the with the La f to pool let Since the the j has received a letter from New York dated August Mri and told carried out the embraced i ten has a's cent of lare more wiU nmo The was right it why it- would not be right in opposing A majority of ilie members of the arc commission and grain Some of them complain of the the produce the Railroads assume when they arc running in active competition each other What will they do when all three of west lines under one whose will be at or are run under tha direction ofthe Your committee can very how such operations the energy work to consummate vigorous aids from and and from sources they can bring for the their we are entirely unable how states and ties are to be built tip how the mass of the are or prospered by a policy which rich richer nnd the hus already subjected Milwaukee forty thousand dollars loan of credit to taken from of industry the Slate every dollar in the aggregate to ol thousands it invested in the roads and in due for necessary for them to in the roads y are of that of experience are Capital thrives and docs years together is so invested be assured of a nnd when it and shares prosperity with almost erroneous cy it expedient and of success enrich v themselves at brio attempt to their to any policy which tends the Slate at large Cities cannot thrive unless the surrounding does derive their Irom ilic arm of who crop on forty acres of land to promote the prosperity of the Slate than a thousand audi tors who are in receipt their annual sands iii All that we have heard said and presented in favor ot is it will do awny with different railroad and thus secure to it lor tbe that proximity the country is so much greater to Mil wankee arid the Jake cities to it would bring the ness the adjacent try find I he Sidle o them It is Road buTen doing a two- it has tired of it and on its knees begs for and to be let ap from for Is managers have it sue and make their its would seem only empty thei present managers of the been advocating consolidation for'sftT- jral years Walker a pet with teen the late acy v Walker to it Were iarge real estate owners in the ty and pf ttt srn road the of the rad by the M and meo of Chic making an W T- ati la for tlie first were the people of Milwaukee permitted to from the themselves that tlic road was really in the scheme and its ers its leaders and founders But iu order to have it tolerated by the business interests and real estate of the city and to break prospective position to them ly the story has been changed and we arc now told that Road has become so poor in doing a ness that it lays down its weapons of lion against this State and agrees to sin no more if the Wisconsin Roads will only take wretched cass in out and adopt it in their family us an erring and wayward We are told iu honied phrase that its cap- ital is ten millions would be very strange indeed if it should attempt to act naughty and more than its share of the business ont of the State if the or thirty millions of dollars ed by the roads iu the com- not crump and control it told also that the Prairie duChien and roads will no longer be in op- position to each other and hate each other so intensely and fight each other so arid on another and rival road to both and have them taken to a foreign city and cars run one-third of the length of one line empty sooner thau have the same freight and sengers carried over of the other road to a the State submit fellow whether straight forward andI geous schemes the community are very often surrounded With clouds oi petty The degree of business sagacity and local which the latter reason would accord to the managing proprietors of the La the Prairie du Chien roads would scarcely reflect credit owners of a couple of hucksters stalls in the D.ivjsioh thot degree of self-importance and cool impudence peculiar it in your two Milwaukee roads combine or an ing to their own lines bring business to and from the city to owe their their managers reside i but they can com- bine to abandon a portion of own lines and your city ns take their iness over u rival road and to a city outside the this is the only reason offered by its friends to the citizens of waukee in favor of the proposed tion We might as well be told that it would promote the interests of the Prairie du Roads for the lieth piividsou line of on the river the with the St Louis it all their business below it take it away to St Louis cannot but look or that the and of railroads out pt on joint account and not favor one city at the expense of the other as not only absurd ci ther by a we arc clear in that it will noi be Milwaukee The interests of the managers of the road who are importance 10 the prosperity of a city or a State cannot believe that Milwaukee and this State have been or are exceptions to this well defined and established It is well known to every man in the city that for the two there hns been a combination be- tween the east and west as to of freight through to the While this combination has in ence on some occasions freights have been sent hud received from and at points on the river above via and the Galena and Racine roads at a less price than was charged oa the roads The Northwestern road it is admitted has carried more freight and passengers be- low Milton Junction per mile than the waukee is conceded it is equally well managed and yet it no money and has been sold three or four times over on its Is it not from this position of the managers of the Northwestern road to promote the of Chicago have the road to aid the city and lost all their profits in drawbacks paid lor business brought to them by intersecting Hues If these queries admit of an affirmative answer then is it not ly clear that other cities mnst have lost what Chicago has gained and that other than those of tlw shareholders in the western road have also been sold In the judgment of your committee what this State needs is a policy The effort for the past few years has been to in- in our midst an Illinois policy Some of the citizens of Milwaukee even seem to join in such efforts How sin is to be by being made a com- province of Illinois it is impossible for us to discover If an Illinois merchant or manufacturer makes a hundred thousand dollars out of business drawn from sin it impoverishes the State just so much for the money is the State not to return It to support no schools or churches nor aids lo open any new avenues of iu consin Wherefore then the wisdom of the Illinois policy i It may be strictly to the committee cannot avoid giving expression to the ion that if the large sums which have been made by the owners of and speculators in railroads and railroad securities and pocketed mainly by non-residents had been realized and properly husbanded by citizens of the State or by the roads selves and expended as they should been iu railroad improvements locality in the Stale which has business enough to warrant the investment would now have been supplied with a railroad To hove the ten or twenty millions of dollars expended in building within State nt which such prising patriots as Stephen H Co and their successors of modern date have made and carried it be to Wisconsin like giving a imparting vitality and ad be- to a Can not share of the blame why this been done be justly laid at doors of of the State who have Lad the and been entrusted with of its railroad enterprise T Had there to would there not have been more general prosperity iu and State eily It is not our desire if it is within onr Horicon mainly instrumental in getting up are much real estate in Chicago than stocks or securities of They are also largely in real estate on Fos Biver and at and around Green liay jany rational of Milwaukee concocted and prosecuted a scheme to their own If then is it over reached and by the no proprietors La Crosse H roads A full consolidation witli snd by principal not of Minnesota roads it will take to he will be able lo when it has to be tereo through and over a cet work of go railroads t evil to result from scheme is that all projects of neW will baye to yield to the const they will be compelled to be located and managed to be to the and foreign cities un whole rail road system shall become o vani to bi her States be in the our States railroad to call up the past railroad experience with its bitter artf memories Its loaned to buildt railroads to the business ot the interior of the State to this city till the city cd under of debt threatened its prosperity Individuals drew mentis from business pursuits that they could illy spare invested them in stock subscriptions To construct and the roads need to have cost bnt little more the original Some of the roads have cost twice and the amount for which they could have been constructed The city largely j the stockholders lose ly all of the roads mainlyiuto the bonds of and if the of the friends of iii York well own roads projected by aud given her municipal it and her personal are to bes for her destruction railroad history of Milwaukee assert or deny thai white the its have suffered some of citizens who the as if by magic heavy fortunes to idea which have been entertained in some city her men not done their full share iu the of the State As of Committee we State a pro taw for freights ali tlie State and -U ft tt from the would price p gers not to three cenu pur mile be in the for the of Railroad see that the booki papers various railroad are kept of tKe they are Jed by that can ai leart to they have complied few aid the province of aad SI they have not to provide for v Banks are ret trained and b in rates of ibaJI public rates b OM ot
