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SAYINGS OF SAM SLrcK-What is it, he
continued-what is it that 'fetters' the heels
Of young country, and hangs like "a poke
around its neckf what retards the culliva-
ton of It's soil. and the improvement Of its
fisheries?-the high price of labor, guess.
Well, what's a railroad? The substitution
of mechanical for human and animal labor,
on scale as grand as our great country.
Labor is dear in America, and cheap in
Europe. A railroad, therefore, is compara-
lively no manner Of use to them, to what it
is to us--it does wonders there, but works
miracles here. There it makes the old man
younger, but here it makes the child gi-
ant. To US it is river, bridge, road, and ca
nal, all in one. 1t saves what we han't got to
spare-men, horses, carts, vessels, barges,
and what's all in all--tine.