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intended TO show that the State Works of New
York will never pay their cost, gives US the fol-


lowing:


Dsn--r suppose you count upon the Erie Railroad :.
Whig-No NOT FOR REVENUE. You kno:r rell enough
5re that for electioneering purposes.


Such, friends of the Erie Railroad is the way
your great work is treated by the Leco-Foco State
organ. While the Massachusetts Western Rail
road in paying over s5O0,000 per annum, the Al-
bang Arsus cooy asserts that the Erie Railroad
would produce no Revenue at all, and is Only used
! :" for electfoneerimg purposes" If that Road
does not pay sl,0OO,O00 the first year it shall be
opened throughout and net 81 200, 900 within five
years, then all analogous experience is false and
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But says Dem in this same article


"There is other question wish TO ask Is not the
toll paid the Erie Canal tax, and much more
upon the poor and working classes than direct upon
property have heard much said about tolls, as they
fell into the State Treasury like to the l>raete hui
labor and paid by least able bear hem and that
the true policy for US haraha9ded men who labor @ would
he 10 have the State get out OF debt and have the tolls on
flour, pork, beef, and salt reduced"


Let us test the soundness of this tax PROPOSE
ton. Jonathan Hodfast lives in Allegany County,
and every odd year comes down to his father in
Old Connecticut. Before there were any Rail
roads it took him FIVE days to reach New-York by
stage, at a cost of $50 But the Erie Railroad is
built; and now he runs down in twenty-four hours
direct, or days sunshine if he chooses to take
it easy-no racking Of bones nor dislocating OF
shoulders-no prying out the stage from quagmires
no mud, no dust, no dis appointments and the
cost is $e to $40 at most. Why, Holdfast, )"
says er- Comptroller Flagg, meeting him in New
York, ' do Mt you that the Internal Wing pol
icy has taxed youeight dollars fer your passage?
"Why, no." says Jonathan, feeling the balance of
his usual $40 in his pocket, " it do Mt exactly
strike me in that light. just so of the consumers
of flour, pork, beef and salt. The true way to
secure reduction of the cost of transportation is
by enlarging the Canal that two-horse boat
can carry 20 tons where she now carries 25. Then
boat can pay more toll per ton than now, yet
carry at half the present price,