Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1891 — THEN AND NOW. [ARTICLE]

THEN AND NOW.

A magazine published in Philad Iphia in 1818 gave the following as an item of news: “In the course of’ the twelve months of 1817, 12,000 wagons passed the Allegheny Mountains from Philadelphia and Baltimore, each with from f«ur to six herses, carrying from thirty-five to forty hundred weight. The cost of carriage was about $7 per hundred-weight, in some cases as high as $lO to Philadelphia. The aggr gate sum paid for the conveyance of goo s exceeded $1,500,000.“ To move a ton of reight between Pittsburg and Philadelphia, therefore, cost not less than $l4O, and took probably two weeks’ time. In 1886, the average nm’t received by the Pennsylvania road for the carriage of freight was three-quar ers of one cent per ton par mile. The distance from Philadelphia to Pittsburg is 385 miles, so that the ton which cost $l4O in 1817 was carried in 1886 for $2 87. At the former the workingman in Philadelphia had to p>y sl4 for moving a bar el of flour from Pittsbvrgh, agaiest twentyeight cents now. The Pittsburgh consumer paid $7 freight upon every 100 pounds of drv goods bro ght from Philadelphia, while 100 pounds is now hauled in two days at a cost of fourteen cents.— Scientific American. The facilities and cheapness of transportation at this time, compared with those of the early days might alone tend to explain the great difference in the cost of goods, but wlrn wt add to this the increasd production, at far less cost, bro’t about by the employment of labor saving machinerv the whole matter is clear. It is within the recollection of most of our citizens w en they had to pay from $3 to $4 more per ton for th« single item of coal than was paid by the peopk of Remington—the extra cost of wagon transportation from that point to this. If ‘Hon J. R. Dodge, statistician of the United States Department of Agriculture,” is v<.ry desirous of truthfully presenting the operations of the tariff to the people, let him take the period of the operations of the tariff of ’46, and include localities where means of transportation were equal to those of to-day and compare notes. We suppose, however, that Mr. Dodge prefers, at the publicexpense, to mislead the people.

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