Observations On Railways Particularly On the Proposed London And Birmingham Rai
Observations On Railways Particularly On the Proposed London And Birmingham Rai
Philadelphia Maritime Exchange
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But the public derived a benefit which is far beyond any money estimate, although the shares are now worth one hundred and fifty times their original value. Yet this New River upset the occupation of the water carriers whose business it had been to bring this necessary article of food, cleanliness, and health, by buckets full, at a price which pla- ced it out of the reach of the working people, except in the smallest possible quantities for the sole purpose of cooking their victuals. But the wa...ter-carriers had as good a claim for protection against the New River and Hugh Myddleton, tis Canal Proprietors have now against the London and Birmingham Railway Company. And if in those days the same faci- 16 lities had been given as now to the formation of Companies for executing works which are be- yond the compass of an individual fortune, Myddleton need not have been a martyr to the public good. He would in fact have reaped great profit from the measure. How did the projectors of Canals meet the arguments of those who contended for protection to the turn- pike road interest, the waggon interest, &c.
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