They accumulate larger wealth and greater luxury for a privileged class than exists in any other country. directly derived from a taxing upon transportationa greater power and a more exclusive right than is possessed by any government. however great it may be. Upba whom does it rest? It rests upon a people of 60.000.000 and by the law of natural increase that 60.000.000 people in twentyfive years will be doubled to 120.000.000 people. and by immigration and natural increase it will be doubled in twelve years. and 125.000.000 people will be found within this country. and that pressure for subsistence upon population which has been apprehended. and which the great thinkers Mill and Spencer have pointed out as the rapidly coming danger of the country with its millions of unemployed and starving people. This is the question which confronts us now and demands I that a broad and liberal policy of internal improvements which shall diffuse the productions of the country and its benefits everywhere. and furnish the means of subsistence to every locality. shall be adopted and maintained. The Senator from Connecticut suggested the other day an idea which may become in the future a subject of consideration and which looks to aid from public authority. and that public authority upon this subject has come to be the General Government. that the functions of legislation would have to be exercised by which means of transportation should be made with great highways of railroad transportation directly by the Government. instead of as now indirectly. by the grant of this great power of taxation to individuals.
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