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¦""'¦' Kim ROEBUCK TESTIMONIAL. r Tttfc'...
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Hallway Management And :. .-;.Ii ' Reven...
their own trade . It ; ,. ia usual enough to hear it said itbat a given sum for a certain , journey is ^ . very moderate , " and that *! the / jpuWic cannot expect" to ride more cheaply , . nXhift may be true ; but the pubiie expectation is' not-the question for railway managers o * Bhareholdefcs . On- the North-Western / we observe ,. there ; is an attempt to economise the outlay of the company . Now Jn ( ordinary ( Workin ^ -expensei 3 the outlay has not' been ; increased . ' It has been greater in
the / maintenance of ' way . '• 3 ? he earnings < of the Company / on . the ordinary traffic have not materially lalleri off ; yet the dividend lias been eaten up ,. principally by the causes which we have just pointed out . But the managers are going "to economise ; " by diminishing the number of trains- ^ -that is , by diminishing the convenience of the public . Iiet us now consider the manifest tendency of this management . The * way' was never strong enough , and the company is annually
paying the penalty in repairs winch partake the nature ot an original construction , since they are for strengthening as well as repairing . It-is false economy to make a tool too weak for its work . Unless the company intend actually to diminish the passenger traffic , they expect that fewer trains will bear more passengers . Por that purpose the trains must be heavier ; and unless the pas * sengers are to be delayed as well as restricted in the number of trains , the speed must be
as great as for the light train . JJow it is well known that the greatest cause of wear and tear on railways is a high speed for heavy trains . The company , therefore , is adopting an economy which risks a loss in the income by passenger traffic , and certainly entails a loss in increased expenditure for wear and tear . On the Brighton line they nave adopted the very opposite policy . The rails have been rendered stronger , the conveniencep to the public have been increased .
It is a great mistake to examine the accounts with reference to the particular returns by particular trains , liaised , as we have said , above ordinary trading rules , the management of a company is more like that of a state . It must look to its outlay , chiefly "for the purpose of seeing tliat it gets value for the ! money laid out—effectively strong rails and rolling stock iu a district whore there is a busy traffic ; not a stout railway in a desert or a tin > plate lino through a town
population . To avoid wear nnd tear it is better to have light trains and frequent ; to avoid nccidents , the costliness of which we aee ^ it' is better to spend 10 , 000 / . more in wages than 20 , 000 / . in compensation and repairs . But quite irrespectively of the expectation of travellers ,: that is the best tariff of fares which brings in the largest revenue . Hail way must not compete with railway , but with shoe leather , with rent , with everything that emancipates the traveller and resident from considerations of distance . And that
railway will form the safest investment which , instead of trying to compete with tho railways of other districts to iiloh the traffic o £ another company , or fight oil' a competitoi % strives to accommodate its own district aa well that it anticipates tho wishes of tho public , and teaches tho inhabitants to travel . In this respect the interests of tho j > rorrince are identical with tho interests of tho railway— -another incident which shows how muds more r * early tho direction of railways ^ osembleB that of State governments than ' cofajnon trading . '
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¦""'¦' Kim Roebuck Testimonial. R Tttfc'...
¦""'¦ ' Kim ROEBUCK TESTIMONIAL . r Tttfc ' elected of Sheffield hnvobrily done their ' Vlut ^ in / setting dri foot a ' combined effort to cVMberisai / e M > . HtntpijtiK 1 for the ahort-1 cotniiigs bf fortune . ' ThW point to his
twentythree years * services in Parliament , six of which he has sat for Sheffield . They may refer justly to . the beneficial measures in which he has taken part . He has been . independent j he has aicted . faithfully to his own CPnviction and conscience ; and by steadfast * ness in that course he has earned the respect of the stoutest party opponent . The Tories have even voted under his lead : the [ Radicals
have found in him ' a spokesman with courage to express their claims when others have flinched ; the Whigs have been obliged to confess that in many cases he . expressed the popular will better than they ^ and they avow that the man who has so frequently beaten them has , nevertheless , in the main , stoutly and faithfully sustained Xnberal principles . This is the strongest testimony ; for those whom we resist on our own side , are commonly bitterer foes than avowed party enemies . Mr . Koebuck has been called a
Tory by WhigsV a Whig by Radicals , a Badical by Beactionaries , because on suitable occasions he has stood up for great principles , when they have been forgotten in turn by Tory , Whig , and Badical . In aaymg this , we do not intend to endorse all the opinions that Mr . Roebuck has maintained . We have thought him wrong in labouring for a separatist policy in colonies , and violating the great principle of federation which the United States have
established , which our Ministers appear incapable of comprehending , and which Joseph IIowje of Nova Scotia is at this moment endeavouring to urge , both upon colonies and mothercountry . We are not sure that Mr- Kojeuuck has always dealt most , discreetly with military subjects . . But he has compelled the executive to tell the , truth to the country about Sebastopol ; he dragged the mask off " corrupt compromises at elections ; " he vindicated the Canadians when they
werestandino- up , as Englishmen did , for their Bill of Bights , and he made . ¦ the .. English public understand that the crime of rebellion lay not with the Canadians bub with their official oppressors . He did not in all things go along with Lord Durham , but he helped to open the wny for the " responsible government " which his genius did not enable him to assist so well in building up . It * there was an abuse to be exposed , a high power to be challenged , and something to be said in Parliament which
everybody knew to be true , but nobody had the " manhood to proclaim , Kojbbuck was ready . With a slender voice , with , failing health , with a comparatively feeble hold upon the sympathies of ¦ Parliament men who wero often irritated by his sharp temper , still more frequently exasperated by hia unflinching independence , he always told his tale clearly , was . not to be stopped iu telling , it by « ny fear , was candid even towards opponents , and ultimately made people respect
him even after he had compelled them to submit . " You cannot think how I love a man after . I have fought with him , " aays the vanquished Dmnas to Melnotte , who unfoils him ; and such have been , the , acknowledgements niado to Mr . . Roebuck by his opponents . These nro things that can be said in our day of few Members of , Parliament . Now , why is it that Mr . . Roebuck has not been , Solicitor-General ? Ib , was
expected when by his motion m tho ail air ot Don David Paoificq-t—an nmendmont in tho Commons on , the successful Dkkut vote of consuro iu . the Lords .- —he rehabilitated PjLLMtttSTON and tho ' iltuss-EMv , CJ ! ovemmeMt . 'Ho '' brought faction sternly to account , nnd rescued Ministers from a combination , , of hostile- parties ; but fcho . i > ri « e fell to tinother lawyer , who had taken up the idea at second-hand , ; and Miadp a more , . thorpug-h going pftrty * 8 peech . Wo may bo told , that
Cockbtjew is a'better lawyer than . Boebttck , and we are not prepared to go into any : question of professional criticism ; but up say that that was . not the real > reason . ; M * though Roebuck was . prepraredlfoxv the wel fare > of the state to risk hia reputation , as Radical , to defend Whigs / wheia ' juatice dicn tated the defence of Whigs ? -against a ; party prostitution of opportunity , he ha &> nerec been a subservient man , and was not fit \ to be made a tool in a subordinate Gcovermne . ii .
post . ¦ . . - . . ... ..,-. ,,. , . ., ,. ^ .. , ^ ,.: The very thing that damaged him in the ! Ministerial market ought to raise-his value in the market with his constituency ; - He lost the prizes of political ability ; and activity because he was faithful to constituents andto the principles fdr the sake of which , they appointed him . Justice , right feeling , political expediency , and the enduring interests of a constituency and the country , require that Sheffield should redress the wrongly-balanced account , and teach public inen that they will not always be treated like beggars when ' they
behave as patriots . ; We have several claims for compensation to deserving citizens in one form or other . A little bill is presented to us in the . name of the amiable M-iss Mitfobjd , who delighted the country with her mild imagination j and there can . be no objection to pay the bill , except that under a commercial system , which enforces the debts of honesty bv ; penalties-ajb law , we have acquired a habit of disregarding a mere moral claim , especially when deat £ has relieved us of the creditor . , ¦
IiADX Franklin says , and justly , that £ f Captain M ^ Ci . ube has actually tra ^ yer ^ ed the North-West passage , Franklin and . his companions had most probably completed it-. Ti ^ ey died in . confronting a more .. formidable peril than M'CiUEE * encountered , spicL he gets the prize where they forfeit it . in . treeing ; her husband , ILady Pjja . nki . in has contributed sums which have gone far to " clear up $ ip mysteries of the Arctic circleij / -shefjtias l J . r qfduced herself to poverty by acting ' tjius ; 1 as the model of a wife and as a good . citizen ?; but again , we are not aware that she epiila establish her claim in any court of . justice in the countrv . . , - , <
Again , Soutuwood Smith was one of the few men- —there were not half a dozen- — who first got together , the facts , which , \ vheu arranged in a simple tale , have taken hold of the mind of this country , and have forced Ministers to construct a department of Health for looking after the households of this great community . Southwood Sjiitii laboured long in pure love , and in the intervals of a practice of his own . One or two others assisted him , but he , afc all events , avoided enmities , and did not deserve any rancour for uncharitable treatment of other
men ' s exertions . One of his colleagues made a sharper tooth more severely felt by tboae who crossed his path . A vaoiguisjied Government offered to Soutuwoop Smith- , a post aa Minister in the department which ho had obliged Government to construct ^ Tho post . was only a very modest reward of real patriotic oxertious ; it has proved a mockery . The department is no sooner consolidated , than one of ita chief authors ia shelved , without the slightest acknowledgtoothin
ment . The man . with the sharp , - deed , geU n pension of .. 10007 . a year ; and wo must confoaa tl \ at , on . second thpuglj ta , . U 9 ~ verument Iwva seen tho necessity ot & WWX 3 outuwooj > S-uiTii also « 1 >«» SK > U ^ ^ Jj < " a . year ! Wdl , bub iu what , court ot 1 ^ could he . iHttko good hi . s c aiin ?¦ _ ^ Nor -ire we invaro that Mr . itoWVCKJM * a £ ? . polWny thing- Ho *" »«¦ $ % & nartv hack or . a Gpvorumeut tool , UQ ,, W a l , ^ Ihorcfonj oven a " moral cla ^' . HfiflU
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 25, 1855, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25081855/page/13/
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