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I've no muscles to wt-ary, no breast to decay, 



No bones to be ' laid ou the shelf,' 

 And soon I intend you may 'go and ploy ^ 



Whih T manage ihis irorld myself. 

 But lutrmss me down with your iron bands, 



Be sure of vour curb and rein ; 

 For I scorn liie strength of your puny hands, 



As the tempest scorns a chain ! " 



How truly that poet pictures out our present situation. The locomotive, 

 as it steams athwart our continent, can truly say, "I've no muscles to 

 weary." On, on it utridi'n carrying the products of the labor of a thou- 

 sand (yea, ten thousand) laborers on every train. 



The greatest secret of money making in this country, or any other, is to 

 combine the profits of the labor of the largest number of laborers. Hence 

 tluit man or corporation who can keep at work the largest number of peo- 

 ple, can accumulate the fastest, providing there is a profit on the labor. 

 So that in co-operative shipping and selling the S«)ciety have the profits 

 of the united labor of all that is represented in their products, and they 

 also employ the united labor and power of the locomotives and trains 

 necessary to carry those products to the nearest seaport. If that be 

 New York, Boston, or Portland, it requires one week's work of one or 

 half a dozen locomotives to carry these products to market besides the 

 men necessary to manage this train. I have never seen the estimate made 

 of the number of horse-power of a thirty ton locomotive, but will assume 

 it to be six hundred horse-power, and a horsepower to be equal to three 

 man-power, we should than have six hundred multiplied by three, equal 

 to 1,800 men. Thns you see you have the labor of eighteen hundred men 

 working for you day and night (while you wake and while you sleep) for 

 a whole week. What would the labor of that number of men be worth 

 to you in that time if it had to be paid for at the ordinary price of day 

 labor? Now, think if the Granges of Illinois and other States should so 

 unite and co-operate in shipping, that it would keep twenty trains con- 

 stantly going East with your productions. This would represent the labor 

 of ;iG,000 men engaged in hauling your productions, to say nothing of the 

 number required to load and unload this freight. This labor takes it to 

 the Eastern seaport or consumer. If it goes further East over the ocean 

 by steamship, here again you emi)loy the agency of steam, representing a 

 thousand horse-power, or 3,000 more men ; add to this one thousand more 

 necessary to load all those cars and handle the freight and put on board 

 steamers, and you have the combined labor of 40.000 men (or that which 

 equals it,) working for you constantly. And this is all possible for you to 

 attain, tliere is nothing visionary about it. This twenty trains, or say 

 four hundred cars per day, is not the one-tenth part of the trattic that your 

 productions are giving to the railroads. I have often seen the arrival of 

 nine hundred cars of corn and grain in Chicago per day, to say nothing 

 of the live stock and other products. All that is wanted is a Trunk Line 

 of railroad, double track, devoted to the height business and the united 

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