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but also in passenger fares. INIinerals, for 

 instance, cost 6s. 7d. per ton in Ireland 

 and 2s. 7d. a ton in England ; and passenger 

 fares in Ireland, according to the Financial 

 News, "cost 13s. 9d. per 165 miles, whilst 

 for the same distance you could travel on 

 the State railways in Belgium for 8s. 2d., or 

 in Germany for 10s. 8d., or in Denmark for 

 4s. 4d." A dealer, Mr. J. E. Biggar, before 

 the Revision of Rates Committee, 1890, 

 stated that the annual purchase of pigs 

 amounted to between 30,000 and 60,000 

 pigs, and declared that his firm had to close 

 Clones and several other markets on account 

 of the high rates. Another dealer said that he 

 could get pigs brought from Copenhagen to 

 Ardrossan for a third of the sum and nearly 

 as quickly as he could from Ballina to 

 Ardrossan. 



Instances might be multiplied to a weari- 

 some degree. Apologists for the railways 

 contend that farmers do not co-operate and 

 bulk their goods. That is so. But it is 

 equally true that when large dealers and 

 merchants send large consignments the tariffs 

 are higher than on Continental State lines. 



The fear of the cost of administration holds 



