Excerpt from Hope for the Canals: Showing the Evil of Amalgamations With Railways to Public and Private Interests, and the Means for the Complete and Permanent Restoration of Canal Property to a Position of Prosperity, Upon Its Present Basis of Original and Independent Enterprise The interest of a canal proprietor, under the same circumstances, lies in upholding the amount of his dividend, without increasing the rates which he pays for carriage of his merchandise and seeing that amalgamation implies increased rates, how else can he do this, than by upholding the integrity of canals as a guarantee for the reduction of freights, at the same time improving them to become a wholesome and efficient Opposition; and to be, consequently, more profitable? Merchants, manufacturers and traders, who send and receive goods as well as hold railway or canal stock, should, therefore, consider, before they countenance the amalgamations now so extensively nego cisted, whether, by so doing, they may not be placing themselves in a position to gain a loss. As regards the public generally, it will be seen, that they are not less interested in Opposing these unpopular unions, than the railway and canal proprietors whose cases have been considered. Every person who travels upon a railway, and every person who either sends or receives goods pr parcels, whether in trade or not, is directly interested in preventing amalgamations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.