It would not be just for him to levy on all his customers along the main line for the expense of this deviation,--making them not only pay for their parcels, but contribute to the development of the outlying settlement.
Sumner uses the analogy of a common carrier to illustrate the unfairness of charging all customers for the costs of developing new areas.
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They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
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