The great need of the business community of Boston and Massachusetts, is a line to the West, making the nearest connection with the Lakes, which will do the business at fair and uniform rates, and which shall be managed in the interest of the public, and not of stockholders. Such a line can be secured under the provisions of the minority bill, which will establish a through line with power to connect with Lake navigation at Oswego, on Lake Ontario, and be substantially under state control. The necessity of extending the line to Oswego, to some point on the Lake is obvious, because every other railroad communicating with the West, except the Great Northern route, is now under the control of New York. At any Lake port navigation is open for seven or eight months in the year, and gives a direct communication with the great centres of Western commerce. The Tunnel line ending at Troy can give little advantage over the present Western line--the Boston and Albany Railroad. THE EFFECT OF STATE CONTROL OF THE TUNNEL LINE. One great purpose of controlling one important line, is the effect upon other lines. Our system of railroads is so interwoven that all our railroads are to some extent competing, and the operation of one railroad by a corporation in the interest of the public will to a great extent control the whole railroad system of the State. The direct Tunnel line probably now occupies the most important controlling position of any in the State. It can be made a regulator of the Western business of the State. It can by its connections with the Cheshire and other Vermont and Massachusetts railroads, largely control the northern lines. It will, by its many connections, bring the whole State in direct connection with the North and West. The great success of the so-called Belgium system is founded on this principle,--the control of the whole by the direct operation of a small portion. The position of our Massachusetts railroads is, in this respect, not unlike that of Belgium. Our railroads are so closely connected together that the state control of one road will be felt throughout the whole system. THE POPULAR FEELING IN FAVOR OF STATE CONTROL.