Show z 1 t J I I I I I 1 1 p o 0 0 I Other Points of View I p- p 0 0 0 GOVERNMENT NOT OT It has been th the tho custom o of most railroads certainly all centering In this ell city freely to supply transport transportation for tor passengers and freight for recognized The freight moved moed for such organizations org bo be c very trifling tri tn- fling but passes or reduced rates havo o been highly Important important Im- Im trl-j trl to many s. s The Tho aggregate can never ne have ha been large enough h to Infringe o on the tho equipment In the central west the tho re regional director has ordered I that hat so 80 tar far n as 19 freight Is concerned such assistance to charity chari charl- ty must cease at once Tho order must be In accord with some somo general policy and Is presumably to be expected here As the free passenger er service which has been rendered d dIs' dIs Is Is' Is far more mono Important than any freight service contrIbuted contributed contrib contrIb- Its discontinuance o would seem logically to follow v. And yet et so long lonE longas as s no extra draft Is made on equipment equipment equip equip- ment It Is la a a. service whose cost is only theoretical while the tho actual cash to buy a a. ticket must come from Cram the pockets of or the tile benevolent It Is announced that there Is to be but one railroad office other than those at the tho stations we suppose in n this or an any other elt city It has been een the policy of or railroads railroads rail rail- roads to provide ticket In several places In lar laro o cities for the tho convenience of or the public That Is to stop Public ownership o gives nothing to charity and does doos not bother about the tile convenience of or tho the people In this connection one may also note noto that the tho post postmaster postmaster postmaster master general proposes to consolidate tile the telegraph and systems Certainly that will be a convenience but jut when In the natural course of or progress ress that wa was attempted attempted at- at tempted empted and actually accomplished d by bj private owners the President through his attorney general attacked and prevented prevented pre pro vented It San San Francisco Chronicle a toa Ps rt hn ta |