Show CHEAP LABOR IS A CURSE the eberg attic remarks of a kansas nan man HE LIKE THE EUROPEAN WAY or 01 doing doine thins nt at net anti anil worst ain fam and julao coin par imong C MA by Bc bacheller heller A johnino I 1 I 1 PIt pistils may 2 1881 european sights sightseeing coing Is capable of many variations artists go to lo the ahn louvre anil and the annich Inn irb man ilna kot kolbek belc park hutch butchers L ra spend hours in tho the abattoirs abatto irs doctors dui tors prowl about the ties hoa anil and gloat over tho the surgical instruments in tho the rue kue do iemolo do medicine women haunt the shops shop I 1 know one man who never saw the Ma deloine or the llie but spent so much time slid and money ansong tho the old book anti and curiosity curio shops on tho ilia eino quays that lie he had to bring its ills european t trip lp to an untimely close I 1 ii was as not so surprised on making junking the acquaint anco of a retired railroad con contractor from kansas the other otylior day to find toil that ho he was as fairly boiling oner etli elih intire interesting biting ob on oil works in europe 1 I tell you ho said its wonderful how much these europeans liao haio ocen ablo able to do of ing work considering their old fashioned ways it if wo we had bad waited to build railroads in tho the english stylo style tho the cical west would havo have been halt half wilderness i today to day tho rest of them are just as bad ivo seen railroad building going on oil in england scot scotland a ad switzerland aud and russia and everlu everywhere here it has seemed to mo me that thai cry little to learn front them hero 0 we o I 1 I 1 9 m 4 I 1 ia i t I 1 V I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 JI I 1 I 1 c aa fr CARRYING DOWL IDERIS OS ON a uso use w wheelbarrows heel barrows they use handbag rows where we ne uc u o c dump carts they use wheelbarrows and w chero here vi we 0 uso use temporary rails with tipple cars they use dump carts and horses up in scotland I 1 went nearly the whole length of a new dow railroad rall roil they are building buil dins through the tha and it seemed asif as it they were scratching the earth at a hundred dif d beront places at once there acro thousands of men at work the country aitor literally swarmed with them bit only a comparatively small number were working in ili a civilized fashion with temporary rails and lip cars va ot all the ways of 0 moving things about out carr carrl ing nR them on band barrons a is the hardest and most costly bet ct that was the way they were handling bowl ders now in america we would have I 1 divided suchs such a road into about six or seven sections slid and on each section we would have bave about hall ball as many men but a deuced sight more steam power wed tart start at both ends and work toward tha he middle or at the middle and work toward both ends and shove the dirt from the cuts cots along tho the fillings ul lingi all on oil wheels and rails lay the temporary track good enough to run heavy trains over at slow speed bring all our supplies on our own rails and finish in halt half thet the time hive ants 0 pay from a day up tor for labor and these poor devils over hero here work all the way from born 40 cents in italy up tip to 75 cents in england yet yeb I 1 honestly believe the same track could L A 5 1 DRICKS alloh CART TO ormond OF HOUSE be laid in the same style for less money in america than in england or on the continent it could certainly be done delta in tar far loss time I 1 used to think that the high cost of labor in america retarded the development of the country but never hear me talk any ot of that nonsense again its actually a benefit because it has compelled us to use our wits w its and do things in ili the mos most t economical way you dont pay a man sa a day and then set him lugging ono corner ot of a han hand hundred pound of 0 stone on it 1 theres heros I another thing Iwas I 1 was speaking about the slow way ot of building railroads well makes it much more slow and cosily than it used to bo be Is that they do everything so thoroughly irom front the start in switzerland they art are building two or three different roads mostly lor for tourist tr traffic allic I 1 guess and they are putting in beautiful stone arches over every picayune brook course coure where here iron girders or trusses would have done as well the yankee way Is to build the road first as quick and as cheap as possible get gel it to running anyhow and make it earn the money to improve the roadbed thais the way the contral central and were built and now they are as good as a any roads in the world the ilia west shore and the nickel plate wore were the only important roads ever built in At america as carefully as the english would do dolt it the west ebore ent bankrupt sod tho the nickel plate was only built to tap old Vandor blits pocket you say the central and pennsylvania are as good as any english lines why dont they run trains as list last dont want to all dont need to young man there are aro seven millions of people in that hells kitchen of a 06 manufacturing district around manchester and there bhora are nearly six million la in london put pill seven million people at pittsburg and six Is million in new york and the dif different lerent lines could run ran express braving tomorrow to morrow over the existing road beds as fast abt as the wild if they would too the trains would bo be so thick they would stop slop on earh each others heels it if they skip along pretty lively that sort of thing kills local traffic though you try to get gel from a way station on one english line to a way station on another and seo sea what you think of fast railroading twill bean be an allday all day job it if its twenty miles with us a town like ille rough loessle gets express service in england it would bo be a way station the conditions are more like ours den on the continent looter longer distances less between points and there you find no faster service than in america usually no DO so fast railroads aso io built to make money if it paid to run ran trams trains fifty or silly miles an lour or if it wall wa satry I 1 e could 0 ed name a dozen good old r roads aj thai th a would begin doing it IS in a month higher rates of poad speed per measured salle bane been made mada on american roads than on english our rolling s better belter and our bab roadbeds just asgood as good though chemor the aw A ago tho the german railroads tro are the he worst on ahn coutin eni of course except and turkey and those out ol of 1110 way places Is that because if the ilia government management its because the alic government dona don t care a rod red about the ho traveling public bubli 0 I 1 avid and very little about the development of industry ifa if a railroad iswak cd for military pur purposes poses have it whether th thre rea any t brahic r allican in time or of I 1 bace or not I 1 hut tit it if its not wanted fur for bol hera no money to spare for it organized to got two lk I 1 1 I rj I 1 4 1 I I 1 t all 11 I 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 P I 1 tk az 4 11 I 1 ty I 1 I 1 y I 1 1 1 I arll ip I 1 r y OXE ONE OF tug THE EFFECTS OP OF laboid or three million men to the froutz 7 in short order riot not to promote trade thy hy in germany I 1 glinted a stone qu quarry arry v m hero here rn en enormous quantity of excellent bui building ldina stone was being cut cul they were carting it half a mile to the railway station IN why by in the name of the monoliths of egypt dou 1 3 1011 oil hive have a railroad track right to your lour quarry slid and load the on oil the iho cars dirc direct et said 1 I 11 wont lot us said the quarry man why not said I 1 L well you sea saldie said ho we wo could put a railroad right through the valley ten miles or so from otis one main lino line to another for a trifle but it would draw traffic away from the Goern government ment lines which connect the same saino POE points ata by a roundabout way and tho the government wont build the road itself because it need it and it wont lot us do it 11 well said I 1 it if you cant build through why dont you at least run ran a halt half mile spur out the nearest w way a 7 11 oh wo we could do that said he but tho the Goern government ment let lt iti R cars run beyond its own station and I 1 it f we had cars ot of our own wo we would A havo have to reload to the government ones the use well you yoa can imagine that that sickened me with govern government merit control of railroads it just made me boll over with ith anger to see sea such stupid in management I 1 mind you it was a quarry as big as tho the connecticut brown stone ones I 1 had bad to change my mind again though when I 1 got back to belgium belgian roads are all under royal management but they are admirable admirable as fast as in england nearly and th the 0 cheapest rates in theo the neild ild belgium beleiu has got no war bogy on hand hadd neu neutral aral territory you know and that king leopold who cant bo be halt half so stupid as he bo looks sees his opportunity belgium Is the most formidable competitor england has in eiery branch of industry ifer her farmers aro are the most skillful in europe except the S salts aiss and her manufacturing fac turing towns are growing like woods weeds ob it would be a big thing for us if no could hao haio government management of the belgian sort just think of it Norato no rate wars no useless parallel lines built to sell no town bond skin games gamos no do differential rates and the abo public gotting gotling the benefit of it all in freight and passenger rates at absolutely coit cost price I 1 cant imagine a better thing corttle for the country those Dutch dutchmen merS are great engineers too their railroads do not amount to much but give a dutchman a mud puddle makes no difference how big slid and hell bell havo have a carriage garden of it in six years why the manchester ship canal about which the english brag so much I 1 patch compared to the draining operations in holland in ili twenty lears ears they will have tho whole zuyder zee turned into the best beat farm land in europe worth two or three handled bundled dollars an acre on an all avera average go its an actual fact going to drain it all in one big job and with modern improved machinery it wont vion t bo be a bit bigger undertaking than it was as to drain the Ilar harlem leni zee forty or fitly fifty icara cars ago it would only cost FOO or so and look at the result instead of a mud lako they would have nice deep canals to all tho the towns and the rest farm land WES we cant teach leach them any 3 in the draining business in fat canals Is much bear bettor done in europe than building aa 1 I I 1 7 r T rr 11 I 1 I 1 14 ir 71 cant railroads tho the manchester ship canal dredging plant Is fully up to american adesi they call their shovels shot els american Aute rican devils built in fit lincolnshire Lincoln shire on tho the american Aine models and they hey move all the dirt on rails w with till monkey locomotives thais because the job Is such lucli a trenten tremendous dous big one they cant afford not to have leavo tho thit very cry best means of doing it all the ordinary work of tiso the farm and shop goes slower oner oer hero two Yaul yankees ces w ill put as much lay hay into the barn as tour four frenchmen not because they work any harder but because they havo at range lange handy bandy and good tools to aik oik with alli the irish harvesters who go over to england use scythes such us its my grandfather boat bent his back over and if thoro there was over ever a me lug machine country it la Is or ought to be england Ln gland NN when ben I 1 started from america I 1 nL have boli boliard bollei aed ed that I 1 ever should see ace with those thebe eyes a row of men and boys passing bricks land band to hand from a wagon in the street up to the second story of a now new house that was in ireland and tacio must havo have been acon men lu fit line ivo ive scon iio iho same amo thing often enough to got get us if to it think of mortar in a ba baud III cart and wheeling it to where loro you want to use it think of nailing on shingles about the size alzo of your thumb nail call all over the sides of a house bouse like those S iss life Is too short think of harnessing harnes fling a woman to st mill milk agent I 1 tell bouc vou ciDen expensive sivo I 1 labor a her is a bouffil to any co country it il tea coaches ches us tle ho value of 0 time lime it ton benches clies us ua to use fl our brains moro more anil and our hands bands less it rood good clothes on every nuns back instead of a basket bp of manure it sets us its to lo work ork 11 lisbun or the morning of 10 rio lo americas good donough for we im glad to liao haio seen liow how go dior here but bul I 1 dont want to elio in any country where men tire anro so cloap that their time ind and energy aro are w asted 11 in fussy ways of working that ought onnel not to be tolerated in ally civilized country great what tire wo BO horo hero tor for ani and the kansas man iliin brought bis fist down hard slid and heavy upon the ibo table and v lived his heated brow jons joan L BEATON |