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Show j THIS KAIl.VVAV rROHI.KM. I Tm: Timi.s recently took occasion to j refer to O. P. JIcxi in(;thn s tirticlu in ! tho Wirlh Awvririni Jli rii v in advocacy of a consolidation of nil the railways of t!ie country under the management of ' a single corporation. We pointed out t ic fact that Mr. l!t:sns; ros's nrgu-merits nrgu-merits led liore in the direction of government gov-ernment ownership than toward tat) plan which lie advocated. Thoso who are inlerestud in the subject will lind eiilin lainmerit in reading an article in the Jr. (. by (;. Wuoii Davis on tlis same :iiliji ct. Mr. DaIs bases bis ar ticie upon the sarna conditions set , forth by the Southern Pacific n. annate, but his eonclusi his Vary !r. m Mr. Hi mini, kin's in that he lirnU that l!it; solution ( f the problem lies in owuer-Miip owuer-Miip by the nsiliorial gove.i nment. I'm lore making further notice of the .!;. a n'n article, Tun Tivks wouid ailicle to another work on this q'leittion entitled "The liailwa-.s and the Republic" Re-public" issued by IUki'KK iims. a lew years ago. This is a book that should be in thu hands of nil whodesiro to ml. Hoi tlisuu"les upon l;iy matter. '1 au;!.or the i'i.in" of nouiy i 1:. (iviis Vl...t iuu c t' lv t i-p. P.'-r-to air attention is paid to t''" I'art playid by t is e lniiroadi in the cread.iii of the M .ndsrd Oil inoimpoiy. It i--styled the great commercial crime o tho century and the reader is compelled to admit that the designation is iiomi too scM-re. A great many other in-i-lanccH of favoritism are given, but tl c career of the Standard monstrosity is the feature of the work. Tho author of the book rclerred to had had free access to a mass of testimony secured in a number of legislative investigations. inves-tigations. Mr. Davis, the writer whoso contribution is given space iu the Arum, has also been able to secure a broad view of tho ontire situation by reason of haing been in railroad employ, lie calls attention to the prevalence of conditions under which the Standard Oil infamy is being continually repeated re-peated in all parts of the country. Cases are cited in which coal companies com-panies have been compelled to suspend j because the roads upou which they were forced to depend for transportation I facilities used their vast power to build ! up other concerns in which ollicers of the corporations were interested. Many illustrations of ths operations of tho system are given, one iu particular which came under the author's personal notice being particularly striking. Iu this case a certain Chicago lirm was paid a heavy brokerage on all business sent east oer tho road involved. The commissions worn being paid also on through business routed from points west of Chicago. Mr. Da Vis, who was imployed by the company, objected, but he was given to understand that it was nono of his business. He followed tho matter up far enough, however, to satisfy himsolf that officer of the road were getting a large share of the com missions. The author of "The Railways and the Republic" does not commit himself to any remedy; Mr. Ill stiniitok advocates advo-cates consolidated corporation control; but Mr. Davis coutunda that tho true remedy is to be found in government ownership. Tho latter combats the idea that government ownership would involve increased expense, aud ho furnishes fur-nishes figures to show that tho government govern-ment could operate the roads at an annual an-nual cost of Jotit), 000,01)0 less than is no w incurred, ln Australia the government is able to horrow money at IH per cent for building railroads, and it moves freight over lines having heavy gradients gradi-ents at a less cost than is incurred on many of our most favorably situated roads. Mr. Davis can see oniy one satisfactory sat-isfactory solution of tho general problem prob-lem presented and that is through the nationalization of all roads. Ilis arguments argu-ments are centainly strong and are well worth careful consideration We may as well understand that this problem is up and that it will not down until the correct principle shall have been discovered and applied. If government govern-ment ownership is the only safe plan, the country will soon bo ready for it. We want some system under un-der which communities wilt not i feel that they ara at the j mercy of the transportation companies j whose functions are essentially of a sumi-public character, it is not right that the business men of any locality should ue kept continuously on guard i against tho destruction or curtailment ' of their business by arbitrary and unjust un-just discriminations. Agitation looking look-ing to a complete remedy has been started and it will not cease until the problem shall have been satisfactorily disposed of. j WALKER HOUSE- The Walker is located In the business renter of the City and has all the Modern Improvements & Conveniences Pertaining to a strictly first-class house, ft Is managed as well as any hotel in the West, aud is strictly the business aud tourist hotel of Bait Lake City. l'itssenger Klevator. Th Walker and the Metropolitan are the two Lading hotels of Salt Lake City. O. S. Erb, m Proprietor. |
