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Show T MANAGING RAILROADS INTERESTING DISCUSSION A BIG SUBJECT. OP President of the Uollrvid, Prevent Soma Important Foots That Will Interest Hob. Blf U. E, Four Iifilli, All. service as this rau be In difficulty and the balance of the country not feel ltV Forty millions of dollars were paid out for public taxes. Over three thousand millions of dollars that have been invest- ed in railways have earned no dividend for years. This la not water, as some populist orator will say, but good, honest money. These securities are held all through the land, and their failure to pay any return has brought disgrace upon us abroad and suffering and want in many a family and community e at horns. e e e e e One of the chief difficulties with the law as It stands today Is that the pun- THE WAYS AND MEANS OP WAGING THE WAR CUBAN LIBERTY. It recent convention of railway held in Washington, D. C. His wise words will be read with Interest by all. The convention was called for the purpose of considering questions of great Interest both to the railways and the people of the United States. Members of the Association of American Railway Accounting Officers were also present and were Invited to take part In the discussion. Chas. J. Llndley of Illinois, was chairman of the convention. Ohio was represented by Railroad Commissioner R. S. Kahler and Chief Clerk Ed H. Archer. P. A. Hew-lt- t, auditor of the Big Four, was one of the railway accountants present. Mr. Ingalls' address Is here given aa being a expression of the views held by railway managers generally, and as being also of general Interest to the public at large: rs Iabsa semi-offici- al "Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: X am very much obliged tot this opportunity of addressing you. X understand I have In my audience the members of the Interstate commerce commission and the gentlemen composing the various railway commissions of the different states. It Is a body that Is supposed to stand as an arbiter between railroads and the people, as a friend of both; a body that ought to and does have great influence, and especially n reference to legislation regarding railroads. If this audience should agree upon any legislation in that respect that was needed, I presume there would be no difficulty In inducing yonder congress to enact It into law, and believing as I do that It Is essential to the public Interest to secure legislation, I am pleased to have this opportunity of presenting my views and endeavoring to enlist you In the reforms which I think are so vital. We have reached a crisis In railway when something must be done If we would avoid disaster, not alone to the railways, but to the material interests sf our country. "For SO years u contest has been waged man-agsme- nt In legislatures. In congress, and before the courts, by the people on one side who believed that railways were public corporations and subject to control by the power that created them; and, on tbs other hand, by officials of the railways, who did not believe that such control was State after state legal or practicable. asserted Its right. These rights were conone from tested court to another, and decided from time to time always In favor of the people, under certain restrictions. Xt Anally culminated In 1887 in the enactment ef the lnierstato commerce law, and since then there has been hardly a day when some provision of that law was not under consideration by the courts or by congress, until now we may state it is as fairly settled by the highest courts In the land that the legislatures of the states have central over railways with reference te their local business, subject to certain conditions, and that the congress of the United States has the power to regulate interstate business. The supreme court of the United States, which Is the highest arbiter of these differences, has just decided that such control of the states, or regulation, must be reasonable, and that rates cannot be reduced below a profit where the railroads can earn their expenses and a fair return upon their cost. Railway managers had accepted the situation, and were endeavoring to obey the Interstate commerce law and adapt their management to It when. In March, 1897, a decision was rendered by the supreme court which produced chaos and It was pracdestroyed all agreements. anti-trust law, tically that ths Sherman which It had not been supposed did to to railways, them, apply applied and under the construction of that law was It court practically Impossible by the to make any agreements or arangements for the maintenance of tariffs. In the case brought against the Joint Traffic association In New York, this view has been combated by the railways and It may be modified by the courts. It is well, perhaps, that we should look the situation fairly In the face, and while I do not care to be an alarmist, I f bound to describe plainly to you the conlijtlon today, so that you may underthe necessity for action. Never In stand the 11 atory of railways have tariffs been so irt i respected as today. Private and understandings are more than regular rates. The larger plenS shippers, are shipc, 1j0 the Irresponsible obtai,f ga advantages which must sooner br lai prorive the ruin of the smaller and more e ofrvatlv traders, and la the end wtyrlcaok up many of the commercial hoii'taytn this country and ruin the madness seems to have railway l)e so-call- ut.r tome railway managers, and seised a large A I1(,ajn of the freights ef the country 1A fmJig carried at prices far below cost o er than the maintenance of tariffs the condition of the railways is goed; their physical condition has been Improved; their trains are well managed, and the public Is well served. If a way can be found by which tariffs can be maintained and the practice of secret rebates and private contracts discontinued, the future will have great promise for railway Investors, railway employes and the public generally. And here I wish to say that this la not a question which concerns railway Investors alone. If It was, you might say, let them fight It out.' It concerns over and above everyone else, the great public. h of our people are Interested directly In railways, either as employes or employes of manufactories that are engaged in furnishing supplies to the railways. Can h of any body politic prosper If Its number Is engaged in a business that Is losing money? The railways servo the public in so many ways that their prosperity Is closely Interwoven with the prosperity and comfort of the ordinary people. One thousand noMiieas ef dollars were paid out last year by the railways from their earnings te employee ef manufactories in this country; SU.MI.M0 of passongors were carried; U.SM millions were carried one mile; ICS.OM.SM ef tone of freight were moved; K.OM millions of tens were moved ens mile. Do you think that any Interest performing aiuth Immense One-flft- eae-flft- This fight for the freedom of Cuba a people's fight The lnterest-eat-inbondholding class opposed it because they care nothing for human liberty and because their pecuniary interests are on the side of plutocratic government in Cuba and elsewhere. i an amendment to the Interstate merce law, and believe the commission and everyone who has watched its workings will agree with me that It has been a failure; more than a failure, that it has caused perhaps more demoralisation than anything else. The public has not believed la it; it has been Impossible te secure conviction; it has prevented the railway official who desired to be honest from complaining of his competitor whom he thought was dishonest. In fact, it has been what every law is that la not supported by public sentiment a failure. What, in fact, is the manner of conducting business today? The railway official who desires to be honest and sees traffic leave his line and finds the freight that he was carrying hauled to the warehouse of his rival, ths earnings X law-abidi- ng of his decreasing and complaints from the management of loss of earnings, and in the distance he sees looming up the loss of his position. At the same time, the shipper who desires to obey the law sees some rival selling merchandise to his customers at prices he cannot meet, and he knows very well that he Is securing concessions from some railway to enable him to do this. The railway agent and the shipper who wish to obey the law sit down together and look it over. What relief is there for themT They can complain of their rivals, possibly convict them under the interstate commerce law and send them to the penitentiary, but such action would bring down upon them the condemnation of tile publlo and would ruin their business: for, as X stated before, the public does not believe in this severe feature of the law, and will not support anyone who enforces it. The result is, these men, in despair, are driven to do just what their opponents are doing they become lawbreakers themselves I havs drawn no fancy picture; it la what Is occurring every day around you. Is It wise, is it broad statesmanship, to leave a business aa large as that of at the railways one In which least, of our population Is engaged, one which affects the comfort and happiness of nine-tentof the people Is it wise to leave it outside of the law? It is said that the most expensive occupation to the community Is that of the burglar, he has to spend so much time and destroy so much to get so little. Is It worth while to force the great railway in ta rests of the country into the same position? Who opposes this legislation? First, certain people who desire the government to own and operate the railways. Bso-en- d, others who wish that the interstate railway commission should make all line ono-flft- h, hs rates. Third and lastly, certain railway managers who are opposed to any and all legislation and who object to any control, and believe that they should be left alone. entirely e e e e e e e "All of us who have any lntereat in our country, who desire its prosperity, are Interested in tne solution of this great question. It Is not a time for the demaIt la gogue to howl about corporations. not a time to talk about the wrongdoings of railway managers. There are always some, in any business, who will not do right, and there always will be, but ths I great mass of railway managers assure you, are as honestly seeking a solution of this question as are you or any member of the legislative body. I believe I voice the belief of a very largo majority of them that the two provisions I have mentioned are necessary and will lead to the settlement of this question. If this body will join and heartily Indorse this course and work for It, Its We accomplishment can be attained. have unwittingly In this country applied to railway laws that it was never Into-da- la Entirely Unnecessary to Mortgage ui Lite Country to tbo Bond Sharks or u ! lively Tax the Industrie! Hon. M. E. Ingalls, one of the great- ishment for contracts and rebates est authorities on railway matters, is entirely outprivate of proportion to the offense. read a highly valuable paper at the The imprisonment clause was put inCom-as eommie-lone- FOR y, tended should be applied to transportation companies of this nature. We have gone back and taken decisions that were wise a hundred years ago, when civilisation was In its Infancy and when the masses needed certain protection, and have endeavored to apply these same principles to the great transportation Interests of modern times. The courts, unfortunately. have followed la that Una Every business man, every statesman, knows that it la a mistake, that we have here an immense Interest such as ths world has never seen, and the principles which should govern it must be worked out in harmony with the age and the needs of this country. There should be no friction between the Interstate commerce commission and the railways; there should be none between the state commissions and the railways. There has been too much of a feeling with these bodies that the railways were against them. In the contest with railways, la the courts, the commissioners have drifted away somewhat from the ground they ought to stand on; that la. they should be the friends of the railways instead of their enemies, and sheuld aid in securing the proper legislation, and the railways, in turn, should give their support to make such legislation effective. I believe it can be done in ne better way than by the true methed I have pointed out. First, the change ef ths orleslnal seotloa; second, authority to oeatraot and Either one ef them divide business. would be of great advantage, hat we ought to have both. There also should be such legislation as will give seese foroe ta ths recommendations and erg era of the Interstate commerce oommleolea-erInstead of trying to break dewn the commission the railway officials sheuld try to build it up. should make the commission Its aid and use it as a bulwark of strength in congress and ta the states to beat back the tide ef populism that Is rising ooatlnually against them. a. Cheerful Side of Ufa Prosperity wag never woo by Uu hand or tongue of a pessimist; took aloft and keep the cheerful side of life in view. A man who goes about with hlg head cast down and eyee ea the ground, may pick up many a niekdf, new and then a geld piece, and porfcape some day a bank note; but ke mieeee the great blue iky abeve, the greed green beauteous earth beneath him wad the sunlight in the air. CtmtoaMa Ftrw-Md-e Coord. g, Since they could not prevent the war they have insisted that it should be waged at the expense of the poor and to the profit of the plutocrats. Taxes dm to be increased on the necessities of the people, but no additional burdens shall be levied upon the luxuries of the rich or upon the enormous Incomes of the millionaires and trusts. And we must provide further for the war fund by issuing bonds upon which the people will have to pay interest for gen- erations. If we now had a really popular government no such schemes would win. If submitted to a vote of the people there would be an overwhelming majority in favor of an income tax, and the issuance of war greenbacks, instead of taxes upon labor and interest-bearing war bonds. Let the voters pass upon the two propositions at the polls next November. We appeal from the plutocrats at Washington to the patriots la their homes. The reform writer, Celia B. Whitehead, writes to the Twentieth Century of the "popular loan humbug, as follows: A certain Journal in this city has for years, whenever the men with money have decided that the United States of America must issue bonds, cried out for a 'popular loan ;' by which It means bonds from $50 up offered to all the people.' "The writer of these popular loan editorials must know that there la no sense la the idea. I asksd a young college man this morning, How many people do you know who have $50 in spare change? and he replied, I dont know aa I know any, only those who 'have a great deal more! And that is Just the fact in the case. A lve hundred million dollar loan means an awful burden on thoae who have not, for the benefit of those who have money to take it up. I doubt if taking the country through, one person in a thousand ean invest in a $50 bond. To call such a thing a popular loan ean have but one object and that la to deceive the people and keep them quiet while they are being robbed. We want no bonds. at alL Let ua have greenbacks; not thoae with an exception clause, but receivable for all dues, public and private, and not any we promise to pay, endless chain attachment If we as a government promise to receive it it is enough. What the government wants is something with which to enable those it employs, either as soldiers, manufacturers or what not, their services to exchange for food, clothing, manufacturing materials, etc. That is all it will get by selling bonds. well-kno- penses and raises the percentage of profit to meet it "War means that the poor will do the fighting, make all the sacrifices of life, endure all the hardships which was necessarily entails, and at the last pay the entire cost n The Silver says: "Above all, do not allow the money power to enslave us while we are fighting a foreign foe. Bonds mean a golden yoke around the necks of the American people. Knight-Watchma- PROSPERITY NOTES. The men interested in the wall paper trust says a dally paper, held a secret meeting in Philadelphia on the 5th and arranged to bring up their profits to $6,000,000 this year. Most of the employes of the Park-hi- ll gingham mills at Fitchburg, Mass., are on a strike because of a reduction in wages of from 5 to 8 per cent More then 1,000 hands are out Representatives of shout 50 knitting goods mills, the center of which industry is Troy, N. Y and surrounding towns, met and formed a trust All buying capitalized at $30,000,000. of material and selling of the finished product will be done through one central office in New York city. Weavers and spinners at Taftville, quit work. Reduction of 10 per cent In wages the cause. Conn., Dispatches in the daily press of the 19th announce that the wire trust has made a cut of 33 per cent in the wages of the ten thousand men it employs in Its fourteen factories. And there is also a strike of the coal miners at Altoona, Pa. Washington, Ind., miners are appealing for aid; they have been on strike for many months. Miners of Warrenton, O., are also asking for aid la behalf iof the Kelly miners, who have been on strike for a number of weeks. In the Monongthela river mining district, near Pittsburg, about 3,000 are on a strike to force the use of the one and a quarter inch screen, which would give them an advance of about nine cents per ton. All miners are requested to keep away from Hillsboro, 111. They are cut on strike there. . Gin liars Mads Their Mark. If it were possible to resurrect a Wlnthrop or a Hancock from the old Kings Chapel graveyard, and to show him the wealth and glittering splendor of Boston, it would be impossible to convince the bewildered Puritan that la the midst of such incalculable riches the dark spectre of poverty was still permitted to exist When it was explained to him that was the cause of want, and that all the Improvements of machinery and organization of industry had only made it more difficult for the average man to exist, he would exclaim in amazement, Take me back to the graveyard, for truly this is a wicked and perverse generation. In 1845 Ur. Carey, the political economist, described this state of ours aa follows; "In Massachusetts all have property and Invest their surplus upon their own possessions. Every man lives on his own farm and in his own house. He works In his own or may if The Grand Rapids Chronicle says: he wishes. He drives shop, his own horse, "It is proposed to tax the producers sails his own boat, or works in the and consumers for war purposes to mill of which he la part owner. the extent of $110,070,000. A moderate account be true there were at If this tax levied upon the incomes of our that time no social or industrial classes would realize a sufin Massachusetts, but fifty changeful ficient sum without heaping additionhave made their mark upon this years al burdens upon the common people." state since then. Only 22 per cent of our citizens own their homes clear of War financiering in the interest of Indebtedness Giant organisms the financiers is thus described by the of have been developed and production Santa Crus Surf: "When a government issues a bond specially favored by legislation, untila from all our larger industries compe-tltiofor $1,000, to run thirty yeare at S haa been eliminated. Hobert K per cent, it attaches to that bend $1,100 Casson. in coupons. The issue of a bond then for $1,000 at once creates an obligation A F1b Floes of Stupidity- for $2,500, because the government New that the Philadelphia waterdebt Includes the body of the bonds with the ooupone attached. Carry this works have been turned over to a priup into higher figures, aad for every vate corporation, it is found that the obplant felled to pay because the capital$1,000,000 the government will ists paid the city officials to manage for issues $2,500,000. tain. it obligation! Assuming that a war with Spain it eo that it would he a losing business. That done, the city council was will cost $1,000,000,000, in order to obtain that amount of money the gov- bribed to turn the plant over to a private company. Nothing can be done issue ernment must obligations about It, however. The people, swindled to $2,500,000,000. amounting "These bonds are always purchased out of their property, must now pay a by the rich. They ere exempt from high tax to the thieves who stole it If that isnt a fine piece of asinine taxation, and including this exemption, they pay the highest latereet, stupidity there never wee any. Yet when the character of the security is if a petition was circulated among the Philadelphia suckers to provide for considered, that is known. For exdirect in the city governample, in a municipality whore tho ment legislation would that the "people they eay rate of taxation is 2tt. including state, ere not ready for R. and that it and the county municipal taxation, work. If they like the way exemption operates to add 2V4 per cent wouldnt the system present works, they ought to the per cent which ths government to "get It In the neck." Its a good bond heirs. "Let it he remembered that the la- system for anyone who likes that kind bor of the country pays the eoet of ef a system. Coming Nation. war. Railroad eorperatloni charge WladstBraM, their taxes la the rate of transporta"How kave things been In Kansas tion. The water cempanlee charge slate I saw you last? their taxes agaiest the water consum"Well, wo er. The banks charge their taxes in had quite a lot of blowing out hero the rate of interest The merchant laet week. "Cyclone? "No; New New York Herald. York drummers. chargee hie taxes to hie fixed ex multi-millionair- Tk over-producti- Ths War and Organized labor. From the Feaersiiouist: The attitude ef labor unions in the impending, struggle between our country and' Spain ifill furnish food for thought on !tho part of those superior beings who heretofore have had but little sympathy with the alms and purposes of labor organizations. War among workingman ia not recognized as the best method of promoting general welfare, but, experience has demonstrated that tyranny and oppression as applied to governments Lave seldom been over-- ; thrown without an appeal to ths gauge ef battle. In this instance the bond of' sympathy between the citizens of the United States And the struggling inhabitants of Cuba haa nowhere found more active promotion than ranks. Trades unions flourish only in countries where liberty is recognized as ai natural right Instead of being Inimical to the growth and development of free government, labor organizations keep alive a spirit of manhood aad in-- ( dependence in their members, and the eause of humanity, not the greed of aggression finds la the workingmens ranks its beet defenders, because they hare felt the force of . oppreealon. Spain, with her blind and barbarle system of government, crushes labor at home and robs it abroad. Ia her arrogance she has for more than a generation committed outrages upon the of the United States, finally murdering the crew of the Maine in the moat cowardly and brutal manner. The army of this nation will be recruited from the ranks of toil, always loyal to tke osuse represented by the flag of freedom. Happily tho working people will bo In position to deliver a blow at tho common enemy of humanity and at the same time demonstrate that unionism means patriotic citizenship. irbors eltf-se- high-minde- d, "Mnrtyrtona." At the age of seventeen Mlea Willard records in her diary this tragic announcement of the end of her romping girlhood: This la my birthday, and tho date of my martyrdom. Mother insists that at last I must havs my hair done up woman-fashioShe says she can hardly forgive herself for letting me run wild eo long. Weve had a great time over It all, and here I alt like another Samson shorn of his strength. That figure wont do, though, for the greatest trouble with me la that I never shall be shorn again. My "back kair 1s twisted up like a corkscrew; I carry eighteen hairpins; my head aches miserably; my feet are entangled in the skirt of my hateful mew gown. I caa never jump over a fence again, so long as I live. A a for chasing the sheep down in the shady pasture, It le out of the question, and to climb to my sagle-nek seat in the big would ruin this new frock beyond repair. Altogether, I reoognize the fact that my occupation's gone. A hone will live twenty-fiv- e days without food, merely drinking water. HOW RELIEF CAME. n. et bur-oa- From Cole Couaty Demoo rsteSsrson Ol ty,Mu. Wnen la grippa visited this section about seven years ago Herman H. Eveler, of ML W. Main St., Jefferson Mo., woe one of tho and has since bean troubled with victims, of the discos. Hs is a tbo oftor-offects well-know- n contractor and builder, a business requiring much mental and physical work. A year ago hie health began to fail and ha was obliged to discontinue work. That he lives today ia almost n miracle. He says: I was troubled with shortness of breath, palpitation of tho heart and a general debility. My back also pained me severely. I tried one doctor after another nod numerous remedies suggested try my friends, but without apparent benefit, and baron to jive up hops. ften 1 saw Dr. Wi- lliams Fink es to-da- FUlls for Pole People extolled in a St Louis paper, and after investigation decided to give them e y. trial. "After nsing the first box I felt wonderful- A Centraetor't Difficulty. iy relieved and was satisfied that the pills were putting me on fee road ta recovery. I bought two more boxes and eontinuea taking team. After taking four boxes of Dr. Williams1 Pink Pills for JPale People 1 am restored to I foal like a new men, end Ksd health. the will nod energy of my formes days returned, I am capable of transacting my business ewth increased amUtioa. Dr. William' Pink Pills for FaloFoopla ore a wonderful medicine and anyone tent ia siUcted wMk shortness of hreotk, palpitation of tea heart, nervous prostration and general debility will find teat thoae pills are ths specific. Hooka x H. Kvxlxu. Subscribed and sworn te before me Votary Public, tele 24th day of May, 1897. Axis Foumzairo, Aelary PuMte. Mr. Eveler will gladly answer ea inquiry regarding this it stamp is eaolosed. Dr. Williams Pink Pills cars people of tee grippe troubled with tea because they act directly on the impure bleed. They are also a specif e for ckrouio erysipelas, catarrh, rheumatism end ell diseases dua te Impure or Impoverished after-effec- ts blood. The Peruvian condor's wings are sometimes forty feet from tip to tip. The largest block of marble ever seat out ef East Tennessee was skipped by wey of the Baltimore end Okie Railroad t Now England durieg tke first week la Merck. It was consigned to Norerose Brea., at East Cambridge, Mass., aad it weighed 45,606 pounds, k waa quarried near Kaoxville. ui fatuer of a bright Every men wno m on is a firm believer in baredity. Gold an RusseK and Silver Moon are the had lag high grade 5 cant etgars. Cad for t ! L ns - |