Show A fA SANE SANI n view VIE or OP TilE THE TiE RAILROAD SITUATION Chicago Journal Journal- No No one Is to blame blamo for the present present pres proS ent sentiment against railroads but the railroad managers themselves says B. B F. F Yoakum chairman of or the tile RockI ROCK I Island Frisco say boards thus rep repeating word for Cor word what the thc Journal has said often ofen ever since th the de- de ie- ie Mr Yoakum agrees agre with tho the Journal In other oIlier re rr re- 11 In Iii almost ulmon t every lvery case case where th there rc have been il illegal ii- ii I. I legal op operations he lie li says aR they have been In the Interest who control tilt tho roads not of or the roads rOds but of the mon men The h men tl- tl who control roads of cours are the mans mn of or tho country The Time people atc are not without justification for Cor their hele belief that the railroads have been 1 en systematically fobbing them is another remar remark of or Mr Ir The public has hns for years been paying out a 3 great deal of ot money C for r something It did not always get geLS geL This is iq it UP hut but hu th public does cues not and never nover did place responsibility on the I railroads but on the men Who control roads roads Tho The railroads rail ran roads themselves are arc all ni rI right ht tho the men who have over over- capitalized them and plunged them Into Inlo overpowering debt for their own benefit are all 01 wrong dell As the Journal has repeatedly i said ald sid there Is no public pub lie lic le sentiment against railroads In this country such ns as some railroad men seem to think exist The movement of oC tat state legislatures In passing cent 2 faro fare laws Jaws Is simply an act of fair Calr reprisal for the tl attempts made b by the to force railroads to pa pay dividends dl on watered Catered stock and Interest t on bonds whose proceeds never went into the railroad business at nil all al Government supervision lon of or railroads will wi not nol answer anser all aU the tho demands the people make male though It It probably will wiit wI come In Iii the end d. The Tho railroads themselves have havA got to tobe tobe tobe be reorganized on an art honest honest basis There i is no reason In right right or 61 justice why this country should be compelled to pay for Tor all al time lar large Incomes to owners of or railroad stock that represents nothing but water The Tho ho people will support and richly reward railroads that thal serve them but they will wi not always support rich men who own nothing but hut a license to rob th them m. m |