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Show CONDUCTOR WRITES A NOTE OBJECTS TO BEING INFORMED AS TO "SPOTTERS." Railroad Official 8ays There Are Good and Bad in All Vocations and This Conductor is Sensitive. Wfih a view of giving the subject wide publicity among those interested, interest-ed, the Standard on Tuesday last published pub-lished an article in reference to railroad rail-road conductors being prosecuted by the Interstate Commerce commission for collecting "short fares" from passengers, pas-sengers, In violation of the federal law; governing and regulating transportation trans-portation rates, and cited the penalties penal-ties attached for the Infraction or the Hepburn act. There was no intention or purpose of reflecting on tho honesty hon-esty or Integrity of any class of individuals, in-dividuals, but the article evidently grated on the supersensitive nerves or some alleged railroad man, who Indited Indit-ed the following anonymous note to the Standard: "Ogden, Utah, March 2. Editor Standard: Dear Sir Kindly send the narrow-minded plnhead, who wrote the article In last night's paper, 'Conductors 'Con-ductors in Great Danger a case or lemons and charge it to, etc. We might add that we are perfectly aware, that a Thief or Thieves are tlbal to the law. however we think your kindly warning of our danger is sadly out of place." With a view of getting an expression expres-sion of opinion on the subject from the different superintendents of the various roads centering at Ogden, a j Standard reporter submitted the unique and curiously constructed note to local operating officials, who said: "TEe article published in the Standard, Stand-ard, and to which this note refers, is In no sense a reflection on any honest man in the employ of the railroad rail-road companies. On the contrary, it simply puts conductors and other employes em-ployes next to the fact that a sovere penalty attaches to any violation or the Interstate Commerce law. Like other employes of every department of a railroad sstem, there are honest men and dishonest men and no department de-partment is free from either of these. If there were no dishonest employes in the service, there would be no necessity ne-cessity for railroad managers and operating op-erating officials to pay out thousands of dollars every month in the employment employ-ment of secret service men, detectives, detec-tives, 'spotters' or even train agents. And yet it is done and the espionage 6ystem Is maintained regularly because be-cause It Is profitable on the part or the railroad management to do so. "The fact is railroad corporations are regardod as legitimate prey for those of i a grafting disposition whether the latter is in tho service of a railroad corporation or engaged in other business on the outside. There are lots of men plenty of them who would not think of stealing from a private corporation or person, but who do not hosltato to dip In and help themselves of money and property prop-erty belonging to a railroad company when they can do so with reasonable reason-able doubt of being detected in the act. "As before stated, we can see nothing noth-ing In the Standard article that would either insult or annoy an honest man wherever he is found, and if the author au-thor of the note was as sensitive as he would have you believe, he would devote his leisure time to a night school course, and improve his mental men-tal capacity." |