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LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER,
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20; 1913.
THE OBSERVER
BRUCE DENNIS, Editor and Owner
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had to be employed and the total
amount. of wages that had to be paid
it tended to reduce operating expens
es and increase net earnings
But in the past few. years state aft
er state has permitted its servants, the
legislature; to decree that additional
men shall be, employed by the railways
m excess of their necessities, wnetner
viewed from the . standpoint of e'co-
15C I nomical operation or of public safety.
As a result of this legislation millions
of dollars have been wasted in hiring
useless labor money which might
otherwise have been ao expended as to
improve its quality. The real purpose
reduce the cost of railway service
of this legislation has been o increase
the number of men that railways must
employ. The legislatures have,, in ef-
Adwtlaing rates on application. All feet, robbed the railways and given tne
copy for display, advertising must , Pil to unnecessary employes in ord
reach the office the day before tlie er that the members of the legislat
ed appears. ' - ,,ures might get the votes of railway
., ' labor.
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THE OBSERVER, 1710 Sixth St.,
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KRUTTSCHNITTS VIEWPOINT.
: Julius . Kruttschnitt, . director of
maintenance for' the Harriman system
for many years, and a man who has
recently climbed still higher in rail
road circles, discussed railroads from
the railroad's viewpoint in a recent
statement The article says: ..
.When congress wastes 'millions of
dollars and suite legislatures squan
, Again, laws have been passed to
compel the railways to UBe special pat
ented headlights on their locomotives.
Acetylene headlights of high efficien- (
cy and closely approaching the electric
headlight in brilliancy and power were
already in use. The railways using ,
these efficient and expensive devices
were forced to discard them and incur I
heavy outlay for specialties promoted ,
by inventors and private corporations
whose claims were strongly advocated
by lobbies of promoters and labor rep
resentatives whose disinterestedness
had not always been above suspicion. ;
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oer minions more, there ! nardly ' x'i AnROlTATP NAVY
passing comment. The money is a.NEED OF AN ADEQUATE NAVY.
y obtained I ll raised by taxation; j . .""" '" ; ' '
kti ' wheit expenditure. Increase, M . Illustration of
whether for good reasons or not, taxes the folly in permitting our naval forc
ean be and are equally increased. The to, be weakened, made by Col.
railroads, equally servants of the pub- Roosevelt at Newport, China, he set
lie, cannot raie? money with such ease forth, permitted herself to become im
and facility.' Thev cuntoet it onlv bv .potent in war,;"If the American peo
rendering the services of freight and pie," he said, "were to follow in Chl
passenger transportation. The nation- j "ese footsteps doubtless some decades
al and state governments can make . would pass before we would suffer to
their income cover Iheir expenditures ! the extent of China: but long before
because they control both the income i that time had come we would have had
and the expenditures. The railways to abandon all pretense of upholding
must keep their, expenditures within the Monroe doctrine; we snoum nave
. thnr larnnwi Wm. wViiio thev hdvA ' had to abandon Panama and Alaska
T aome control over their expenditures and every insular possession, and we
they have .almost no control over their . should have had to surrender all rigM
expenditures they have almost no con- . to say what immigrant shall and what
trol over their income, their passenger
and freight rates being fixed by pub
lic authorities. And, while the man
agemits'of the railways cart to some
extent control their expenditures, they
cannot by any means completely con
trol them. In consequence, in spite of
ill the managements have been able
to ip, operating expenses have been
. steadily increasing ' This has been
largelaWue to advances in , wages,
practy Vy . all, of which have been
wary I y arbitration boards.
Witt.v our knowledge no accidents
to railway trains in this country have
been proven to be due to their being
Insuficiently manned. American rail
ways have spent some $250,000,000 in
equipping their locomotives and cars
with automatic couplers and air
brakes, which not only increase safety
but relieve brakemen of the danger
and labor of coupling and setting the
brakes by hand. For some years the
railroads enjoyed a return on thiB
very large expenditure, because- by
reducing the number of trainmen that
immigrants shall not be admitted to
our country, and the terms upon which
i they shall come I ere and become cit
izens or hold land."
There is no greater phampion of an
adequate navy than Roosevelt and his
arguments are always effective when
he launches forth into this subject. He
may br bitter in his denunciation of
the members of congress who have
fought and are fighting appropria
tions for two new hy.ttleships a year,
but he is right when he says that these
same men do all they can wjth wan
ton and ignorant folly to plunge us
into war. The policy of the leaders
of the forces opposing an adequate
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curtailing none of their appropria
tions in preparation for possible con
flict. '.Until other' nations stop, the
United States must continue to keep
pace with them. The power of its
navy and the awe in which the martial
forces of the United States havebeen
ilield in the past have done far more
to prevent' conflict than all of the
Two things one never hears of' a
stationary price, on lemons and a man
starting a breach of promise suit.
treaties that have been signed and all
navy has not been consistent to say the diplomacy that has been exer-
the least . iCIfeo-
It is well enough 'to argue that uni
versal peace is the thing to be desir-.
ed. It is to be desired and perhaps it
will come some time. But that time
is not at hand and while the other na
tions of the world are seconding thq
efforts of the United States to brin?
The force of arms that has
leen behind the dictations of the Mon
roe doiMne has kept the smaller coun-j
tries of the lower continent intact. . , . '
We can best prepare for peace by
being prepared for war. One need not,
look, further than to the example
pointed out' by Col. Roosevelt to be
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it about they are at the same time convinced of this. China has been in
a sorry plight and is in a sorry $nght
today because it has not been prepar
ed to defend itself. Had China follow
ed the course that has been pursued
by America in the past and by the
European nations for the last cen
tury it would be in a position today
to dictate the peace of the world. In
stead it has been trod upon and spat
upon; its commerce has been demoral
ized, its seaports have been taken
from it and its states have been us
urped; all because it has given no
forethought as to the necessity for
preparedness for war.
The war between Japan and China
and the struggle between Japan and
Russia would never have taken place
had China been capable of defend
ing itself and its possessions.
Ex-King Manuel of Portugal will
marry in September. Let it be hoped
the bride will be able to support him
in the manner to which he has been accustomed.
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