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A MEXICAN LESSON.
The advocates of government
al ownership of railways point to
Mexico as a practical and satis
factory example of the benefits
of such ownership.
They claim too much. The
Mexican government does not
o-Afu the railroads, nor any of
them, of the country. It has a
controlling interest in several of
the main railways, but the re
maining interest is in private
hands. The control and oper
ation of these roads are thus in
the combined interest of the
government representing the
people, and of private citizens
representing themselves. It was
held that this arrangement
would protect the people from
corporate greed, give ttiem the
lowest poss ble rates for trans
portation service and at the same
time insure private capital a fair
and equitable return on its in
vestment. Thi3isa beautiful theory. It
is the basic theory of those who
argue for government ownership
in this country. But, like the
theory of free-trade and other
purely academic theories, it fails
when an attempt is made to put
it in practice.
The government expects to
get, and is just as fully entitled
to receive, as fair and reason
able a return on its investment
as the capitalist is on his. Here
we find two considerations in
fl'iencinar the government. It
must protect the people and it
must receive a fair return on its
own investment. Ownership
has thus placed two burdens on
thegovernment when government
control places but one that of
protecting the people from cor
porate greed.
Ownership, dimply a controll
ing ownership by the govern
ment, opens wide the door to
governmental stupidity cupidity
andrapacity. One or more of these
elements are sure to be in evi
dence where control rests on
ownership, whether ownership is
by the government or by private
individuals; nor does a divided
ownership either obliterate or
minimize such elements.
Turn again to Mexico. The
policy of the Mexican govern
ment has long been to promote
the mining industry in all reason
able ways. It has given miners
low rates of transportation on
their ores, and has employed
low and direct taxation to secure
the mine owner's contribution
in support of the Federal and the
the State administrations. Pur
suing this policy mining, agricul
ture, manufactures and other in
dustries have been encouraged,
stimulated and developed great
ly to the benefit of the country.
For some reason the govern
ment now requires greater rev
enue, and it has raised the
freight rate on the transporta
tion of ore. Of course this is
opposed by the mine owners.
They ask: "Why this increase
of rate?" They are told that
the government sjmply seeks to
realize a fair return on its in
vestment. When asked why rates
are not raised on other com
modities no reply is made. The
mine owners charge that because
their traffic is heaviest it is taxed,
and taxed with all the traffic
will bear, for some hidden reason,
since for years there has been
no complaint by the government
of too little return on the capi
tal it has invested.
The situation there has caused
the Mexican socialist- to do what
he is little accustomed to do
stop and reflect. It should con
firm Americans in the view that
control, without any ' part in
ownership, is the only practicable
and safe method of protecting
the people against the rapacity
of transportation corporations.
SENSELESS CARPING.
The President js made the
subject of much misrepresenta
tion and a lot of carping, foolish
criticism. Of the first is the hue
raised by the monied interest
that he is waging an indiscrimi
nate war on all kinds of corpor
ations and ' trusts, and would
surely precipitate a disastrous
panic. Wall street tried to make
this assertion true, with the re
sult that it only blistered its
hands in a fire of its own kind
ling. Wall street might cause
a bad panic, but it was never less
able to do so than at present-
The country is too healthfully
prosperous tox be frightened
easily by buga-boos. Manufac
turers, farmers and merchants
were never before so well able to
move along without Wall street.
It is certain Wall street would
have to work hard, and practi
cally destroy itself, to create a
general panic For this reason
it will not do anything of the
kind.
Besides this the people at large
know the President is not run
ning amuck among the corpora
tions and trusts. He is simply,
earnestly and courageously en
deavoring to enforce the laws
against the iawless.
So much for misrepresentation.
The latest carping at the Presi
dent was because he summarilly
suspended the license of a steam
boat Master for three months.
"Holy horrors!" the fault
finders cried, and proceeded to i
characterize the act as illegal, J
presumptive, harsh and unwar
ranted. Usually the navigation
laws are administered or execu
ted by a cabinet officer through a
bureau in his department. This
cabinet officer is simply an aid
to the executive and is under his
direction. Certainly the princi
pal may do whatever he may bid
his agent do.
A magistrate, on examination
suspended the Master's license
for six months. What now be
comes of the criticism of the
President? It is seen to be
senseless. The people have con
fidence in him, in his honesty of
purpose, his courage, his inde
pendent spirit, his patriotism.
He does things does things that
some of his predecessors should
have done but neve'r did. This
sometimes may startle us but it
should not betray us into voicing
carping criticism of his acts. Let
his enemies, if he have any, inis
repesent him; they cannot deceive
the people.
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There is one of the beat opportunities
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having a will to work and excel, to learn
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