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RAILWAY ROBBERS. THEIR GRIP UPON THE COUNTRY MUST BE BROKEN. A Clear and Dispassionate Review of the Methods by Which the People Are Rob bed by the Barons—Free Coinage I»»«11«- pcutable, but Not a Panacea. ASHLAND CASKET CO ORTHERN PACIFIC H. S. EMERY Manager • and - Funeral • Director Myer Block, - Ashland, Or. andle first - class goods Calls promptly at-1 Day or Night H tended to. N l^CHARGES REASONABLE. S 0.R.8N THE TO The question has been often asked Whether the free coinage of silver would be a panacea for the depression under which the country now drags out a lin gering life. The frieDds of free coinage do net consider it a universal remedy, but an indispensable one. The single gold standard is the rock which has been placed against the door where our hopes have been buried, and until it Is rolled away there can be no resurrection of our prosperity. Dives is urgently op posed to the removal of the stone, but certainly Lazarus cannot come forth till it has been taken away. Among the many oppressions visited upon the masses by their present mas ters who have “laden the people with burdens grievous to be borne, but which they will not touch with so much as one of their little fingers,” are the freight rates and passenger fares, which have not decreased with the decrease in the value of our products, but have en hanced with the enhanced value of the dollar, the owners of the great railway lines being among the most active agents in procuring the adoption of the gold standard, and they were the larg est contributors to the campaign fund to be used against the restoration of sil ver to free coinage. J. Pierpont Morgan, who was con spicuous in procuring Mr. Cleveland to issue the $262,000,000 of bonds, and whose firm shared largely in the $18,- 000,000 of profits the syndicate made by handling that issue, is the principal owner of the Southern Railway com pany’s lines. When cotton was 15 cents a pound (as it still remains in Mexico), a pound of cotton would pay for five miles of passenger fare on his railroads. Now, though he and his combination have increased the value of money till cotton brings only 6 to 7 cents a pound, he ha3 not reduced his fares nor freights, and a pound of cotton will only carry its producer two miles instead of five, as formerly. Freights remain as high as ever, and vegetable gardening, which should be a very profitable business, has been reduced to the same level as other farming businesses, and in both alike all the profit is absorbed by the transporta tion charges. Is there no protection for the people? Certainly there is, but it is in their own hands. It cannot be found in the railroad commissions. The interstate commission has proved so utterly in efficient that two of the great parties have recently put into their platforms demands for its being made really effi Pullman cient. In fact, the interstate commission Sleeping Cars has practically restricted itself to pro tecting the corporations against hurting Elegant each other by reducing rates, with no Dining Cars protection to the people against ex orbitant rates, nor against secret re Tourist to large or favored shippers, which Sleeping Cars bates were the objects in view in creating the commission. Whenever that commis ST. PAUL sion has shown any disposition to serve MINNEAPOLIS the object of its creation, it has been DULUTH_____ promptly shackled by injunctions or highly technical rulings by the federal FARGO_______ judges, holding their positions for life, GRAND FORKS TO and a large proportion of them having CROOKSTO N__ secured their appointments by the in I i WINNIPEG fluence of the corporations in whose be I half they extend their powers by every HELENA and~ possible construction. Besides, it is not certain that all the appointments to the BUTTE interstate commission itself have been made without the influence, more or less active, of great railroad systems in terested in the future aotion of suoh ap pointees. TO After this result with the interstate CHICAGO commission, could the record of the state W ASHINGTON commissions be other than disappoint HILADELPHIA ing? In some cases, as a western rail NEW YORK road president cynically and openly de BOSTON AND ALL clared, the railroads have “simply add ed tho railroad commission to their as POINTS EAST and SOUTH Through tickets to Japan aud China, via sets. ” In the majority of instances, Tacoma and Northern Pacific Steamship however, the members of the state rail Co., an American line. road commissions have been gentlemen For information, time cards, map and of unimpeachable character, but elected tickets, call on or write by legislatures instead of the people (a A. D. CHARIZTON, radical defect, which the corporations Assistant'General Passenger Agent, PORTLAND. OREGON carefully looked to). They have In rare instances had a majority of progressive ROBERT TAYLOR, Local Agent, Ashland, Oregon members in close sympathy with the people. They have generally been in tensely conservative, listening to the A package of our treat assertions of impending ruin liberally ment f r weakness and made by railroad managers if rates were decay, nervous debility and Icat vitality seat tree for 12 cents reduced, and not seeing the patent ruin to the people if they were Dot. As a AF.D ttsiUTUTE. 120 N. 9thSt. ST. LOUIS. K'J. rule, railroad commissions have limited themselves to a cheeseparing reduction of one-fourth or one-eighth of a cent per mile on passenger fares, and a similar microscopic reduction on freight rates, and with ordering a few railroad sta tions built, where the corporations were not overmuch indisposed to build them. Sometimes they have somewhat raised the valuation of railroad property for taxation, over which those corporations have raised a sham battle, knowing that the extra taxation would really be paid by the people, by quietly raising the freight rates on certain articles. When the Standard Oil company was assessed for part of the taxes it justly owed, Rockefeller said, “Add one-fourth of a cent to the price of oil till the people have paid our taxes. ” Th.3 extra The only way to reduce the burden Constipation., i ordinary Re- on the people is by a bona fide, genuine Dizziness, juvenator is Falling Seis ' cut in passenger and freight rates. It the most sations, Nerv wondorful ous twitching may be said of more than one railroad discovery of of the eyes commission that at a respectful distance tho age. It »nd other < has been en they imitate tho ways of Providence in paits. dorsed by the leadingseien- Strengthens, one particular. It has been said, “He tific ruen of invigorates takes a step, and ages have rolled Europe and and tones the America. entire system. | away. ” All railroad commissions prob Hudjait cures ably when first appointed have made Iludyan 13 purely vege- a show of reform by cutting off some Hudyan steps Emissions, infinitesimal amount from railroad and developes .Taniti twencss and restores charges, as one-eighth or one-fourth of of tho d i s- weak organs. a cent from passenger fares, and then thargo in 20 Pains In the lays, (hires back, losses two or three generations hence, if the LOST by day or people wait so long, they may possibly EAST I GIVES THE CHOICE OF TWO TRANSCONINENTAL Great Union THROUGH TICKETZ Northern Ry. Pacific Ry i VIA SPOKANE MINNEAPOLIS DENVER OMAHA AND AND ST- PAUL KANSAS CITY LOW RATES TO ALL EASTERN CITIES, OCEAN 8TEAMERS LEAVE PORTLAND EVERY 5 DAYS — FOR— SAN FRANCISCO /nr Fall details call on or address, W. H. HURLBURT, Gen’l Pass. Agent, PORTLAND. OR E. 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A great pleasure for the traveler on its sleepers and private compartment car, is the electric berth reading lamp, which is an exclusive feature with “The Milwau kee”. The beating is all done by steams thus doiug away with the old fashioned stove. By all these means the fatigue incident to travel is reduced to a minimum. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail way is always popular, and those traveling over its lines are the loudest in its praise. All coupon ticket agents sell tickets via the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. CTIVE AGENTS FOR EACH County. Exclusive control and no '"'ill clear 12 to 25 hundred dollars a ’’ose stamp for full particulars *nple. Big Rapids Mineral ». ''>14«) Mich, Ent. C. J. Eddy, General Agent, Portland. Ore, for |l sa.. Co., Big Ka. in their pockets, there would be 1 cut off another one-eighth of a oent. In passes more trains and cars filled with people. ! the meantime the multimillionaires freight rates would not afford a 1 who own these roads, living in their The few residents New York and London marble palaces in London and New palaces, with of all their adjuncts, York, with their yachts, fast women Where low browed baseness wafts perfume to and fast horses, have gone on with their pride, fellow conspirators enhancing tho value but there would be countless thou- i of the dollar, reducing the value of prod 3ands of happy homes when the pro uce, and thereby more than doubling ducer could get his produce to market their passenger and freight rates. without all the margin being taken off It is in this way that Ireland, natu to pay for transportation. rally one of the foremoet countries on How can these moderate rates be ob the globe, has been pauperized. All the tained? Clearly experience has demon profits of the soil have been drawn in strated that we cannot get them from the shape of rents by nonresident land railroads themselves nor from the owners to London, and, nothing going the railroad commissioners, either state or back, the country has been impoverished national. The remedy is by act of the like a field from which all the crops are legislature as to rates within the states, cut and nothing returned. In like man and by act of congress as to interstate ner today the south and west are impov rates, which aots should: erished by all the profits of agriculture First — Cut down passenger and being taken to London and New York freight rates to, on an average, one- In the shape of excessive transportation half those now exacted to accord with 1 charges, ind, nothing being returned or the doubled value of money and the | spent among us, the south and west are the prices of our produce. rapidly being reduced to the condition halving Second.—More powers should be giv of Ireland. the railroad commissions, with i In honest faot the railroad commis en stricter for the nonobservance sions of the several states bave served of their penalties regulations. only as buffers to protect the railroads Third.—Free passes should be rigor from real criticism by the people and ously forbidden, as is now done by the from direct legislation to reduce their constitution rates, while the states have uselessly other states. of New York and several taxed themselves to pay the several And, lastly, railroad commissions commissions salaries to seem to do should be made independent of corpo something. influence, a9 far as possible, by be In the public distress we demand real rate ing in all ca.ses made elective by the relief, and we must have it, and not ita peoplo instead of by the legislature. The phantom. railroad lobby cannot control elections What is the remedy? The remedy is by the people as easily as it can have a to cut the rates, and exactly in propor deciding influence in a legislative cau- tion as these multimillionaire railroad 0U8. kings have, in combination with others is no influence more debasing of their kind, cut the prioes of our prod in There legislation than that of the lobby. uce. Every well wisher of his country would The supreme court of the United wish to see it broken up. Chief Justice States has decided (Chicago Railroad Maxwell of Nebraska discusses this , I versus Wellman, 143 U. S., and in sev subject and the remedy for it in a late 1 eral other cases) that rates which will number of The American Law Review. allow a moderate interest on the actual He calls attention to the faot that very value of the railroad property are valid. recently the governors of Illinois and ' In that case it sustained a passenger Missouri were forced to call special ses fare of 2 cents per mile. Upon the same sions because the corporation lobbies basjs every passenger and nearly every had defeated necessary legislation at the freight rate should be out in two. It is regular session. But instances abound. what has been done with our produce It is notorious that in all the southern and. will simply restore railroad charges states the corrupt legislation of carpet to their former basis. Can the railroads bag days was procured by lobbies. stand it? Upon the basis of watered Attention should now and pending stock, making the railroad patrons pay the election of members to the legisla dividends and interest on three or four ture be pointedly called to the fact that times the value of the railroad, they the most potent lever of the corporation cannot But upon the legal requirement- lobby is the free pass. As these favors of moderate interest on the real value are not sent to members before they be of railroad property they can. come such and cease when they cannot Besides, the dividends and interest on longer vote on railroad measures, that stock and bonds on three or four times fact alone should prevent acceptance by the value of the property are not all the any member. The excuse is, “They all present high rates are levied for. In do it,” and hence an aroused public the first place, the freight shippers and conscience must procure an act forbid passengers are taxed to pay enormous ding free passes. This the people have salaries to railroad officials, ranging now forced into the constitution of New from $100,000 per year down. The offi York and several other states. A simi cials are as numerous as their salaries lar provision should be in every state are exorbitant. J. Pierpont Morgan pays constitution. There is no excuse in any l out of this levy upon the poor southern member of the legislature taking a free people $50,000 a year to his chief man pass, as he is one of the few officers ex ager, President Spencer, while his, like pressly provided by the state with mile J all other big railroad systems, has three age, and the sum allowed is enough to or four honorary subpresidents at ap pay his actual railroad fare to the state proximate salaries, each equipped with capital and home again not once only, palace oar and staff of servants, and a but several times. Yet the free pass is host of other officials with high sound the railroad lobbyist’s strongest pull. A ing titles, salaries in proportion and railroad official has been heard to de duties in the inverse order, while the fend it on the ground that he could “in real work is done by hardworking sub fluence many a man by a free pass, to ordinates with moderate salaries. In whom he dare not offer money direct.” addition, the traveling and shipping In the last North Carolina legislature public is loaded with the sums used in a bill to forbid free passes, copied from ! running newspapers, editors and law- the provision in the New York consti 1 yers, the maintenance of expensive lob- tution, was introduced and favorably bies at all the state capitals and at reported by the committee, but it was i Washington, and with the free travel not allowed to pass, being stolen from ing of all those who the corporations the files no less than three times by | think can be influenced in that way, for some railroad lobbyist. A legal investi the cost of the passage of those who gation resulted in the desired delay aud ■ travel free mu6t be added to the charge nothing more. The bill had been copied against those who do not. It must be from the New York constitution, and a noted that this host of $100,000, $50,- well known railroad official, having i 000, $25,000 and $10,000 salaries—not called in person to secure the with ' one of which can be really earned—is drawal of the bill, was told that the collected out of the people by the sta bill had not only been prepared by re tion agents as surely as the salaries of quest, but that it was in tbe interest of the governor and other state officers are honesty and honest legislation. He used collected by the sheriff. The people of the following language, which may be the greatest and wealthiest states do pondered over by all honest men outside not pay their highest officials upon any of North Carolina as well as within its such scale, and they have the same with bounds: “It might as well be right to regulate the salaries of railway drawn. It can never pass. The fel officials, unless they can be paid insido lows who oome here to the legislature the 6 per cent interest upon the real are always anxious to be repaid with a value of the roads, to which point and pass. There is A. (naming a prominent below It the legislature has power to man). Why, yesterday he asked for a cut down the rates. The supreme court j pass for himself, his wife, his sister, of the United States in many eases says his two children and his aunt, and do that these high salaries and other un you think such d----- d cattle as that necessary expenses need not be consider will vote against free passes?” ed by the legislature in fixing reason “Such cattle as that” is the opinion able railroad rates. railroad men have of legislators who Here may be noted another favorite are to vote on their measures aud yet extortion practiced on the traveler and take railroad money in the shape of freight shipper. One railroad will lease free passes. The people should dis another. The leased road is only enti criminate and see whether they are tled to rates that wil 1 produce not exceed sending railroad cattle or men to repre ing 6 per cent on the value of its prop sent them in the legislatures of the sev erty, and these rates should not be in eral states.—Justice Walter Clark in creased by leasing to another, yet the Arena. lessee road will put its rates so high as to earn the 6 per cent rental contracted E dwin W. J oy C o .: lam one of those for and 6 per cent to 20 per cent addi who place but little faith in advertised nos trums but seeing so many local testimon tional for itself, besides the high sala ials, detailing the effects of Joy’s Vegetable ries to the great officials, newspapers and Sarsaparilla. I, too. bought it, 1 took it for lobbies of the lessee. This is making pains m the back and chronic billiousness, the people pay the rental for them, and the results of a disordered liver, which has me much trouble, and I believe it has the operating company, tbongh not given permanently cured me. I haven’t felt so rpending a dollar to build a road, taxes well for ten years. I recommend it to all the people an additional 6 per cent to my friends, and we take it for nearly every 20 per cent on a paper capital. Reduce thing over our way and it seems to hit. NED NE8TELL. the charges for fares and freights to the 79 Everett street, San Francisco, legitimate 6 per cent on the cost of the leased roads, and we should cease to see No RELIABLE DRUGGIST WILL TELL YOU HE competition stifled by leasing rival HAS A SARSAPARILLA AS GOOD AS JOY’8 I T ake the best when vou pay your money roads. If the people insist on the relief to which they are entitled, there issoarcely How the Coal Trust Robs Labor. a passenger or freight rate that cannot The coal trust robs labor in three be cut in two. Two cents per mile is ways: the highest that can fairly be allowed First—It robs the miners and han for first class fare on any railroad, and dlers of coal. One of its chief purposes is on most of them economists say that 1 to decrease the output That means less cent per mile would pay a fair interest work and less wages for miner and coal on the property actually used. We handler. should make fewer millionaires; rail Second.—It robs the employer of la road salaries would be more moderate; bor by greatly increasing the cost of railroads would run fewer newspapers coal. This compels him to cut down ex and lobbies. But, on the other hand, penses, and the only way he can do it is the country would be prosperous. In by cutting down the wages of his em stead of a few cars half filled with peo ployees. ple, and a large part of them with free Third.—It robs every laboring man, as it does every consumer of coal, by A Psychological Care. The small boy had been requested to making him pay at least $1.50 a ton do some errands, but insisted that he more than the fair and honest price of was feeling badly. As the family phy coal which competition would fix. It robs everybody once, because every sician happened to call he felt the boy’s pulse and looked at bis tongue and said : body must buy coal. But it robs the em “You had better make a good, strong ployee of a manufacturer twice.—New York World. mustard plaster. ” The boy looked depressed and left the A Creature of Law. room. Gold and silver coin are equal before “When shall I apply the plaster?” the law in all payments in France, Italy, asked the mother. Belgium and Switzerland. Law makes “Don’t apply it at all. He’ll getwell and unmakes money of any substance before that stage of the treatment is whatever. — Stephenville (Tex.) Trib reached.”—Washington Star. une. Ae lie Vuderstood It. Life In Great Cities. And as to the tendenoy of the growth of great cities to enervate nations, there is no proof of it at all unless we iden tify the life of great oities with the passion for idleness and pleasure and self indulgence which sometimes, but by no means universally, accompanies their growth. When you get a large pro letariat living, as that of ancient Rome and possibly of Nineveh and Babylon did, on the alms of the rich and power ful, then, no doubt, you have the con ditions of a thoroughly unnatural and unhealthy life, and no one can wonder at the rapid decay of such cities and of the nations which gloried in them. But where the honest working class far out numbers the proletariat, where the mid dle classes of distributors and manufac turers and professional men are labori ous and energetic, and even the class that lives on its accumulated wealth contains a considerab’ •* sprinkling of serious and disinterested workers, we do not believe that there is the smallest evidence of any greater danger in the life of the city than in tbe life of the agricultural village or the pastoral tribe. Indeed, we should regard Olive Schreiner's picture of the life of the modern Boers as indicating a condition of things more proliflo of morbid ele ments, with its almost complete ab sence of any stirring or active intelli gence, than any kind of modern life that is honestly laborious at all. The Boer life is too sleepy, too destitute of stirring thought or effort, to be alto gether natural. 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