The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-08-24
CAPITALISTS SUGGESTIONS.
CHIMES ERINCTS IDIIS. JR.. SPEiKs
IN REG .IRD no RAILROADS..
lie u Not In Favor Of Federal Liquidation
tnder what Condition Consolidation ~
Favorable what Horace White Asks For.

hc " Not In Favor of Federal Legislation
tnder what Condition consolidation ~
Favorable what Horace White Asks For.
Mr. Horace White Of Chicago told the
LHuor Committee yesterday what hc thought the
country ucodrl tohcoomr moro lrosucrous IL
would tako OIL She duty from raw Materials
thereby allowing manufn turrrs To compel
successfully ia the sale of goods In foreign mar
kots. He would encourage manufacturers H.
mako goods cheaper and better than they are
made abroad. Competition does not nnc,--
snry reduce the wages Of the working
man. for what they can get enables
them 10 procure moro comforts than
could have been hal one hundred years ago.
One Of the crocts Of machinery Il 10 chcarcn
production. dollar viii luy as much now as
in lsG0. and great deal moro than in 1870.
The country has more capital tlan can hr profit
ably employed and cannot Immediately find
other 'lannr'4. Protective tariffs arc q system
OF tnNntion Of the mass for the benefit u ,he
few. nnl their ci!oci is to make higher pricc-
MrWhitr opposed legislation limitmgt the hours
O. labor. lie considered such plan not fnusi-
ll' Il would protect some at the expense OF the
liberty ~ othors. II, did not brlicve that tho
public lands could bc colonizcd hy Government
aid. Tho 'lnss u persons who demand coonizl-
iion and denouneo all kinds II society could not
he drawn to the public land. by n ,ke of oxen
llr thought Interference with specie payments
Injurious tn Nh. workingm"n.
Nh Chqrc- rruoi- Ndams. Jr. Chairman II
the Bolrd ~ Railroad Commissioners of NaSsa-
.hu- Us. WINS uskrd 80 say what railroads had
had a. do with business depression. II cthought
That there had boon rNco-~lNc railroad coutruc-
tion which had led to- cprcssiou in labor. Dur
lng tue construction ~ Tia. railroads great
many anon were employed The collapse Il
consiru,i'n hni thrown them opt of work II"
vas unable o. $50 how railroad management
hal rontuhut"d io u 'ur'esiuu. Oniho contrary
h' thought % tended o. improve tho times in
keeping mon az work. Factories and iron
works stopped ami ihc "nt.oy were thrown
out entirely. bat RAILROADS. had to keep running
hndtp have mon employed ltulrpnl trlu--
roriniion has hen ch,apened I'm the mst
zen, years beyond ihe Thought of the
brought 10 the seahoari ~ the rate OF half "a
mul per tom per milo; The evils % the COM
prtitiN" WAT carried on hy the railroads through
the country ar" that discrimination occurs unl
s.mr localities are compelled to pay more than
remedial measures OF legislation for rail-
rouis, ~ such remedies Wrro - as
lul' valu" n quack remedies for Diseases.
Whcrg remedies are furnished bcior" tine dis-
ease is known. Us IN" railroads are generally
The cromur,s Of States. and a. through l.u,-
iH~s lhr"ush many Nt.t0- thor. Wa unHl f.r
Frd"rtl supervisory; but he did not favor Tod-
ern l'Sis alton tn" English Government
lrird tur rNu'tu'nt anG failed. Tue only -U-
l'rv.si sra. iionh' is ly commission. boz
lore whom all oit'H'r- ar" equal AMI u.ulu-f
whom 40 discrimination cam ~ allowed. TNs.
railroads should Boz permitted 'otrar-u'tti'cir
bus no-- iu their own way except -o faru- pro-
cr'I in.- of g ru'lir interest, which Should Doe
Mr.. tnns could uo; src how It was ros-i'ie
ior fm'rri supervision a. r"gni t' railroad
ertt.un uoint $50 that they should ho uni '.fn.
when tso starting points w.rc boz different
f'rrni companies Tho most honest G.y.rn-
mont unl ilIn u st honest ofi r. could not use
..' IA u.s. god a system of railroad ttau-ror-
tNIn" ht th' sain' '"ei 10 IL" 'It-
an, a. s.nin -r n, IVY York In' c. rlri
l,n.r'al w.r' f.la 'uu- for II tie roai w.. ~
'oirrlt'i iur the benefit uf the tityD N.y