The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-02-22
HARrroRD HAPPeg1gos

A1AHAEOh1, Z Gu ~
High water and ice did considerable
damage 10 the Hartford mills. Ice
crushed in the headgate and water chi
out the banks on the north side OF the
dam about fiflyfeet wide, ald has now
washed nearly down to the bed of the
river.
The Neosho Rapids brass band will
give an entertainment at this place Sat
urday evening. March Sd, and viii be
highly interesting.
VIM Brogan has been paradine our
streets the last few days with beaming
countenance, and when asked the cause
with all the dignity he so well assumes,
he answers. cit is boy and lis mother
Is doing we'll" then he passes down the
street with kingly step. So noble to
behold.
Nice weather ami mud fast disappear
ing. Farmers viii soon be able Ia be-
gun plowing.
The Hartford band entertainment las
grand success, and there was a good
turn ont
Fnrte car i,stls of hngs wefu shipped
from Hartford this morning; average
weight 3s6 lbs per head.
john kis,r viii receive the ,at,le 10.
day thai Nr Whitley. ot Emporia,
bought of L c Knight. and will Iull
feed them until May
There will be four car loads Of corn
shipped from this place this week; so
cents per bushel in Hartford and IS
cents per bushel in New York.
D. C. Bernheisel and j. j. Evans are
in Topeka attending the session of the
Grand Lodge Of A. O.U.W.
Eastern men are beginning to enquire
for good farms. There will be a large
immigration this year.
The criticisms by the people of Ell
mendaFo town ship on the editorial in
The Republican or peoples paper of
last week on LYON county representa-
lives voting for the railroad bill or
''coDmunistic legislation" is severe and
just. 1t is fact that we all know that
The railroads intended to make an effo,t
to blot out all legislation in the several
states that interlered with them charg-
ing all the trade will bear,' and as the
taxpayers are awake on the question
they expect TO hear the railroad organ
squeal when something Is to be done
for the interest of the farmers. We but
voice the sentiments of onr citizens
when We say the bill passed by the
house, fixes the rate of passenger and
freight tariff too high Where there is
honest competition to-day on railroads
and no pooling, passenger fare and
freight rates are one half of the rate
fixed by the house bill, but as 1t
is step in the right direction
we wall not stop TO comment now. The
Republican should not close its eyes to
the fact "there is something in the
air" and woe, woe! t. the party that is
in power il they don't ttke warning.
The last financial circular from Wall
street, speaking of the high price of
railroad stock says: "They have had the
success that usually attends the first
stage of monopoly, and the signs of
the times seem to indicate that they must
now meet the storm of popular aud leg
Islative hostility that privileged monop-
Giles always ultimately arouse. The
Changers movement was the first symp-
tom of such opposition. That has now
given place To much broader and
serious movement, organized under the
banner OF anti-monopoly, and is des-
tined TO make its entry into the domain
of national politics, through national
convention to be held in Chicago on the
4th OF July next This organization is
so widely popular in its aims that it is
not easy TO say how far its ultimate in.
huence on politics and on corporate leg
Islation may extend The tenor Of re-
cent judicial decisions relative TO cor
porate powers shows that the bench is
in harmony with the prevailing drift
OF public sentiment on this question.
When it is considered that the present
value of railroad stocks is based on the
assumption that they may safely adjust
their charges for service 10 a capiLaliza-
ton double or tribe the actual cost of
the properly. it will be seen that there
is reason enough to consider seriously
what this new sentiment may possibly
seek to accomplish through the courts
or through legislation. The more i'm
portance is 10 be attached to this current
of opinion because it is no mere ire
sponsible discomfort, but an expression
of long endured grievances among the
sober commercial and agricultural
classes. /"
Partyism is on the wane; pr. juiice is
disappearing; men whose interests are
alike are coming together on a common
platform, ''the greatest good t. the great.
est number" They have waited patient
~ for legislation on their side of the
house. II hasn't come, and it does not
take very wise man Ia STE that me
thing mn-t he done quickly. The farm
ers have paid double passenger and
freight fare long enough they have been
paying war taxes until they are tired,
aud nat Irally want "a rest. Aud now
the first time We have little Legislation
ia that direction. all the railroad editors
Kick like mules from behind Reform,
fraud yes the people know from whence
you Come. MODocK.