San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-02-25
AGENTS FOR THE LIGHT.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY, rs, 1888.
NUT FOR RAILWAY COS.

The South West. one OF the most con-
sentative Of the labor journals of the
country, takes up the question OF the
tardy payment OF railway employees and
makes some good points against the
companies, speaking Of the delays attend
ing the payment OF discharged employees
and the manifest injustice Of compelling
these men to wait for their pay long
weeks after they have discharged the
South West says:
Why cannot railroad companies make
provision for paving off their employees
upon dischsrging them? 1t Is besides
unnecessary. TIE wages received by
the men are small enough and 1t should
be paid them promptly instead Of sub
jeoting them to the trouble, annoyance
and loss Of time in waiting or sacrifice Il
large per cent OF IL In selling and trans
ferring their time to some one else.
This is an abuse that should be remedied
II the companies will not do this from a
sense OF justice and voluntarily then leg
islatiOn should compel them to do so.
1t Involves no hardship or loss upon the
railroads to pay the men promptly on
discharge, whereas 1t 10 a serious loss to
the men to be compelled to wait.
There is good temper, good reason,
sound sense and manifest justice in this
putting OF the case. The railway COM
panies are already considered too hostile
to labor, and the creating or perpetual
ing OF points Of disagreement is not
wise. The evil complained OF In the
above paragraph Is all but universal.
The hardships should be remedied as u
simple act Of justice. The railroad hav-
discharged Its employe has no right TO
retain his pay beyond the time neces-
ssry to make out his accounts.
The congressional Investigation into
cotton seed oil trust has common ced.
The company demurred to the investi-
CATION being conducted In New York on
the ground that the company did not re.
side there officially, the organization be-
ing made 10 Arkansas, and only three OF
the nine trustees residing in New York.
Investigations were commenced, how
ever, objections being oyerruled. The
enquiry, 80 far, merely shows capital
stock Of the company $4,000, 900, COM
panies in the trust from seventy to
eighty. proportion Of cotton seed Oil
handled, fifty-three seventy-sevenths
Of the whole product, OF which about IS
per cent was exported. Specific enquiry
was directed to ascertain the relations
between Armour & Co. and the trust
and the fact was very reluctantly elici-
ted that Armour & Co. had special con-
tract by which the oil was furnished
them at stipul4ted price regardless OF
oil quotations. The nominal dividends
OF the trusr a;e four per cent, but as the
stock 10 held at IhlrGy-fiye cents, this
means a dividend OF about liz per cent
The testimony was TO the effect that
cotton seed had risen In price since the
organization OF the trust.
WASHINGTON lost one Of Its great ben
efactors when William. Wilson Corcorsn,
the well known banker and philsnthro-
pist died. His gifts are notably the
Corcoran gallery Of art, which repre-
sents an outlay Of nearly 81, 300, 600; and,
the Louisa home, founded 10 memory Of
his wife. This charity is q home for
aged women of refinement who have
lost the means Of being comfortable by
reVerses of fortune. This building and
lis endowments cobt Mr.. Corcoran
about S5O0,O00. The university of VIr-
ginis has received 500, 900 from him and
q 1000 volume library. The church Of
the Ascension, Washington, has been
benefited 100000 and other charities
and churches have not been forgotten.
He was man full Of years as well as
means and honors. Had he lived the
year out he would have been ninety
years Of age, having been born Deem
Der 9th, 1898. His life was pure and
his spirit generous. No name was more
honOred, no man held in higher estIma-
ton, and none will be more sincerely
mourned. He was one Of the few who
made for himself In very marked sense,
"friends Of the mAmmon Of unrighteous-
ness"
THE BRENNAN Banner hates the Blair
bill and lts hatred mas no mitigation. 1t
hates IL alike for what 1t Is, and for