San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-04-04
SOME SPECIAL PLEADING.

SOME SPECIAL PLEADING.
The railroads OF this country have an
immense stake in it's legislation. There
is no doubt concerning the overwhelm-
ing influence exerted by certain rail-
roads In the legislatures Of the states
through which their principle lines run.
Instance the influence Of the New York
Central in the legislation OF New
York; the Jersey Central In that suburb
Of New York; the Pennsylvania Central,
which is currently supposed to own the
legislature Of the keystone state, and so
on to the end of the chapter. Every at
tempt to legislate in equity for the cor
reotion OF railway abuses is met by the
opposition of the railway lobby and
subsidized railway press. The recent
trouble on the B. and Q. road
and their absolute refusal to arbitrate
matters with their employees, have stirred
up the business brains of Iowa to de-
mand law regulating the relations be.
tween the railways Of state and its EN-.
ployes. To this the railways naturally
object, and one OF their subsidized jour-
nails in q recent editorial under the
specious heading, "Capital at q Disad-
vantage" makes the following special
plea:
1.-THE Burlington & Quincy, railroad
troubles are naturally stirring up the
legislatures Of Iowa and other states
through which the road runs to try to
settle by law certain matters which the
company and its employees seem unable
to settle by arbitration. Any such at
tempt Is fraught with danger. Iowa.
for instance, has 5000 miles Of railway |
with a capital stock and bond account |
of S303, 100 900, Of which only one and |
One-half per cent Of valuation is
owned in the state. These immense
enterprises which are at the mer-
oy OF the Iowa legislature are owned |
by non-residents, who have no voice 10
Iowa legislation, while on the other
tons who are presumably In sympathy
with the strikers, and who have no in.
terest in the railroads other than that of
citizens generally, are all voters and
might be all-powerfull in shaping the
railroad legislation Of the state. To ex-
pect the average legislator to exactly
balance the scales of justice between
capital and labor when his personal
interests are all on one side is absurd,
and in the present case the owners OF
the Iowa railroads are liable to oppres-
sive enactments without the ordinary
means of redress"
The evils forshadowed by the writer
Of the above are infnitesimal comparI d
with the evils witch now arise from the
of large corporations,
thousands of men, entrusted
with the commercial interests of a whole
nation, and moved by greed to disregard
every consideration OF justice In the
conduct OF their business. This greed
is manifested not only in the unjust
exactions and demands made upon
labor, but in the extortions
practiced upon business and the
remedy lies in adequate legislation.
There is little danger, while money Is so
all potent as it today is, of any grave in
Justice being perpetrated upon arailway
by any enactment Of state
legislature. The people Of state are
not 80 devoid OF sense Of justice as to
wilfully prostitute law to unrighteous
ends. The private greed which looks
only to its own Increase and rides over
low, and human rights at will, so far as
permitted, is much more to be feared
and dreaded than any statute, bearing
unequally upon the railway corporation.
Better give the human subject the bene-
fit Of the doubt by way OF change and
let capital be reduced to an equality
with the body, and bones, and flesh, and
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