The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-06-06


It seems that the English people
are awakening in regard to railway
robberies. The last issue of the
Mark'Lane Express has the follow
ing letter in it:
THE RAILWAY PLUMBER.
Sir.-It seems almost utterly USE
less endeavoring to wake up the
daily Press to the critical position in
which railway customers are 'float-
ing down to Niagara" as regards
their coming doom. "Reminiscences
against the abolition of reduction in
third class tickets are totally unheed
ed and the traveller seems to have
no advocate at all. In the newspa-
per which take the proceedings of
railway companies and reports of
the Commissioners are crowded into
the smallest type almost to obscur-
ity, while the Preparation of a tea
and coffee festival at Jerico Chapel is
detailed upon in very full type. The
dread of the withdrawal OF the sys-
tenn of free passes to the staff during
holiday time, l fear, has much to do
with the boycotting OF the intelli-
gence and scrutiny which would be
SO valuable to the reading public.
There is one resource and that is to
urge upon candidates that they
must give attention to this vital
question, and on it must depend con-
siderably the support they may ex-
pect at the poll.
If we are to have Home Rule, let it
be as regards the charge for convey
ance OF passengers and goods. ii we
are to have zone man on VOTE" let
us have one rate and one charge, not
for the first-class aristocrat to have
reduction of 40 or SO per cent. on
his return ticket, while the market
man and business people pay the full
double fare on the third-class book
ing; not for the large trader, because
he sends a fuller. load, to do so at
about half what a smaller man pays
over the same ground. These ques-
tions are Of more Importance to us
than the construction of a tower
to the moon, the discovery of coal
in a cellar at Dover, the new route
to the North Pole, or the battling Off
at the Zambesi, and they should be
attended to 'instanter."
w. JUDEX.
The N. Y Financier shows beyond
all question that the English CO.
operative stores selling every thing
a family uses-and with stock limited
to $500 shares-are wonderful sue
cess, paying enormous dividends. 1t
concludes as follows:
'The distinct departments en-
braced in stores usually number up
ward of thirty, and include every
conceivable personal and household
requirement., SO that, in addition to
many other advantages, the buyer
buys everything under one roof
''The result of the terrible COMPETE
ton Of such stores in London has
been a great injury to the shopkeep-
ers of Regent street, Oxford street,
Piccadilly, and Bond street. 1t has
largely withdrawn from their books
the nobility and gentry, and worse
than that it has robbed them OF their
cash customers
''There is no doubt some hardship
to the ordinary retailers in this as
pect of the business, but the advan-
tages to householders of all classes
far Offset any arrangement in the
financies of few store keepers who,
by charging exorbitant prices for
their goods, kept up large establish
ments on the relatively small bust
ness of a single West End store.
'''New York and it's associate cities,
Brooklyn and Jersey City, represent
fully 100000 individuals, or about
three-fourths, of London'ss popula-
ton. This home population, al
though it falls short OF that of
London, has, with it's more generous
tastes, a purchasing capacity great
ly superior to it.
GLOW much longer are it's citizens
of limited income to wait before the
cooperative principle is admitted in
to practice in their midst?'
The Rev. DR.. Talmage drops into
the arena of combat between labor
and capital. In a powerful sermon
delivered last Sunday he paints a
graphic picture and points out a
remedy for the evils:
''The greatest war the world has
eyer seen is between capital and la
Dor. The strife is not like that which
in history is called the Thirty Years
war, for it is war OF centuries, it is
war of five continents, it is a war
hemisphere. The middle classes in
this country, upon whom the nation
has depended for holding the balance
OF power, and for acting as media
tors between the two extremes, are
diminishing, and if things go on as