The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-05-08
in the household Of the labor major

SenatCr:Stewart:
eff THERE'S no reason nor humanity
in the possessors of accumulated cap.
ital, there is power in revolution"
SenatorWest:
81 have seen these corridors filled
with na*iona1 bankers protesting
against an act of Congress, when de
string them to assist us in funding thu
public debt of the Emitted States.
Senators were personally threatened
if they dared to vote for that bill
with defeat. We are told that Oul
tenure was ended the moment w
gave our vote for any such meas
ures."
Senator Berry:
$50 much injustice has been done
to the people, so many wrongs have
been perpetrated in the interests Of
wealth and capital by the passage o.
unjust laws, chat the people are in
open revolt today, and they have a
right to be; they have determined to
have relief, and they are entitled to
it." :
Senator Ingalls,:
"The millionaires of this country
are not the producers and the labor.
ers. They are arrayed like Solomon
in all his. glory but. they toll not,
neither do they. spin
"The conscience of this nation is
shocked at the injustice of modern
society. The moral sentiment OF
mankind has been aroused at the I'M
equal diffusion of the burdens, the
benefits and the privileges of society.
"Ishould hesitate before admitting
that, in the sense of giving just com
pensation and equivalent, any man
in this country, or in any other
country, ever absolutely earned a
million dollars.
cat the beginning OF our second
century, the American people have
become profoundly conscious that
the ballot is not the panacea for all
the evils that afflict humanity; that
it has not abolished poverty nor pre-
vented injustice. They have discov-
cred that political equality does not
result in social fraternity; under a
democracy the concentration of
greater politicalpowe in fewer hands,
the accumulation and aggregation Of
greater amounts of wealth is more
possible than under a monarchy, and
that there is a tyranny which is
more fatal than the tyranny of the
kings.
Society is becoming rapidly STRAIT
ified-almost hopelessly stratifed-
into the condition OF superfuously
rich and helplessly poor. We are ac-
customed to speak OF this as the
land Of the free and the home of the
brave. 1t will soon be the home of
the rich and the land of the slave"
Nationalized Railway.
The chapter on Railroad regula-
ton in foreign countries" in the re-
port of the State Commerce
Commission, affords striking statis-
tical confirmation of the Immense
advantages which it is claimed
would be gained by the nationalist
ton OF our transportation lines.
The most striking and satisfactory
example is afforded by Austro Hun
gary, whose recently adopted sys-
tenn Of Zone tariffs marks new era
in the operation of railways. In
Austria about 513 of the railway
mileage is owned by the State, but
in Hungary the State is sole owner.
The Zone system was first inaug-
urated on the State lines of Hungary
in the summer of 1889, and the fol-
lowing synopsis of the principles,
workings and results of the system
is from translation OF an official
document OF the Hungarian govern
ment, published in Jul y, 1890. The
general object OF the government in
introducing the system was the en-
couragement of long distance travel
between the capital and the pro-
vinces, and a modification to the
greatest practicable extent OF the
element of.distance in passenger traf
fic, in favor of all ranks and classes
of the population; the theory being,
that the increased volume OF travel
would fully compensate for the lower
Individual charges; the effect in uni
flying the interest of all sections and
promoting the welfare of the capital
city, being also an important incen-
tive to the change. Each railway is
divided into sections called zones.
radiating from a common center
Buda Pesth. The first zone is short
est, extending distance of 1876
miles; the second and each succeed
ing zone up to the twelfth is 9.3
miles longer than the zone immedi-
ately preceding it, all distances ex-
ceeding 40 miles from the starting
point are included in a single zone,
Passenger rates are fixed, not per
mile or per kilometer, but at so much
per zone; the charge for every frac-
ton of a zone being the same as for
a full zone. As each zone constantly
increases in length over that imme-
diately preceding it the effect of
the system is evidently a constantly
diminishing rate per mile in proper