Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-06-09
Transportation.


thing, else and we srand by what we said
and maintain that we right. Now us fig
ures won't lie, let us figure little and
see whether our statement is not correct.
Man needs better Accommodations. Say
his car costs 900; at 6 per cent. the
interest would amount TO 5000 per
year, or 1869 per day. a car will
seat 80 passengers, and and one passen-
gers quota would be 2 10 cents per day,
for days 10 ~ cents. A car costing
500 900 would be twice as much, and one
costing $4,000 would be half a. much.
Loaded freight cars, we are told, cost
from $3.50 to 5000 to move across the
continent. Take the 5000 car ut n. Y.
billed for SanFranciscO, loaded with 100
men land any one can see it would be $40
Il head for the through trip; and if the
passenger car cost $40, 900 more than the
freight car, add 2 10 cents interest more
per day per each man. AS we don't
want something for nothing, but live and
let live, this would be much cheaper than
the regular fare $3.50 per passenger);
and this 100 pounds of man takes care of
itself, something no other kind of freight
does. Again, passenger trains move
much faster than freight trains and
change their crews and engines less often
over the same cXtention, consequently,
they can be run much ceaper. 1t is often
limited that we are free people and can
make majorities that rule whenever we
have sense to combine ono one will dis
pute this. and can change the monopo-
listic laws with very little trouble.
We see from the postal system that the
government is the great traflicker for the
people in these natural mOnOp Olies, and
can work cheaper than any trust orcon-
bine, and we are sorry to say the MAORI
ty don't see it. We are called Il restless
people, to which charge we plead,gulty,
and because of this divine discomfort our
aspirations are reaching outward and up
WdTu IOT DeItcl anu h'oiO pi"S'7
things. We don't believe this or any
particular hobby would be Il soothing
syrup to harmonize our country.
Should we become so supremacy stupid
and content as to take no thought for the
morrow, our usefulness in the line ofpro-
erosion would be gone and other ma
tions more discomfort would ride over us
in the march of human progress so no.
ticeble in the eternal fitness of things.
After accomplishing one grand object it
then becomes Il stepping stone to anoth-
er, and so on ad infintum.
There is one thing clear in our minds,
viz, il The government don't own and
operate the roads, they will own and OPP
perate the government, and the intelli-
gence of the American people must be
the qualification to decide. In our
younger days as nation, Patrick Henry
said: 1--WE must educate or we must
perish" We have had over 100 years
to educate i'm and now we should be ready
TO place the roads on the government al
tar along the side of the postal system.
She would be on the watch and always
ready to adopt the most improved sys-
TENS that cheaper and ficiltatc 'uanspor-
tation wherein corporations are so oppos-
ed because of the new and loss of capital
invested i'm the old plant. 1t would seem
that the comfort and safety of the public
are but secondary matters to them. They