The advocate., 1891-04-22


Earnings for year ending
June 30, 100, AS reported
and estimated by board Sli,3is, 3.G
Operating eXpenses.,,,,,, 1895, $3.50
Net earnings, gs,.,.,,,,,,,,, 1892, ,8i0.7t
The gross earnings were
an increase OF, f,......u. 3sis,857. A.
The operating expenses
Increase Of..u,.,...,.,. 1888, ,3l7.IC
Total net increase Of rev.
enue nue.".,.",.,,,,,..... 2,i0O,53O.G
Total cost Of construction during year, S2i, ,O2O,
09o.4l, and cost Of equipment, S2,25l $3.50.
OF roads In the hands Of receivers, the board
reports that In 1880 there we're six in 1887 seven
In 1888, six In 1889, Ave. and In 1890 only one.
OF accidents, there were during tho yeal
seventy-three employees Of railroads killed and
$40 injured. OF passengers killed there Wert
nine and slxty-seyen injured and other persons
slxty-nlne killed and iOl injured, making tOta
OF i5l killed and 7i7 injured.
Taxes paid In Iowa reached a total OF Si,22S,
4i8.s3.
The total number OF employees in 1880 was "a,
6i2, and for 1890, 27,975. For compensation o.
employees In 1890 the roads paid Si3,72t, $3.50. %
which was less than reported the year previous
Several facts OF vital interest TO the Taxpayers
rate-payers and railway employees OF the stat,
stand out plainly from che figures OF the report
among which are That the statements Of cor
pOratiOns cannot DO relied upon when they deem
their interests or privileges TO be at stake; cha
increased earnings follow decreased rates Cha
the share OF earnings received by the men VIII,
do the work ls altogether out Of proportion Il
that received by the capital Interested; tina
though the net earnings we're more than $1,000,
GOO more than for the preceding year. and Ovel
5000 more men we're employed, the total amount
paid In wages was less and that the present
executive board OF iowa can not be expected TO
maintain the interests OF the state at large
against the shrewd and plausible attorneys Of
the corporations. Thirteen per cent. assess
ments OF railway property will continue until q
change is made In assessors The reports Of Che
roads themselves show expended In new lines
and stock and betterments 923,272,OS7, the as
sessment was raised Sl,GO7627. 10 Is becoming
more apparent every day that, in the interests Of
lower rates for freight and passengers, better
wages for employees, better service and purer
politics, these COrmOrant corporations must be
owned and operated by the people In their own
interest.
The Nebraska Legislature enacted
maximum freight bill, and while II
was vetoed by its Democratic Cover
nor Boyd, Of Omaha, the House hand
somely passed it over his veto, but
the Senate vote was 1S to 13. The
Peoples party had but eighteen mem
bers in the Senate.
Senators Kelly and Murdock semi
occasionally make a confession of the
true state-as they sometimes under
stand it-snd here is a sample Of it
from the Mcpherson Freeman Of
recent date:
Gentlemen who have been prominent In Kan
sas politics for number Of years have been
quite free since the defeat Of Ingalls, In express
ing their opinions az 10 the cause which led 10
that result, and the best methods Of retrieving
the fallen fortunes Of the Republican party,
The general drift OF opinion seems 10 be based
upon tho assumption that 'the party" may have
an existence without 'the people," TO some ex-
tent this "a true, for lt s ON undeniabe fact that