The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-10-21

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! 4 LFeTgI.ArURE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
/ REPUBLICAS URGES THE GOvEtH-
AEEST 70 BUILD a DOUBLE-TRACK
/ HATLROAD FROM THE ATLANTIC SEA
BOARD TO TIE MISSOURI RIVER.
The resolution below is respectfully
referred to tile ''standups" who voted
for it ana are now declaring govern
meut ownership impracticabIe, impOssi-
bIe, unconstitutional, etc, etc;
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION. 1s.
Senate Concurrent Resolution, Nc ID, ask
Sr1,eI1t rfi,l 100 ~ sfis5,s 80
board 20 the Missouri river.
WHEHEAs, The increase In the agricultural
products Of the west has been much faster
than the means OF transportation, thereby
preventing realization OF the highest prices
for our products b. preventing their being
marketed at a seasOnabIe and nest advaRta-
geous time: and
WHEREAS The complete and cOmpreheu-
sive view OF this fact contains conclusive
furnish prompter and cheaper means OF
transportation, GB0rdIug 70 the people OF the
different sections OF ouE country the OppOr-
tunity for q more speedy Interchange of their
products and At a less cost, thereby solving
the veEcd question OF adequate and cheap
transportation and as thts question Is Ia the
highest degree national IN character and OF
peculiar Importance, not oniy in Kansas,
but to all the agricultural states OF the west;
therefore.
Be- IT RESOLVED ny THE senate. THE HOUSE
or aEPREsEETArIvEs CONCURHEC:
First-That our senators from THE state BE
instructed, aud cur representatives re-
que5teds t0 urge in the congress OF the
United States the building or q doubIe-trucr
gCvorument freight railroad from the sea
nrr
west, so as 70 make the main line aoce sstbIe
for commercial purposes 20 the people Of ali
the states Of the Mississippi valley.
seoOnd-'rhat copy OF these resolutions be
transmitted by the secretary OF state to our
senators and representatives In congress,
With the earnest request that they urge the
measures herein contained.
Was this republican legislature Of
81 composed of a lot OF fool cranlLs,
and Is it only within the last few years
that the wise men of the party took
the reIns Of party cOntrOlP Or were
the members Of the legislature of 81
intelligent, wsll-informed, farseeiug
statesmen, and are the republican poll
ticians who now pass as leaders of the
party a set OF pOt-hOuse politicians,
ignorant alike OF the principles OF pol
ttical economy, and the advanced
thought of the age. When the egisla-
ture Of 1881 voted for that resolution
tie question Of government ownership
of railroads was new question and
the expedieney of the proposed system
had to be determined alone upon
comparison of the probable advantages
and drawbacks that would follow its
adoption, without any knowledge de-
rived from practical experiment with
the system. Since that time the oper-
alton of the railroads has been taken
in charge by tile government in sew
eral of the foremost nations Of the
world, and the new system has proved
such a complete success, and such a
great Improvement over the old system
Of private ownership, that the question
bias long since ceased to be a matter Of
discussion, and there the principle is
as well established and universally ac-
guessed, in as is the public school sys-
tenn in tins country. Actual experience
has cOnclusively demonstrated the cor
rectness of the conclusions arrived at
by the legislature of 1881 on the sub
ject, as embodied in the resolution
quoted. The Rip Van Wrinkle lead
ers of the party Of to-day, ignorant
| of these facts, and ObliviOus of the
progressive tendencies of the times
and the opinions of the most renowned
| political economists and rnilrOad ex-
/ perts of the age on this question, with
an arrogance born only of stupidity
| and ignorance, deuOunce the speakers
| and writers Of tile peoples party who
| advocate the doctrine, as revolution
AIRY cranks and anarchists, and Of course
in so doing necessarily pronounce the
republican members Of the legislature
Of 1881 a set of foolish and ignorant
| cranks, and they have the ignorant
| fOOlhardiHess to do this in the face Of
the fact, that the foremost political
economists Of this country and Europe
are a unit III favor of the government
/ ownership Of railroads; that such ex-
| perieneed railroad men as Pres. A. g.
StickneY and Chas. Francis Albums say
it is the only.remedy; that the San Fran
cisco C3trOslic5e, the largest daily paper
on the pacific coast, and the leading
organ of the republican party in Cali
/ fOrniR, is vigorously supporting the
proposition; and the Daily Erinsauer,
tile leading democratic paper OF that
state, is also leaning ia that direction;
and that in every state of the union
the majority Of the Intelligent and
progressive men who read and inform
themselves on these subjects in all the
political parties are in favor OF the
proposition. There is no escaping the
conclusion that the republican speakers
and writers who denoUnce the men
who advocate government ownership
OF railroads as revolutionary cranks, ara
/ either stupid bacl-number iglOEamus-
IS who never read anything but such
papers AS the Topeka Capital and the
Wichita Eagle, or else they are UNI
I st.i upulugs kIlaves working in the fu-