Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-17
= PALLIATIVE ONLY.

Nothing Nut NationASism Gao Cure IT,
Evils Uader which the People Groan.
Those persons who cry out "pater.
nalism," whenever the people strike a
blow in self-defense, are likely to feel
badly over the Mcmahon bill for regu-
iating the price of coal which has lust
passed to Its third reading in the New
York senate The bill Is presented "A
the outcome of an investigation by q
committee into the Reading deal and
possible remedies The committee finds
that federal Liquidation alone can deal
with the matter effectively, covering as
1t does several states, but meanwhile IL
Is thought New York can do something.
The Mcmahon bill will require ali
persons engaged In the transportation
OF anthracite coal 10 Be used in the
state and all coal dealers Ia the state.
to take out licenses, without which
they are forbidden to do business The
carriers license shall hx q maximum
rate per mile TO be charged for railroad
transportation and the dealers license
. maximum rate per ton to be charged
Tor coal at retail, exclusive Of charge
for delivery. The board of railroad
commissioners, which 10 to issue the
licenses, will fx the maximum rates
and revise them every three montha
Not over e<50 per ton Is under any
circumstances to b charged In New
York city or Brooklyn Fines, with
revocation Of hosnseA arc provided for
breaches of the Law.
The coal people say that the blll Is
1nconstitutional and we should not be
surprised IL II were %. The state con-
situations arc drawn 30 strongly In the
interest OF vested interestA" that
there Is always . good likelihood that
any measure for the relief Of the people
will 30 found unconstitutfonal Com
siderable constitution tinksrinR Of .
radical sort Ia going TO b necessary 10
prepare the way for nssionsliam
Meanwhile th1 Ackahop bill sug-
gests certain reflections Its drastic
way Of going ut the trouble rs IL 10
meant to help the people without much
regard to who got hurt 10 In cheerful
contrast with the average antitrust
law. At the Same time tho method IN
the wrong one Instead Of . system to
check the extortions of private coal
dealers while leaving them . monopoly
of tho business, municipal coal yards
should be established 70 sell ut cost q
necessary result Of which would be that
private coal dealers would TO out of
business
This distinction between attempted
public regulation of businesses left In
private hands and the direct public as
sumption Of such businesses. represents
precisely the difference between the
empirical and symptomstic remedies of
the superficial reformer and the scien-
tific radicalism of the nationslistio
method which deals with diseases Of
the body polite by q constitutional
treatment going to the root Of the evil
The root Of the evil in this matter of
the coal supply extortion is private
greed The Mcmahon bill proposes q
system of checks and balance to hinder
and modify this evil principle while
leaving It in force; the nationalist plan
of municipal coal yards, supplemented
as soon as possible by national man
agement of coal mining, proposes &c
eliminate altogether the motive of
greed by making the business a publis
one-New Nation
AT the KnicKer booker UIuo. -
Cholly-"I heshd q speakah say lawst
night that thcah is nothing noblah
than being a man." Cbappie-"How
beastiy vulgaw! Ny man is all right
- q Sab want; but rs fob his being noble
-Bahr-Puek-