The Advocate and news., 1898-09-21

at par for freight, express and passenger
service: telegraph and telephone service,
toxes due the State Farmers would ac-
cept them, for they would pay freight bills,
purchase tickets to ride on. The merchant
would accept them, for he could pay his
freight, express and telegraph bills with
them. IL would make business for all of
the people, either directly or indirectly.
There would be no taxes to pay on the
property, as the State would own IT, There
would be no dividends to pay on bonds
voted by the people to aid said road.
There would be no dividends to pay on
watered stock or fictitious values. So from
the first there would be no call for high
rates.
Every man in Kansas is interested In
such road owned and operated by the
State. The man who believes In competl-
ton will surely acknowledge that II will be
Wholesome competition. Let the private
owned lines compete with the State-owned
lines. And above all, let them pay big div
idends on watered stock. But let the peO-
pie of Kansas once get a taste of State
owned road operated in the interest of all
its citizens, and they would trouble the
corporation lines very little.
There will be readers of this who will
say, "This Is visionary and 1t cannot be
done" But let them read the New Time
building a road without the aid of Wall
street or of j. p. Morgan & Co. Then,
should Colorado on the west build a road, il
would connect with the main line through
the center of Kansas; then should Ne
braska. Oklahoma and Texas conclude to
build roads, Kansas would be In the van.
And the products OF the producers Of some
Of the Mississippi valley States could go to
the Gulf seaports and not have to pay
tribute to Rothschild 81 Co.
Let every reader of this think this plan
over and let us discuss this question thor
oughly, and demand legislation along these
lines, as this is the only way we can expect
to get justice from our present system Of
trusts and combines.
Ex-Governor Larrabee of Iowa, says
that every mile of railroad in the United
States is capitalized for 100000 per mile,
and $4,000 per mile will duplicate our pres
ent system. Now why should the produ-
GERS of the United States be taxed to pay
dividends on fictitious values Of $4,000 per
mile? Let the people answer. Then let us
be up and doing at the earliest possible mo-
ment and stop this drain Of the producers
products to the Golfers of the vampires
who live off Of the toiler.
AS to wages, according to United States
Labor Commissioner Wright, the producer
produces products to the value of 81 500 per
annum. Pay every employe fair wages.
No one to receive over $1,000 per annum.
Let the State set the price and adhere to 1t
strictly. 1t is not necessary to pay $4,000
or 100000 to its officials per annum to get
good honest work done, while eood honest
section men get only S5 cents to $l1O per
day. Give no one passes, except the men
actually employed Do not use the pass as
1t is used by our present railroad system
for bribery and DOODLE Favor no one at
the expense of the many; treat all alike.
Let merit be the line on which men keep
their places, not Doodle; honest work, hon
est pay.
Now, readers Of the Advocate and News,
let us air this thoroughly. 1t will be called
impossible, and / will be called fool-es-
pecially by corporation presidents, mana
gers, and undoubtedly socialist and an
archst in the same breath; but how many
of these ridiculers ever discovered new
world, an X-ray, invented a steamboat,
telegraph or a submarine boat, or studied
out any other invention?
Winona, Kas.