Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-06-09

road, In the same direction, aud IN the
same train, for much shorter haul.
II Ia merely highway robbery Any
milder term Ia untrue. II car load
Of wheat can be hauled from points In
Southern California 10 San Franclsco
for SEQ, II Ia bold and unblushIng rob-
berry TO charge 5000 for n car load OF
alfalfa seed from the Same polntA 10
tho same markets. II newly arrived
Europeans can be carried from New
York 70 Chicago At 81 per head, II must
certainly be unfair 10 charge native
born Americans slo between the same
pointsl II the moat costly irelghta can
DO carried, on the average, all over
this country ut leas than ono cent per
ton per mile, II surely cannot be just
10 charge the government thirty TO-
forty times ne much for carrying the
u. g. mailsl Yet these truthful re-
hearHala arc but commonplace occur
encea under our present railway man
agementl Tho robberA have the drop"
on the public and az rule, levy trib'
ute at viii and all our vast commerce
and industries, "All tho traffic will
bearl'
Tho railway corporations having
raised rates on ono side and auppresn-
cd wages on the other, until the mar
gin OF profit 10 large, then comes tho
opportunity to swell capitalization"
by the sale OF fraudulent stocks aud
bonds, ON which dividends and interest
must be paid, To meet the Increased
demand railway rates must be crowded
up little higher and wages OF ems
ployos reduced little lower In order
TO provide for the obligations OF the
companyl" In this way the railway
burdena OF this country have grown to
eleven billion dollarsl one.half water
Representing no honest investment
Now, suppose we cut down railway
rates, In the interest OF the public, on
the one hand and raise the wages Of
railway employees on the Others ~ In
the interest OF the laboring men; (g In
the interest OF all farmers and busi'
ness men who have laboriug men for
customers. and (3) In the public inter-
estl
In this way the corporations should
receive, say about two hundred million
dollars per annum less than they now
receive; and that incomprehcnsiblc
sum would annually remain In the
hands OF the public and continue to
circulate In the channels OF business.
There would OF course be less paid on
false capitalization, and railway Off
cials and attorneys would receive less
princely salaries
II Ia thus seen that the interests Of
all laboring men, oil farmers ull BUSH
ness men and the general public are
identical. The prosperity OF one aids
the prosperity OF all. The only wild
beast---the only megatherium-in the
present railway wilderness OF confus-
ion is the railway corporation He Is
the third factor In the problem which
insists on being ignored In our calcu-
lations lie is the quiet, whispering
serpent in the garden Of Eden who is
the cause Of the damage and injustice.
When all the laboring men, all the
farmers and I'LL the business men UNI
dcrstand this subject us they under.
stood chattel slavery In the sixties and
meet Mt the ballot box intent on justice
TO themselves and their families, times
will be better here in America, We
arc all in the same boat We must
sink or swim together. DIVIDED we
are helpless United, our enemies will
disappear as frost under the morning
sun. Their power OF resistance TO our
will when we are united 10 MS tho
breath OF an infant to the fury Of cy-
clone! Let us study this problem Of
three factors and unite for self.protec-
ton. JOHN DAVIS