Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-05-05


he volunteers TO submit himself to rig
id military discipline in defense Of his
country and his lawful rights, proves
this SANDER to be a base fabrication
made from whole cloth. Then take the
case of our American cities Do not
the American born citizens submit as
readily to police regulations as do the
foreign born? Are Americans more
turbulent and hard to manage than
the foreigners? What ridiculous ex-
cuses railway king is sometimes COM
PEELED to make for not investing his
money in safeguards for the protec-
ton of human life on his road! And
yet he speaks of human life as being
so very "precious!" Evidently, it is
considered less precious than corpora
ton dollars.
President Ripley speaks slightingly
of the tramp" who is killed as a
"tresspasser," when stealing ride be-
meath the cars He should not do this.
The tramp is brother to the million
airc, The same class laws and the
same general causes produce them
both. They have precisely the same
origin and ancestry. They come and
go and stay together. The country
full Of palaces is, also, infested with
novels and squallor. There were no
tramps in America until after the arri-
val of the millionaire. The robber
came before the people were robbed to
penury and dropped into mendicity.
There are many ways of secret and
indirect theft that are difficult Of de-
lection. But when the tramp arrives
in society we find that somebody has
been robbing the people, We turn to
the newly grown millionaire and find
in his hands mass of wealth which
he has not earned. This proves the
stealing and identifies the thief, or,
his accessory. Where we find the rob
bed we should expect to find the rob
Der. The millionaire and the tramp
are brothers, from the same parentage
One sleeps in the hay loft, the other in
palace. But man should not speak
Unexpectedly of his own near kin
dred.
The writer complains that tramps
steal rides by hiding in unusual places
and are thus accidentally killed or in
jured; and, that this carnage is wrong
fully charged up to the railway man
agement The statement is true in
part, but the charge is just Let the
railway management provide third or
fourth class cars as is done in other
tramp countries, at tramp rates, as in
India, when the rate is quarter of q
cent per mile, and the tramp nuisance
and dangers will be abated. If q man
can ride twenty miles for nickel,
even in cattle car, he will beg the
nickel and buy the ride, rather than
risk his life beneath the cattle cars.
Yes, the charge of the tramp carnage
against the railway management is
just. The millionaire is both brother
and father to the tramp, and he should
provide for his wants and treat him
kindly. If we all had cars and rates
in proportion to our means of payment
more of us would ride, the roads would
make more money, and, fewer people
would be killed while stealing rides.
But we have in this country, even n
worse fellow than either the tramp or
the millionaire. He is a "persou"-an
invention Of man, created by neither
God nor the devil; found in neither
hell nor heaVen-on this earth only.
Ex-Governor Larrabee, of Iowa, in his
RAILROAD Question:" p. ass, describes
this dangerous fellow as follows:
1.-THE corporation for peeuniary gain
has neither body nor soul Its eorpor-
cal existence is mythical and ethereal.
1t suffers neither from cold nor from
cold nor from hunger, has neither fear
of future punishment nor nope of fu-
ture reward. 1t takes no interest in
schools nor in churches 1t knows
neither charity nor love, neither pity
nor sympathy, neither justice nor pa
triotism. 1t is deaf and blind to human
woe and human happiness. Its only
aim is pecuniary gain, to which it sub
ordinates all else"
A corporation is creation of law
and is legal entity only. 1t is with
out body, soul or sense of justice, be-
cause the law cannot create these
qualities; yet, corporation for pecun-
larry gain has qualities growing out of
purposes Of its existence. which the
law neither creates nor destroys
When composed for example, Of
many persons, it has many times the
financial acumen of a single person.
And, when normally organized it has
many times the usual capital of sin
gle individual However, it is said
that some corporations use gall and
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