The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-10-05
A STEALS SEAL FOR ALL THAT

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A STEAL Il A SEAL FOR ALL THAT
The Morning Ssr Of Wilmington,
liz considerably *. rcised over wha
is known AZ the Hanna Payue SHY
subsidy bill, which will come up
the next session of Congress. w.
agree with tho Star that it is n vi
cious measure, designed for the pur-
pose Of making rad upon the PEG
pies Treasury, but 1t is not unlike
another raid upon the Treasury
against which the Star and other or
gans OF the kind make no protest.
We refr TO the custom Of railroad
Off cials in going before every Con-
gress and asking Subsidy" for the
carrying OF mails, which. as the rec
ords will show they always get. b ar
IN mind that the Cove fument pays to
railroad companies for carrying the
mails about thirty.flve million dol
lars annually, which Is ali they ask
and which, IT has been repeatedly
proven, is a most ,xhorbltant sum
and which equals a rate greatly in
excess OF what express companies
have to pay for like service. And in
addition to this ample compensation
II Is also compelled to pay railroad
companies an enormous rent for the
postal cars in which the mails are
transported. An examination of the
reports Of the Pos masters Genera
will show that in many cases railroad
companies are paid FOR rent IN ont
year more than twice what it cost,
To cor struct the car The averag,
cost OF n car is about four thousand
dollars, the best not costing more
than six thousand dollars. Tha
case in which the government
pays to our great through lines fol
the rent of one car one year les,
than the average cost OF a postal ear
is an exception to the general rule
while in many cases as high as fl
teen to eighteen thousand dollar
per year rent for one car (three time
It's cost is paid. When we conslde
the life of n car IT, be twenty yea,
tits estimated liftD 1t requires smai
knowledge Of matt IN atles 10 calcu
late the number o. tunes the govern
ment pays to the railroads the orig
nal cost of car.
We call our readers attention (
what the government pays for ca,
rying mails and for rent for post,
cars to show that they are we'll an
amply paid, even from their stant
point, for this service. Then is tber
any good reason why they should d,
mand q subsidy alsof There
no one who claims for them tn,
there is, yet Notwithstanding all thi
they come before every Congre.
asking q subsidy. Speaking fro
memory, the subsidy given to ii
through lines from the North to II
South by the last Congre SIS was tv
hundred thousand dollars or there's
bouts. Why Congress should vo
this subsidy is one of the my ster,e
but it has done so for q number
years in spite of the fact that o,
Postmasters General have, year a
ter year, re commended against it.
Now, returning to the beglunin
We ask of the Star and other raj
road organs which have nothing
say against such pernicious robbel
of the Treasury By railroad comp
MES, If giving the peoples money
ship owners is any worse than gi
ing it to railroad compa MES 7 Al
in fact, if the steals are to be judg,
by their size, wouldn't the railro,
steals of this and various other chs
acters be the worst of the two evil.
The CAUCASIAN is opposed to the
subsidies, whether granted to shi
owners or railroad companies, al
II trusts to see this ship-subsidy
defeat as earnestly as it hopes
see railroad steals curbed.