The Topeka state journal., 1900-08-08

plants. Out of the surplus of his labors
the man makes his livelihood Out of
the surplus of such combinations the
people receive the benefit of reduced
prices.
Il want you at this meeting to perfect
something real; to do something and
when once started lose no effort to make
it succeed. The world is moved by
labor; by Organization the laboring
classes can keep the values that now
go to those who do not earn them. The
time is coming when the people of the
world will be driven to do what you are
now proposing.
France. and said "Paree.'' Il beg par
DON" he, said, pronounced it Paris, and
You ali know. of course said the SEN
ator resuming, that every month in the
year there is wheat harvest somewhere
on the globe. Such a movement as you
propose is in progress throughout the
world If jealousies are crowded out and
everything else but common sense gotten
out of the way you can succeed. Organize
the men and women. If you get
along without the women you can do bet
ter than [ can. Don't go east of the Allie
gheny mountains, but work in the west,
and 1 believe that in 25 years the farmers
of the world will be thoroughly organized
for mutual protection and benefits, just as
you propose, and Kansas is a good place
TO start, because all new things come out
G. B. Hoffman of Enterprise. discussed
the PHILOSOPHY of Public Highways"
concluding that the best and most success
full and the legitimate highways of the
IF the legislatures of the states would
levy a 1.-THE of the tribute which the rail-
be an open revolution in this country
Mr. Hoffman advocated the government
ownership of the railroads, telegraphs and
telephones. Speaking of the result of the
process of his theory, he said: The time
would then come when the railroads
would be just as free to the people
the elevators and tramwayS which carry
people up and down the heights of our
great buildings. Transportation is func-
ton of society, but the difficulty we have
experienced is in distinguishing between
public and private property. 1 suggest
that a fair discrimination would be to
call that private property which use ex-
clusively-a toothbrush for example. Call
that public property which we all use
together" Mrf Hoffman then applied to
this the theory of public ownership.
Had our forefathers seen the condi-
tions which now surround they would
have extended to the people the right to
own the public highways, and instead of
concessions to the establishing OF postal
routes there would have been provision
that the government should have con-
trolled the postal roads, the telegraphs
and telephones The present situation is
Did it ever occur to you that we pay
more for the transmission of a letter than
government must raise immense sums to
defray the expense of the postal depart
ment There is now deficit in that de-
partment of the national government.
The government furnishes the postal
cars equipped to the railroads at an enor-
nous expense. Then the government pays
pound of mail and handles it in and out
of the cars and in addition pays the rail-
roads mileage for the operation of the
cars In addition to this the railroads
and by making combinations with un-
T ghtecus mammOn, bes owing passes upon
lawyers, politicians and preachers, seeks
to tighten the hold it has upon the peo-
ple.