Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1900-09-28

VI. r RlOA l. CEI l. EM ID n
service on cat>s or THESE Ilnes was poor.
The ears We're had. The tracks and
ruasI-be-d were far from safe. The
passenger " no wanted IA travel any
considerable distance had 10 get OF
tile ears st one end OF a line and get
on other ears of another line. and the
longer he travelled the more he had
10 do this He had 10 pay higher fare
and To buy many separate tickets The
employees of those various lines We're
less in number than they now are and
We're paid smaller wages. Frequently
the lines went into the hands of a re
eeiyers and the workingmen had trouble
in getting their wages at all great
manager combined those lines into
system What was the result? More
trains. faster time, better cars, cheaper
rates and through trains. You can get
on one Of that systems trains and.
without change. 20 To distant points
which before required two or three
tickets. The system employs more men
than the separate lines employed be
fore the consolidation The service Is
greatly improved. The convenience TO
the passenger is not a comparison. but
a contrast with what it used To be.
Therefore there is more travelling.
more business. You are carried cheap
er in palace ears: your grain is hauled
M lower rates Of freight, more safely
and more speedily. And so 1t is that
great miracle is wrought; better ser
vice and cheaper rates To the public on
one hand, and more employment and
higher wages To the employees on the
| other hand; NJ the same time more
profit IN the stockholders who own the
road Dare Mr.. Bryan say that he
would have that system broken up into
the little companies from which ii was
| formed? If he dares not, he has aban-
| doned his position on the trust.
| Trusts and Young Men.
| Mr.. Bryan declares that trusts pre-
/ vent young men from rising in the
| business world on the contrary, the
| active heads of most of these corpora
/ lions are young men who have risen
/ without influence or any other aid than
their own ability TO their high position.
/ The president of the Carnegie Steel
/ company Is still a young man. and rose
TO his position from a boy in the works.
| What the trust is looking for-what
any combination of capital is looking
| for-is fresh and vigorous ability. Tn
| less they get that. they cannot sue
coed. | will venture this assertion
| that more than ~ per cent of the active
| management of the great combinations
| of capital of this country. and the ac-
| tive mana cement of each one of the de
| partments of these great combinations
| of capital. is in the hands of young
| men without wealth. influence or posi-
| ton, but whose worth and merit have
been recognized by the directors of
| these great concerns. If a trust does
not have such ability at its command
constantly. it will break down. just rs
trusts often and for exactly this reason
are breaking down. Keen. bold. dar
ing minds will see that the trust is not
managed with ability. and they viii
organize another trust which is man
aged with ability. trust can only
exist when each and every depart
ment Of it. 10 the smallest detail of its
business is conducted with mathe
matical and machinc-likc accuracy
And the chief demand in this countr,
today is for talented. industrious. hon
est and brave young men to aid tn
mighty work which this industrial
development of our civilization re
quires.
AS no woman who listens to m
would have the department store dis
-e.i~-., into th., little. unconventional. high
priced shops. selling poorer goods II
more inconvcnicnt way: as not :
man in this republic would have any
of our great railroad lines which were
formed ont OF dozen small. poorly
operattsf high-priced. miSera bly-equip
ped. inronvenient lines. broken up in
to those little roads again. just so not
a man i'll this country is against the
industrial development OF trust
when it is honestly and righteously
| conducted. What we are all against
| is the dishonest operation of these
trusts. just as we are all against the
| dishonest conduct of any man. But
| The sensible thing is NOT To destroy
| them; the sensible thing is To remedy
| them. The right road is onward ito
| ward government control. some think.
and many developments are suggest
|
| found, and not backward toward the
| day when the farmer reaped his grain
| with n scythe. instead of with the self
| binding harvester; not backw ward to
| the day when he threshed it with q
| fail instead of with a vibrating
| thresher: not backward to the day
| when the stage coach did the bust
ness of passenger transportation. in
| stead of the travel of the country be
| ing carried al n fraction of the price
| the stage coach charged. and in pal
ace ears. with all the comforts and
luxuries of this wonderful civilization
| The road to the true solution is on
| ward. and not backward and the ele-
| ments that are required in our states
men in dealing with this tremendous
problem of human society, this natur-
al industrial development, is earnest
thought thorough study. fearless JUS
tice and moderation. instead of VIC
lent and ignorant assertion. inflamed
prejudice and mad resolutions. not to
remedy, but TO destroy.
Common Sense and Justice
My friends. what we need is not so
much sweeping declaration one way
or the other against the trusts of labor
or the trusts of capital What we
need is common sense and Justice.
Common sense. in order that we NAV
see what is just: and the spirit of jus-
tice. In order TO do what is Just. On
his dying bed Richelieu. who created
France. was asked what was the So
cfet of his power He answered.