The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-18


1898 ...................1 1se,3oa o75s
Next to the steam railroad corporations those
most rallied against are the surface railroad syn
dcatcs. especially those which control the sur
face railroad systems In our kirgc cities Take
New York as an example. All the surface rail
| roading in New York city Is in the hands Of two
companies. It was once In the hands Of a dozen
or more companies. Every avenue line and every
crosstown line was run by separate company.
Under that regime the motive power was horses,
and the public had to pay separate 5.cent fare
for every car boarded With the discovery Of tho
new motive power, trolleys, cable and lastly
underground conduit trolltys larger capital was
needed to get the best effect from the new
methods. and today the citizens OF New York
(and by the same process Of nearly all the cities
in the country can ride in cars many times as
ccinmodious and wholesome, twice as fast ten
times as far. and be transferred to numerous
other lines, all for one fare. Under this system
Of concentrated capital and management citizens
OF New York can board trolley on the New
York side OF the Brooklyn bridge. cross the
bridge and ride some dozen miles to Concy
Island, for 5 cents, which formerly by another
route cost 40 to 80 cents by nm agreement be.
tween the Third Avenue company and elevated
road system, which is practically another large
integration, passengers can travel from the Bat
terry to New Rochelle, q distance OF twenty-five
miles or more, for 8 cents, a 5.ccnt fare. and
Scent transfer--which by the steam railroads
costs about 40 cents. The next natural step,
one that will come II not arbitrarily interfered
with, will be to put the entire local transit sys.
TEN Of the metropolis, both surface and elevated
under one management. Then every road In
every direction will be open to the public for a
single fare, transfers being accepted from any
to any other cars in the entire city.
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This is true IN cities and towns throughout
the country. Would Mr.. Bryans party suppress
thcse2 II this policy were carried cut into oil
lines Of industry where large corporations pre-
dominate, the great meat packing establishments
in Chicago, the steel manufacturing corporation
OF Pittsburg, the surface and steam railroad COM
panies would have to disband, at least dissolve
into the smaller concerns Of Afty years ago. This
would mean an increase Of 80 to 100 per cent
in the price Of nearly all machnc.made products
which constitute nearly all the manufactured
commodities of modern consumption. In short,
all the progress Of the benefit this country and
the world now receive in lower prices and i'm
proved quality Of products during the last fifty
years. is the result Of the experiments OF new de-
vices instituted by large and larger corporations,
and an indiscriminate war on corporations such
as Mr.. Bryan is conducting is mad war and on
the methods of giving the world cheap wealth.
IL Is common. eharscu " ...t ,mt i,rna nornor.
tn.S ea'La.sn "sa"'I I.sara.'. ,;hortv little
touch Of fact would show this to be pure
phantom OF the imagination. Nothing could be
more contrary to the whole history OF wage labor.
II there were any truth in this we might expect
to find that laborers had more freedom ana
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