The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-14
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wIcHlTA's socIALIsTIc CONTINGENT.
M. M. MURDOCH, Editor.

WicHITA's socIALIsTIc CONTINGENT
The otrepeaed assertion that the Socallstlc party
holds all of country may be true Dut
is just certainly that the party named embraces In
its following very large per cent of the most guDe
and innocent elements to the body polite so
many of their declarations Of principles are but thin
gauze Their predcaed opinions about as dense and
tangible as fog of fog may look formidable and
impregnable but when encountered is nothing but a
seeming Fog is the easiest possible thing punctured
AS q substance anywhere outside of London the
sea- failure OF both gauze and fog are es-
sentia in party politics but our Socialist friends try to
make of these the principles and foundations OF their
party where they should utilized simply as trimmings
as the foam of the real beer steam from the pot
that contains the actual Our Socialist friends
idealze and dream too any in this mat
ter of fact world. The dream of making society har
monous whole of humanity loving brotherhood, is but
q dream. Coo didn't make They eternaly pirate
Of an ideal government of everything common and Of
equal advantages and opportunities Hades and Paradise
cannot be equazed compromised They never tire OF
dating on glores of municipal ownership Of public
utilities but stop figure out the cost. There is
one universal public utility owned by the people, and ad-
mnistered by government direct and that is the
public highway including streets, but with what
travagance compared the cost these maintained,
the world around
The Wichita socalistic party met in convention, in
the city hall night before They had the right
occupy the city hall that other public organiza
ton, more less. Having nominated ticket of
doubt good and honest citizens all they
proceeded resolve romancism along Utopan lines
ordan falaces and bubbles being reasonable and
tangible. declaring the municipal ownership and
administration public utilities they always do they
postal service a demonstrated example as
the ne plus ultra economical and satisfactory public
services municipal ownership dealistic
public economizers postal
the unanswerabe example They do this either
thinking. We guess through ignorance The postal
service just like other public utility administered by
the government very expensive service the people
Come right down the cold facts aside from assembling
and distributing the mail postoffces
governmental service, but corporation and company
service There is army postmasters postal clerks
and city and rural carriers but this army officials
ceive small per of the mail service
OF the millions upon millions of dollars appropriated
annually for this public service railway corporations
steamship steamboat companies and star route con
tractors combined, get the bulk it. combine trust
contracting could the service transport
and deliver the mails all the clerks postmasters
and all the other charges for probably less half
present cost and make millions dollars every year
The letter could mailed transported and de-
hvered for instead cents probably for
less than half cent other mail matter in pro
portion If the mail service were let corporations
on contract under bids the railroads steamships
competition would not be charging and collecting seven
times the rates for freight collected individuals or
i've times than these railroads charge and collect
from the express companies The man or party that
asserts that public ownership of public utilities
be economy, that these utilities could more eco
nomcaly administered by the public than by companies
1t is but wild inspired by sentiment That city
municipality which should acquire all its public uti
ties including water, light fire department telephones
street railways and the like and attempt to administer
these public utilities will land in bankruptcy The
average business taxpayer would fee from such
costly army Of officials otherwise see his property
ard holdings confscated.
The deayleveism of commonalty, the universal own
ership aud all oafer's administration of pub
lie needs utilities and affairs but dream of the i'm
practical idealist is but arustic nonsense of impossi
rule of life society politics. business methods would
have TO be revolutionized and mankind made over
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTYs MIDDLE
The numerous Jefferson Day dinners promise unend-