The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-10-22


20 Kansas lands worth a large sum OF
money from which inst 1t may be
coniectured that sho0i Governor
Hoch later decide that be would like
to so to the senate be may reasonably
expect the Katys support.
Nov. the question is, do YOU think
it is good plan for railroads to select
our United states senatorsY In the
case of Kansas the experiment seems
to haye been failure Surely, the
career Of Burton is not argument for
the election of United states senators
by the RAILROADS. and &c La Toilette
may be believed. the election of Sen
ator Long by the railroads has been
a s1ccess only for the railroads
So much for the railroads IN Kansas
There are other counts in the in
dictment Speaker Cannon few
days ago said that the railroads were
not responsible fer the rebates they
had given the trusts The trusts
made them do IT, Were they free to
do business as they wished Speaker
Cannon is Of the opinion the railroads
would treat the small shipper as fair
ly as the trust shipper Speaker Can
non. however has no plan for making
the railroads free and independent
but on the contrary by letting well
enough alone" he would keep the poor
railroads in perpetual bondage and
would continue TO handicap the small
bcsiness man by giving the monopo-
lies the tremendous Preferential rates
that they have enjoyed so long
u is generally conceded that the
BIGGEST stumbling block in the way
Of canal construction has been the
corruptive influence cf the trans-con-
tnental railroads For years the rail
road lobby prevented constructive
canal legislation at Washington but
when, finally, the necessary measure
was passed. the railroad lobby got
busy with the Colombian congress at
Bogota, with the result that the neces-
sity OF creating the Panama republic
devoNed upon the Roosevelt edui,ais
tration It may be ventured that had
it not been for the Doodle Of the rail
roads am isthmian canal would today
be pretty nearly fact instead of
sull somewhat doubtful project
Lastly the reddest blooded Ameri
cans of our day, the men who are try
Ing to upbuild the communities where
they live, the men who are trying 70
do things, not much for themselves
as for the opportunity that he Ameri
can of tomorrow may have those
men are enc untering the power OF
the railroad in its most pernicious ex
preston Unless there were destined
20 Doe a curbing of railroad domination
the fature OF American cities would
largely De dependent upon the suffer
ance OF the railroads For today the
railroad assumes to say at what point
an industry may be located and where
it may not be established IndusTi
ally the railroads have assumed to
exercise an absoutism.
In the foregoing statement what has
been alleged is acknowledged to be
facts, aud in the acknowledgment
there is no partisanship Neither is
there partisanship in the determina-
tlon that this sort of rule must be
brought to a stop. The American peo-
pie don't want the railroads to elect
the senators Of the United states in
Kansas or in any other state. They
don't believe that a project OF inter
national scope industriously an
epoch-maling achievement-sho should be
preyentable by the railroad interests. !
The people cf Joplin don't believe
the railroads should say what factor
les we may establish here and what
:. -, not. sud the people Of every ,
other American city feel the same !
way.
In an those items the railroads
arrasate rights unto themselves by
violating every law OF right only in
the matter OF discriminating treat
ment Of shippers is grain of excuse |
found, that offered by Mr. Cannon,
who declares the trusts compel the |
raih0ads to give them rebates But |
who are the railroads and who are the |
trusts? The men who dominate /
standard Oil and United states steel |
dictate the railroad management OF
the country And there you are.
The proposition of government own
ership OF the railroads causes the |
greatest alarm In circles that are not |
disturbed at an by the ownership Of /
Government bv the railroads.