The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-31

~. concIu sion that railroads
~ the nature Of q monopoly
y ultimately become public
rsnseed by public officials
p = q fhs whole community In
che veil defined theory that
"a necessary where compe.
{hls I do not know IL the
~ Cor this change. l do not
siorify of my own party fn-
bsjisve that an increasing
sTnhers OF all parties see in
1 IL the sure remedy for dis
vser persons and politics
\ cvt;onate rates for the carry
Id passengers, 4.
1-vayer, that the operation Oh
N by the Federal government
cantrnIizatiou which would
=, ~ ststc lines. l prefer to see
;,ss opersted BY the Federal
4 the local lines by the several
Some have opposed this
rss Impractical. but investi-
W 4rood me that il is entirely
<e,riv all the railroads of Ger
r "A by the several statcs. the
= ovninr the trunk lines, and
~te frafiic Is in no wiso OBJ
~siinr from Constantinople TO
.ns through Turkey, Bulgaria,
Ala a part OF Austria with
q cars. and yet each country
,Ies it's own roads and different
rooksn on the different divis-
Sweden and Norway each
js but they have no trouble
srsfic, although their politi~
- soucwhst strnined. Tho
eusration OF the local lines
. -<sss governments is not only
ruits itself to the conditions
= various states In those
neopIe are ripe for a change
, <sn be purchased or new lines
n rhiIe private ownership can
~ atstes In which the people
'-~ta ownership Some states
careful than others TO prevent
Il stock, and in the acquiring
-lafs can act according TO tho
< u has to meet.
as Of the governments, Fed
% own and operate railways
"a doubt. II we cnn deepen
~ lakes and build connecting
20 chespcn railroad trans,
"a half the year, we can build
<hespen rates the whole yenr;
several hundred millions on
al 10 lower trnnscontinental
bufId o railroad from New
r~anciscp 10 lower both trans
I'd local rates. The United
| Iucreasing so rapidly that We
>hls to pay the interest on the
7Ines ont of the money which
. rsilroads for carrying through |
|1out Made Appeal. |
an uuestion the propriety of
- his Enbject, ] beg to remind
resident could not have Sc
I'D OF the rate bill had he
ID The fear of the more radical
-srnment ownership, and moth
rsatrain the railroad magnates
IA to capture the interstate
u/saion as the same fear. The
amer in which they have vic.
q ignored authority together
|nuption discovered in high
one more TO create sentiment
1iblic ownership than all the
sfnaments Of the opponents OF
1hip. have referred to the
|ion 81 Q part of the trust
I'D fhsy are so interviewer that
% consider one without the
more In regard 10 the trusts.
hem on the ground that they
1|c development and that they
crented without great injury
inl system. This may be an.
vzys.
h are q political development
q economic ono; and, second,
|I<n cannot be permitted TO
ihough il did result in n net
II is political because it
4 Evaporation, and the corpo-
1pnn q statutory foundation.
nd Of being natural develop
|orm Of legslizcd larceny, aud
+ 20 long as the law permits
That there is al economic
production on q large scale
Ned, but because q million
can be produced in one fac.
Ffr price por yard than one
md yards can be produced in
|1zy, il does not follow that
y produced at q still lower
II all the cloth consumed in
|Ecz were produced in one fac.
one Management There is n
E1ich the economic advantage
<lion ceases. The moment an
'arhes the position of a mo-
|I1s 70 lose in economic Ell
monopoly discoursges inven-
dcferioration in qunlity, md
4 potent factor in production,
ambition.
Eule Not Justified,
'esl objections TO n trust over
louic advantage which it can
NO economic advantage can
strnl despotism or compensate
'e loss OF independence among
Political liberty could not
4r m industrial system which
pexcrful magnatcs TO control
1IFeilhood OF the rest OF the
{no curse of Europe, Is An in
|'on In comparison with the
trusf 10 carried &c its logical
'' nan who argues that there
eaventage In private monop-
aocIaiism. The socialist. as-
*oomic superiority OF The mo-
fnsf Its benefits shall accrue
:9pie, and his conclusion can
y y INC superiority OF monopoly
es Domocratic party, il ! un-
''tuon, denies the economic az
'oiiticsl advantage OF private
Pfgmises to oppose il wher- ,
''< itself II offers, as an al ,
pennon where competition Is
'nnhe monopoly wherovcr cir
socn ms to prevent competi-
'nts consistent theory, but
3 N my judgment does not ;
'.safe into account. lis
~ attack upon evils tho ex.
4 ls confessed. It's weakness
i substitute a diseasc-if not
l tne disease from which We
e',hiist q Is honest in tho be-
sound remedy for human ;
90 answered with argu. ,
ABUSE. The bost way 20
~ is TO remedy the abuscs
W. up under individualism,
~ ~ necessary part of indi.
NY sooner the remedy is ap-