The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-05-24
SAYS REBATE EVIL
IS BASEST CRIME
JUDGE w. j. CAYNOR DECLARES 3
LAWS DO NOT PUT AN END
TO FAVoRiTISM.
RApS SWOLL FORTUNE
Infamously Accumulated Railroads
Are Public Highways and Should
BE Under U. s. Control, He
Says.

Kansas City. Mo- May "a. Judg,
w. J. Gaynor Of the appellate diyis
ian of the supreme court uf New YorI
addr ssed the Knife and Fork clul
ii evening here at its monthly din
ncr. Gaynor spoke ON freight rate
abuses ana said hat while aciual pay
mont Of reha cs is nog seldom done
fayoritism il still rractice1 Ia many
ways. He SPOKE Of rail~aYs rs pub
lic highways and said the fact thai
they should usel 10 enable d few
men to des roy business rigals Is the
basest ciime of our day. fe id mol
favor government ownership but said
mat because Of this fayoritisn It was
10 wonder a growing number Of peo
III wanted the government q cake
over the railroads
He said in part
ThQre IS no prejudice In this con-
try against homes II acquired wealth
however large. Il Is wealth acquired
UNANIMOUSLY which is under the ban of
the splendid intelHgence ana integrity
Of the peole of this country The
prime object Of government is to pro-
mole distribgtiTe iustic to all. With
ont this object being fulfilled there
can be no true prosperity Prosperity
is the highest production which a
community is capable OF consistent
with the physical ana mental welfare
cf IT'S memb rs, accompanied by a
just distribution of tie total product
among tho producers This does not
mean share and share alike but az
cording 70 The productive capacity
physical or mental on both or each.
Ii few are sc ting each year and
constantly BY 10 Of by crook. the
total product TT all who wotk tn n
the condition Is moi one Of prosperity.
II certain Individuals in short
life time become possessed OF SO much
property tlat they can make abne rnal
gii S 10 charity; If one man can give
away for instance the vast sum Of
So 900, 900 in one gift without fe ling
II any more than yon would miss S.,
we make q fatal mistake If we ascrito
sach a condition 90 prosper ty. If we
find the railroads being used 10 allow
O few 10 acq ire such fortunes a
the expens Il their fellow men by
having their freights carried at a rate
lower than ofheds have to pay 50 that
They are able to create monopoles in
themselves, our condition is not on
Of prosperity but il dangerous 20 the
perDetuiiy cf ogr free government.
From the beginning of the world the
public highways always had been built
hy he government Tn the same way
the government could have built our
iron highways rai.roads. And
even though privately built the rail-
roads of the country are still public
highways. This Is the decision Of all
the courts i'm the land.
Roads Are Public Highways.
The corporations. nor the individ-
nails who control tn m cannot do with
them as they will They are mere
trustees or agencies of the govern
ment to run them as pg bile highways
fro The benefit Of all and without any
faxoritism or discrimination to any
one. Ey rs free pass issued. every
favor in freight rates granted. is in
defiance of the lag. Some people are
under the delusion thta recent stat
utes made th Sc things unlawful. Not
ot MI. thov we're unlawful from the
beginning We only needed statutes
TO make it a criminal o6ense TO grant
,hem and TO iaIi those who should
grant IN m. That these public high.
ways should be ed TO enable a few
men 10 des roy their business rivals is
the basest crime Of our day and gen
Grafton.
If give an illustration II is not
for holding any one man mp for re-
proach abov- others. In 1870 ! went
through the oil regions Of Pennsyl-
vania and saw wilderness cf der
ricl,s spread ont over the country over
eng mes pumping OH from wells Han
dreds Of people owned such Us ani
were producing oh. Five years later
all these wells had passed into The
control Of one man or set Of m n.
All the ether producers had failed 70
ioin those unfortunates who fali bT
the wayside in the struggle for exist
ence. And why and how Becaus-
this one man and his few companians
went to tie few powerful individuals
who con rolled the railroads and con-
spired with them and got then io
carry ther I'd to market fer say II
q harrl while everyone else was
charged s. sn8 more e barrel 81
course fhis favoritism in freight rates
enabled fhen 10 underseii hy that
much and destroy aIl h-ir rivals.
Laws Cont stop Evils.
Just tsink Of debate being gotten
un even by ministers of the Eos9el
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