The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-17
FROM OTHER PENS


|
The annual reports Of railroad COM
paries making their appearance at this
! season show the feeling with which the
! executives of these corporations regard
| the attitude toward them of the states.
Among the reports published during the
| week were those Of the Wabash. the
Chesa peake and Ohio and of the Atchi :
| son, Topeka and Santa FNef Their preSi-
dents are in agreement that the pres
ent agitation is injuring their roads,
and that the injury will react. on the
territories they serve.
Edward P. Ripley of the Atchison i'll
sists that the hostility of the public is
unreasonable, and has impaired the
credit of railways. The systems, he says,
need money to4furRish increased trans
portation facilities and they find it
difficult to raise the funds. Investors
are alarmed at the action of leg1sla-
lures and of state railway commissions
in reducing rates and imposing BURDEN
some restrictions.
Frederick A. Delano of the Wabash
points out that the states OF OHIO, Iowa,
Indiana, Illinois and Missouri nave
enacted two-cent laws, thus seriously
threatening the passenger revenue of
the road. A significant point in Mr..
Delano's report is that he lays stress on
the competition of interurban electric
lines in the short haul passenger traffic.
George w. Stevens, president OF the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, blames
much of the present trouble of the rail
roads on adverse laws that, he says, are
cramping them here and there.
Naturally the heads of railway com
panies would condemn a law reducing
their traffic charges 1t is too early,
though, to pass final judgment as to the
effect of these rate laws. 1t is plausible
that slump in earnings might immed-
lately follow a reduction in rates, and
yet it might in the long run result in
increased revenues. Cheapening the
cost of some things has so stimulated
the use of them that larger profits have
resulted.
Such statements of railroad earnings
as are published today. do not confirm
the blue view which so many railroad
officials are expressing. For the fourth
week in September increased earnings
over the corresponding week last year
are reported by the Alabama Great
Cincinnati. New Orleans and
Texas Pacific and Texas Central, and
for the first week in october by the
Canadian Pacific. :. Denver and Rio
Grande, Minneapolis and ST. Louis. |
Missouri Pacific, ST. Louis and South |
western and Texas and Pacific. The /
for August reports an increase in gross |
and net earnings and in surplus.-Wash- |
ington Star.
AGAINST THAT KIND. 81
Wall street is unanimous against the |
kind of capital punishment which pun T
shes capital-N1inreapoli Journal.
NOT SO.
The president has killed a deer The +
animal crossed the valiant hunters !
path under the impression, perhaps. |
that when it was announced the search
was for bear all the other animals We're
20 have immunity baths.-Baltimore
American.
OR INPERTINENCIES?
Mr. WI is to return to us as Chinese
ambassador. Look out for a new list of |.
,earching inteIrogatories. = Chicago
Record-Herald.
AS TO BLUFF1NG.
President Roosevelt says: Don't
bluff unless you can make good" If
the president has ever played poker h e
ought to know that a man who can
make good" doesn't need to bluff"
New York Herald.
A GOOD FARMER.
Hall Game, according to London
Journal is a successful farmer. Nearly
very one can do something WE'LL
louisville Courier-Journal.
VERY YELLOW PERIL.
A Chinese baseball team has beaten
IN American nilie in Hawaii This yellow
peril seems to be more real than some
If US had acknowledgements News.
THE HAGUE CONFERENCE
In future years. people. on turning
,ver newspaper files and almanac ree-
,rds of events, VIII unearth the fact
hat there was an alleged peace confer
nee at The Hague in 1907. They will
lot have any other results to remember
81, II