The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-01
SOME PLAIN TALK.
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are the more competent, you will give them power to direct and supervise, punish and destroy, and abide by the results Your blacksmith may be a fine fellow,-strong, courageous and full of days work. If you set him the i task of repairing your watch and buy new one as a result, the experience may make you wiser, but would it not be as we'll to take heed of the possibih ties beforehand?
 \ One of the most deplorable results of the present disposition to attack corpo- rations and misrepresent everything and everybody connected with them, is , that occurring through what is known as the influence of suggestion.
 There are in every community weak minded imitators of greater men. The views of those in high estate, conceded to be influenced by the highest motives 1 for the general public good, whether in ! result they work So or not, furnish a text to those whose powers of original thought are far from vigorous, and whose mentality is such, but for an in fuenced and mistaken public opinion would never have resulted in their se- curing an audience.
 Thus all over the country there are coming into temporary prominence many weddings who have had ideas beyond their capacity put into their heads-thrust upon them, so to speak, and who are ringing the changes upon | corporate shortcomings in a way to cause alarm even to those whose mo- ! tives in the first instance may have 1 been above reproach and suspicion. | Thus is given an illustration regard | ing the ease with which prairie fire may be started, the damage that may /, be caused, and the well nigh impossi- bility of stepping its headway until it has burned itself out through lack of fuel on which to further feed; the diff ference between exciting a mob and controlling it's passions afterwards.
 Are we not sowing the wind in our attacks upon vested interests? Those l who are conducting such campaigns are not the ones we would select to handle our property or to whom we would leave our competence in trust to care for those dependent upon us.
 It is well to give heed to history which abounds in records of waves of discontent of similar character to those through which we are now passing. Majorities have forced their will tenn porarily many times, invariably with | disastrous results to themselves, but the minority have education, brain power and as a result, the money-and there power lies ultimately.
 Where majorities oppress, the brains and money will be driven to other fields where safety and better results are obtainable and majority without these all important forces of civil- ization makes only for anarchy and ultimate disaster.
 l Unless the whole world runs mad at one and the same time there will all ways be some attractive field for effort where may be enjoyed in com fort and safety that which superior in telllgence and energy has accumulat- ed.
 Is there not an opportunity to learn lesson here before it is too late?
 A good evidence of Government rate making may be found in the adjust ment of the compensation for the transportation of the mails. It is most inequitable, puts a penalty upon 8 frequent service, and yet 1t Is theoreti- cally fair The payment for the ser vice upon our own road, in car pay, would be materially increased on many of the routes if we should re- duce our service fifty per cent. A western road handling the same amount of mail would receive ma- terially greater compensation in this particular. Does 1t strike you road with frequent service should be penal ized as compared with western road with two or three trains each way daily in such a matter? Yet such is | the case and the injustice will be greatly extended when arbitrary rules govern in other branches of the rate making of railroads
 Let me urge you to exercise more charity It is easy to criticise and hard to perform. Learn all of the other side before forming an opinion, especiallys before expressing the same, there may be good reasons for what occur to you as inexcusable.
 have in mind an incident which I will relate:
 A gentleman whom esteem very | highly, whom I regard as a personal friend, who I am confident would not knowingly do an injustice to any one attended the foot ball game in New Haven last November and when on | the return trip his train did not leave on schedule time, he became, as others | did undoubtedly, impatient, uncom- | fortable and unhappy, and being of | the newspaper profession, the next day an editorial appeared reflecting a state of mind entirely justifiable from his standpoint.
 The President of the road was per- sonally watching the service on the day in question and was fretting, fuming and making himself and others uncomfortable about the same occurrence, for he was watching the whole service and the particular train was right in front of his office window and had his attention.
 He sent his messenger, reiecting quite a state of mind, unhappy, un- comfortable, distraught and critical, to the man in charge for an explana- tion and recieved report as follows:
 That the train in question had it's locomotive attached and the cars were warm and comfortable. That in front of the station there was an uncontroll- able mob pulling and hauling, crowd ing and jostling, full of animal and nthnr rrairits and hn 1ras fnarfl1l thera