The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-03-28

purse strings operations on Wall
street soon become uninteresting.
The people are not bent on wrong
doing They are not unjust and will
not permit injustice They do not
mean to conhscate any mans proper
ty. Equally, they do not mean to
permit the roads longer to conhscate
everybody's property They are cap
able of doing right and they mean 10
do it. AT the same time they mean
that their common carriers shall
cease to do wrong and shall also do
right.
When the Indiana laws of 1907 are
published no anticipating statute will
appear and yet it is believed tina; tie
person who hands a quarter to the
Pullman porter or who leaves like
amount for the waiter in a diner will
be guilty of bribery and subject to a
fine of from $25 to 500. Yes, It is
queer and quite surprising, and it is
all due to the Mock bill, which was
passed for the purpose of aiding ship
pers in securing freight cars.
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The old custom, honored by the US
age of centuries, whereby members
of the British parliament were given
to wearing their hats in the chamber
during the legislative sessions is ap-
parently doomed to speedy extinction
. In the house of lords the practice of
keeping the head covered is still rigid
ly adhered to, but in the commons it
is decidedly waning, much to the dis
gust of its conservative men, who
think it a miserable breach of decor
um for any member not to wear his
hat during bis attendance on the sit
tings.
Shipbuilder Lewis Nixon is not
alone the opinion that gas is to be
the ship moor power of the future.
Indeed, it does not seem TO be neces-
sary for him or anyone else to build
a vessel to convince leading naval
architects of England that gas en-
gines are far better for great war
ships than steam engines. They are
already convinced that the former
will give far greater speed and radius
of action and greatly add to the eff
cheney of the armament of a warship.
All this was brought out at meet-
ing of the Institution of Naval Ar
chitects in London last week
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The revelations recently made by
Hartman and other railroad grabbers
reveal the fact that dishonesty in the
management of railroad corporations
has been as rank and as hagrantly dis
honest as were the management and
manipulations of the insurance COM
panies. No one outside the coterie of
plunderers has had the hardihood to
reprimand the people for being OUT
spoken in the denunciation of insur-
ance skullduggery. and Mr.. Cleveland
will discover before long that he
made a mistake in bidding the people
to be silent and submissive with ref
erence to the railroad plunderers
Former Senator Joseph R. Burton
of Kansas, celebrates his release
from six months imprisonment by
making a wholesale attack on the ex-
ecutive and judicial departments OF
the Government in general and on
President Roosevelt and Supreme
Judge Harlan in particular. The of
Tense with which he was charged and
of which he was convicted, was that
of appearing, while Senator, as an at
torney before the Postofice Depart
ment for so-called get-rich-quick
scheme, which was under the ban oil
the law, and of taking fee for his
services. On this charge he was
three times indicted and finally con
victed in the United States Circuit
Court, at ST. Louis, and on appeal the
United States Supreme Court affirm
ed the judgment of the lower court
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1t begins 10 look as if many of the
railroad systems would voluntarily
file with the Interstate Commerce
Commission statements showing the
physical valuation of the roads. Just
now they are showing willingness
to do this, with the hope that the
showing made will discourage the adj
ministration from pushing its pro-
gram for a thorough Investigation de-
signed to get at the actual valuation
of railroad property in the United
States. The Northern Pacific has
come forward with statement al
leging that the physical valuation OF
its property is $390,oOO,ooo, and the
capitalization 1925, 100000 The com
missioners received notice Monday
that the Great Northern will, in few
days. submit a statement showing its
physical valuation as well as capitali-
cation. This statement from he
Great Northern is to be used in the
Spokane rate case, which the commits
sion is now hearing