The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-05-02

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promoter, who can buy space in the1
newspapers who is responsible Tor
the people being robbed by the get
rich quick schemes. The general
reader usually has confidence 10 the
paper which runs these advertise
ments, and naturally concludes that
the schemes must be honest or else
the paper would not publish them.
Upon the confidence he has In the |
honesty and integrity OF bis fayorite
paper he invests In wild cat mining |
and other propositions which prom |
ises fabulous returns, and nine times
out OF ten he loses his little all. To
illustrate this idea we might mention
a paper not over ten thousand miles
from Salmon which run their news
press for several days In getting on
edition containing advertising mat
ter for a wild cat mining company
which had been disbarred from the
use of the mails. 1t is natural to
suppose that In newspaper OF this
kind space can be purchased for the
scurrilcus attack upon a cOntemp0r-
airy. The colu INNS of The Recorder
are for sale, but the advertiser must
satisfy the management that space
he buys and fills the subject matter
must be according to representation.
! ~
Jn the near future there Is to be
great demonstration in Chicago, II
the railway magnates can bring it
: about, to create a reactionary senti-
ment In the prosecution Of the rail-
roads. From the fact that the menu
bers of the Idaho legislature are be-
+ ing importuned to attend this meet
q Ing it Is safe to say that prominent
/. men all over the country are desired
g to be present. The railroads are evil
4 IDENTIFY not afraid of what the admin
I istration or congress may do, but 1t
n is the state legislatures which make
r them fear and tremble. In the rate
|. bill the railroads got all they want
d ed, not what they needed, and have
:. no fear that the big stick will place
n difficulties In their way so they
Il cannot continue to rob the people as
"A they have been doing in the past by
!. excessive rates and depreciation O
# the stock by continuous stream o
10 water. Nebraska, Indiana and
A. number OF other states has caused
10 the magnates to set up an1 take no
10 tice during the past winter. Ever
m Iowa has eliminated the railway con
IT troll Of the politics of the state to
,e certain extent by cutting of the pas
a. to its political healers. Those state
We which have passed two cent law ar
st what Is making the railway boss s
ad anxious to get representations fron
Il every state in the Union to the bet
8. er portray their wrongs.
Nv
The railways are putting forth tn
at claims that to give the passengers
O. two cent passenger rate simply mean
ly that it will send the Harrimans, tn
Mt Morgans, the Goulds and many othe
O.. poor railway magnates to the poe
n house. When the two cent rate wa
,r- before the Nebraska legislature, til
Ial Investigation of this question demon
Mt strated the fact that the actual CO.
ak to the railroad or every passenger ca
b. ried was one and eighteenth of
he cent per mile. This statement aloT
of makes IL look bad for the railwa,
nd which traverse that state. But the
". is another side to the question
m Previous to last winter the truT
ge line railways as absolutely cOntrollt
IN. the politics Of Nebraska as they ha
lily controlled the politics of Iowa +
no the last decade. 1t Is not one of Il
~ elements of human nature to wol
a for nothing In Nebraska no mo
Zip than 1T Is in Iowa. The reason wi
rot political organization controlled Il
In state was because the railroads b,
ihe bought up the politicians by tile fr
he and iudiscriminate use Of the fr
EN- pass. Every state leader IF both p
md litical parties, every precinct Col
EN- mitteeman and every man Of inf
the ence in community, whether
was in politics or not either spol
ed an annual pass from the IA
Isl. roads or could get trip pass at al
DER time for any member OF his famil
Of The result VAS there was from on
nv third to one-half OF the people we
Ike riding free. The result was tn
OF those who paid their fare also pa
VS.. the fare of those who rode free at &
re. rate OF one and eight-tenths cents
mr.. mile.
use
,lt Under these conditions Ii stands
Its reason that the railway compani
inc can carry passengers for two cents
rse mile at good figure, when the dea
ent heads are eliminated. These sta,
to which have passed the two cent IA
nan have also passed stringent anti p'