Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-08-27
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Every woman uses cotton thread. Cotton
thread is going up. Housewives know it, deplore
it, and pay for it. From four cents SPOOL the
retail price has scared to six and seven cents, and
it is said that the great combination which controls
it's manufacture both here and in England intends
ultimately to raise the retail price to ten cents
spool.
1t is time that women should be made aware
that if they had votes they could break up this
cruel monopoly by abolishing the protective tariff
on thread, which dscourages importationS from
abroad. They could also bring pressure in the
Department of Justice to break up the illegal com
binatiOn of wealthy capitalists which dominates the
American industry in restraint of trade. When
the housekeepers and home makers are voters, they
will make short work with the monopoes that
double the cost of lving.-Ex.
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In the inquiry in the Blade as to the resason
for the frequency of railroad disasters there may
be food for thought in the suggestion that the
policy of some roads in letting out old, experienced
men to give place to youths of tender age, may
have had something to dO with the situation
While youth is to be desired in order to secure ac
tivity isn't it just possible that in the effort to get
Young men into railroad service, the pendulum has
reliability? Some of the railroads have already
recognized this fact and have relaxed their rules
relative to keeping men in the service, and to age
restriction.
1t has been no secret among newspaper men
who have watched conditions in the railroad yards
and on the road for some time after the wave OF
favOritism for young men passed over the country
a few years ago, that many of the younger men met
death in the discharge of their duties largely
through lack of familiarity with their positions.
ok To hot with
rienced men there would be no accidents, but it is
reasonable to affirm that men who have been drilled
in their work until it has become nature to them
are less likely to make mistakes, just as an athlete
or ball player is less liable to lose his head ana 90
the wrong thing under excitement than an eXpe-
renced unframed man. There is happy medium
between immature youth and senile debility that
railroads will do well to obserye.-Toledo Blade
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Five months have passed the stock market col
lapse Money has been tight all the time, securi-
ties almost unmarketable. Yet business the coun
try over shows slackening.
That the strain has been staunchly borne is
probably due in some part to the trusts, rail- ana
industrial. 1t is tenabe theory, held by many
that the huge units which now co ordlnately handle
much of the country's commerce will withstand
a shock beneath which many SMALL unreliable
units would bend.
Among a thousand independent concerns, each
planning to spend hundred thousand dollars,
MANY presumably, would be frightened by unto
ward money conditions and turn back. The Penn
syIvania Railroad and the Steel Trust, each spend
ing a hundred millions on extensions, have not
turned back Their mass and momentum have
carried them forward
The railroad company is tunnelng under the
Hudson River, Manhattan Island and East River~
It's work will make life pleasanter for many per
sons of moderate means, enabling them to hive III
the country and go quickly and cheaply to and
from business in town Only an immense concern
covering an empire could have dreamed of an un
dertaking great.
Life is plelsanter to people in the Imperial
Valley because the Southern Pacific gathering re
sources fought the colorado River as no small
company could have DONE
These merely incidental reflections are inspired
by news from Texas, whose spirit we vast
" admire but whose determination to break up all
large corporations, without discrimination, seems
to us mistaken. Generally speaking, it sometimes
is better to have a four-mule team working for us
than single mule.
1t may be four times as difficult to keep the
larger force in the furow; but often the most help
fnl energy is that which is directed to that end,
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