The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-02-14
WHAT THE CHANGERS WANT.

Hon. William L. Greasy is the
editor of tie Legislative Committee
Department of the Pennsylvania
Orange Meaos. In the February
number MS contribution is the fol
lowing:
WILL THEY MING TRUE?
The State officials elected last
November and on duty now at Har'
risburg are every one pledged tc
our Grange measures. The differ
ent political parties incorporated
our demands in their platforms. 1t
was upon these platforms that the
Governor and members of the
House and Senate were elected.
The new Governor has promised
we'll and a good fruitage of deeds
expected.
The legislators are now upon the
anvil. Will they stand up under
the blows or will they melt down.
Will they scheme to get around
voting on plainly drawn, clear bills
(without double meaning) that
will bring the results the Grange
has been demanding and that the
people want?
Will influences" win your
member over away from you and
away from his pledges to the voters !?
Watch him Paw no attention
to his party politics. Great princi-
piles are at stake. All parties are
pledged and we should get results.
Postal card him. Address care of
the House Cor Senate) Harrisburg.
Below are the demands, Show
them to your neighbor. If he
thinks they are right then get him
to postal card his member of the
Legislature. These Office holders
need an occasional reminder.
They forget easily after they get
in office.
Invite your neighbor 10 join the
Grange. too, and be in with us
ready for the next fight.
The Legislative Committee and
other prominent members of the
State Grange met in Harrisburg on
January "a, 1907, at which meeting
the following matters OF legislation
were outlined:
TROLLEYS.
We demand that the trolley lines
be given the right to carry freight,
without any limitation as to the
kind or the quantity; and we furth-
er demand that they be given the
limited right Of eminent domain,
as follows: Whenever the right of
way has been secured from eighty
per cent. of the property holders,
then the balance of the right of
way may be taken by the right of
eminent domain.
ENFORCEMENT OF ARTICLE XVII
OF THE CONSTITUTION.
We insist that Article XVII of
the Constitution, relative to dis
elimination in freight rates, opera.
ting coal mines by transportation
companies and forhidding the con-
troll by any railroad of parallel or
competing line, shall be enforced
by appropriate legislation.
Two-CENT FARES.
We demand passenger rate not
exceeding two cents a mile.
STATE AID FOR TOWNSHIP ROADS.
In townships where road tax is
paid, we insist that the fifteen per
cent. paid by the State be increased
to fifty per cent. and that a perma-
nent road fund be created by taxing
all personal and corporate property,
including manufacturing plants,
two mills for the permanent i'm
provement OF roads; one mill for
the use of township road authori-
ties and one mill for the building
of State roads.
STATE HIGHWAY
Complaints are being made
against the great expense of build.
ing State roads, and to satisfy these
we believe that the State Highway
Department should be supervisory
in its character, as in the school de-
partment, and that each county
should have competent engineer,
who, together with the County
Commissioners, should have the
control of making these roads, and
If the work is done in compliance
with State provisions, receive the
State appropriation. The appro-
pr'ation for, State roads should be
increased.