The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-06-06

ment 81 transportation tacilides Il shts'
necessary investment Of capital inSordeel
to bring about nm improved service.
Against Hioh Rates.
Rates should not be unduly high: there
should be a thorough safeguarding against
shirking OF taxes; the shippers OF the
country must be supplied generously wish
cars and all other equipments necessary
all this means that the national govern
ment must be given full and ef1eoteye pow
er Of supervision and control.
less the carriers Of the ounsr ! sell
their securities: and therefore nothing
should be dona unwarrantediy to impair
their credit nor to decrease IN value OF
their outstanding obligations.
For several months some. H not all, OF
our reads have been In q condition OK ex-
treme congestion. Doubtless this issI1ain-
outgrown its railroads, that our prosperity
has increased at such a rate that the most
sanguine and optimistic railroads nave
But It Is also true that ordinary method9
OF operation, which hold good In q placid
Time OF steady and regular movement
perasiye necessities Of public need.
Up to the Railroads.
The most effective way to lessen de-8
mards for unreasonable legislation ts Tor
the railroads acting individually and scol-
the abuses and shortcomings for which
there really are remedies, and for which
remedial laws are demanded by the ship
ping public.
Finally, friends, let US never forget that
this is not merely q matter OF business
but also q matter OF morals. The success
ponds upon our discriminating between
men, not with reference to whether they
are rich or poor, whether they follow. p
solely to whether they act as honest and
upright citizens should act. Let the local
attorneys for the big roads keep out OF
politics; and when they have to sappear be-
fore the national or any state legislature
let their names be put on a special regis
ter, and let their business he a~bove-board
and open.
There are blackrnailers in public life. and
the citizen who Is honest will war against
the man who tries to blackmail q railroad
or a Dig corporation with the same stern
the man who corruptiy favors such cor
poration. But let the railroad man remeIn-
Der that to purchase n wrong,
the worst and most short-sighted of poll
cies. Let the plain people insist on the one
hand on governing themselves and'on the
other hand on doing exact Justice to the
railways. Let the big railroad man
scrupulously refrain from any effort to an
fuence politics or government save as II
is the duty of every good citizen IN legiti-
mate ways to try TO influence politics and
government; let the people as a whole, IN
their turn, remember that 1t Is their duty
to discriminate in the sharpest way be-
tween the railway man who does well and
the railway man who does HI; and, above
all, to remember that the irreparable. NOR
al harm done to the body polite by cor
ruption Is just as great, whether the cor
ruption AXES the form of matchmaking
a big corporation or OF corrupt1y doing Its
ourselves and In our public servants Is
honesty-honesty to all men: and IL we
condone dishonesty because we think 1t Is
exercised in the interests OF the people,
we may rest assured that the man thus
showing 1t lacks only the opportunity to
exercise it against the interests of the peo-
pie. The man who on occasion will cor
ruptly do what is wrong In the interests of
a big corporation is the very mai eager to
blackmail that corporation as the oppor-
tunity arises.
Moral Weathercocks.
The man who is on occasion a corrup-
ZIONIST. is apt, when the gust OF populap
feeling blows hard against the corpora
tons ne has corruptly served, to be the
among those who denounce them. Hun
such a man out of public life. unit him
out as remorselessly IL he Is a blackmail-
err as If he stands corruptly for special
finching ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS with courage
and common sense, In public servant and
in business man alike. Make 1t evident
that you will not tolerate In public life a
man who discriminate for or against any
other, save as justice and reason de-
mand it; and that In your attitude toward
business men, toward the men who are
dealing with the great financial interests
Of the country, while you intend to secure
a sharp reckoning for the w~rongdoers,
you also intend heartily to favor the men
who in legitimate ways are doing good
work in.the busienss communicating rail
way president, the traffic manager. or
all in his power to handle his share in a
vast and complicated business to the
profit alike of the stakeholder and the
| general public.
Let the man Of great wealth remember
that, while using and enjoying it, he must
nevertheless feel that he Is in a sense a
trustee, and that consistentmisuse, wheth-
er in acquiring or spending his wealth,
is ominous Of evil to himself, to Others
who have wealth, and to the nation as a
whole. As FOR the rest of US, let ussguard
ance, and remember Lincoln's words Of
houseless pull down the house OF another,
but let him work diligently and build
one for himself, thus by example assur-
| ing thai his own shall be safe from vio-