Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-12-16


| mind that exactly as the anarchist is the
worst enemy of liberty and the reaction
| airy the worst enemy of order, so the
| men who defend the rights of property
| have most to fear from the wrongdoers
OF egreat.swealth and the mem who are
| to fear from the demagogues swho. in the
4 name OF popular rightsSwouidS do wF6ng
| to and Cypress honest business men,
honest men of wealth; for the success of
| either type of swrongdoer necessarily in
| vites a violent Reaction against the cause
the wrongdoer nominally upholds. .
- Need of Capitalization.
The proposal to make the ma
floral government, supreme over, and
| therefore to give It complete control over.
| the railroads and other instruments of
| interstate commerce is merely a propos-
| al to carry out to tie letter one OF the
prime purposes, if not the prime .plirppse,
! for which the constitution was founded.
1 1t does not represent NcentralizaJion. 1T
! represents merely --acknoWledgmen
| or the patent fact that Capitalization has
already come in business. If this ire
sponsiPle outside business power ts pokpe
controlled in the 3aFerest OF the sgehaEhl
public 1t can only be- cnatfoil ed sSnt sene
way; by giving aaea szpRores Of con: !:
troll to the one soYerfgnty carp sIgof Ak-
ment. To abandoHstH Is efeEssfor tationhl
control means to abandon tte EFFORT Tor
all adequate control and yet to render like
~ continual bursts Of 6ction by state leg
islatures. which cannot achieve the pur-
pose sought for. but which can do a
great deal OF damage to, .the44corporation
without comforting any Geaa benefit on
the public. III. -
There should be regulation by the ma
tonal government Of the great interstate
eorporatopst including a simple method
OF account Keeping, publicity, supervision
OF the issue of securities, abolition of
rebates and of special privileges. There
should be short-time franchises for all
corporations engaged in public business 4
including the corporations which, sget
bower from watsr rights. There should
be national as web rs state gua fdianship
Of mines 1and fofest 4 "a Iabgt ieEisla-
ton hereinafterslre f9fEAd 4fos should con
currently be enacted Into law 3 . &c
To accomplish this, means a certain in
crease in the use of-not the creation of
power, by the central government The
power already exists; it does not have
to be created; the, only question is
whether it shall be- used : or left idle
and meanwhile the corporations over
which the power ought to. be exercised
will not remain idles The danger to Amer
lean democracy lies not in the least in the
concentration of administrative power in
responsible and accountable hands. 1t
! lies in having the power insufficiently
Concentrated, so that no one can be held
responsible to- the people Tor fits use.
CONCENTRATED power IS paTpabie, visible,
1respbnsibieS easily reacheds quickly held
to account. Democracy Is in peril
wherever the administration of po-
litical - power is scattered among
cali Variety Of men who work in
secret, whose very names are I'M
known to the common people. 1t is not
in peril from any man who derives au-
thority from the people, who exercises
1t in sight of, the people, and, who is
from time to- time compelled to give an
account of its exercise to the people,, J
Legislation for Wageworker.
There are many matters affecting labor
and the status ofrethes wageworker to
which9I should likdEfS draw your atten-
ton, but an exhaust discussion Of the
probleEh I'M all dts AsTeSts is not now nee
essaTyl 3fIss BELIEVE Ans a steady eff
d 6ccSy S,Rs s9 Ssfah s i would be more
in many different directions, to bring
abeutra conditions of affairs under which
7 the men whoI WSrkCwith hand or with
Drain, the labofefS.4 GheIsuperin
the men who produce the market and the
men who find q -lnarket-foF the articles
prodGced, shall own far greater share
than at present of the wealth syss 55ro-
t'duceA antrg'be enanISd @oA iheest Il fA tie
tools and Instruments DW With aHs work
is carried son. KS FAR as TS5ssfble 4 hone
to see frank recognition of the advan-
taSes conferred by mach merry, organiza-
ton and division of labor, accompanied
: by an effort TO. births; about a larger share
in the ownership ;bN wage-worker of rail-
> way mill and factory
5 Postal. SAVINGS .baHks will make it
easy Tor the poorest~to keep their saw
,lngs IN absolute safety. The regulation
= of the national highways must be such
that they shall SERVE all people with
equal. Justice Corporate finances must
2 be supervised SO asIto~ make it far safer
than at present for Alle man of small
;meansito invest hts1Ibdney in stocks.
.Lhere- must sbe prohibition of child la
Dor. -4minution of women labor, short
ening of hours of all mechanical labor;
stock watsrirg should be prohibited.
b bIe 5toc m5iPPE e. far as is posi-
progressive inheritance tax on large
fortunes. Industrial education should
he Encouraged : rs TAP jas possible I'VE
should tighten the burden Of taxation
ehr the small man. We should put a
premiun1-upon thrift. hard work and
business energyi but these qualities
cease to be the main factors I'm accu-
nnl2tnGz. 2 ssf9Et9nA a=laReS sbefeEaua4A
fortune reaches point where it would
be seriously affected by any inheri !
lance tax such as I propose. HlSemi Y
nently right~fhft ttE1n1tioK ~hfPglh fix
the terms uPSns.whiek .36ekS &rss55tttfor orr
tunes are inherited They rarslx,. do
good and they rsfs4An 4ogAayR tt6s those
There should no Tongefs6e any PAL p5aifterl
ing with tn. question of taking care of
s snf indsssES gs%' sJ Eiss
crippled. or worn out as part of+the
regular incidents ef pa FFen BUSH
who have been worn out, I ca3luaour
s ssefn'if Powa to I'D hg [AE h4ttn Unit
sions have been taken in many of our
private i9dYstrieS,F These. INV be in
definitely Iekt3&3 s5Ef &h Eduntary
or through the Ygenoy~=.of savings
banks Djnn E7uffT fg :MsFsachusetta
Urgent Need of Reform.
oar present system, gor, rather no sys,
i tenn, works dreadful .wEong, and is of
beneft to only pne class Of people-the