The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-04-09

being regulated by the Interstate com
merce commission. and if the octopus
chase goes much further the big ran
roads will join in with Mr.. Bryan an6
the two together will be able TO &C
complish the thing. The only way &c
defeat government ownership IS ths
gigantic holding company to acquire
all the railroad stock in the countr!
and operate every mile in the interest
of the people and with due consld
Grafton for every neighborhood and III
dustry in the union.
Tried Competition.
Congress for 40 years has been full
of parrots saying, Competition is the
solution of the railroad problem.
Well, they tried competition, for that
is all the rebate" is. Two merchants
at the crossroads selling the same
boots, the standard price $3.50. One
sells at So. That is competition and
.. a rebate OF so cents on a single pair
Congress said the roads should COM
pete. and they competed. They gave
the beef trust rebates. They gave
Standard Oil rebates. They gave the
Steel corporation rebates, and made
John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Car
negie the two richest men in the
world, and put $5b,000,000 into the
Golfers of Phil Armour. The roads did
not want to do this; they had to do
! it. Your railroad is one concern that
| has to do business. 1t is much better
| for the road to do business at loss
| than not to do business at all, and to
! do business they arc compelled to
grant rebates between Chicago and
| Pittsburg and New York.
! Earnings Pooled.
There for the
roads to get out of the clutches of the
trusts and that was to pool their earn
! ings. They had a bill in congress to
! that end, and you ought to have heard
! the howl that went up. It would have
! put a stop to the + bate and put
every shipper on an equality. 1t would
| have crippled every trust enjoying re-
| bates Of course the trusts said moth
| ing, but let the octopus chaser alone
and they killed the bill and thus add
other tens OF millions TO the Golfers
Of Rockefeller, Carnegie and the
others. Then after they killed the
pooling bill it was iaushable to see the
| poor little statesmen assail the trusts
that they had just saved.
| And SO it went for years. The rail
roads were forced 10 compete The
rebate was the way they did it. and
! by that means they sent to bankruptcy
or drove out of business thousands of
small shippers, whose business was
| immediately absorbed by the big
shippers. Had there been but one
| railroad company in the United States
| that would have been impossible. 81
could have said to the trusts, I'VE
will haul your goods at the same rate
we haul the smallest shippers goods. -
| Steve Elkins, who has done more to
solve the railroad problem on lines OF
intelligence and justice than 10 Roose.
Eelts. secured the passage of a law
forblddIng rebates, but not until the
roads were allowed to make agree
mentS that amounted to pooling That
is permissible under the law and the
roads and the people are getting on
very well now.
! But the one settlement is one com
pany, owning every mile of road, OF
government ownership.
THE SLEEP OF GOOD HEALTH.
The restorative power of sound
sleep can not be over estimated and
any ailment that prevents it is a men
ace to health. J. l.. Southers, Eau
Claire, Wis, says:-'FOr long time
| have been unable to sleep soundly
nights because, of pains across my
back and soreness OF my kidneys. My
appetite was very poor and my gen
eral condition was much run down.
have been taking Foley's Kidney Pills
but a short time and now sleep as
sound as a rock. | eat and enjoy my
meals, and my general condition is
greatly improved. l can honestly
recommend Foley's Kidney Pills as
know they have cured me-" w. A
DAlemberte, druggist and apothe
cary, 121 S. Palafox ST.