Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-13

Of the Railway Business association Is ons
OF sef-nterest The only equitable basis
upon which your cooperation can be asked
is that what we seek to bring about will
benefit you as well as us.
Have you any doubt that eager hastt
or lack Of careful consideration in enactini
railway restrictions will bring down upo
YOU and us and everybody sure misfor
tune? Stop for moment and think OF
your situation! You arc absolutely deper
dent not alone upon the existence OF rail-
ways, but upon their continued efficiency
consider, for example, the carriers operat-
ing within the state OF the middle west.
Those lines carry your grain and meats 10
Chicago and the Pacific coast for shipment
by rail and water. Those lines must at all
times be kept in first class condition. As
the volume of your product increases, they
must lay more tracks to carry it, build
their quota OF the necessary new cars to
give you prompt service Every time a new
restriction upon railways is enacted by
congress or a state legislature. the man in
France Germany or the United states
with money to invest, asks himself whether
the effect Of it is likely to be a dimnution
of the safety and attractiveness Of railway
investments.
II may bt n law llllpOSlNE COMPULSORY
expenditure. 1t may be a decree in<B ,in,
decreases in revenue. Perhaps it is
statute taking managerial authority from
the railway official and thus decreasing
the efficiency upon which successful op-
Grafton depends. Whatever It is, the fellow
who puts up the money for improvements
regards 1t a cause for wondering
whether he has made railways less at.
tractivc as investments.
Carriage 20 Market.
What you want and have got to hav,
is prompt carriage to market at the moment
the price is right. You want cars quick,
engines to haul them, tracks to accom-
modate them, terminals to distribute them
Any statute or state of public mind which
weakens the resources of the railway In
keeping itself provided with these facilities
Tor your use, is a blight upon you. 1t IS
also blight upon us, becaus, those are
the things we have to sell
Men OF Omaha, we are indeed YOUR
brothers and fraternal relations should
exist between us. with confidence ! urge
your hearty cooperation in the great work
of pacifcatlon and conservatism
Not only do we appeal for your kind
offices In making the railroads the object
OF your considerable thought and conserva-
i've ISSuldNlOil, Dul with greater ferVenCV
do we entreat the railroads to be con-
siderate of Nebraska, and while they are
about it, to be considerable of everybody
in every state, including railway supply
men. Railroad officials should make it
their constant endeavor to meet the reason
able desires of the people who patronize
them They should cultivate friends by
their fair and accommodating treatment
1t is surely to their interest to do 1t. They
should get next to the folks! That's the
thing!
My friends, / understand that at the
present time the temperance question IL
engaging serious attention in Nebraska
He who speaks to you at this moment has
been a total abstainer from all intoxicating
beverages all his life. | have passed the
half century mark of my existence and
have seen much of the world OF the
havoc wrought by the Incorporate use Of
liquor there can be no doubt, but, great
and awful as it has been, It is my honest
belief that for the welfare of our coun-
try there is another kind of temperance
movement that must be inaugurated, of as
great, If not greater, Importance than the
liquor question, and that is crusade
against intemperance in speech.
MnIevOIent speech.
One maleVolent ana incendiary utter
ance can do more damage In a community
than all the DRINKS that accumulate there
in a year. Who can measure the harm
done by oral or written assassination of
character? What neartaches are caused
by ugly words Families are torn asunder
by innuendo and insinuation. Friendships
are blasted by angry outbursts. Financial
disasters follow foul asperslons upon mo-
MaSSaS Of
deeds of violence by fiery imprecations
hurled hesdlessly by furious orators. Tell
me of homes made desolate by those be-
sotted by rum! I'll believe it! | know it!
/ deplore IT, But l soemnly declare It as
my conviction that there have been more
hearts broken, more human misery caused
more devastation of property as the result
of intemperance in the use of language
than by intemperance in the use of liquor
1t is not alone the fellow who drinks
liquor who bawls loudly and says mean
things. People whose lips have never
tasted spirituous beverages and who pride
themselves upon their abstinence there
from are given to frequent Tags" of
splenetic utterance and their attendant
horrors.
The Railway Business association has
undertaken its special task the bringing
of the people to a realizing sense of the
peril of attempting to rectify wrongs in
the realm of transportation by Incorporate
methods and inflammatory language. d
III regulation of railways is not to do
more harm than good, it must be the Sc
rous work of mental and moral giants
AS our country grows by leaps and bounds
many complex and grave problems are
bound to present themselves for solution.
They cannot be wisely settled by a 'hur-
rah' or in the heat OF passion They must
be pondered by men cool OF head, sound of
heart and deeply versed in the science OF
government. Great are the responsibilities
OF those who must solve these problems.
Tremendous are the consequences to flow
from their decisions"