Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1910-05-20

to determine how the harmless
apple Of commerce shalI be packed
and carried. II
Hnmor Found ID One Bill.
There an element Of humor III
the fact that one bill is tended.
to prevent the entrapping OF
shooting of carrier pigeons, which
would seem To indie that BY.
and by the aerodr would be-
come subject to the powers Of that
committee. s3.,5
The interstate commerce com-5
mittee holds, 30 far asl legislation
1is concerned the prosperityof the
railroads Of the United States iii
its hands. What iit shall resom.I
mend to the present house of rep.
Eresentativas will almost assnredly
become law The law 30 made,
will affect, according to the last
statistical abstact ,,600. 900 rail
road empl and I am reliably8l
informed that an equal number
Of working men are engaged in2
the various industrial establ lish-
ments which furnish railroad sup
plies. Yet to this committee have
been presented ia two months
session forty.eight bills ranging
from the prot ection of carrier
pigeons to the president, Is plans
for the creation Of q commerce
Court. E
Many Only For Home Consumption
Between these extremes the
one ridiculous, the other. rious
is mass Of proposed legislation
bearing on railroads. II would
|be nos stretch 81 imagination to
say it was d mass sof anti.railrosd
Ilegisla alton. That few Of the fif-
lty-seven or more Varieties of
hills stand any chance of passage
Iliis mot fInport tan ant. They are drawn
ffoT home consumption and tlie
Iconatit itnents9 down home when they
receive copies Of the proposed
measures are convinced that their
Representative is at least free
from the venal taint Of railroad
influence.
What The People Need.
There are places iii the South
where they need and deserve rail-
road stations. There are places
out in the Northwest and in the
Southwest where they want better
railroad facilities new spurs In
Ito the valleys being opened as q
result Of the government actiy-
lsities in the reclamation service.
Some Regulation il Needed.
CT course, the need for railroad
regulation is notori rious. In the,
house the other day member
/ asked the pertinent question why
/ pottery could be shipped from
Liverpool, England, to Chicago
/ at less charge for freight than
/ from the potteries at Liverpool
4 Ohio, to Chicago. The answer
was PRACTICAL y the old joke ~
H. because we need the money. q
lIn Berlin i year ago met aman
i \ from Gloucester, Mass. who u as
doing q thriving business selling
\ \ fish glue, which he could deliver
! Id Germany at less cost than the
freight from Gloucester TO Chica:
ssIgo. These curious features of
railroad rate king are al fficult
aIsof explanation to the general pub
4 lie and are responsible for much
LOT the ant ntirailroad sent Is
However they are not TO be
A corrected by ind iscriminate raids
4 on railroad credi BY such . bill,
q for exarnpl q, as that prohibiting
5Eroads from borrowing money fol
I more than one year without leave
4 from the interstate commercs
d commissio That measure alone,
HIT enacted would 60 far toward
1 lIlpptting bnsinesN where III Was ii
,,1the dark days of 1907 IS
; Copyright. 1910. By Joseph b
Bow les.
MOTTO TO DEA .ERS.
Notire is hereby given tlat iii