Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-09-01
INDIANA 10 TRN \ NIN IN p
rl.ltlMENT ~ rOLI-
TICS.
.FICHTNINC THE SOCIALISTS
hll Parties Expected Ia Combine To
Defeat the Socialist Prop
agnnda.

ihul are expected, there viii be- an
organization within few weeks Of
the business and financial Interests
Of the state, irrespective ~ party af-
iillations. whose object VIII bee to
educate tho people In opposition To
the socialist propaganda regarding
public Ownership of an utilities Tho
movement VIII take the form II ap-
peals To the Same classes everywhere
throughout the union and especially
to manufacturers ~ start the work
Of education Ia factories and among
the employees Of railroads and other
public utilities II Is believed that
the socialists viii show substantial
gains IN the coming election unless
some check ls invoked and, while the
danger Of government ownership is
not regarded as Immediately imml
nent. II liz not looked upon as so re
moto that the manifold interests that
II menaccE can AFFORD 10 SIT still ana
invite The catastrophe that iS inher
cut In II.
There is not. perhaps a state In the
union whose people are better quail
He'd from experience 10 point out the
evils Of government ownership than
are the citizens OF Indiana. who have
watched the trend Of municipal own
ership In the past two decades, and
who are cOnyersant with the history
OF the earlier period when the state
embarked so cXtrayagantly ON the
waves of popular enthusiasm i'm re-
In both Of these ventures the re-
suits were go disastrous mat II was
wears before the people recovered
from the financial loss and the con
scqucnt increased taxation and there
tx hardly ANY man of average intelli-
gencc who does not recall the history
of the states Investments IN these
projects and point TO them as "A warn
Ing AGAINST another experiment i'm "A
direction that placed such "A burden
upon the peoule and led TO serious
consideration in subseauent legisa
lures of the eXpcdieucy of wholesale
reputation of the debt 80 recklessly
incurred
The first experience of the state in
state ownership was when It began
the construction of A canal system
consisting of these principal canals
following the lines of the Wabash,
the White Water and the White River
streams and with numerous smaller
canals or branches intended to con
meet cities on either side with the
main system. Millions of dollars were
Invested in these canals and the work
WAS then abandoned before a towboat
had been started on any of them ex-
cent that along the Wabash river. To-
day they remain as stagnant water
with disintegrating locks and without
a boat on them. The debt thus in
Cured ran into millions and the peo-
nle. burdened for Years by useless
taxatlon never realized one cent of
nrodt from the venture. II WAS with
In the present decade that one of the
nld canal bonds that was not includ-
ed in the compromise settlement that
tho state made its creditors. was pre-.
sonted for rayment If had been
snmohow oyorlooled and the New
yorlf owner wns forced TO bring suit
fo, ito coIlectior which he dIa and
tina rudym,nt was riven against the
st,tn For tho nrincinol and accrued
irtcr.st
Tho rc1t vepturo in stnte owner
shin was in five construction of a rail
rn,d frop, Madison on thc Ohio river
IN Iaravetta a distance of about $50
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