Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-09


the syaeo, owned the without .s control Of the railway
the interest be
half o So
The important point the governors
which we have repeatedly called attention in this column
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP WOULD MAKE RAILROAD
MEN INTEREST THEMSELVES IN RAILROADS.
AT present under private ownership the railroad of abi
y interested in dividends in fights between railroads.
ces violation of law in cutting hurt each other in
combining to hurt the public
And the big railroad private schemes
for private freight lines put money in their pockets
take il out OF the stockholders
They interested bibing public officials They pri
vaey interested IN way overcharg
ing the public and cheating stockholders
Able hired much because THEY CAN RUN A
RAILROAD because they supposed to be able the bet
ter Of some other railroad
If the total Of the ability the railroads United
SYSTEMATICALLY very greats said be hundred you
may safely say that of points ability
points devoted to the RAILROAD business and nineyeght
points to railroad fights railroad competitions railroad schemng
that have nothing whatever to do with real railroad
When the government the railroads. it the post
office the employees WILL BE INTERESTED ONLY IN RAIL
ROADS.
The able railroad instead of being CAPT
tass who know nothing about railroads and instead of carrying
out moneymalng stock obbng schemes, will be DEVELOPING
RAILROADS and BUILDING RAILROADS.
Under government ownership of ability employed by
people manage the railroads FOR THE PEOPLE will let us
hope be properly paid by the people This country habit
of paying its when they good
about ten times much they could any way
goNenmeuthat is say, the people-shoud decide under
ownership decent pay capable That
will
Hitchcock. has saved MILLIONS OF DOLLARS A YEAR FOR
THE PUBLIC He has naugurated the parcels post wonderful
step.
lie has earned for himself the enmity of the railroads. which
ha he has looked the people instead of
the interests of the railroad stockholders running the postohc
He gets about oneha the salary that paid
IN a IL tore
Under government ownership railroads there wouldn't be
amy railroad stock iobbng Governor Fo points out
When we start postolice don't sell five per
bonds for all the posoce cost and then sell preferred stock for
double that amount bearing per
stock for four times the and make the people
the postoicc pay interest, first the
thing cost the shape of bond interest and then
the amount the shape OF preferred stock and then if possible
interest ON four times the amount IN the shape of common stock
That has been the system OF organizing railroads and other big
No wonder grown remarkably rich and Others
have renamed nee poor No wonder the banks have had
money to lend TO farmers, Others THAT PRODUCE SOME
THING but have used the nations financial to help
hnanc engaged IN stock obbng stock issuing and stock buying
government ownership of railroads and other public monopo
lies will mean GREATER INTEREST IN GOVERNMENT and that
is what this country needs
The citizen KNOWS about government pays less
ATTENTION TO government than about any one thing
message from the butcher deal than
from the president of the United as for the
Immensely important messages by The heads different
departmentS-hey practically nothing ninety Of
every one hundred of the people and THEY read by
II important statement meant let us say re-
ducton the price Communication ticket TO the
become government
And if another an increase or
decrease the OF coal other
electric light kerosene ohow vastly interested
would suddenly become statements And how
carefully they would select their public officials
Just present select fall and spring carefuv-pubc
officials at all carefully Government ownership would change
Governor Fo should be congratulated upon main topic of
has Inaugural address Other will follow him Let MS
hope that viii have all the voting all the intelligent
officials working for wider rce of power by government and all
the citizens uniting TO interest themselves their government and
d making what ii should bthc powerful agency in the
v country every department of bic.