The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1914-08-07
HUMAN INCONSISTENCY

What an inconsistent old world
this is. 1t seems to be settled trait
in man to hate what he is striving
for with all his might, but cannot OBJ
tain.
A man will ride three throusand
miles in stage, spending three days
on the journey, burning up by day,
freezing by night, tired beyond de-
scription, pay twenty-five dollars for
the torture and never complain.
He will at the same time pay forty
dollars per ton for carrying his goods
over the same route and if he receives
it thirty days after shipment, he will
, congratulate the teamster on having
made so quick trip.
. But build a railroad over the same
route, give the same man drawing
room; let him retire and have good
sleep, let the train start at eight p.
m. and land him at his own home in
, time for an early breakfast next
morning and charge him one-half the
sum he paid the stage company for
the same journey, and so soon as he
has his breakfast he will sit down
and while smoking his after-break-
fast cigar explain to passing neigh
Dor, that the railway is & monopoly
tha should hn rushed
| When he reaches his place of bust
+ ness and finds the goods he shipped
three days before all arrived and in
good order, the sight of the freight
bill with it's charge of 81 per ton,
throws him into rage and he tells
his bookkeeper that the people ought
to go out and tear up the railroad
and rid themselves Of the soulless
monopoly.
There was a congressman who for
several years served his district in
congress. He was a bright and able
man.
But his hobby was to fight monopo-
lies of all kinds, to him they were
a menace to free government.
But he helped neightbor get
through patent for a steam cotton
press by which the neighbor proposed
to compress two bales of cotton into
the same space that one of the old
bales occupied, and this to reduce the
freight nearly one-half- for cotton Is
charged by measurement, not weight.
For his trouble he received some stock
in the company and bought more and
made fortune in a single season,
and his voice denouncing monopolies
was never more heard.
There was a governor in Texas and
, United States senator from the
| same state, who We'd with each other
, in denouncing monopolies and ecpeci-
2 ally the ravenous Rockefellow Stand
, ard Oil company They made national
t fame as stalwart fighters for the in
= terests of the common people against
= the unspeakable expressions Of the
V soulless rich. But one day a mar
: came alone. looked over the country
;. and expressed the belief that with {
e little financial help he could find OF
s in Texas. To help him both the
e governor and the senator gave hin
e money and laughed together over thu
impossible gamble, expecting no re-
ward this side of heaven. But thu
n man struck the great Beaumont gush
v er which suddenly put them in thu
= Rockefellow class, and since then NJ
X Recommendations of monopoly have beer
h heard from that part of Texas.
The most pronounced hater of al
6 monopolies is perhaps Mr.. Secretar,
4 Bryan. Still, when, few days hence
n he starts out on his Chautauqua lee
4 ture tour, If new exangel shoult
q appear that could take the GROVE
4 away from him, in his secret soul h
q would hurl anathemas at the con
~ scienceless scoundrel THAT had dust
ed" his monopoly.
,r When will the world UNDERSTAND
,s that the two working forces tina
Is make for civilization are money an
20 brains, that without them men woul
N like Nebuchadnezzar be eating gras
20 like oxen and not much above tn
70 beasts in comforts or intelligence
that both are blessings to be treas
" ured and regulated, but not crushed
vs. -Goodwins' Weekly.
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