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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1914-02-23
THE REGENERATION OF THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY.

No political speech made in this country in a
long time equals in interest or significance the adj
dress made by Senator Borah, of Utah, before the
New York Republican Club on Thursday.
Senator BOrah pointed out one prime fact that
the disaster of 1912 marked not the dissolution
but the evolution of the Republican party, and he
properly laid the cause of the party calamity of
that year to the fact that the party had got TO
mind and had fallen under the control of n limited
number of men who lacked in vision and under
standing of public thought
The Senator said
"When the returns came in last November year
and it was known that the then dominant party
had carried but two states the opinion quite gen
orally prevailed that one of the most interesting
and remarkable chapters in the annals of plitical
parties was drawing to a close
"Indomitable and aggressive, directing and
remarkable skill and judgment the course
of government for fifty years, the party
now seemed nearing complete disorganizatiOn. But
the signs misread
at was not dissolution but evolution.
"Ths fearful wreck simply proved in a grim
city holds the worlds record for selfdestructon in
ushered in that the voters had determined in their
own way that the organization of the party must be
at all times the servant and not the master, that
political parties regardless of their traditions and
past achievements must be kept and conducted on
a high plane, and held in touch with the demands
and needs of the hour. Subsequent events dis
closed that the latter Interpretation was correct
The result of all elections held since 1912 show
that there is a general return to party allegiance
amongst the voters who forsook Republication in.
1912. The path of reorganization is plain. The
Republican party again speedily take its place
the greatest agency for the promotion of popular
rights the country has ever known and it can com
mand greater support than it has ever COM
handed in the past--Hamton Republican-News.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1914-02-23
ANIMAL spIR1Ts-NERvoUs IMPULSES.

DESPITE the progress of science and the expansion
and more precise definition of knowledge from gen
Grafton to generation, we still adhere to modes of
expression which had their origin in the cruder
conceptions of earlier days. Few persons ever
stop to consider says The Journal of the American
Medical Association, when they speak of "a man
of spirit, that they are unwttingly employing the
language of the days of Gaen Yet this is evidently
the survival of the old doctrine of spirits. We
may believe that Galen had conception of the
nerve-trunks as conductors of SOmcthing-he called
it spirits-to and from the brain and spinal cord
The natural spirits that underlined property
which gave blood the capacity of nourishing the
tissues of the body. The vital spirits were acquired
in the heart and when at last the blood with its
vital spirits went TO the brain and experienced
sort of refinement for the last time the animal
spirits were separated from it and carried to the
body by the nerve-trunkS Here then, is the begin
ming of the modern idea Of innovation; the animal
spirits of Galen have become the nervous impulses
of today The ancient spirits in the nerves were
converted into the Succus nervous of later eras
when the rising school of physicists began to center
their interests in the properties of fluids which can
conduct disturbances without themselves travelling.
Subsequently it was the Wis nervOsa of Albrecht
For a time this was identified with animal electric
ity. In the present day express the same under
lying conception by the term nervous impulses.
These are not electricity, but they produce it and
can be manifested by it. Each generation must
think and express itself in the language of its own
time
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1914-02-23
PROTEST FROM THE MOUNTAINS.

These people who go about over the largest cities
and towns asking for contributions for the purpose
of helping the people in the mountains ought to be
arrested for obtaining money under false pretenses
and sent to the penitentiary, where they belong for
the people in the mountains never receive one cent
of such contributions They do not ask for it. We
live in the weathiest part of the state where every
man who wants job gets one, and where there is
20 such thing as people starving for food and SUI
fering for clothing. Why don't they let the noun
thin people have rest ?-Barbourville Advocate.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1914-02-23
For Sale
West End Property.

We have for sale THREE beautiful
residences in the West End on Second
street. These homes are modern
throughout. Each home Is located on
large lots, running back to Third street
The extension of the street car line, in
that section, and the building of an up
to-date apartment house in this end of
town, in our judgment Is sure to slim.
ulate values Of real estate in that part
of our city. These homes will be opened
for inspection, to prospective buyers at
any time. For particulars see US at
once.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1914-02-23
DAYS or DIZZINESS
Come to Hundreds of Maysville People.

There are days Of dizziness;
Spells of headache, languor, baefa"hej
Sometimes rheumatic pains;
Often urinary disorders.
Doan's Kidney Pills are especially
for kidney ills.
Endorsed In Maysville by grateful
friends and neighbors.
Mrs. Dora Mefford, Maysville, Ky,
says: 1T had been feeling poorly for
some time, before 1 knew that my
kidneys were at fault. 1 was nervous
and dizzy and my back and head ached.
1 rested poorly and mornings was
all tired out. read in local paper
how a neighbor had been cured of kid
ney trouble by Doan 8 Kidney Pills. 1
used them and before long was en-
tirely better. 1 was able to sleep
we'll and they improved my health"
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name--Doau Sand
take no other.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1914-02-23
ANTI-SUICIDE WORK.

An organized effort to reduce the number of sui
cides in Vienna calls attention to the fact that this
tenness of Vienna is internationally known Doubt
proportion to population and that there are many
suicides among school children. The moral rot
tenness of Vienna is internationally known. Doubt
less there is a close relationship between the deca-
dence of the Viennese and the suicide record Nor
NAL, healthy pcrsOns-mOrally and physically
heathy--dO sometimes commit suicide, but not in
sufficient numbers TO figure prominently in the
suicide statistics A work of moral uplift might be
more promising in Vienna than an effort to get at
the individual bent suicide and exercise persua
sion. Anyway that is how it seems TO locker
on in Vienna - Frankfort State Journal
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1914-02-23
slkRAylGIiGiA
MAKING HIM COMFORTABLE,

Commodore Peary discussing hotels with Washington
reporter, said:
"Modern hotels becoming and luxurious.
Every bedroom has its private BATH and dressing
These hotels ant do enough to make you comfortable "
Commodore Peary stroked his mustaehe and smiled.
" In flet' he said "when stopped just after my
turn from the North Pole, at certain New York hotel
the landlord bowed and rubbed bis hands and said
iOusIy;
"\'We shall do everything to make you feel at home.
Would you like large cake of lee in your bed siri "
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1914-02-23
CALL THE PoLICEl

The Pinnacle News, of Middlesboro, which is
earnestly supporting Stanley for Senator says that
'his ideas are so tantamount to those of Theodore
Roosevelt it would ill-beft Progressive to find
fault with them in the main" Shades of Ollie
James, what do you think of thatY Next thing the
Pinnacle News will run up ticket: 'For Pres
dent-Augustus Owsley Stanley. For Vice-Pres-
ident--TheOdore Roosevelt Platform-Hurray for
Hurraw Ashland Independent.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1914-02-23
CIVIL UPL1FT AND PUBLIC LIBRARIES.

1t is red-letter day in the history of a common
wealth when it makes provision for state super
vision and aid of local free public libraries affiliated
more or less closely with schools and other civic
educational agencies In 1893 New York state made
this desisiOn and endowed its state education de-
partment with due power. The outcome has been
fvefold growth in number Of volumes owned and
available for free public use and ninefold growth
in such use. Circulation per volume in stock has
almost doubled OF the fify-twO cities of the state,
forty-six now have free public libraries; of the
twenty-four villages with a population of 5000
or above all but three have Libraries of the 456 in
corporated villages 224 have regularly chartered
free libraries, and in about one-half of the
mander there are school Libraries. To this record
of facilities for reading provided by communities
themselves, add the $50 travelling Libraries with a
total of As 651 volumes sent out for by groups
of readers resident where there are no town or
school Libraries, and it begins to appear as if the
Empire State coming to apprase access to
books, whether international or inspratiOnal in
kind a right of all citizens. Such right indeed
it is, and fortunate have been the states or towns
that early recognized the fact
The most encouraging feature Of the report just
'-sued by the New York state education depart.
relative to its activities in supervision Of H.
Arowth during the past year is not increase
=. donations to public libraries nor the
eting aggregate of volumes. Rather
s1ely high increase of use of books
Asocial workers who appreciate
'Npal life of everything that
We evidence of this re-
@9ry may accomplish
sing.The Chris
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1914-02-23

The only protection against Ohio River floods Is
10 build above the flood line. Reservoirs are Just
big Jokes
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1914-02-23
SEES A ROSY FUTURE FOR THE G. o. P.

Hon. f. Y. Franks, of Greensboro, was talking at
Frankfort about dollar dinner" to be held in
Louisville early in the spring for the purpose OF
arousiag new enthusiasm among the Republicans
of Kentucky. Mr. Franks believes that with any
thing like harmony in the ranks the Republicans
will elect United States Senator this fall and
Governor next wear
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1914-02-23
AN INSULT TO MRS. STEWART.

1t was downright insult to offer the position of
assistant matrOn of the Kentucky Reform School
to such woman as Mrs Cora Wilson Stewart
Kentucky would be honored could it have Mrs.
Stewart for its Governor, at least its Superin.
tendent of Instruction
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1914-02-23
ONE DAMN HOLIDAY AFTER ANOTHER.

Rah Rah Rah The 22nd of February comes
on Sunday and the banks cant close on Monday
because it is court day Rahl Rah! Rah But
the rural mail carriers will put one over us
anyway-Cynthiana Democrat
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1914-02-23

We have reserved parlor-car seat in the Utopia
limited for the metallurgistwhe begins historical
article without reference to Tubal Can-The En-
gineering and Mining Journal
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1914-02-23

On March !, the period for which the income tax
is to be levied will be open and many people still
have hazy idea what the income tax is, how it is
assessed and how it is collected
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1914-02-23

Much is being said and written about the pass
ing of the saloon yet many people find it just as
difficult to pass one now as in the days of yore-
Louisville Times.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1914-02-23

One session Of the Kentucky Legislature every
ten years would be just ten times little
now paying for one session each year
Arizona republican., 1914-02-05
MOTIVES FUR EXPOSURE IF
 THE HIGH COST IF LIVING

There has been misunderstanding of the motives of the Arizona Grocery Company in publishing the truth regarding the high cost of living Phoenix its causes and the remedy.
 It has been charged that working in the inter ests of political organization The charge has been made that outside capitalists backing and that have only selfish motives in stirring the people to rea zation of the conditions that exist.
 To bring the people to such realization is exactly our object The people themselves will receive the chief benefit Every other business house in the city will ceve great benefit will ours. No person is be- hind us in the campaign have started we have the n teres of political organization candidate in view
 We want the people to know exactly where the fault lies. If they not fully informed, they cannot act n teigenty toward remedying the existing deplorabe sit uation.
 In former articles we have shown that Phoenix is dis c1minated against by the railroads and the manuacur ers Our books and the books of all other merchants the city prove this Our books open to the in specon of anyone interested and everyone who eats food clothes is interested in what it costs to live
 Not single charge have made has been refued or be refuted
 Our statement that the railroads charge for haul ing many commodities from eastern points to Phoenix than they charge for hauling the commodities from the points to Los Angeles be proved by anyone who solve of those Chinese puzzles called tariff sheets.
 To prove that manufacturers wholesale goods in the east for less than they sell them in Phoenix taking the freight into consideration is matter of comparing price lists
 Like Woodrow Wilson, we have faith in the American people The best people of the American nation live right here in Arizona
 And how long are they going to stand the unjust dis elimination of which they the victims?
 When they understand the situation they going to wake up and they going to do something to those who have Obbed them and gouged them for these many years
 To them to realization of the situation and to a realization of their power is our only object in bringing the matter to their attenonArizona Grocery Company, 329331 East Washington Street Phone 455
Arizona republican., 1914-02-05

tion, but, in my judgment, that is the only way that the commission ever can successfully regulate rates. l. cannot be done under the present arrangement. I think it could be Gone at less expenditure, both of energy and of money, in that way than it could in any other. The in terstate commerce commission never can discharge the functions it ought to until it proceeds in some way diff terent from it's present method. To- day We hear a complaint and we make an order Our regulation is, so to speak, regulation in spots. The order which We make in one case may create a discrimination in some other case. Until the interstate com merce commission proceeds in some broad and comprehensive way, it never win come into it's own.
 The most difficult thing to be dealt with in this problem of regu- lation, as I see it, arises out of the dual situation of the state and the federal governments. I never had iiIg otiI ttHN uOubl obOul lHc oulCOIlle of the Minnesota rate case. The su- preme court finally declared as the law, in that case what everybody had understood to be the law for years, until some of my high salaried friends who are working for the railroads exploited to the willing ears of a judge a different theory, and { hot e-e.IrI11 nod Dn i'm rortance.
 The Shreveport case, which is now
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Arizona republican., 1914-02-05

rate when agreed upon by the rail- roads was not observed. Competi- tion today is of no consequence. There can be no such thing as com Ietition, so long as you publish your charges and adhere to those charges
 There is competition in the rate between different forms of transpOr- tation. You can have competition between the ship and the railroad, and you can have it between the trolley and the railroad, but you cannot have co Cmpetition in the rate, although you may have in the ser vice, which is of the greatest benefit If competition in rates produces any effect, the effect is bad rather than good. The man who gets the benefit of that competition is the great ship per or the powerful locality which is not entitled to it. When the general level of rates is reduced to point where it cannot be any further re- duced-and that seems to be pretty nearly the condition in most parts Of this country today-then competi- tion that forces down the rates at one point has got to force the rate up at some other point.
 So my belief is, that today com petition in railroad rates is practic- ally an impossibility, and certainly not desirable thing.
 It has been said, when I have sug- gested this idea to some people, that it would be physically impossible for the interstate commerce commission to make the interstate rates of this country.
 l am not going to argue that ques
Arizona republican., 1914-02-05

try do not make their rates. 1t has come to that pass where the right to initiate a railroad rate, is of no consequence to a railroad. The rates of a railroad ale made by it's com petitors. by it's shippers. by the state commissions, by the federal commits sion. by a variety of circumstances and conditions over which the traf- fIc man has no control.
 Nothing better illustrates the ab solute truth of the statement that the power to initiate rates on the part of railroads is of no practical benefit. than the fact that railroads in official classification territory are today before the interstate commerce commission asking to be allowed to advance their rates , per cent. They cannot even increase their rates 1 Der cent without the consent of gov ernmental authority. Under those circumstances. it is idle to talk about it's being a matter of any practical importance that you have the right tc initiate your rates.
 My third reason was that the pub lie had a certain benefit from the competition in rates between the diff ferent carriers. That article was written F years ago. For the five years-yes, l will say the 20 years preceding that time-competition be- tween railroads in rates had been a most important thing to the shippers of this country. The railroad rates of this country had been reduced by that competition as they would have been reduced by no other thing. But that. my friends, was because the
Arizona republican., 1914-02-05

man, who carried them the mile and a half from. the station to my house, charged me a dollar If the trans portation charges enter into the high cost of living. we want to look, l think. somewhere else rather than to the transportation charges of our railroads.
 Now, gentlemen, it is not all cer- tain but that the future great ad- vances will be made, not in trans portation by rail but in other forms Of transportation. There is probably no country in the world where the railroad has been as aggressive as it has been in the United States. Our railroads have insisted on doing the boats out of the water, except in some few instances. I am in clined to think that in the future the boat will play a much larger part in the carriage of commodities. Trolley lines will also be an import ant factor. The trackless trolley sys- tenn which takes the motive power
  ta become an important feature in cur transportation system. Up in southern New England, where the roads are good and population is dense, the automobile already com petes with the railroad in the trans portation of freight up to distances of from 15 to 20 miles.
 However the railroads will still be the main avenue and means of transportation, covering substantially the same ground which the rail- roads cover today, and We shall have for all time with us the railroad problem.
 Now, it may not be inappropriate upon an occasion of this kind if I should address to you gentlemen a single thought in the development of that problem for your consideration. Your president has said to you that am Q member of the interstate commerce commission. That is true. I did not expect to be. but I am. It was arranged some time ago that I was to resign, and I expected that my resignation would have been ac- cepted as long ago as the first of November If I had known I was to be a commissioner still, and as busy as I am, I do not know that I could have agreed to come here, although it has not-although it ought to have involved some preparation on my part.
 What I say to you this afternoon therefore, is not said as an inter- state commerce commissioner. It does not express the view of the interstate commerce commission, as far as I know. It may, or it may not. I do not even say it as a com missioner myself, but I simply say it to you as individuals.
 Something like year ago it oc- cured to me that I would like tc know how many tariff changes were made in the tariffs filed with thG
Arizona republican., 1914-02-05
PROU1Y TALKS
 ON RATE FIXING
Interstate Commerce Com missioner Gives Some In teresting Facts About the Work of Body in Address Before Traffic Club

Should the Interstate Commerce Commission Initiate Rates?" This was the question asked and answer ed in an interesting and instructive address delivered by Interstate Com merce Commissioner Charles A. Prouty, before the Traffic Club of Chicago, on January 16. The points advanced cannot but be of interest not only to the shippers and passen- gers but to the consumers of com modities handled by railroads. In part Commissioner Prouty said:
 Transportation consists in the moving of articles from one place to another. Just as everything which enters into the physical life of man comes from the earth, so it may possibly have occurred to you that the only power which man has over nature is the power of moving things.
 Just follow down the process of cultivation: you can move your blow or your harrow through the ground. If you live in a country where it is necessary to fertilize owing to the poverty of the soil. you can move the fertilizer on to the earth. You move the seed of corn into the ground; you move the cultivator be- tween the rows. The only power which man has exercised is the pow CT of moving things
 That industry which embraces the greatest amount of capital. whose production is of the first importance, is agriculture. Next to agriculture in the amount of capital involved, and in the importance of the product, is probably transportation by rail.
 There are, of course, a great many kinds of transpOr tation other than transportation by rail, and I have sometimes felt that perhaps we ought to get at these other kinds of trans portation. I had occasion the other day to send a couple of barrels of potatoes from my home up in Yer mont, where we raise potatoes fit to eat down to Washington, where you cannot buy potatoes fit to eat The railroad company charged me $l45 for carrying those barrels of pota- toes about 600 miles, and the truck
Arizona republican., 1914-02-05

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