The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-10-19

wanted freight rates advanced VAS
that business was going to the bow
vows all over the country. Trans
had been cancelled and thousands of
railroad men laid off all over the
country Factories We're idle, and
very city was wrestling with the
problem of thousands upon thous
ands OF unemployed The railroad
presidents appeared to have convnc-
I'd the president that all that was
necessary to restore prosperity was
20 give the railroads license to take
more money from ti.a public.
PRESIDENT WIlsoa wanted freight
rates raised WIEN times We're bad. |
NOW the railroad are fairly wallow-
ing in profits IL il MAS tho thing TO
give the railroads higher rates be-
cause business was poor, then is it !
not also the thing 10 lower the rates
when business becomes unprecedent-
| ly big ON account of the protection
supplied to American industry by
ltue European war?
If the president owed it to theI
railroads to give them higher rates
because their earnings We're not all
they wished does he not much more
owe it to the public to give the pub
| lie lower rates when railroad earn
| ings are bigger than they could reas-
onably hope to make?
The railroad presidents are at
tempting deliberate misrepresenta-
ltion in computing their earnings on
a mythical property value" figured
out b ythemselvCs for the purpose OF
misleading the public. But, as the
above spatchsa, $, the public will
not be deceived it knows that the
railroad earnings are now phenom-
email.
The president was willing to use
the power of his great office to assist
efforts of the railroad companies to
| protect themselves from the conse-
quences of the general Depression
4 Why is the president as dumb as.
an oyster when it is in very truth an
official duty that he should demand
in the name of the shipping and con-
Isuming public, a reduction in freight
rates to bring the earnings of the
railroad companies down to reas-
onable figure?
Every one of us is paying share
Iof these increased freight rates. Mon
ey is being taken from US without
Justice and without excuse. that the
: railroad companies may earn Is to
20 per cent in dividends.
Who has the first claim on the
president of the United States, you
| or the railroads?
. WHY PROHIBITION is NEWT
ABLE
: In the opening installment of an
l authorized biography of James j.
Hill, in the Worlds Work, the author
2 quotes very interesting letter WIZ
| ten by Mr.. Hill, when twenty years
+ old, to a friend in lockwood, Can
+ ada. Young Hill was at the time en-
t ployed as shipping clerk for steam
: boat agent on the St Paul leves, at a
modest salary In the course of his
. letter, dated Feb IL. 1858, Mr.. Hill
told the following incident:
= "On the tenth of November last
was returning from the WinsloW
House with Charley Coffin, clerk OF
: the War Eagle, about eleven O'Clock
e and when We were coming dowl
j. Fourth street passing one of those
rum holes, two Irishmen, red youths
o came out, and following us, asked u.
/ if we would not go back and take 6
d drink Charley said no, and we were
v passing on when two more met us
+ who, along with the other two, in
d sisted that they meant no harm ant
It that we should go in and drink
1t told them that l did not drink anc
If that, generally speaking, knew
: what l was about We attempted t,
l. go on, but they tried to have us q
Z back, so hauled off and planted one
e two in Paddles grub grinder, ant
= knocked him off the sidewalk abou
~ feet. The remainder pitched in ant
t Charley got his arm cut open and
y got button hole cut through m.
1t left side just below the ribs
: Now the interesting part of thi
|little story is that James j. Hill wa
e. a teetotaller. Rather than take
II drink, he engaged in a fight and wa
cut up as a result. But apparently i
o never occurred to him to depart from
e his determination not to indulge il
l. the use of Intoxicating liquors. Every
y body knows the wonderful success
e achieved by James j. Hill. And wha
IS is more, everybody knows that if HI
5, had been a drinking man, he would
5, not only not have become the grea
IS character he was, but he would prob
1t ably never have been heard of.
:. In fact, so generally is it recogniz
- ed that drinking impairs any man
o usefulness. that nearly every corpora
l. ton or business institution in tn,
IS country now refuses to employ mel
S addicted to the use of liquor. That
6 more than anything else, is the rea
n son why the saloon is doomed.
The advocates of the open saloon
k make no public arguments agains
4 the employer who says that he can
2 not use the services of drinking men
8 There will be no advertisements il
g this South Dakota prohibition cam
S paign setting forth the assertion thai
3 the Milwaukee railroad. or The Nit
chell Publishing Company, or any
7 other industrial concern barring
1 drinking men, are doing It just out
e of malice toward the liquor industry
Y 1t is entirely aside from the point to
: discuss the question whether prohi.
t bition laws do prohibit. The prohi-