Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1921-03-30

the ESch-CummlnS law.
The plan submitted by the associa-
ton Of security owners, known as the
Warfeld plan, has for it's object the
savings found to be possible under the
operation of the roads as unit dur
ing the war.
The Interstate commerce commits
sion would select five of it's members
and have almost complete power over
the railroads of the country. This
service division Of government officers
would function through a board of 40
members.
Subordinate to this group of 40
would be four group railway boards:
zone for each Of the four rate terrific
ries-Eastern, Southern, Western and
Mountain Pacific. Each of these group
boards would be made up of seven
men, five appointed by the railroads in
the territory and two by shipping in
terests.
'Unless intensive economical meth
ods in railway operation are adopted"
says Warfeld, there is no alternative
but government operation, followed by
government ownership"
, PRESENT SYSTEM OUTWORN
Again he says that American trans
portation has outgrown the system
under which it now operates, and thus
adds his testimony to the other evil
dence of the vicious folly of the Esch-
Cummins law which returned the
roads to the outworn system.
TEo Il.
troll most of the railroad officials have
been robbing not only the public and
the government but those who own
stock in the roads. After the specula-
tive squirt occasioned by the passing
of the Esch-Cummins act rail stocks
began to go down hill. The owners of
most of the stock may not like gov
eminent ownership, but they hate
worse to see their property being con-
fscated for the profit of others.
Favoritism to big shippers in which
the Morgan banking syndicate is in
'terested, congestion of export trade in
New York City, outrageous prices for
railroad supplies, and a blind effort
toward profit by raising rates beyond
what the traffic of the country could
bear explain the situation in which the
roads are now.
"Voluntary action of the association
of executives of the railroads." says
iWarfeld in touching on this point.
Unnecessarily represents the views of a
small controlling group.
"Continued evidence is given of
these difficulties in the hasty and ill.,
L..
recent application before the railroad
labor board at Chicago to annul the
'so-called national agreements with
employees during federal control, which
left no alternative to the board but to
dismiss the demands as presented"
X
LARGER NAVY WANTED
The launching of the new super
dreadnaught Colorado at Camden, N
j., gave several officials prominently
connected with the new administration
the opportunity to express themselves
ON disarmament. Senator Nicholson
of Colorado has said: Il have no pa
thence with the Predetermined people
who talk about disarmament. I want
"a navy that is in keeping with the
power and dignity of this great ma.
ton"
/. Theodore Roosevelt Jr., who became
assistant secretary of the navy or
March 4, has a similar opinion oil
those who advocate disarmament
"'There are people," says young
Roosevelt, ."who for one reason or an
!other are talking against the navy
Saying that at this period the coun
try should disarm. Some of these
people are perfect pacifsts and some
of them are perfectly sincere FOOLS"
Representative Patrick H. Kelly o.
michigan, chairman of the sub-com
mittee of naval appropriations, de-
clared that "there should be no eco
nomic saving not to complete the 1917
program for the navy; it would cos
as much now to stop the work as t,
finish it. Men in this yard know VIVA
it is to cancel contracts. When thes,
16 powerful ships are added to thos,
we now have, to my judgments tn,
iAmerican navy will be second to non,
i'm the world. There never will be sucl
thing as disarmament.
't<The question of great navies i
very largely question for Great Brit
ain and the United States"
While these statements may appea
to be merely the rantings of wfld-eye,
1nilitarists, it is no more than fair t,
state that our system of monopel.
control of all important bushes
makes it necessary for us to fin,
larger foreign markets and large
fields for foreign investments for tn
surplus capital which can not be prof
itably invested here. Hence the nee
which those who approve of monopol,
business see for P large navy. TIL
advocate Of disarmament who does no
see that the destruction :of smonopol;
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