The Washington times., 1922-12-30
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Business Men, YOU Should
Work For Public Ownership

work FOR PUBLIC ownership
Car Strikes That Public Ownership Would End Affect
| YOU Most Seriously.
Many business believe that the most desirable thing in
the world is to have NO CHANGE
they had earth when Galeo announced that the
round the rate of thousand miles hour instead
Of standing STILL they would have Joined others the desire to
burn him aGve-probably.
Business undoubtedly have been the chief opponents
of public ownership Of public property.
They fail realize that public ownership of PUBLIC prop
erty has nothing whatever do with public interference with
private property.
It is the business whose pocket suffers most severely
during strikes His employees reach him. his
customers do not try to reach him.
It is the business who suffers in his pocket during
railroad strikes Strangers cannot reach the city buy goods
cannot be delivered or shipped.
The business suffers through private monopoly,
through extorton based private ownership Of the public
telephone and telegraph systems The business knows
perfectly well that the telephone extension for which he
twelve dollars could be supplied by the Government for fifty
cents.
He that Government low telephone would put
the telephone into hundreds Of thousands Of families where it
does exist would reduce the charge from five cents
call to two cents less and vastly increase the buying by
telephone"
What tho business is pleased call wise
t has made him oppose public ownership of public prop
srty and natural monopoles
We tell business that is time for them shyng
st the word radical horse SHES at piece Of white
II public ownership radical it is the kind of radicasm
that would give RADICAL BENEFIT the public and to the
business man
Short memories We invite business to
remember what their attitude toward the parcel
ten fifteen and twenty agowhen this newspaper
saying that private companies extoonae and
efficient In 1905 for instance when, William Randolph Hearst
introduced in Congress his Parcel Post bill
How many tens of thousands of business formerly
opposed parcel post the ground that too RADICAL
that it paternasm and that would mean interference
WHAT BUSINESS MAN WOULD WILLINGLY SEE THr
PARCEL POST ABOLISHED NOW?
OF THE the
greatest possible service business their
facilities giving QUICK delivery and CHEAP delivery instead
slow and expensive delvery-IT HAS ALSO COMPELLED
THE EXPRESS COMPANIES TO CUT THEIR PRICES and
realize that the public well the dividend getter has
rights.
What business would shudder he heard that
publicly owned post office to be replaced by privately
Every Governments constant
effort in the Post Office is TO REDUCE PRICES
Not content with carrying letter from Alaska London
England for five cents the Government reduced the price
two cents
Every business knows that private ownership had
tearully begged Public Service Commission for per-
mission to increase it.
Mr. Business Man, would you allow a private concern to
operate the elevators YOUR STORE? Would you say
1.-The suggestion preposrous The prosperity my
depends the freedom with which people
will not have private individual operating my
store elevators moving starways my interior ee
phones"
Very we'll Mr. Business Man. the the the street
the NATION and the
moving stairways to YOUR STORE.
If it would be preposerous for you permit private
vdua to operate your elevators and your moving stairway
and have strikes and ockou and exoronate charges
ing business is preposerous for you, citizen
the United States allow private individuals and
troll the railways street telephones and teegaphs
great store which is THE UNITED STATES.
Please think that and if you Join those that
you sometimes pleased to call too RADICAL in common
effort to get for the people ownership and the
PEOPLES PROPERTY