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About The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 22, 1907)
M 1 The Commoner. VOLUME 7, NUMltEB 0 8 5t.- ffo iii . NWiisiuuJta- HBS,iSSr-" iwniiiiiiiii7i UinVK rrr s-s & fHfGUR if EX 'W&v agscseac k r it i't ,tf 'tm f fi i N '. fit ,i ii i ryV. MANAGING ATDI'I'Olt of a western r.nl Q i-n.id s.vMem traversing nine states reminded ti reporter of .he Lincoln, Nebraska Journal 1 1 it 2-conl faro hills file pending in every one of tho-o stales Willi cliuiice of success in Severn I. The Journal sn.vs: "'I'lie Hostou and Maine railroad has lately reduced Ms lures voluntarily to 12 cents as far north as Hollows Falls and Concord in Ver mont and .New Hampshire, leaving practically .ill of Xvw England south of those points under the U-cenl fare. There are many Indications thai I lie U-coul fare is to he in the near future the gen eral charge as the .'l-cent fare has been in the pasl. The .'l-ceul fare wnt into effect In Nebraska June (, IW'Ti, over twenty years ago, when the popula tion and wealth of the state were only a fraction of what they arc now." 4 N A NCI I Oli TO WINDWARD" is what f .Mayor Tom Johnson of Cleveland calls Mr. Koekofollor's lecent donation of SjWL'.OOO.OtH) in slocks to the general education board, lie be lieves that the .jiff is expected at some future time lo act as a cheek upon the onslaughts that may bo made on public service corporations. lie said: "What sort of ii .jfi W)1S j( jniywnvV It was not cash, as I understand it. What was 11, then? Let us suppose the case. Was it Standard Oil stocks? Hardly. Was it the bonds of cities, states or, perhaps. railways? Most likely it was railroad securities. I-Jvery one of these is a mortgage on the future. The total of i2.n()i).()iM) is sullicient to have Imiighl the Cleveland IOlectrle and to have made the city of Cleveland a handsome donation, imi that would not have answered his purpose I here would have been no future effect. Souk dav , , ilovolon. lwlmps, Hint the special privileges bat these railroads enjoy and that the people are becoming educated more and more every vear to curtail nnd withdraw, will be threatened! This wit result in a sudden squeezing out of the water In hose stocks. Then there will go np a erv that (lie groat educational interests dependent upon (he ,,.u,mi from ihese securities are threat-"'';-'. Therewill be lalk of what the widows a I (!) wins are in danger of losing Maybe a co , ! Ion will be presented that may have protective elect lor the corporations involved. 1 understand "I i hoard in the east will have sole charge of he distribution of the funds. Right liere I moiVci tlm this board will not bestow one m o Ml securities upon any institution maintaining a o mlr of pii lltU-nl economy that tenches the rut, ( vh 1 wealth really is er what these seciu-ilies are!'' rplIK AlMMiOVAL byho French cabinet of 1 Finance Minister Caillaux's incon.e V bU is interpreted bv the New YoH- v,!.i,i A 1,10 ni,u,w 'I tlmi view of t- 're os' of .VI. (UK and 'ess, and above that 11- ire levied X gradually rising from one-lirth of Y , e cei to. , ,t...t upon employment Incomes, ; cent upon commercial incomes and -I per cen unon Incomes derived trom propertv lives .,1 ft?11 lutm,,.;!!f !,RU,HhhlK vSl lIS from mestnunt and income earned bv personal 7n ZUlFT m'KHl the pains tuWiiR mil s?l out tic (Senium tax laws, and t will proba Iv so , ho Incorporated into the British b Ji ne ax T .. vsr;;;,;! r,rr pf Mnr T,,,s ) mi. : ," ""-wiiif iron nvestment .-. U " o!f ,tt,,1ro,S4iS,,1ll!,!'M1' S" most cape taxation. i-iwihc most nearly us- -tii ssss.s "as? 5Ks:lp,J!5S3?, - AHvady in 10nSland his ' ax r es to 8 nef " upon the largest foi-tm.n L" t0 b I)L1 vc"t "1'1.M . . -....v..,. ,.n.,, -""-- v., Liiuuft. M'- taxation ana .H ,'" Wi Jo rent-pnyiiiK, salary-earning citizen in New York llie old comedy of 'swearing off personal taxes Is soon to rofoinmonce, wltli the wealthiest citi zens of the republic, in the spol-lijiht. How can that amazinj,' contrast fail to strengthen 1 'resident Uoo.sovell's demand for a graduated federal in come, lax law -uul an inheritance tax law?" O WASHINGTON dispatches now say that tho president will not appoint a negro surveyor of customs in Cincinnati. The Washington cor respondent for the Houston. Texas. Post sn.vs: "The manifestations of popuhir disapproval and the advice of his political friends not to do so has changed his mind. Cincinnati, besides being Iho home of Senator Foraker, whom the president Avantcd to embarrass, is also very nearly a south ern town. Another Important consideration is that it is also the home of Representative Nicholas Longworlh. the president's son-in-law. Such a row as the appointment of the negro Taylor -would have stirred up there would have been gravely injurious to Mr. Longworth's political fortunes. Longworlh has managed to keep out of the Brownsville and race discussion so far, and it is probable he had something to do with the presi dent's change of heart in the Cincinnati incident. J he outcome will probably be the appointment of a colored man to some ollice in the norjhern part ol the state. Mr. Burton, who is now chairman ol the house committee on rivers and harbors, lives at Cleveland. He will likely be permitted to delate such an appointment where it will help him most in his aspirations btf be senator. It is an open secret that he is preparing to run against Senator Dick when the hitler's term expires four years from now. Mr. Burton is a very able man and is one of the acknowledged powers 'in Ohio pol itics. Dick and Foraker are working In harinonv, but Burton will have the assistance of all the lnends of the president and of Secretary Tuft." O P TiMw ;A P" S.TICKNEY of the Chicago JL f.ient Western railroad made some interest ing ad.niss.ons to (he legislative railroad invest -gating committee at Minneapolis, Mines a Minneapolis dispatch carried bv the Schted 1 ress tells the sfory: "President Stlekno? de clared irenzied llnance built his road nd the it- tomey lor the state gasped when the ra iron d president (lo,lm.0(1 U)0 (oul wouUl "jo ai oad Do you moan to say," asked Attorney Mam ban. "that you sold $3,000,000 worth of stocks and bonds for .$l.S00,000V" mocks and bondlv'' 110Il,hwl Vilhl stotk '"Hi nominal value "Then, if I understand you correetlv von nrae- tica y disposed of $1,800,000 in 'watered' stock?" Thai's what I did," said Mr. Stick ev "ind on'K'Se?1111 t0 '"St m!22 "You are surprisingly frank- wi,.w i think nho.,1 JUI-I. n.ka'llSTuir., Wl a y0n it onVrt'toflSS """-"T 1 .loh.B just , VVes, 1 know that, but do von fiitni- w : ... this watered Htoekl" Ul llwui'0 i,lloi'e on "I think railroads and ownoi- nr ,..,n eitVe sriti;l n-s and classincation "Brn!i7oTi,ssi Xcrs ""- hardest thing 0 w Si n n l0i' lt is t,,G most equitable basis dVbnom, !'nl? on th H.vlng that a , tarif U 'eslinncy .n same results you complain of." l)ro(luco lUo UrlVJhe vTi F Hal telegram :..ul oS"!, f'S tlllH as a servant told tho housewife- mVi work,n mom.' Said the woiimui . dimiant v '? llWay' some one writes mo for a !o,.n,!! ! ,v Sunposo shall 1 tell them?' "a id tl e gi rS1!110"' wluit 1 stood it with j on for a week Tin In' mo!U is good enough tor me."' lU lecommcnd "vrOTIIING else bears so strict evidence ..i n1P X moral improvement of the American pc.,io as the decline of drunkenness and drinking in u10 opinion of the Rochester, New York, J)eu..nTlt and Chronicle. That paper adds: "How great 'Us been this decline ouly persons of advanced eiu can fully realize. Whether this in an effect of tlu preaching of temperance or a logical result of ov porience, or tho spread of habits of industry mil thrift, or of all these inlhionces, is not apparent but llie important thing is the fact itself." O rrMlE OLD PAPER TRUST was dissolved m-l X tho price of print paper dropped 30 per . it. But the Sioux City, Iowa Journal, republican, says: "Now the oflicers c" the 'old paper trust have organized a new corporation called the Kim-berly-Chirk company, and tho price of print pap'i lias climbed back to about where it was before the trust was 'busted.' Consumers of print paper are inclined to think President Roosevelt's legal talent should lose iio time in investigating the co incidence." O f RS. ISABELLA BEECHER IIOOKER di.l at Hartford. Connecticut. .Tni-mavr 2r. in !i..i 85th year. Mrs. Hooker was the last survivor o the eleven children of the Rev. Lyman Beeehcr. A writer in Harper's Weekly says: "The lte. Henry Martyn Field, who died on January 2C ,it Stockbridge, Mass.. also in his 85th year, was the last of the seven sons of the Rev. David Dudley Field, of Stockbridge. So ends a famous genera tion in two American families of very high re nown, and it is interesting that the end should come to both of them within a dav. The progen itors of both these distinguished families were eminent clergymen of old New England stop;,. The Fields came from Stockbridge. The Beechers wore early and long associated with Litchlield, Conn., though Lyman Beocher came from Ne v Haven, and lived in various places where his mi-i-lstry called him. We see nowhere nowadays fam ilies of that stock approaching them in size an I distinction. Large families of the old Americui stock are rare now. They seem to bo no longer born to ministers. Neither is distinction achiee.l in our day in the same way that the Beechers achieved it. The most notable contemporary fam ily that we can think of at this moment is th.it represented by the seven auriferous sons of the late Meyer Guggenheim. Wp hear more just now of tho Guggenh ims as a family than of any other, not even excepting that of Abraham Landis, .f Indiana, three of whose sons are representatives in congress, besides other sons and daughters worthy of preferment and likely to win it. The energy of the Guggonhoims has been spent in Hi acquisition of material treasure. They arc won derlul as a family because all seven of them have long been in business together, apparently har monious, and prodigiously successful. One from the told has Just been spared to go to the senaie, to the iamlly's further exaltation. The energy of the Beechers was spent in the diffusion of moral and theological Ideas. Nearly all of tho sous were clergymen of note, and one was the most noted preacher and one of the most eminent public men ", ,, y; Tho ll,llW"ters, esecially Mrs. Stowo, contributed their full share as writers, teachers, and leaders to the family renown. None of them wore notable money makers, though as an incident ot their work some of them did earn considerable amounts of money." O NEWSPAPER dispatches say that Engineer Stevens has threatened to resign in case the construction of the Panama canal is left to con tractors. Referring to this alleged threat the New si?Ho fVjVean SnP,: . ,,lli)01'ts from the isthmus Joi Mm.i?i01, a Vnf V11111011 ywls of earth and ZiuZZ ey(i( (lll,llB th0 mnth of January, von ?i l0i,le w,,"'eoukl l,e cmmloted in BOVon lowest i hvml- tlUU 7.000,000 loss than the lowest bid by pi mi to contractors. If these re ports are confirmed they make the dutv of 1h Z 5!!l,t fai,Ill!n 0llt the work to tion Xoo i iSoir aJf 00vcr- Why suoiilu this na uon piace itself at the mercy of nrivate inrHvld- SlVdoitse? CUld bGtt01, aiuI i hi l ,n,i ? lly navo a chief engineer and ca alg a Cf Sh!i8V;e foms Rniilzed to dig the tanai, a toice directly answerable to the govern-