The Nebraska independent. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1896-1902, June 03, 1897, Image 6
THE .NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. June 3, 1807 WHY WE ARE SHORT. - THE GOVERNOR OF MICHIGAN TALKS TO BROTHER MANUFACTURERS. Row ftarjr Robs Industry Taa Ester Who Never Ml the Iinner Horn-Hie TrannportaUoa Qurstloo The lew En riched at Expense of the Many, Following is the greater part of un addxesa mndo before the Commercial elnb of Boston by Hod. IX S. Filigree, governor of Michigan. It is reproduced from the May Arena: Tbe general situation remind me of a keeper of a boarding bouse who bod a colored gentleman aa a boarder who wm afflicted with aa empty pocketbook. He called him on tbe carpet one day and told him bo couldn't board him any longer. Tbe boarder asked him why, and tbe landlord replied tbat he couldn't afford it. "Well," aaid thedarky, "why the debbil don't you sell out to Home body tbat can?" I am aorry to aay there are too many people in thia portion to day, Wealth can be produced in bat one way it must como from the appli cation "of human labor to the bounties of nature. Wealth must come from tbe foil of the earth or from thing valuuble foand in the earth. National wealth ia ao produced, in tbia respect thia coun try baa been fortunate. Nature, on . touched by man 'a banda, bad the boun tooua atoroi for our increasing popula tion. The noil waa fertile, and the tiiinea of coal, iron and mineral were aa oiigl nally formed. Our population waa recruited from that claaa in Europo which waa uaed to labor and eager under the new condi tion! in which they found thcinaelvea to work faithfully. For a long aerie of year thia country gained Immensely in wealth. In tho 80 year from 1800 to 1890 tbe per capita valuation Increased, in round number, front $300 per person to over $1,000 per peraon. Our mauufactoriea incrcaacd yearly, But for manufucturea there ia needed capital. We borrow from Europe a large proportion of tho capital needed, upon which and for otber purpoaea we pay annually for iutcreat a sum of over V 000,000 in gold. Tbia cum ia absolutely loat to ua aa a nation, and yet it sboub' not be necessary for ua to borrow from oilier than our own people. Under the new condition of com merce and niauufucturca co-ojarratlon ia eaaentiut No one man bua sufficient capitul to carry on tint large tntcrprisea of today, Therefore co-operation baa bo come tho order of tbe day, and wo have corporation in which many contribute each a amall amount. Hut the business methoda of our corporation have been o dishonest that our own people do not fool aafe to invent their earning in them. Our lawa are lax and encourage diahoueaty. If people with amall wean felt aufo to loan their money to or take utock in corporation uud were properly .protected by law from those ou tbo ground floor, we should not bavo to bor row in Europe, and thia tremeudou mm could be kept at homo, it la in ter cet that ia eating up tbo wealth of thia nation. We all know what iutcreat can da Had Columbu placed f 100 at in terest at 4 per cent compounded aa in a taring bank, the year be discovered America, ha would today have been able to draw hi check for f 58,000,000, 000, or almost tbe wealth of tbo United States. With tl loaned at 6l per cent, which per cent ia not unuauul hero in Boaton, he could today have paid each man, woman and child in tbe United States about $14,000, Tbe opportunities to amass Immense fortuuea ly met hod not atrictly moral have been m preat in the pant 20 yeara tbat the posacKMinn of great wealth baa become a mania with m, Our reputa tion for honesty aa a nation ha Buffered severely in Europe, and aa a couscqucuco theychargo tia more for money and the interest upon what money we borrow i .greater than it should bo. Yet ua a na tion we are not diHhoucMt. A limited number have been permitted to piny duck and drakea with our credit and have becoino tlangeroualy wealthy, for a wealthy man with no moral principle i a dangerous man in the state. We have a few of that kind in Detroit men who want valuable franchises for nothing and whoso entire time ia occu pied in bribing and corrupting aldermen and city officials to give them some thing which belongs to the people aud which gift may then bo bonded for a few million aud sold again at a profit to omo "innocent bolder, " I aay, let the state reform their corporation laws, a I am told you have done here in Massachusetts, so that tho small bolder 1 protected, and yoa need uot send to Europe to borrow money and this tre mendous interest charge will stay at home. It ia said that what this country noed is confidence. I agree with this. Tho country needs confidence in tho business method of our large concerns, and money to carry them on will soou be forthcoming. The best place to begin to build up confidence in u a a nation ia to begin to reform our municipal gov truuient. Honesty must be our motto, and confident will come, I believe that all manufacturer in the west are think ing alike ou the qutwtioii of prices. I'rieea are at a standstill, aud a rlaa iff fall await tba rise or fall of farm prod del. Manufacturers of the west are waiting. Large blocks of their custom trt aw out of employ lueut They do not clearly that employment will offm toon. Hut should it offer m il summer, a great deal of it !dng discounted, it will 1 a year at least before the cut tauter of oars can catch up. Kvu whui Wt warn the peetney of tba tarn ins; point tbora will still tw amuttibtuf thai Must t ritinovrd lo basleu Ik Ws hav born having bad times, and tiiry ar itiii Ha us. Ytt w pay a fcjj talaris) to fntblta n tvsjuu la bad item U l fno4 Itutea, Tlw gputlemsa wko aa bo avrrlng (a tba capacity o4 -midat Ihrnugh lb bad tiuxM drew fc;j,eoo erery jrwsr, and, by tbo way, Usal I Mid to U tb ldulloal auMual 2i ehortac which President Wa-Iiius;-toa cimrged ro profit and loss at tb- u J Df bis two term. Things. aarou vi.'l perceive, are roiuewhat changed. It is che people and net tbe president v bo are short iu modern times. Perhaps this is a part cf the so called progress cf a nation. But if tbe United State keeps on in this line of evolution, or rather of retrogression, we may in time return to our original happy condi tion of indifference to boots and shoes. I say in all seriousness that public ex penditure is severely felt. Our price may fluctuate, but taxation ia steadfast. The condition of the farmers of the went is not good. When I see the prices of farms fall, I begin to think of working down tbe price of boots and shoe. I wish that I had the power at tbe same time to work down public expenditure. But large bodiea must move slowly, and of all large bodiea the great body of tax eatera is the slowest to respond to pres sure and at the same time tbe quickest to respond to tho dinner born. Were trade and taxation a double thermom eter you would see trade boot and shoes inclusive -at the zero point while taxation is still at 00 degree in the shade. If you are not foolish, do not talk of economy to the friend of the wealthy man, and do not mention sal aries in the presence of official or of doctor of divinity unleaa yon mean to raise them. I eay to you men of Boston tbat trade' customers must be taxed only in due proportion to their earnings. You have a wise man here in tbe east who aay tbat railroad should be taxed only upon gross earnings. Thia means j that the railroad tax should take a slid-! ing scale in proportion to the volume of . business. I accept it, but I would apply i the method to all His rule baa been in force in Michigan for many years. There tbe railroad have been taxed and are still taxed upon grow earning, and with thia result: Tbe farmers, the produeera of Michigan, have puid four timea their proportion of taxation com pared with the railroads. The farmers have no sliding scale. These farmers are the customers of the manufacturers, and tbe unequal tax restricts our market. 1 always like to see my customer in good financial condition. I am obliged to throw one grave doubt upon tho gross earning system of taxation. Under this system the rail road assess themselves. The assessor can find out what a farmer owns, but he cannot verify the reported gross earnings of a railroad. I do not know but that Charles Francis Adams is right, but Mr. Adams' conclusions differ ! from ttiv own fliru-rtetifn Tlinv rull tun I that Mr. Adams is an advocate of the taxation of the gross earnings of rail roads aa a system, and 1 am surprised that anybody in the eaat advocates an income tax, for a tax on gross earnings is an income tax. I suppose, however, that everybody would bo satisfied with an income tax, aa the railroads of Mich igan ore, providing that, like those rail roads, they bad no other tax to pay, and that the bulk of taxation was tbs shifted upon others. Aailroads are not anxiou to show their books. I tried ouo time to get the street railroads of Detroit to show up. I told them that, if they gave mo free access to their books in order to ascer tain tbe cost of construction, cost of rolling stock, cost of maintenance and cost of operation, I would allow any rate of fare for a generou profit. They refused, I then asked the circuit court to oblige them to show up, und tho court refused,'' I take tbe position that the public ore partners in all systems of transportation und aa partners have a right to know all. Transportation is not a private business by any means, If the gross earnings system is right for railroads, it ought to be right for all cIuhmcs. If tho gross earnings of rail roads are (tccepted without investiga tion, as they alwaya havo been, then whatever tho farmer say bis gross earn ings may be must bo accepted with like trustfulness. But this is uot busi ness, aud wo all know it. Tho only way is to assess all alike aud under some equitable method. All I waut to do with transportation in Michigan iu the way of taxation is to have it pay its hare iu due proportion to values. I want to seo fair play for my customers, and incidentally for yours. I dure aay yon havo read of tbo wild lushing of railroads by your humble servant in tho way of ratea of faro. Here toe the fucts in brief: In Michigan for many years somo of the roads huve been opcruting under what is called the general railroad act, .other under old sjiooial churter. Home, under tho gen eral railroad act, aro confined to a faro of 9 cents per mile. Those under tho old special charter are taking I) cent per mile, Thia condition of affairs existed long before I expected to become gov ernor. You may inquire if theso differ ence were caused by density of popu lation through which the vatious rail road run, aud I answer, uot at all. Tbo fact is, the Chicago aud Oraud Trunk, whoso local fare aro 8 rents per lnil", runs through lens population than tho Michigan Central, whoso local fares are 8 cent per mile. The president of the MJchlguu Central soya that tf you comparo tbe fare hi the densely popu lated ciut with Michigan Central fare, yoa will find that Iho Michigan Central ia entitled to double the farw charged. If that t there must U aomethiug wrong iu the east. Hut It I ovr a fourth of century ago sine the Mich igan Central fare wo establU.ied, with th con nl of tbe company, when ther Wa one-half lira population of ttMprv mil tributary to thl railroad. Talk about tbe tUntatty of population Is in I ha nature of rubbish. The buslue f l la that ay railroad which la only making apDUaea or lea as only 4i rewuiau to wake money, aud that U to lower rata, and stockholder and bondholder. Mght to knew It. Wer thl plain bul ft principM put In (urea, thera would be) no u( b. thing a a remit if Hton agar war hone W di not rua tb aild afto) busiueaa uu I ha ptrpelual b'ta pile ayaiitiu Wauaa w do Hot ll WtOorvd tvx k;t, Tho fall in railroad passenger rates aos not come down, how ver, with tho all in other price. In 1865, when I left Boston for Detroit, it cost me 19.2"), first class ticket Yesterday it ost mo 617.65 to come here from D Jroit, only about 8 per cent cheaper. A pair of shoes which sold in 18G5 for S Cr;CSpcSiZg of 50 per eent. Tbe cheapening of ma terial and labor which go into a pair of shoes has not been greater than the cheapening of material and labor which go into the construction or maintenance of a railroad. .Railroad rates are indi rect taxes levied upon commerce, con tributed by tbe many to enrich the few. Just so long as the foolish capitalists of the yist persist in buying watered stock, jual so long will your customer in tbo west remain too poor to buy your manufactured goods, and I sincerely trust that the time will soon arrive when tho purchase of watered stock will be regarded in the same light aa highway robbery. So positive am I that plain business doe not enter into tbe conduct of rail roads that I would venture to guarantee the best returns on the stocks and bonds of our Michigan railroads, even to the present limit of watered stocks, if the railroads were operated on half tbe present rates. The earning capacity oi tbe railroads of Michigan ia not baii developed, in consequence of uwbusiuess like charges and methods. Where the earning capacity of railroads ianot fully developed it ha an evil effect upon the earnings of the state, aud as a conse quence there aro less boots and shoe worn. But all I am after in Michigan is to proceed npon tho lines laid down by the action of my predecessors'. I act upon the principle that no business shall get ahead of my business if I can help it. I want all to have a fair share, but I see where shrewd corporation are getting more than their share. I do not want to see my customers taxed poor. I want to seo them wear more boot and shoes, especially shoe. I know I have tho sympathy of all manu facturers except somo who ore getting a bigger rako off by connection with some unreasonably protected corporation. Speaking r.bout protection puts me in mind. Wo all want protection. But do we get it, even when tho tariff is raised? In order to got it we must watch transportation rates. Under a decision of the United States court we are partly at the mercy of transportation. A case was brought at New Orleans some timo ago, and the facts as disclosed showed that tho railroads carried boots and shoes at different rates to San Francisco. For boots and shoes and other merchandise manufactured at New Orleans or sold by Jobber there the rate to Sun Francisco was $3.07 per hundred, but for im ported boot and shoes and other mer chandise of similar class the rate was $1.07. Tho supremo court sustained this method of transportation. I do not know tbe reasons for it. I do not care to know them. My care is to point Out tbut the principle or expedient of national pro tection is defeated In part by the de cision. But if there 1 to be internation al reciprocity of rate of transportation wo ought to know something of it, and o should congress, to regulate it proper ly. We have abolished the lottery and we are engaged in stamping out tho common kind of gambling, but tho higher form of gambling are un touched. Taxation must be placed on those who can bear it or there is an end to successful business. Our customers nro loaded down with taxation. From ex tortionate rates of fares, freights and charges of all kinds, computed by the companies, down to the oleomargarine spread on bread, tho evil descends, in creasing as it goes iu an enormous bur don of excessive indirect taxation, and tbe far greater share of such taxation goes to tho increased concentration of private wealth aud not to tho public benefit. Tho tariff operates to tho man ufacture of consumers. We have a land that can fully support at least ten times tho present population. Iu tho interest of manufacturers I say that sound busi ness should not be silent in tlie face of gambling methods.' Manufacturers, should bo active as agniust tho imposi tion of unjust taxation, either direct or indirect, upon their customers. All of our higher political efforts havo been along tho line of tho manufacture of consumers, but we have stood idly by when those consumers have been fleeced by stock and bond jobbing. Wo havo stood idly by when transportation has levied blackmail and when state legis lature have imposed excessive rates oi fores and freights and when common councils of cities havo been parties to open robbery of tbo men and women who aro our customers uud wbeu wealth escaped taxation. Hold on to Oaa Speech. There is much disposition of late in tho Mugwump aud gold bug press of tho United States to attack aud vilify tbo senate because it does not subject itself to tho sumo dcsiHitio rule a that which prevail lu tbo bouse of representatives under the nafue of tho Heed rules, which absolutely gag the minority and make freedom of (-ch iu that branch of rougrvM a thing of Iho past. Tbi dclr ou tho part of the mouth piwv of pluHs'tncy to choke oft public debate and di'uioii of the ruwnlly legUlntlon which tbo money (Niwer I trying to force through (tuigtt I quite natural, Th w mime defend r of uio ttopoly, who ai am lout to ihoke of? frwdoiu (if detmto lit b M ntl, Would choke off ftwdom of srx teh. tn lb pub lic rostrum If tbry dared. At tlrovcr CUrvvlaud Mid iu hi Nvw York apvech lat Halurdoy, "none ran frgr tl doubt ami fear of that UiHUrtw raiu paign," uiraulug In lal tut, whu tit km fuller and fmr and healthier tfiacamtou of palllo qooattuu than vrr twfui, Tn rut will do wll on no aeoouul to V tiiAueuimd by tit clamor of theaa t ixm of fne govwrunwul. bat gn atwadlly ou lt way and Ut u all nuwr (ally and fwly. KulgnU of Labor Journal Extraordinary Nervousness BJindroided, Could Count Kfery he a in When Walking Across a Carpet. i canttal, HlaU. Mo. There is probably no one better known in Sedalia, especially among the mem bers of the Firnt Baptist church, than Mrs. Wollie b. lloe, the wife of Mr. Hoe. the nurseryman, and nothing is better known among the ladv's acquaintances, than that for t lie past four year she has been a physical wreck from locomo tor ataxia, in its severest form. That she has recently recovered her health. strength and normal locomotion has been made apparent by her being nm-n frequently on the streets and in church. and this fact induced a representative of the Uipital to call on Mrs. Koe to in quire into the circumstances of her re markable recovery. Mrs. Roe was seen at her bouse at the corner of Ohio Ave Due and Twenty-fourth street and seemed only too glad to give the follow ing nixtory of her caxs for publication "Four years ago," she said, "I was attacked with a disease which tbe physi cians diagnosed aa locomotor ataxia aud I was speedily reduced to a mere wreck. 1 had no control of my muscles aud I could not lift the least thing. My flesh disappeared until my bones almost pierced my skin. 'I be sense of touch be came so exquisitely sensitive, tbat I be lieve I could by walking over the softest carpet blindfolded, have counted every seam, so it may be imagined how I felt when trying to move my uncontrollable limbs. Tbe moat eminent physicians were con sulted but they gave me no relief, and I was without hope, and would have prayed for death out for the thought of leaving my little children. All thought of recovery had gone, and it was only looked upon as a question of time by my husband aud mends when my troubles would end in the grave. ''One day while in this condition I re. celved a newspaper from soiiih friends in Denver with a news item marked, and while Ireading it my eyes fell upon an ac count of a remarkable curs for locomo tor ataxia by the use of Dr. Williams' l'ink 1'ilis for rule People, and the case as described waa exactly similar to my own. 1 at once made up my mind to try the remedy, and began according to directions to take the pills. The first box had not gone when 1 experi enced a marked improvement, and as 1 continued I grew better and better until 1 waa totally cured, 1 took about four boxes in all, and after two years of tbe most bitter suffering was us well as I ever was. ot only my leeiings but my appearance underwent n change. I gained llesh, and though now forty-three yeara old, I feel like a young girl. You cuu aay that Mrs. Hoe owes her recovery to Dr. Williams Pink Pills, aud that she knows there is nothing in the world like them. (Signed) Mollik E. Hoe." Subscribed and sworn to before me this 24th day of August, 181)0. (jKoiioe 11. Dbnt, Notary Public. (heal.) Pettis Co., M . Dr. Williams' Pink Pill contain, in a c mduused form, all the elements neces sary to give new life aud richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are also a specific for troubles peculiar to femalus,such as suppressions, irregularities and all form of weakness. Taey build up the blood and restore the glow of health to pale and sallow cheeks. In men they effect a radical cure iu all cns"s arising from mental worry, over work or excesses of whatever nature. Pink Pills are sold iu boxes, (never in in loose bulk) at fifty cents a box or six boxes for a $ J.5U and may be had of nil druggists, or direct by mail by address ing Dr. Williams' Medicine, Co.,Scheuec- t(1y. N. Y. Content Ut Tell the simple Troth. Leroy T. Carkton of Wiuthrop was swapping yams with Captain Sargent the other day. "Now just for a mo ment I want yoa to listen to a truo story," I said. "I can spin a yam on great occasions, but this is gospel, Whilo I war a boy we lived up in the town of lYillips, pretty well over to WeldlinOj.under the lea of tho old Blue. Just to the went of our house was the valley leading up to the notch in the mountain ra'igo. This valley was a reg ular thoroughfare for wild geese going north in the spring and going south in the full. We used to shoot quantities of them iu fact, one full I alone shot But as this is a true story we'll lot that pass. "In the fall we had very sudden changes in temperature, and when a chill northwester set in there was a sud den and alurming drop in the mercury. One night I hourd n great 'honking' down on a mud pond neur the house. Once or twine I beard it in the night. Next morning it wr.a freezing cold, and those gecKO were still making a racket "My brother und I took our guns and went dow n. , Creeping up cautiously, we fired. Two bird tumbled over, but the rest only squawked the louder, but never moved, doing down on the shore, wo fouud that suddeu diop In tho temper ature bud fro.eu a whole flock Into tho mud around tho shore. All wo had to do wus to go up and knock them ou tho head. "We t;ot 133 aud hud roa-t goose all wiulcr. ".-I.evi,iton Journal. A tlrah fraa. Wa at th name and addira of reapouxibl farmer aud busuiMui men to hoiu may aeud umihi roiiitta ol tlii pn r itb soma cbanew ol getting Idem to uhverih. In orWr In gel such a list wa hv de. eUM lo wad a ropy ol K, H. King' Itimk. entitled M Fw Financial Fet." lo every iwranu sendm? In a list of ten or niiir name and addr. It i a vahiwbla book wlla ovr Ul it!utrUr ttiaurani and retail at 33 ent r ropy. Hrnalor Allan say ol lha book, "it iHiiaea araut inwlt and should ha lalW road by alt who daalr in a rtlorm la our tnoawtary ariM." All I kal I awaarr tor you to do to get a top m to Bd laalut of th nam and addraaawa of Ian or mora larwara of buiiea la ioi,r ka) III, WUa yo toiunk naaaguod alert ion aa roitl. Tha auwM ol mi allai a art ablaaad itkalr lanb- wnfc tor thia pcr art pralar r4, A Mappf la a atawaalty. What IUoUe Will lo. Merely as an indication of how ex treme wealth and what one has to go through to pontoon it will do for a man, the following item is given in these col umns. It is from an nssociated prem? dispatch dated Joliet, III., May 18. The dispatch says: "Mrs. Elizar Sage, the wife of the roan trho obtained a $50 loau from bin uncle, Kussell Sage of New York, last February, has attempted to commit suicide from worrying over the debt. Klizar sage had saved $i toward lifting the mortgage on his botnetitead and his wife had $5. Brooding over the affair caused Mrs. Sage to lose her infiid and last Saturday she was found hanging to a rafter in the shanty upon which New York's million aire, Sage bad a mcrttratre for $ 50. She was found in 4ime to save her life. Tbe money to cancel the mortgage was eent last nmbt to .Mr. huge." hen a man's wealth so warps his manhood that he does not hesitate to rob his own family by the relentless and never-failing mortgage, although worth millions of dollars, it is time something was done to urotect the beloless poor, And it is almost impossible under pres ent conditions, lor anyone to be. a mil lionaire, and at tbe ha rim time be a worthy member of society. Denver facts. HEALTH MEANS a perfect condition of the whole system. Pure blood is essential to perfect health. Hood's Bar aaparilla makes pure blood and tbua gives health and happiness. HOOD'S PILLS arethe favorite family cathartic and liver medicine. Price 25c. By the meeting of thi "sound money" eaugue in Chicago on last Friday, which was composed, the dispatch say, of 'men of niony,'' we find tbat a deter mined fight is to be made for maintain ing the gold standard in the United States. If any one in this country ho heretofore believed that there was any intention on the part of the so-called sound money" faction to promote any other form of money metallism. be ought to have the Hcalea rudely scraped from off bis optica by the information that tbe above named league "laid plans for the dissemination of trold standard literature throughout the country". Dons that sound anything like "inter national, or other kind of "agreement" favorable to to bimetalIism?--Cortland Herald. CURED. EhenniatlBm.EciwnH, Kidney and Stomach Troub lea It is but the truth to say that hund- ads of people suffering from above and oiuer uiaeases nave oeen cured or greatly benefitted by the use of the medicinal water at Hot Springs, 8. D. If you ara interested, address for particulars, A. 8. Fielding.City Ticket Ageut Northwestern Line, 117 South Teuth St., Lii-o, Neb. Loan your paper to your neighbor. Perhaps he will subscribe. GRUDDERK DOtS I HE WORK H5T020ME CRUBBGo.,LAtKtSCtNT,MlNN. 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