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HARRIMAN AND HILL
Quite so. Mr. Hcury M. Whitney,
of Boston, director in the Boston &
Mfiine railroad, is entirely right. Mr.
Harriman and Mr. Hill by the consum
mation of their monarchical schemes
are doing more for the government
ownership of railroads than all the
writers and orators in the country.
The principal economic reason for
leaving the roads in private hands Is
the expectation that the public will
thereby enjoy the benefits of competi
tion among them. This expectation is
ihusory at best, but Hill and Harri
nau have definitely destroyed all ra
tional hope of competition. They may
assert that it still exists, but the pub
lic looks rather at what they do than
at what they say.
The people are also jealous of the
existence of this imperial power in the
possession of one or two men. It
looks dangerous. The opinion is be
coming common that, if economic
power must be so concentrated, the
concentration should be where the
voters can control it. Hill and Har
riman have also by their action., re
futed the objection that the railroads
cannot be managed by a .single bu
reau. NThey are so managed now,
though it is done rattier badly, with
waste, wreck and great loss of life.
The people are inclined to believe that
it could be done better by a govern
ment department which would attend
to the business" strictly and not divert
needed time and attention to specu-
Inflnns in stocks...
- The fear that. government ownership
would lead to the creation of a great
political machine has also . lost, its
point. Civil service rules together wltl
labor unions put. such 'a, possibility out
of the question. And even if this
were not so the public finds the pres
ent political activity of the railroads
ivor dangerous than any such ma
chine could be. The corruption1 of gov
ernment which they accomplish by
their inveterate lobbying, by issuing
passes and by other well-known meth
ods, surpasses anything which a mere
political machine could cause. Thus
Mr. Whitney was exceedingly well ad
vised in remarking that Mr. Harriman
and. Mr. Hill are In reality the most,
effective promoters of government
ownership. Portland Oregonian (re
publican.) THIEVES AND THIEVES
Four Nebraska cattlemen who con
spired to steal 200,000 acres of govern
ment land have been condemned to
nay the penalty for their crimes. Two
of them are to pay a fine of $1,500
each and serve one year in a county
jail; two of them must pay $800 each
and spend eight months in jail. It can
not be said that this is an 'excessive
punishment for the theft of 200,000
acres of land.
Suppose that these men had been
convicted of stealing $200 in cash or
that by force ,they had held up a cit
izen and taken a dollar from his
pocket they would not have got off
so easily. There is a defect in the
laws when greater thieves escape with
penalties mild In comparison with
those imposed upon lesser thieves. If
the man who stole $173,000 from the
subtreasury is ,found to be a trusted
employe of the government no greater
punishment can be inflicted upon him
than upon a sneak thief who takes an
overcoat worth $15, while the mini
- Vnum penalty in the latter case is one
year and in the former case six
months.
- Whether viewed from the standpoint
of punishment or warning the penalty
inflicted upon the land thieves is not
likely to have" a great deterrent effect.
To serye one year in a county jail,
lvhere money will procure luxuries and
vhere there lg no hard labor to per
form, is little chough to pay for this
urp for years of 200,000 acres of land.
The government is making a good be
ginning In prosecuting the men who
soize the public domain, but the next
convicted criminals should be given
the extreme penalty of Uie law if the
practice is to be rendered unpopular.
Chicago Tribune.
IN LAND. WATERWAYS
We have simply failed to realize the
possibilities of these three or four
trunk streams, vthelr innumerable trib
utaries and the smaller rivers which
Providence has planted as potential
highways in nearly every state In the
union. We .have, instead, permitted
the annual appropriation for rivers
and harbors to degenerate into a mad
scramble for local favors, the upshot
of which is influenced more by polit
ical pressure or favoritism than con
siderations of the national welfare.
These river systems should hcs today,
auxiliaries to the railroads of the coun
try. They should be more. Furnish
ing cheap transportation to finished
or crude products to the ports of the
Gulf of Mexico or those on either the
Atlantic or the Pacific coast, they
should, a decade ago, have constituted
a checkmate against the rapacious ag
gression of the rail lines. Atlanta
Constitution.
TIMES NOTGETTING WORSE
No one, indeed can view the spirit
ual life of the time without feeling
that it is one of high activity and not
of somnolence. This, comblned-with
the practical testimony that we have
in all that we are doing both in an
official and au unofficial capacity for
the general uplift must bring comfort
and assurance that whatever shape
passing developments take, there is no
decrease of real faith, of rcifli hope, of
cheerful endeavor, of high resolve; and
no diminution of the spirit of human
brotherhood. And this surely is to
have the face set toward the light.
Iudianapolls News.
THE FAIRBANKS BOOM
Mr. Fairbanks is both nurse and
nursed. A neat-fitting nurse's cap is
hardly needed to complete the solici
tous make-up with which he attends
to his own presidential boom. His
boom really ought to be called only a
ripple; there is nothing loud-sounding
about Mr. Fairbanks. With cat-like
tread he passed from one meeting to
another in Chicago the- other day,
winding up with an address to the uni
versity students, whom lie thrilled by
affirming his belief that "knowledge U
power." New York Evening Post.
STAND PAT FOR SHARF
PRACTICE
There has never been In the legisla
tion of tills country a sharper practice
than that of the introduction of the
reciprocity feature in the Dlnglcy law
and the subsequent repudiation of the
whole matter. It Is the conspiracy of
the trust Unit did It, and it is time
it was undone; it is time we wore
having a prosperity that was not turn
ing out multi-millionaires by the score.
Ohio State Journal.
VOTES IN FRANCE AND
PHILADELPHIA
In France a man may, in certain
instances, vote as many as five limes.
In Philadelphia (he number of times
depends upon the size of the majority
the machine is figuring on and the pop
ulation of the graveyards. Washing
ton Herald.
WHO SAID TALK IS CHEAPI
Congressmen spoke 9,000,000 words
and appropriated $1,000,000,000 at the
short session of congress. If congres
sional words are going to cost $11 each
the- country may find it necessary o
send a bunch of deaf mutes to the
national legislature. Omaha Ilee.
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