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A REASONABLE RETU11N
At a mass meeting of railroad em
ployes held at Grand Island to pro
test against the further reduction of
freight rates by the railroad com
mission some criticism of the farm
ers was heard for demanding re
duced railroad rates at a time when
the farmers themselves were pros
perous. The farmers, a speaker is
reported as saying, are not willing
that the railroad employes should
share in their prosperity, a prosper
ity "brought about solely by the rail
roads." It will be a pity and a mistake if
this movement of railroad employes
allows itself to generate sentiments
such as this before their relation to
the public and the railroads has been
fairly and open-mindedly established.
The debate leading to the Hepburn
rate law of 1906 settled some of
these things. It decided that the
railroads are quasi-public corpora
tions, receiving certain special privi
leges which only the state can give
and without which they can not ex
ist, in return for which they are to
serve the public faithfully at reason
able rates. It was agreed that rail
roads are not creators of prosperity,
but agents of it. They are to have
fair returns, for their capital whether
the farmers are prosperous or not,
just as the railroad employes demand
fair wages whether the railroads are
at the particular time specially pros
perous or not. And no matter how
prosperous the public is, it' has a
right to reduce railroad rates to the
point which leaves the railroads a
reasonable profit and no more.
Now the only real excuse for the
farmers and the railroad employes to
get at cross purposes lies in the
doubt as to what this reasonable re
turn is. The railroads tell their em
ployes that the rate reductions en
forced by the state have made wage
reductions necessary. But their say
ing -so does not make it so, and when
they refuse to show us the proof are
wa not justified in doubting their
word? Thomas F. Ryan, himself a
great capitalist and railroad owner,
alleged under oarh the other day that
the stock of the railroads of the
country is 95 per cent water. May
it not -well be true that it is paying
dividends on watered stock which
causes the wage reductions? In that
case the railroad employes should
clearly be organizing to squeeze the
water out of the stock instead of to
force rates high enough to pay just
wages and also unjust dividends.
So long as the railroads refuse to
reveal the information ' as to their
real value, which the public must
have before it can determine what
is a just profit, the farmers can do
nothing less than assume that rates
are too high.
For the employes to assume that
they are too low is to take the simple
statoment of a self interacted party
as final proof. If before they make
up their minds as to this the em
ployes will join with the farmers in
forcing out the truth, such feelings
as wore expressed at the Grand Isl
and meeting will have no occasion,
for rates can then be adjusted in the
open with obvious fairness to all in
terests. Lincoln (Nob.) Journal.
BOOKS RECEIVED
Have you read Ed Howo's "Daily
Notes of a Trip Around the World?"
If not you ought to read it. It Is
published in two volumes by Crane
& Co., Topeka, Kan. Editor Howe,
commonly known as Ed took a trip
around the globe and wrote a story
of that trip for his own paper, the
Atchison Globe, named presumably
in anticipation of his own trip. Ho
left home on the 26th of October,
1905, and returned in March, 1906.
He took a daughter with him and re
ports that their trip cost them about
$3500. His daily diary of his jour
ney is full of interesting Incidents
told in the humorous vein that has
made his writings so widely quoted.
His pen pictures of Hawaii, Japan,
China, the Philippines, Ceylon, India,
Egypt, Palestine and Europe are
life like and full of information. The
Commoner is glad to commend them
to the reading public.
Mr. P. M. Hanney has published
through the Hazel Pure Food Com
pany, Chicago, a book entitled "How
to Gain Health and Long Life." The
table of contents which sufficiently
describes the scope of the work in
cludes "How Animal and Vegetable
Bodies are Related," "The Digesti
bility and Nutritive "Values of
Foods," "The Proper Arrangement of
Meals," "How to Detect Adultera
tion in Foods' "Necessity for Physi
cal Exercise," "Pure Air, and how
to Secure it," "Pure Water, and how
to Obtain it," '"Sleep, and how to
Obtain it," and a few hints relative
to the training of the child.
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Have you noticed a difficulty In
breathing short, quick breath when
you are walking, going up stairs, sing
ing, or are angry and excited? You
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the weakened nerves and muscles of
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Neglect it a little while, and you
will then notice Fluttering, Palpitation,
Dizziness, Fainting Spells, Pain in re
gion of heart, side and shoulders,
Stomach and Kidney Troubles. This
is serious.
It is the other way the wrong way.
Dr. Miles' Heart Cure
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The first bottle will benefit, if not,
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JOnN W. TOMMNSON
If Mr. Bryan has as faithful
friend and worker in every state as
Hon. John W. Tomlinson is proving
himself to be in Alabama there will
be things doing in the Bryan camp
in November. Mr. Bryan's idea of
conducting a campaign with men and
not with money a thorough organi
zation of all the active supporters of
the cause of democracy in every beat
and township throughout the land
is being faithfully executed and put
into practice throughout Alabama by
Mr. Tomlinson. In every county,
and every town of importance as well
as all parts of the state, Mr. Tomlin
son is assisting in the crystalization
of Bryan sentiment and in perfecting
a thorough working organization of
all the supporters of the Nebraskan's
candidacy. If the Bryan men in the
state are exercising the same pains
taking care in the creation of an
army of active political soldfers to
serve in the cause of the people un
der the leadership and guidance of
the great commoner, there can be
but one result In the coming national
election an overwhelming Bryan
victory. Organization Is the secret
of success in any enterprise wherein
the efforts of many are to be en
listed in a common cause, and all
know the difference between the
quality of service rendered by him
who is a paid Hessian and him
who serves because of his belief In
the teachings of true democracy and
nonular government and his loyalty
to a cause and its leader. Again we
say, if other states are being as
closely organized as Alabama democ
racy will certainly triumph and Bry
an will be elected to the presidency
by his followers in November.
Gadsden (Ala.) Evening Journal.
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LOOKING AHEAD?
Mixed farming as a profitable occupation Is no
longer an experiment in the Dakotas and Mon
tana. Most of the products of tho Middle West
are successfully raised thoro each year without
irrigation.
"Where a few years agd cattle raising was tho
principal occupation, settlors are now success
fully engaging in diversified farming, truck
farming, dairying and poultry raising. Today's
opportunities in these lines are along the Pacific
Coast extension of the
CHICAGO
MILWAUKEE 6 ST. PAUL
RAILWAY
Good land may be bought from $15 an acre up
wards along this new line in tho pakotas and
Montana. Plenty of government homestead land
may still be secured close to tho towns on this
new line. Markets for tho crops aro assured.
Homeseekers' excursions to points on the new
line on tho first and third Tuesdays in June.
Low fares; stop-overs allowed. Tickets good
twenty-one days from date of sale. Complete
information free.
Books describing the present oppor
tunities in the Dakotas and Montana
along the new line are free for the
asking.
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I General Passenger Agent -
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General Western Agent
524 Farnnm St., Omaha
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