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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 31, 1914)
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Horses or Mares Riding shaped, 4 to 1 0 years old, to weigh 1 000 to 1150 pounds, 1 5 to 1 5 3-4 hands high for Cavalry purposes Mules 200 pounds, 5 to 1 0 years old, 15 to 15 3-4 hands high for Artillery WILL BE AT n iooo to i pi , tled II Me 1 n&mamm&&S& o Cloud, Nebraska sday,Janaary 6, 1915 DM&S&SSS msaasH55u Why ; The Cost of Operating Railroads Has Been Increased STRUGGLING AGAINST INCREASED COST OF LABOR, SUPPLIES, ETC., ON ONE HAND-REDUCED RATES ON THE OTHER Daring the Ust few years the advo cates of government ownership of rail roads have been somewhat persistent In the public press ami the matter is referred to here, not with nny Idea of combatting tills propaganda, but merely that the people may brlt-ily so both f. Bides of the picture. So long a a lot of J'lneu welcome the wrecking of the rail- roads on the theory that the govern ment will take them ovr and that such , a state of art ilrs would be preferable to ' In this connection, a statement con tained in the last annual report of the Deutsche Bank of Berlin, which has a paid-up capital and reserve fund of tTfl.OOO.OOO is Interesting: "Ameri can railroads need higher rates. The present rates are the lowest in the woild ropiesmitlng but a fraction of the English nillway rates, for instance and this in the face of the fact that wages in the United States on the average are luuy twice as tilgn as in fpvlvato ownership, it will be Impossible Europe." Certainly this view of the Vo obtain from them a fair judgment of puvaieiy owneu lines 01 mo uuiihu ti... r..tt.....ii-.it.liu wiiii.li i,mv iii-iivhIIs in States, uomiiiu from (.lormany, which s the Uulted Stales. It is Impossible to 1 lias the most successful state owned go into this great question at any length ' at this time, but hero are a few things .worth thinking about. Much has been said in recent years about the "water" coutalno in Amorican railroad secur ities and, In this connection the valu ation of the government owned railroads of Europe Is very Interesting. In Ger many the state owned roads are valued at $114,185 per mile, in Austria at rju,- ft92, in Hungary at O'J.fclO, in Italy at npnflsn. in Beluium at SIUU.UU, in Switzerland at $102,050, In Roumania &t 100,118, in Japan at $88,104, in New C South Wales at 71,801 while the pri vately owned lines of the Uulted States, regardless of what wator may have been forced into them In specific Instances, are valued at only $03,014 per mllo. 1'Whatever Inflation may therefore have been put luto these properties m me nnHt. the fact remains, that their pres- out. valuation is much lower than that f of the government owned railroads of Europe, nd, what is huh more impor innL tho rates charged nve the lowest I and the sorvico roudered admittedly tho 1(rhI-. In tho worm, it is uisu uemneui system of transportation in tho woild, Is worthy of grave consideration, In further confirmation of this state ment we quote the following statistics: It costs 7 mills per mile on an averago to haul u ton of freight in the United States while in England it costs an av erage of S.y;) cents, in Fiance t .-It cents and in Germany 1.42 cents. The aver age daily wage paid to American rail road employees is $2.23, In England it is $1.35, in France 83 cents and in Ger many 81 cents. Are American railroads therefore entitled to the wholesale abuse and denunciation which has been heaped upon thm from all sides in recent years? Letting Well Enough Alone. In view of these facts, the average citizen may well ask himself whether It is not host to let well enough alone rathor than invite other ills we know not of whother It Is not wiser to cure such defects as may encumber the pres ent system rather than run the danger of plunging this mighty industry into the whirlpool of patty politics for all time, with its nttendantopportu'dty for tc remember that tho charge of watered evil of which tho imst nffonli such itch ' Jocks after nll.can be made against but, variety of experience. I he United States Slwl't'' ' , . 4 1 1 I ,. i,ttinr iirMHiiiiit mill St, ikiiata vrv few American rallroads-tho lion's j Ja """ " Jl , "h wuu"'' """ " "'"" , very lev. awi" sections only partially developed. t'Buaro of them having been managed , M J0W UlmM ,iml trunnions are without ti breath of soanmii orcmiomn. neuueu ueru nun umiu iu k " wiuei opportunity to expanding ugiieiilture nod cojuineioe and nothing could be more unfottuiiHto or ulsaNtiuus t it it it that tlit'sa favors could henceforth be obtaiiu'd only by leave of the dominant political factious which will retail at the national capital in the years t.) come. Political parties are intensely human institutions, and the average cautious citizen will prefer to leave the railroad expansion of the future to the economic law of supply and demand of the different communities rather than to place such a temptation for power in the hands of those who rise nnd fall iu the field of politics. Furthermore, should the time ever come when the government takes over the railroads, it means that the people will have to fore go the millions of taxes which they now pay and which help to support the public schools, public highways and other public expenses and that hence forth theco millions of revenue would have to come out of the pockets of the. people. Many other things could be said upon this phase of the question, but space rnrnlils. lor some time the govern ment, through the intei state commerce commission, has been engaged in mak ing a physical valuation of all our railroads as a matter of guidance for future rate adjustments Again, we repeat, since the people absolutely con trol and regulate the railroads, is that not enough? Will it not be better to lot well enough alone to cling to that which Is good and eliminate that which is bad iu the present system, which, Lwith nil that has been said against It, furnishes the best and cheapest trans portation service in the world? Increased Cost of Operation. We now wish to refer briefly to nn other phase of the problem. For a number of years tho cry of the "high cost of living" has been every where abroad in the laud. Time was, not so many years ago, when the farmer sold his corn at 25 cents per bushel. Now it brings from 50 to 75 cents. So, too, he sold hogs at 3 cents per pound which now readily bring 7 to 10 cents while a good steer calf, which used to brinti from f 10 to $12, now sells for fiom $20 to $25. Nobody who knows anything about present land values or the farm er's cost of production will contend that ho Is not, entitled to these increased prices. As u mattor of fact, unless he I is an exceedingly good manager and ' utilizes the best of modern agilcultural thought ho is by no means getting lich us thn in- seem to pe- jil.) In t 'H ( i I -s wiiii d 1 1, iiudfisUiid the L.Jtt in t-ii'licl in me il.iy farming, 'to go buck lo the u pilot-she need to icc'Ivh wont I haul -rupl, In a llille while, cwi'v fiiriin-r in tho ciuiitiy and the IwnnViiey nt' the ftiMiru will he fur the pilces of faun products to go Mill hlghei rat 1km- Hum I nver. Agiiculturo Is thn nation!, great st fninliundnlal imlustiy and so ciety must iniike the lauu gHiini piilll cleiitly piofltnblt' to j b Ty the mn'i who Is, no the fat in today mid tin fanner bojs of tho futuie to stay b th plow. .Much 1ms been said recently about Hie fact that the farmer does not H'ceku enough for what ho producs that iIitm is too hi, a waste iu thn channels through which his products moNt p'Hs before thy reach th Cii'i- Hiiijinf, iiinl that he inn conic c,ius lot , iMitipMiiJi iu tills M'lppct is undoitbttM i... . ly huh ti iwevor, tu lailioads can face such an inquiry with a clear con science, f run I'xliaiis.ivi) inve-ticatioi conducted by the Lhlgh Valley rail road hoiiio time ago shows that the farmer gut - r'M3 cents out of the avei agedollai'H worth of products lie sells: the pickers, local shippers, dlstiibiitors and rbtailetH get 14,'a cents b twoen them, while the railroads receive only 5 cents, or tine twentieth of tho dollar, for the transportation services they render. So, too, there has been a steady ad vance iu ptactically the entire realm of merchandise and manufactured pro ducts, whatever their nature, and the ever Incieaiing toll in the cost of labor, steel pioUuets, lumber, locomotives, cms and other supplies lias levied a tribute of untold millions upon the railiOMl", which havo not only been forbidden to increase their rates, but, on the contraiy, In many Instances, compelled to lower ihvtu Dili Increased Cost of Labor. To give tlie reader an exact idea of how the cost of labor has advanced in the operation of lailro'tds we quote the following increases iu the dally wage from 11)00 to 1014 a period of only fourteen years: Iu the case of en gineers it iuci eased from $3.08 per day to $5.70, or an increase of GO per cent; firemen from $2.21 to $3 02. or (It per cent; conductors from $3 31 to ft 83, or 45 per cent; station agents fiom $1.08 tu 2.1(1, ur ) per cent; other station men from $1 02 to$l 00, or 17 per cent; ordinary tiainmen from $1 97 to $3 L0, or 70 per cent; machinists fiom $2 72 to $3 52, or 20 per cent ; carpenters from $2 31 to $2 50, or 12 per cent; other shopmen from $193 to $2.20, or 1 1 per cent; sectiou iuremen from $1.51 to $1 83, or 21 per cent; tiackmeii from $ll5to$1.52 or !!' per cent ; teleurnph opcratoth and dispat hers from $2 25 to i 05. or 17 per cent. This mentis a geneiul average Increase iu wages of 32 20 per cent and all othvr classes of rutlioad operatives and employes in a more or less similar degree. While these advances have proven a gieat boon to the nearly two million men em ployed in the lailway service and in creased their capacity to buy from mer chant and farmer, they have exacted many millions annually from the rail roads themselves all of which made the general public richer, but the roads poorer. Iu 1000 the railroads paid $1.41 per ton for coal. Now they pay $1.81. Then they paid 38u for ties. INow they pay 52c. A - wr tw m vn r-v. r-i i t .-. t-. c vr; j".' A 1 1 1 t mi i..tw t;-i -H iv, a in a i a i ?i RV i u h m. ,iS BBBHi H 5 B a VVStf VXSF& ' Sk B FOURFH SALE OF f U Big! Type Immusied fl iff J tMMteWtwaiiNiiiiiiiiiiwt'WiwsiiaiiiliininiWituwiiiiwiUKisi mmnmmmmmmmm wnww ti ihi f fty 1 M I " " ' " U cm tffiOw, -wrJ'HiiPiwra'&yiawjwtFjrfMifi .m I fifr. VM n I fl .1Eit. . '.-w-WJl ..n&Q:'lli f a) I " -PANOHAMA -5SZ43 s ???$& & 31 V Poland Ghina Soms D N A AT AUCTION AT RED CLOUD TIE BARN Satafday,Jan.9?1915 At 1:30 P. PJI. 35 Bred Sows and Open Gilts Of i'dt blood lines and individuals. Hred to such Uoars as "The (ibtnt UIiIiiii," Itlg Huok 7200 Itnperator nnd others. The&e Ollts are most all Itnmniied as pli;s mo April and May lull, farrow mid tin: males in offering not closely related to gilts, giving the purchaser an opportunity to select u hord if lie desires. Catnlogs on application All hog-, pedigreed and will bo held free of charge till Monday nfte'- sale, or delivered F. O. li. cars crated at Red Cloud. All nigs offered will be sold sale day regardless of weather. If you aio a good hog raiser be on band ssle day. USUAL TERMS-CASH OR BANKABLE NOTE Phil Damson, Omner J. H. Ellinger, Auct. -ss : mt (jn jirr !! ' C. J. Pope; Clerk ; 3-ssasatLa-o Other Increased Casts. But there are many other items tlu.t have enormously increased Ithe cost of railroad operation which we cannot go into because of a lack of space. Tho public is constantly demandingfa moie efficient and a safer service, andjlionce the railroads have had to spend vni-t sums in installing block signals, steel passenger cars, doing away Jwith grade crossings, straightening lines, heavier locomotives, better roadbeds, and Hiq- plyitur many other precautions protect ing both their operatives and the public all things very necessary, yerjveiy co.itly. do, too, numerous states have ptthsei. ''full crow" laws, which, with out bent iitiug tho public iu anyway, have compelled tho railroads to pay a toll of millions to useless employes. Now, while labor, farm products, merchandise and manufactures nnd supplies of all kinds have steadily in creased in price, too. railroads, as stated before, have been compelled to reduce their rates iu the face of this avalanche of ever-advancing cost of operation and that all but the most powerful Hues flud themselves in an exceedingly critical couditlon is not to be wondered at. The farmer, the mer chant, the manufacturer and the laborer justly insist that they would not be able to get along on the prices they received ten or fifteen years ago. How, then, can the railroads, which are the largest employers of labor and Imyers of ma terial iu the United States, be expected to exist on less than they received ten or fifteen years agoK In view of these facts it Is no wonder that President Wilson and other patriotic and careful students of the situation are speaking words of kindly admonition to the American public, to tho end that the railroad', through whoso giant arteries flows the very life blood of the nation, may not bo wrecked or destroyed. Tho Public and the Manager. On tho one baud, for tho last twouty llve years the public lias demanded the Remarkable Land Chances For You in Wyoming Now is the time for you to visit the Itig Horn Il.idn and travel through it over the Ilurliugtou's now Wyoming .Mainline between Denver and Uillings the railroad that U going to Increase farm acreage, settle up the (lovernmcnt's irrigated honietleads, increaso the population of towns and incrense land values geuerully. Why do you till the boll of another, getting nowhere towards land ownership for your family, when with a small payment you can homestead a Government Irrigated farm with a reliable and pet niaueiit water supply on a 20-year easy payment plan with no Intorest that makes it almost n gift to you. The North Platte Valle) Here is another section called by many, America's Valley of the Nile." It is, also, on tho Burlington's new Wyoming Mainline. Today you can get an Irrigated farm in that Valley whose value is bound to increase on the completion of this mainline. N2Sd fcaaJwawK S.B. Howard, Ass't. Immigration Agent I004 Farnam St., Omaha, Nebraska nEWGHanaft.t 2CTIS best and highest tftlcieucy in ser.ice and lower rates in one nnd the ssine breath. On the other hand stand the thousands of men nnd women who have invested their money iu railioad securities and who, in common with the farmer, the manufacturer and the merchant, believe they are entitled to a fair profit. Then come the huudreds of thousands of employees who are con tinually clamoring for nn increase in wnges, as well as the cost of all manner of railroad supplies which Is constantly advancing and between them, as arbi ters, Btand the raauagers of the roads the big "hired men," struggling with might and main to reconcile all these conflicting Interests In the face of re duced rates upon every hand. That they have at last reached a point where they can continue the unequal struggle no longer should uot be a matter of wonder and In face of the harsh and unlriendly criticism which has descended upon their heads from overy quarter they 11 ml themselves in the mental attitude of the fiddler iu the Western mining camp when ho yelled out, "Please don't shoot lnys; I am doing tlie best I can." (Paid adv. 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