Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1887 — THE WORLD AT LARGE. [ARTICLE]

THE WORLD AT LARGE.

A Montreal telegram says: “Tho Grand Jury here has found a tine bill against ‘Boodler’ McGarigle, Detective Pinkerton, and Col. Hickey, of Chicago, for conspiracy. The only witness examined was James Baxter, who made the charge. Baxter was examined at great length, and after ten minutes’ deliberation a unanimous bill was returned.’’ Sawed square pine timber imported from Canada is dutiable at the rate of $2 per thousand feet At the National Farmers’ Alliance Convention, which has just closed its sessions at Minneapolis, General T. H. Barrett, President of the Minnesota Alliance, presented a long address, which was adopted as tho sentiment of tho Alliance. It was devoted chiefly to denunciation of tho present railway system as producing monopolistic power to the detriment of the people. Regarding tho interstate law, he says: If the law proves defective, make it efficient —in no case let it be repealed. Take no step backward, either in State or national legislation. The Government must control railways as far as such control is necessary to protect the people. It ought to go no further. Dividends upon watered stocks are a continuous and a continued fraud upon the public, which no lapse of time can condone. Every act of every public railway corporation should be open to public scrutiny. If honestly conducted no private interest can be injured ; and if dishonestly managed, the public has a right to know it. Every expenditure, including salaries paid to railway officials, is a proper object for public consideration. The public will be reasonable; the people pay the bills—they have a right to know where the money goes. Railway property must be taxed as other property is taxed. It should pay its just share of State, county, school, and all other local taxes. There must be freedom of traffic throughout the country. It is not the business of a corporation to direct the course of traffic intrusted to it as a common carrier; it is its business to transport it in such direction as the shipper may direct at reasonable rates and for all alike. Facilities at the lowest reasonable cost for interchange of traffic between intersecting or contiguous roads must be provided. Car-load lots should be transferred without unloading. The following were elected officers of the Alliance, which adjourned to meet next year at Das Moines, Iowa: President, John Burrows, of Nebraska; Vice President, ex-Sen-ator L. D. Whiting, of Illinois; Secretary, August Post, of Iowa; Treasurer, J. J. Furlong, of Minnesota; Lecturer, A. D. Chase, of Dakota. Owing to the prevalence of cholera in Europe an order prohibiting the importation of rags into Canada has been issued. Robert Garrett was reported as very angry over the absorption of the Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Company by tho Western Union, and was threatening dire vengeance. He claims to have been fooled by a conspiracy, and promises to make the fur fly. The revenue cutter Richard Rush, which arrived in San Francisco the other day from the Arctic regions, reported that during the season she had seized twelve sealing schooners with a total of nearly 7,000 skins.