Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 57, Number 19, Jasper, Dubois County, 12 February 1915 — Page 8

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URGES LEGISLATIVE RELIEF

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Would Sava $100,000,000 Yearly, Says Secretary Wilson. SUGAR BEETS THE REMEDY,

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Speaks in Interests of "Justice and Fairness" and Calls Present Act "Crude, Unsuitable and Inelastic."

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Indianapolis One of the most striking incidents connected with proposed legislation of importance, is the statement of C. V. Mc'Adams, of Lafayette who, although he helped to draft it, nov characterizes Indiana's present 2cent a mile passenger law as "crude, inelastic and unsuitable." Mr. McAdams was a former member of the State Railroad Commission and in his official capacity was inter

ested m obtaining the enactment in 1907 of a law that would be fair both to he railroads atad the public. Iiis declaration now that the 2-cent law of 19Ö7 is unsuitable and that the present passenger, rate, should be in some way increased is in accord with the figures and facts which have been presented by the ste,am railroads of Indiana in support of their plea for relief at the hands of the present State Legiglature. A new law, fixing the rate at 2Y2 cents a mile is suggested as a remedy for conditions which brought about, in the fiscal year ending Jujie 30, 1914, of more than twelve million dollars. Moved by Justice.

Mr. McAdams prefaces his state

ment with a remark that he speaks solely from a sense, of duty to the public, and that his views are disinterested except insofar as he is actuated by a sense of justice and fairness. "A railroad is entitled to a fair profit upon the property it uses for the public service," said Mr. McAdams, "and, luesidea the profit, it is entitled to an income sufficient to provide for depreciation, renewals of obsolete apparatus and to pay the expenses of doing the business, which includes operatio and the maintenance of its properties. "It is my candid opinion that no railroad, or very few at least, in Indi

ana, has made any money on its passenger traffic in the last eight years while operating under this 2 cent flat fare law. Says Law is Unsuitable. "Although I aided in drafting the 2 cent fare law now in effect, I caa truthfully say that, in my judgment, as I now and for years have seen

things, a more crude, inelastic and unsuitable piece of legislation was never enacted. It was a misfit from the start." After stating that he is firmly convinced that the passenger rates on steam railroads should be increased by some reasonable and appropriate legislation, Mr. McAdams points out that no small part of the higher cost of railway operation has resulted from public sentiment, through the enactment of laws requiring steel coaches, instead of wooden ones; automatic block; increased train crews:

hour-of-service law; elimination of grade crossings, the installation of watchmen, crossing bells and other crossing protection. "These things," says Mr. McAdams, "have all come to pass in the last ten years, and during that time

rates were reduced, notwithstanding these additional burdens. "In addition to these added expenses, during the same time, economic changes and the action of labor bodies have added other burdens, namely: the wages of all railway employes have been greatly increased, and the cost of railway equipment has also largely incnoasod. and there

has been a tremendous advance in the

cost ol the millions of dollars worth of materials which the railroads must buy annually to maintain thoip wnv

and atruclures in a safe and usable I

condition."

Wa Could Raise Enough of Them In

One State, Declares the Secretary of Agriculture, to Supply the Nee'ds of the Whole Nation. By JAMES WILSON, Secretary of Agriculture. One would think that we liad enough

sunshine and wind and rain in this country for all our needs, but at present we are paying out to foreign na

tions the jood round sum of $100,000.-

000 each year for these things. This

amount slips away from us for our an

nual importations of .sugar, which comes simply from the carbon dioxide of the atmosphere. There is no reason why we should not save this amount for our own people, our farmers and laborers, and so on. We could grow enough sugar beets in a single state to supply the needa of the entire nation. I hope some day we shall grow all the Bugar we need ricxiit here at home. But at present we are paying this enormous sum each year to the cane producer in the tropics, employing the cheapest labor under a foreign flag. When I first entered the cabinet as Secretary of Agriculture under Presi

dent McKinley in 1S97 I had been connected with the Iowa State Agricultural college for six years, and out there we had made experiments which taught us the great value of the suimr

beet not only for its sugar, but as an

aid to the other crops and in its by

products as a food for the stock.

We made experiments with all sorts

of root crops potatoes, sugar beets,

turnips, and so on to ascertain which

would be the most profitable for the Iowa farmers and dairymen. We had

ft large herd of dairy cows, and we

tested these different vegetables on

the cows to learn their effect in the

production of milk and butter. We

found that we could not get good re

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RAILROAD TAXES ENORMOUS

ROYAL Baking Powder is indispen-lj f sable to the preparation of the finest ! . cake, hot-breads, rolls and muffins. Housekeepers are sometimes importuned to . buy other powders because they arc "cheap." i ' T-T ,.t l. . i t . . V. . I

x .luubcvvxcpers snouia scop anü tmnJc. it such

Indiana Linos Pnld $6,082,002 Into Stato CofTurs During Last Fiscal Year.

v powdery arc lower priced, arc they inferior? Is it economy to spoil your digestion?

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Alum ßliscd In some baking powders and in most of the so-called phosphate powders, because it is cheap, and makes a cheaper powder. But alum is n corrosive which taken in food, acU Injuriously upon the stomach, liver and kidney

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Indianapolis Soma idon of tho

ononnous sums paid lo tho Stato in taccos by the Indiana stoum railroads is gainod from recent railroad statistics which show a tax payment of $6,5S2,9C2 for the fiscal year ' ending June 80, 1914, by seventeen of t(To principal Indiana railroads. All of this money goes into the cofl'ers of tho states, a very large part of the taxes being paid to the Stato of Indiana, thus reducing the tax rate for. smaller business enterprises and individuals. If it or not that tho railroads paid such Jarge amounts toward the cost of running stato governmcnta, tho bunion would, of course, full upon the people. The fact that the rovonuo of the Indiana railroads was reduced onethird by tho Legislature in 1907, whtn the 2 cent passenger law was enacUd, had no etrcfc In keeping down tht taxi of tht railroad.

JAM KS WILSON. 'bages bocaiiso or a deleterious acid that nffeckd I he bnltor, but from sugar heels wc got n fine quality of butter. Tho Importance of this is In the fart that the farmer needs to ua root crop In his rotation to clear the ground. Tho- cultivation required, by such a crop Improves the yield of all succeeding crop , Europe had lonrnrnJ the value of the. beet, and the northern continental nations wore ma king their own sugar from it and by using it In rotation with other omp had boon obtaining

surprisingly bip ielda per ire re. But here we had been backward In realizing its im port ante. The year 1 came into tins cabinet the United States had produml only 20,onn tony 0f beet sugar. I managed to get public spirited persons to contribute boot wd to begin InvostlyatlnnH, and u found that tho

two northern tier of status had the most favorable i Mp.dliuui for boot cub turo. We made elaborate InquirlcH, sent red In all llre- lions and had tho bGOts font Intel; to H for testings

At tho samp thuo we started en .

couragi ng boot growing m tNj north wo began to Ktlmulate the growing f rlco in the south. And 1 anticipated that by this time our fnvmora would bo growing enough of o:u-h of these products for our need.. But, while they grow today substantially as much rk-e as is consumed in the United SUtoa, the boot crop furnishes only a small proportion of our sugar. It Is inoro ditlleult to educato our farmers to beet raising, It Is a moro complicated form of activity. Last year our sugar beet crop netted C0&VIÖ5 tons of sugar, worth $8,505.. 000. Of this the farmers received about $20,350,000 for the beets, a fraction

over -10 per cent. The beet un brouuhl f3 an aero.' amounting to ui Al the pulp (loft after the igar Is ox trueled from tho beeHi was worth $3,033,103 and the molasses, a byproduct of tho augur, $1.211,030. So tho totaT value of tho crop was rr 170,000,000.

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fWdY pay 'your boar4 whilt you ara laomlngt Iaxfour wo oka you oon bo making 1,00 E day 1 Experienced operators make from "Jl. 00 to 800 a day Steady work offered tho year round. 5he faotory Is vory light and is oooXed in irammor by elootrio fane s and heated la winter ty otoam-hoat. ' Every effort made to r:ak your work comfortablo and profit ablo to you. Hak Money and he independents J Call or write.

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