Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 20, Petersburg, Pike County, 22 September 1899 — Page 2

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Stunned with Woe. The gentleman with the red, red nose got •board the trolley car, which, by some mischance, haul stopped for a moment. The silence was intense. The little boy looked at the man vith the hose. I And the little boy didn’t ask his father anything. “Merciful heaven!” mattered the fond parent, “l am the father of & freak!"—Indianapolis Journal. “I cannot understand ze language,” said the despairing Frenchman. “I know hew to pronounce se word ‘hydrophobia/ and sen I learn zat ze doctors sometimes pronounce it fatal.”—N. O. Times-Democrat.

Brothers In Affliction. The car can sympathise with that ancient Indian who is credited with giving his name tQ the city of Cheboygan. He had just returned from a long hunting trip through the northern wilds of the Michigan peninsula when the native nurse hurried forward and clashed his hopes by telling him he was the father of a third little daughter. The noble red man straightened up, and, with a look of deepest disgust on his coppery face, gut* tur&ily exclaimed: “She-boy-’gain P’— Cleveland Plain Dealer. “Hello!” exclaimed the fish. “Here to stay?” “No,” replied the worm; “I juat dropped in for a bite.” —■ Philadelphia Record.

COCKBAN ON TBUSTS. Th9 Eloquent NeV Yorker Aavlyses the Trust Question. -—i- “• —««■«<» ‘tat Km«dj for tn«|vl) «• IbkctMr WwHwi Chicago, Sept. 16.—The expected joint debete between William J. Bryan, of Nebraska, and Bourke Cockran, <rf New- York, before the Civic Federation conference on trusts and corporations, did not take place at Central music hall last night, as announced, for the reason that Mr. Bryan declined to participate in the debate, claiming I that the committee had misunderstood him in regard to the matter. He, however, agreed to speak at the following day's session. Mr. Cockran, therefore, had the platform to himself, and talked on the subject of “Trusts and Corporations" for two hours. Following is a synopsis of his address: Mr. tockrnu'* Address. “The precise question which we have been called to consider is the effect on the general prosperity of the community of combinations, whether of capital or of labor. Ope of the great difficulties in a philosophical inquiry is the use of vague, sonorous and misleading phrases, which raise clouds of passionate declamation about the difficulty of -the problem, obscuring its outlines and even magnifying its dimensions. Such words have figured so much in the controversies over the question that i find great difficulty in discussing the facts which confront us on account of certain words which excite us. (daughter and applause.) “For the purpose of establishing an intelligent basis of discussion, somewhat free from these terms over which men have become moved to passionate declamation, 1 shall define prosperity as an abundance of eommodsttes fairly distributed among tnose who produce them. “There can not be abundant production of commodities without an extensive distribution of them in the form of wages in a country wherein prosperity is based upon freedom. (Applause.) “There can not be any distribution If there is not production, and there can not be an extensive distribution unless there is abundant production. We must have commodities to distribute before we can” distribute them in the form of wages or of profits. 1 “There are some combinations which operate to reduce prices, urd some which operate to increase them. Now. if 1 accept either I should offend against that other offender of which i complain. -It will be idle to say that some improve, some raise prices and some depreclat1' them if we did not prescribe some test by which we could distinguish between the two. Teat Proposed.

“The test >ls to .ascertain whether the combination of capital flemishes through government aid or without 'it, for, my friends, you must see that any industrial enterprise which lominites the market without aid from the government must do so through cheapening the product, or, as it is commonly called, by underselling competitors. An Industry which at one and the same time reduces prices and swells its own profits must accomplish that result by increasing the volume of its production. (Applause.) On the other hand, an industry -.hich dominates the market by the favor of government, direct or indirect, can not, in the nature of things, be forced to cneapen prices, because if it could dominate the market bv underselling competitors in an open field without favor, it would not need the government favor. (Applause.) “The interference of the government would be an injury and not a benefit to it. An industry or combination of capital, or anything you may choose tc call it, that dominate a market through a restricted competition, that delivers to the consumer on its own terms, necessarily depends on a narrow output and large profits, extorted, not from the excellency of its service, but from the helplessness of those with whom it deals. (Applause.) “Now there are three ways in which the government interferes in the trade of individuals in this country. One is by patent law/ “The other means by which the. government interferes is by tariff. It operates to restrict competition in the production of any article, to those engaged in it in this country. “But if a trust or combination is to be formed manifestly it aids the enterprise where the field of competition is originallv limited. F nder a condition of free trade every article which is produced is exposed to the competition of the whole world. If you rely on the combination to suppress competition, manifestly It is easier to make a combination between the producers in one country than in all countries, and to that exient tariff favors them. (Applause.) But it is claimed that the exclusion of foreign competition in gome way or other develops a domestic competition much keener, in some mysterious methods more beneficent. I do not understand this logic Public Francliles. “There is still a third and serious Question with which I flunk we can deal and which I believe is vastly more extensive In its results than-tbis tariff in favor of trusts. I refer to those favors which are extended to certain industries or great corporations enjoying government franchises which are none the less govern ment agencies, because their stock is uwned by private individuals. “And here we are face 10 face with a serious difficulty. First, I must assume U a seribus difficulty because it Is almost Impossible to describe It. It Is surrounded by secret. That it does exist everybody believes. But for the purposes of philosophical discussion. it is imoossible to trvto follow that which you ean not fully describe, and the worst feature, therefore. of this outrage which it perpetrates against a. certain class of the community is that It is shrouded in mystery. “No person can enjoy a favor at the hands of any company enjoying a public franchise except at the expense of another. Government can not create anything. Now, if government can not create anything, it has nothing of its own to bestow. If it undertakes to enrich one individual, the thing It elves to him it must take from anoAier. :Applause.) “If one person-attains rates that are especially favorable; if his goods are transported at a loss, why, other men using that same, facility must make good the loss.

'» hat is the remedy? A simple one, I believe^. Some gentlemen have suggestd municipal ownership. I have no quarrel with the principle of the municipal ownership. I concede the principle of it. The government has no right to empower any privater agency to perform a function unless it be one which the government would be bound itself to perform if that agency were not to be found. (Applause.' The question of munlcioal ownership is a mere question of expediency. I won’t debate it here for the reason that if it be a remedy it is such a remote one that a discuskior. •'f it would be a discussion of the interests of our children rather than of ourselves. (Laughter and applause*) “There are many grave questions to be considered before municipal ownership could be reduced to practical operation, even though wre would now set about the task. Remedy Suggested. ( “Now,Is there any practical remedy that this conference can suggest that can be put in force to-morrow by any legislature that happens to be in session? My friends, It seems to me to be a very simple matter The remedy is simply to detine a practical penalty, a serious one, and then provide for publicity and provide the proper statute of publicity, and you need not enforce the penalty. An officer of a corporation granting a special favor to any person who has a right to use that possession on equal terms with everybody else, ought to be held guiiry of a serious felony. (Applause.) “No Ones, no judicial rebukes, no denunciation from platforms, no legislative enactment declaring things are reprehensive will touch the subject, but a specific enactment that a special rate granted to any one not enjoyed oy the others is a felony, and proper means to punish it will do something toward checking it. It is a crime of the first magnitude. The public

-tn the control of any groat publH concom which glvos to one man opportunities at the expense of the other, robe that other party. If not of the property in “*• possession, of the opportunity to acquire property. (Applause.* ■ £L*W> with a statute authorizing ana taking It the right of every shipper, uf every person using a public'franchise, to have disdoee* to him at any time every contract and agreement made with any other person you will find there wff little difficulty about avoiding the enforcement of the penal statute, for It will not be transgressed. \\'« want a simple statute of publicity, and I believe that will check the special favors. “While I am on the subject. I think it wise to advert to what I may call a phenomenon-that is. the public dislike and distrust, or hatred of corporations. 1 don't share that hatred or oTsUke. but 1 understand it. I don't think it Is wholly justified; yet 1 think an examination of the history of corporate management will show some justification. We nave heard much about over-capttaiU-uton as one oi the evils to be treated in this conference Overewpttalisatiaa. In one sense, I think over-capitaliza-tion Is a matter of no public movement. In another. 1 think it has a serious aspect. "It matters very little how I capitalist an enterprise in itself. If I capitalize it at JIO.OCO, and it is earning $10,060 a year, the public would immediately put the shares at 100 per cent, premium, and they would be quoted at 300. it would make no difference whether I capitalized it at $KW.000 or $200,000. If. on the other hand. I capitalized at $400,000. the shares would sell at 50. and that would not mdJke very much difference. “Now, my friends, the remedy for att evils, in ray judgment, is the original remedy which 1 suggested—publicity, publicity. The hatred of corporations, Which, as 1 say, is not wholly justified, is not discreditable to the public opinion Cf Ameri ca. In fact, I lay down as a can-Inal rule, which I think any oerson can fortow with perfect safety, that whenever you find a general opinion on any subject b» America there is always a pretty good ground for It. (Applause.) The distrust of corporations arises not in mv opinion from any well-considered dislike to corporate entities. “But the management of corporations has been the blackest page in all qur nistory. (Applause.) And the rublte indignation. unfortunately, which ought to be extended on the corporate management which Is responsible for this shame, has to often been visited on the stockholders, and the corporations themselves, who have been the victims of that Infamy. Cnlprlta fapunished. “Now. all the history of infamy and ot wrong and of perfidy and o' fraud has not brought one hour of shame or humiliation to those who have perpetrated it. They are walking the streets to-day, their heads high in the world of finance. To the best informed the story is only partially known, to the vast mass of the people <1 is a sealed book. * “These frauds are perpetrated in insidious methods. The public are fooled as to the value of the stocks. wKh specific statements; interest is paid on bonds which has never been earned, and the public believe them solvent; it pays Its fixed charges and the public buys the stock, even though no dividends have been paid, believing that dividends are soon to be paid because the fixed charges are met; Interest is naid on the preferred stock which never has been earned, in order that the common stock may be floated. -But when the eoUapile comes, w'hen the ruin is complete, in nine eases out of ten the engineers of this ruin are appointed the receivers by the courts tn ; ordefr to conduct the plan of reorganization.

“Against the monopoly ‘hat <Upends on government favor In any shape cr form. 1 am as truly opposed as any gentlemaneven from Texas. «Laughter.) But. my friends, when we come to consider the organization which lominates the market without any aid from government, why then we are face to face with a ft reed introduction which is of radically opposite character. “Now. let us see what the objection to that is. We are told that it defeats competition: but. my friends, that is an obvious mistake. I must s-ay to begin with that any * industrial organisation that cheapens to me the cost of something I need 1 regard as a oenefit, and I ct n not ■ osibly bring myself to .puarrel with it. (Laughter.) I can not quarrel with it. even if you call it a monopoly. Competition's Results. “If you have competition you will Vav? excellence. Is not every form of comietition certain-to produce excellence whomever it occurs? I heard my friend, a socialist. this morning, whose name I believe ought to become famous all over the United States after that most interesting address which he delivered, declare that competition was warfare. Let me protest to that. “Competition Is not wArfare in the sense of being destructive. Competition Is the ascertainment of the place of greatest utility for each individual. “These men are not thrown out of employment permanently, like the cobbler was taken from his cellar where he was making one pair of shoes a day. Into tho factory to make fifty or sixty pairs a day with the increased power tf machinery. So the man who is displaced by one ele ment of progress is cot absolutely retired from the field of industdy, but he Is transr ferred from one field where he is no long* er most useful to another where his capacities are of greater development. “You would not destroy him. When yo«^ defeat him in competition you maf change his place, you make him go frotf’the sphere where he can notjexeel to thf sphere in which he can have a chance, and. believe me, there is no human befnF that has not aptitude in some departmeh> of human activity. “Now monopoly is made Just as other monopolies of intellect and made by the same means. If any gentleman thinks it is cruel and wrong to pay $30 to a trust for a good suit of clothes instead of pa'/ ing $50 for a bad one to seme retail taller, so as to keep him going to preserve a mi-i-dle man in an industrial capacity, why Pe has a perfect right to do it. There is i*o law to prevent him, but he has no rigi't to impose a similar sacrifice upon m*\ who don’t share his strupples. But don't you see if it is wrong to encourage excellency in commodities it is equally wrong to discharge excellency in mofessions? Proof of Prosperity.

“My mends, these .'.re my suggestions: Publicity for corporate mismanagement; prohibition under penalties for special favors; right of action against any corporation whose service is suspended except an absciute defense proved that it was at all times ready to discuss with its employes questions at issue between them by agencies of their selection. “I am told that if we promote this cooperation we will destroy individualism, individualism is another of the phrases which have been specially invented for the perplexity of mankind. Individualism in its last analysis is savagery. The savage depending on himself alone for his shelter and his food on the club from the tree or the stone picked up by his unaided hand from the ground for his weapon, is the most complete instance of individualism conceivable.” At the close of his speech the New Yorker won the hearts of his listener:; by paving Mr. Bryan a few well-chhsen compliments, which the democratic leader blushinglv acknowledged. Mr. Cockran likened Mr. Bryan to a monopoly, and claimed he was a big»e“ monopoly as the leader of the democratic party than any financial corporation in the world. Mr. Cockran spoke for abont two hours, and when he finished, cries for Mr. Bryan came from all over the house. Finally Mr. Bryan arose, and said that for the good of the conference, all partisan feeling should be eliminated from the gathering, and although he agreed with Mr. Cockran in many of his arguments, it was necessary that his'side of the controversy should be given to-morrow. Dreyfus’ Probable Course. Par.is, Sept. 17.—M. de Blowitx, the well-known correspondent, says that Capt. Dreyfus will shortly withdraw his appeal for a revision of the Beanes trial, which will leave the ground clear for the government to take immediate steps to pardon him* Jilt j._.•‘A.i*.

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‘Oh, Mrs. Bangs!’ 1 said, ‘your baby is just crying himself'into spasms!’ “Her baby was a little reptile three years old, and she had a nurse for him. Of course, she knew he was all right, and she knew I knew it, but there were the men, and the only play for her was the heavy material. She had to leave those men and dash off to the baby or they'd think she wasn’t a devoted mother, which she wasn’t, and which no man can pardon a woman for not being. We worked that ebild-crying-for-its-mother lay for all it was worth. We never let her rest. Baby wanted her every time she caught sight of a man. \fe talked about how deliehte baby was and w hat a care he must be. We ashed every morning how baby’s eroupy cough was. We forced that odious widow to devote herself from breakfast to bedtime to that reptilian child. We routed her, horse, foot and dragoons. She was a widow and we had a hard fight, but baby was our trump card, and we, well we had the three men to ourselves .after a week of it. She never said a word, but I’ll wager anything you like that there were times when she'd have delighted in pounding baby with tAe back of a hair brush— and I think shedid it once or twice,”— Chicago Chronicle. The Volee in the Sick-Room. Speak in low, cheerful but perfectly distinct tones. If there is anything to be said which the invalid must not hear, go outside of the room to say it, for there is nothing which so irritates the sick person as whispering. A whisper is more penetrating than a full tone, and it rasps every nerve. Do not speak in a loud tone, nor talk about the medicine, the disease or the food. Never tell anything of fin exciting nature, and avoid all reference to what is annoying or unpleasant. If there is a jar in the domestic machinery never Let it come to her ears. It will, surely trouble her and may retard her recovery. It is of the utmost importance that all family troubles or vexations be rigidly excluded fro.m the sick-room, and t ha tit be pervaded at all tunes by an atmosphere of cheerful and restful peace. The one special qualification needed to get on in the sick-room is tact. With this allied to patience and gentleness the duties of nurse will be much lights ened.—Sallie Joy White, in Woman’s Home Companion.

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