People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1895 — Page 5

Graduated Income Tax.

GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP.

feta 11 it >y* Should lie Owned and Con. j trolled by the Government. In a recent letter from England, published in the Inter-Ocean, Hon. Ro~ j bert P. Porter, ex-superintendent of the j census, writes very interestingly on j the growth of the opinion in favor of government ownership of railroads in that exmntry and from it draws some conclusions that apply to the United States with peculiar force and aptness. Mr. Porter cannot be accused of populistic notions and his views are shared by eminent railroad men, statesmen and political economists all over the world. He argues that the railroads should be owned and controlled by the government and made free to travel the same as the public highways are. He shows that if every seat was filled and each train as heavy as the power supplied could draw to the best advantage, the cost of traveling could be largely reduced and fares made much lower than they' now are. If the railw’ays were free there would be much more travel than there now is and the cost of carrying any passenger would be reduced to the minimum. As it now is the few' who do travel pay the whoft cost of the service, while if the cost of operating the railways was met by. a tax equitably distributed, the rate of taxation for this special object would be so small that no one would notice it and it could be met easily and would be paid willingly. The freedom of travel under this arangement would so stimulate business that the aggregate gain to the nation would be much greater than the cost of the rervice. He shows that the economy that could be practiced by a consolidation of all railroads into one has been recognized by as eminent a railroad man as C. P. Huntington, who favors a consoldiation in

this country. The railroad employes being under the action of the civil ser- , vice law could not be used as a political machine and the incentive to strikes would be forever done away with. As coming from a man of large experience and great executive ability Mr. Porter’s words are deserving of careful attention and respectful consideration. He cannot be accused of having any. ulterior object in view and his conclusions make very interesting reading. From the article in review we quote: The writer believes that the following conclusions have been made clear: 1. The plan of national consolidation is in accordance with law and the constitution of the United States. This has been shown by many decisions of the supreme court of the United States. Many more could be added if necessary. 2. It is entirely feasible and practical. We have seen that Mr. C. P. Hutington, one of the most able and experienced railroad men in the country, advocates the formation of oue corporation to own and control all railways. 3. It recognizes that consolidation in some form is certain and inevitable, and seeks to turn this irresistible tendency into right channels. It shows how consolidation may create a great | public corporation, which shall be a ; minister of good to all the people inl stead of a vast monopoly oppressing F all.

4. It is just to all interests, preserving and maintaining all real rights of private investors as well as those of the public, which are just as real, though not so well understood nor so readily conceded. 5. It will remove all the dangerous conflicts and all the elements of irritation and enmity between the railways and their employes and the public, which now constitutes a most protentous peril to our national security and good order. 6. It,will do away with the greatest source of waste and kvss under our present system and reduce the cost of transportation to the lowest figure, thus satisfying the necessary and inevitable demand for the reduct; ; pf rates. 7. It will >-emove the unjust i-' a’ : - ties and the unrighteous disc;, .fictions now prevailing. 8. It will entirely and forever do yy all rate wars with Uieir vast waste and disturbance of values and of business, and will make rates steady, uniform and low.' 9. It will do away with all strikes and dangerous riots oil the railroads, because it will remove their underlying and exciting causes. 10. It will bind the different sections of the nation together by the strong tie of common ownership and control of the united railway system. As* the different localities of the country increase in power and wealth the forces tending to disrupt and break up tho national organization will neeessari y become more and more powerful. The problem will be to find some centrist tal force to conteract this tendency v'iihout involving a perilous increase of the political power of the federal government. 11. A great railway corporation, uniting all the railways of the land and owned and controlled by isle {.nople, as proposed under the plan of national consolidation, would constitute a force for cohesion and union with almost inconceivable power. 12. It will furnish a safe foundation for all the great hanking and financial institutions of the country in the stock of the consolidated company; will protect investors in railway securities by making the* investments as solid and permanent os government bonds now are, and will make a perpetual end to gambling in railroad securities, with its unrighteous practices and evil results. 13. It will take railways wholly out of politics and remove the corruption now so common and so dangerous. 14. It will dignify all railroad duties and elevate every class of employes to a higher plane of manhood as free, unfettered American citizens, for the great, advancement of our social and economic condition.

*HE PEOPLE S PILOT.‘RENSSELAER, IHD.. FEBRUARY 23, 1896, WEEKLY, ON! DOLLAR PIR YEAR.

WASHINGTON.

The house passed the bill to make the pensions of all veterans of the Mexican war sl2 per month Treasury officials assert that an Immediate suspentlon of gold payments was only averted by the bond contract. The administration's bond contract was sharply criticised in the senate. Senator Gray vigorously defended the President. By a vote of 30 to 27 the senate decided to take up the Jones free silver bill, and it will undoubtedly be passed. The agricultural appropriation bill was passed by the senate, an attempt to eliminate the irrigation clause being defeated. A bill for an international commission to investigate the condition of the seals was favorably reported to the house. House conferees refuse to agree to the senate's Hawaiian cable amendment to the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. A provision for the issuance of SIOO,000,000 in debt certificates was inserted in the sundry civil bill by the senate committee on appropriations. But twelve working days of the session of congress remain, and there is little prospect of anything but the appropriation bills being considered. Silver leaders in the senate claim the new issue of bonds could have been sold at a much better price and will offer a resolution denouncing the President. House committee on commerce submitted a report favoring a deep waterw’ay to connect the ocean and great ' lakes. Senator Chandler has Introduced a bill to establish free American ports where foreign raw material may be manufactured. Navy department is advised that the war ships Charleston and Yorktown are rescuing American missionaries at Che Foo. Strong opposition to the bill appropriating money to build more war ships was developed on the floor of the house. Women's Christian Temperance Un- j ion is holding a big meeting in Wash- 1 ington to impress congress with the irn- | portance of the polyglot j>etitioa i against liquor and opium traffic. Postoffice appropriation bill was passed by the senate, hostile amend- ; ments being defeated. Agricultural j bill was taken up. Appropriations for beginning work on j the new postoffice at Chicago is being endangered by the apathy of Secretary Carlisle.

OBITUARY.

Archduke Albert of Austria died at Arco, South Tyrol, of congestion-of the lungs, aged 77 years. Mrs. Hannah L. Lock, who came, to Chicago in 1841 and who was one of the original members of the First Methodist Church, is dead. Lev. Fattier J. N. Reinbolt, for twen-ty-two years head of the Society of Mary in the United States, died at Hayton. William Garrett, for forty-three years secretary of the grand lodge of Oddfellows of lowa, died at Burlington, aged 72 years. Capt. Richard Trevlllick, one of the founders of the greenback party, and later a labor organizer, is dead at Detroit. Judge John Handley, of the forty-fifth Pennsylvania district is dead at Scranton. He leaves an estate of several millions. Charles Wheatlelgh, one of the oldest actors in the country for seventeen years in Augustin Daly's company, is dead in New York, Thomas K. George of Eckerty, Ind., died of heart disease. His 6-year-old daughter died ot grief, and both were buried in the same coffin. William Mees, the oldest captain on the lakes, who won dictinctlon by rescuing the crew of the Norway, is dead at Muskegon, Mich. .Sir James Thompson Stewart Richardson, secretary of the order of the Thistle, is dead at Ins home in London, aged 55 yeais.

POLITICAL.

California s assembly adapted resolutions favoring Hawaiian annexation and election of senators by direct vote. A. Is. Newson, a member of the Tennessee senate, has resigned, assigning the extravagance of the legislature as a reason. Very few New York republican sen.ors attended the meeting called by i ’ss Platt to administer a rebuue to yor Strong. Wisconsin legislature tea appr'iprla* l t $20,000 to erect monuments to Wis- ' usin troops who fougnt at Uhicaai tgua. Nebraska house passed a special seed bill calculated to furnish relief to the destitute farmers of the state, i Minnesota house has adapted a resolution looking to the remove. 1 of the state capital from St. Paul to Minneapolis. Bill has been introduced in tho Illinois legislature providing pensions for school teachers in cities of KU.uid population. In the Illinois legislature a t ’1 has been introduced to punish train wreck* J ers and robbing by death Annual convention of the American i Protective Association of Wiscoi in ia being held behind closed doors at Milwaukee. Headers in tiie Illinois legislature have succeeded in getting the military and hospital appropriations reduced.

CRIME.

Christopher Spearlmg, an engineer of Hoboaen, N. J., cut his wife s t' roat with a razor after a protracted quarrel. Mange Yorke, a cuimc opera singer, I was killed by Jan.es P. Gentry, a < >median, in her room in a Philadelphia hotel. Kline W. Cameron, 18 years ojd, fa» tally shot his wife, aged lj, at a St, Louis hospital and then tried to kili himself. A mob broke Into the jail at Kingston," Mo., and s< eking the cell of George i T racy, colored, tired seventeen bullets i into ids body. ■ bam Moy! the Chinese millionaire of ! Chicago, has ouered a reward of SI,OOO I for the arrest of the murderer of Moy Tung Hai at Macon. Ga. Huns, Poles and Slavs engaged in a furious tight a IMidvale, Pa. Eight nun were seriously hurt, one of whom may die. ! A stalled electric street ear was run . into by a Baltimore and Ohio train in i i’iMsburg. One woman was killed. Defendant s attorneys in the Ging ; murder case, at Minneapolis, claim | Adry Hayward instigated the crime,

MISCELLANEOUS. District Assembly No. 75 of Brooklyn has issued an address to the public In behalf of the trolley road strikers. 'Congressman W. L Wilson has been offered the presidency of the University of Texas by the regents. House furnishings Imported from j France by John Jacob Astor have been j seized on the claim that they were unIdervalued. I George H. Wilkinson, who had gone to Denver for his health, killed himself after telling his sweetheart his recovery was impossible. A 13-year-old boy created a sensation during revival services in an Indianapolis church by claiming to have seen heaven in a vision. Centennial anniversary of the birth of George Peabody, the banker and philanthropist, was celebrated at Peabody, Mass. The National Council of Women met at Washington. Fraternal greetings, reports and discussion of religion occu- ! ied the sessions. An attempt is being made to unite the manufacturers of Wisconsin to secure (he defeat of inimical legislation. C'-arles Lafallett, arrested at the in- • ' of his grandfather on the charge ’ ■ t. died from grief In the jail at . .-ibyville, Ind. Congress will be asked to establish a uniform electrical unit to agree With that adopted by Great Britain, Germany and France. Names of 2,500 violaters of the Sunday law were reported to the chief of police of Louisville. Test cases will be brought. Moggie Wachter.a stenographer, gave strong testimony for the defense in the Hayward trial at Minneapolis. Trial of Banker Koetting at Milwaukee was postponed. Attorney Williams refusing to act further until his fee waa paid. The Asbury hospital at Minneapolis was damaged. The thirty patients were safely carried out. In the annual report of the Alton, , President Blackstone calls attention to I the enormous taxes paid by railroads, j Rev. John A. B. Wilson of New York I denounced the Charities Organization | ro, iety in a sermon on the unemployed. ; The Smith Point lighthouse, at the | mouth of the Potomac river, was carj lied away by the ices. The National Council of the Women I of the United States will meet in triennial session to-day in Washington. Ice is gorged in the Allegheny river from the government dam at Logansl ort to Parker, a distance of ninety i.iiies. A man. believed to be a maniac, create] terror in Springfield, 111., by slashing at pedestrians with a razor. ' A hearing on the school question has been granted by the Canadian cabinet in representatives of Manitoba catho- | lies. At a meeting of the Irish National Federation in New York Redmond's de- , sertion of the liberals in Parliament j was denounced. William Barnett, of Chillicothe, Ohio, fataly shot Clarence E. Hall, a onearmed tramp, mistaking him for a burg- | kir. Three mass meetings, attended by at least 25,000 persons, were addressed in Boston by General Booth of the salva- , tion army. At All Soul's church, Prof. Fisk of Harvard College delivered a discourse on “The Witchcraft of Salem Village.” At the request of the civic federation sermons in behalf of municipal reform were delivered in most of the Chicago pulpits. In a sermon in a New York church I Rev. Madison C. Peters used the career of Howell Osborne to paint a moral. Judge Noble of Cleveland declared unconstitutional the law requiring a license for the sale of goods made by convicts in other states. A report advers to Health Commissioner Kempster will be made by the investigating committee- of the Mil , waukee council. La Gascogne was greeted with cheers from thousands of * renciin.en as she drew up to her dock in New York. Trustees of the University of Illinois decided to ask the legislature to appropriate $160,000 for the purchase of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of Chicago. I Removal of props in the coal mines in the suburbs of Springfield, 111., have I caused huge fissures to open and rendered a number of houses untenantable. In a letter to Secretary Mcßryde, T. V. Powderly advises miners to set up a rival Knights of Labor organization. Gen. and Mrs. Lucius Fairchild and Capt. and Mrs. Eugene Cary were given an informal reception by the Minnesota legislature. Ex-Gov. Richard J. Oglesby, who has t>cen seriously ill at his home at Elkhart, 111., is believed to be out of danger. Fifty destitute farmers broke into a car loaded with relief supplies at Kearney, Neb., but were forced to relinquish their plunder. Bondsmen of the late State Treasurer Ramsey have filed a claim against his estate for $363,539,. the amount of the shortage which they made good. Charles Gayarre, historian and litterateur. who introduced the culture of indigo and sugar cane into Louisiana, died at New Orleans, aged 90 years.

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FOREIGN.

The disabled British steamer Ganges broke adrift from a tug which was towing her to Havre and it is feared has been wrecked. Chamberlain's amendment to the address In reply to the queen’s speech was rejected by the house of commons by but 14 majority. French farmers claim American cattle are affected with contagious diseases and are seeking to have their importation prohibited. Lima, Peru, has been surrounded by the insurgents. The government troops are preparing for a vigorous defense. Great Britain, France and Russia are said to have demanded that the porte appoint a new governor general for Kurdistan. Fifteen thousand Chinese, with twelve guns attacked Hal Cheng and were repulsed with a loss of 100 men. Attempts are being made to stimulate anti-European feeling among the Mohammedan population of Egypt. Confirmation has been received of the report that the Chinese admirals and generals at Wei-Hai-Wet committed suicide after surrendering to the Japanese. It is reported at Honolulu that an American protectorate will be declared over Hawaii when the political conspiracy has been disposed of. The Japanese have captured the island of Lin Kung Tao, a't the entrance to the harbor of Wei-Hai-Wet. At Alexandria, Egypt, a mod attacked and beat three men belonging to a British cruiser. An inquiry is in progress. A territfic snow storm prevailed | throughout Ireland, doing much damage. In the north train service was suspended. J. Cranston, an Hawaiian exile, who claims to be an American citizen, says that he was not tried and that no charges were made against him. } Germany is moving in the matter of an international congress to rehabilitate silver as a circulating medium. Plot has been discovered on the island | of Qava whereby the natives were to j massacre all toe Europeans and Chinese j there. Several cities in Spain have been in- i undated by the swelling rivers. Royal I palace at Aranjuez is in great danger. ! Ex-Queen Liliuokalanl of Hawaii was j placed on trial for misprison of treason, j Damaging evidence was found in her j diary. England has asked the powers at Hawaii to forward the evidence against Englishmen sentenced to be executed for treason.

Manuel Ruls Zorilla, the noted Spanish republican, has accepted the terms of amnesty and returned to Barcelona. German firm at Apia, Samoa, has been convicted of selling arms and munitions to rebels in violation of the Berlin treaty. William O’Brien, the Irish leader, has been ordered to pay the expenses incurred in the Salisbury lawsuit. Turkisli commission investigating the Armenian outrages has decided to visit the Sassoun district in search of evidence. a report Is current in Berlin that Prince Ferdinand has been expelled from Bulgaria. Me is said lo be in Rnn-'iaru'a. It is reported in Rome that Mgr. Satolll, the American ablegate, will be upv-ointed nuncio at Liston. Moorish cavalrymen are on their way to Fez with two cart loads of human heads captured in the Rahama rebellion. Eieutenant Marcel Canrobert severely wounded M. Hubbard, a socialist member of the French parliament, in a duel. During the dehate in tlie house of commons Secretary Morley denied that either he or <>,-■ -ie had promised amnesty to dynamiters.

SPORTING NOTES.

September 1 has been agreed to by the London Athletic Club as the date for the contest with the New York club. A. C. Wilson of Maryland, was chosen to succeed President LuscOmb of the League of American Wheelmen. Asbury Park was selected for the next meet. The negro question was dropped. Ellison defeated Adams in the amateur championship billiard tourney by a score of 300 to 167. He made an average of 10. Directors of the Western Bail League decided Manager Vanderbeck must pay. Glenalvin's claim or forfeit his franchise. Nominations t o the seventeen stakes to be contested for at Hawthorne the coming season aggregate 1,014. The Ghtcugo ball club will leave Feb. 27 for Galveston, Texas, where the players will get into shape for the season. Dissatisfied members of the GaelicAthletic Association have formed a new organization under the title of the IrishAmerican Athletic Association of Chicago. Peter Ostlund, the skating champion of Europe, defeated John S. Johnson in a hotly contested 1,600 meter race at Minneapolis. Independence (lowaj Driving ' Park Association has announced stakes and purses of $30,000 for Us summer meeting. Triennial championship pigeon shoot ing match at Monte Carlo was won by Mainetto, who defeated Roberts by onebird.

CASUALTIES.

By an explosion of gas in a mine at Pottsville, Pa., six men were killed and five Injured, four fatally. The barkentine Sadie Thompson, bound for Philadelphia with a cargo of sugar valued at SIOO,OOO, was wrecked In the Bahamas. A railroad engineer's disobedience of orders led to a wreck at Gut.hrK. O. T., in which one man was ' filed and a score injured, several serioimF While Eli Seymour and wife »•’ Lewistori, Mich., were at a dance t! eir house took fire and three children were burned to death. W T hile working at a fire in Akron, 0., three firemen were seriously injured by a falling chimney. Five men were seriously injured by the collision of trains in a tunnel ou the Castle Shannon road near Pittsburg George P. Harpole and Casey Gergory of Fairfield, 111., were asphyxiated by gas in a hotel at Springfield. 111. Willinm E. Winans, a feeble-minded man, aged 38 years, wandered away from his home at Olney, 111., and was frozen to death. Eleven miners were seriously injured by an explosion at Odin, 111., over 200 men in the shaft escaping. In the crush to get out of a burning building at Lemont, lowa, two children were seriously injured. Five firemen were killed and seven fatally and nine seriously injured by a falling wall at a Lynn fire.

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Graduated Inheritance Tax.

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