People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1895 — As a Beginning. [ARTICLE]

As a Beginning.

Let the United States own a trunk line from New York to San Francisco , and it would "control” all transconti- ' nental lines. That is ajl we ask for the present. This much accomplished, and we can well afford to await the , course of railway events. The same ! may be said of the trunk line from those two cities via Chicago to New Orleans, and one to Boston. The railway question would be practically settled. The government would have, railways to buy in advance. To buy the total railway mileage of the United States at once was never proposed by any intelligent advocate of governmental ownership of railways. In buying those railways every dollar they are worth should be paid the present owners. We desire no spoliation. We op- ■ pose the robbery of the many by the few. We oppose the robbery of the few by the many. Rockefeller robbed the j American people of from twenty to , seventy millions a week or two ago. ; For doing that we called nim a freei booter. The same conduct on the part of the government would be equally as I reprehensible. We ask for a civlllzai tlon which will deal justly by all men, I and the rich man is included in this , statement as well as the poor man. Jusj tfee is even handed. It is every man’s duty to demand lt.—rProgressive Age.