Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 363, 24 March 1907 — Page 4

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AGAIN UP TO McGOWAN. The traction interests, through General Manager Reynolds, have refused to grant the demands of the people for a freight route calling for the use of Twenty-third street, but it yet remains to be seen what view President aicGowan, who is the real power, will take of the situation. Richmond people formed a favorable impression of President McGowan on his recent visit here and hope is expressed that he will see the justice of the demand, not only of those property own

ers whoSfe interests are involved in

this matter, but also 1 the wishes of

the business men and of the shippers

as expressed in the resolutions pre

eented to the board of works. Council

and the board of works should stand

firm in the matter and insist upon

concessions on the part of the traction

company and if they are not granted,

continue to deny the use of Main street for the hauling of freight. Richmond has been exceedingly liberal "with the traction companies and

lhey have 'had everything they want

cd, almost, even going so far in some

cases as to violate the law in refer ence to fares, speed limit and opera

tion without a franchise, as alleged in the case of the Dayton & Western. It

is high time that the citizens of Richmond, through their public officials, sit up and take notice of what is going on and see that the rights of the public are protected. There is no reason that a traction line or any other public service corporation, which is not doing the public a favor by the fact of its existence but which expects a liberal return upon its investment, should be conceded every point upon which some contention may arise between it and the public. There will never be a better time to demonstrate to the traction interests, which are

daily growing wealthier and stronger, who is master of the local situation, sand it should be done in no uncertain way. It is the people of Richmond who are to be suited; the streets are ours and it is our right to say what shall and shall not be operated over them. Let the council and the board do its full duty, conscious of the fact that public sentiment is back of them. "Word from Mr. McGowan will be awaited with interest.

tem and which will do that much more toward putting Richmond on the map and removing the impression that it is a one railroad town. One of these reports of special Interest is that the Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville will get into Chicago by April 7 and that it has secured the use of the Lake Front depot. If this report is verified it means a great deal for the traffic between Chicago and Cincinnati In the way of lively competition between the Bradford line and the Pennsylvania for the business between these two great cities. The result will be improved passenger service and probably improved freight service and lower rates. There is increased significance in the report that the Bradford interests may secure the Illinois, Indiana and Minnesota, which is endeavoring to gain an entrance to Milwaukee. If plans for a system to embrace these lines can be perfected it would give the cities along the C. C. & L. an outlet to the great northwest that would prove -highly desirable. The people of Richmond are hoping that President Bradford will succeed in his plans for the extension and improve

ment of the roads under his direction.

FORUM OF THE PEOPLE OPEN TO ALL.

Today's Issue of the Palladium Is

the first that has come to the readers

on Sunday since the present policy

of the paper has been inaugurated, by

which the readers are given a six day

evening paper and a Sunday edition at the price formerly charged for a six-

day paper. It is the hope of the management to make the Sunday paper highly attractive and put Into it a large amount of reading for Sunday that will be both entertaining and beneficial.

Anyhow Richmond is "in it" when it comes to traction lines for it has just been announced that Hugh McGowan has put through a merger deal that includes the lines running in here, the capital of the new company known as the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern, being $25,000,000. McGowan is the man to whom Richmond is looking for a "square deal" in the matter of local traction conditions.

John II. McElhany, of Omaha, Neb.,

a disciple of Dr. Osier, after passing the age of three score and ten, took

his own life and left a note explaining that he considered It the part of wis

dom while In health, sober "and in his

right mind to cross the divide to the great beyond.

Another substantial improvement

that is worthy of favorable comment

is the large addition that Is to be

erected by the Wayne Works and for

which ground has been broken. It is another of the many evidences of the

j flourishing conditions that prevail lo

cally.

THE CROOKED ROAD GROWS. If press reports are to be relied upon President William A. Bradford, Jr., of the Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisvills and the Wisconsin Central, is destined to cut no mean figure in the aailroad world and this fact will have ,a direct bearing upon Richmond for ilt appears that deals are now on that will make the Chicago, Cincinnati & Xiouisville part of a great railroad sys-

If Lon Montgomery had only been content to stop at deserting his wife and child he would have done no more than many another man, but think of an able bodied man, six feet and more tall, extracting a nickle from a child's savings bank!

Fort Wayne is about to undertake the erection of a municipal light plant in the belief that entirely too much is being paid the private company for light.

Plans for observing the centennial of the state seem to have met a fate somewhat similar to the plans for the observance of the Richmond centennial.

Use artificial gas ror ITgnt and heat 10-tf

"LABOR'S PORTION." Editor Palladium: My attention was recently called to an article in one of the public prints, by Cardinal Gibbons, under the captain. "The Portion of Labor." In that article he makes the following assertion: "A laborer's wages comes from the profits of his employer." Now such an assertion is an error. He is not alone in holding to such error, for it is of the same piece as the old popular belief that wages come from the employer's capital, or to state it another way, the laborer is "carried" by the capitalist. Does the fact of this belief being time-honored claim our unquestioning acceptance of It into perpetuity? This inquiry is made fully in line with the progressive spirit of the age, when the average man is doing his own thinking; when there is rife the spirit of revolt against unnatural, social conditions. Now, dear reader, follow me care

fully I won't hold you long. Wages instead of coming from capital or profit, come solely from the produce of the labor for which they are paid. The laborer receives his wages either directly from the product

or its equivalent Money. If, for example, a man goes out to gather berries, catch fish or dig potatoes, his returns for such exertion are his wages, although in this instance he has neither capitalist or landlord to divide up with. Please Show me where capital or profits have been drawn on! His capital, so used if

such his simple appliances may be,

called only serve to illustrate the truth concerning capital invested on a larger scale, its function is to facilitate wealth, production and distribution. Take another example a big factory with its working force. The employer has his capital invested in the shape of money, buildings, machinery, material, etc. When he pays his workmen their wages he does not lessen his capital one iota. He still has his buildings, machinery, and while he

has less money and less raw material,

he has had returned to him increased values in the form of finished productsto a greater degree at the end of the week than he had at the be ginning. His workmen, before re

ceiving their wages produced so much wealth for the employer such work

being expended on either a finished

product, a gigantic machine in course

of construction or some form of indespensbale service. It is clear, then that the employer does not "carry" his workmen out of his capital or' profits, any more than a depositor who checks his money out of a bank is to that extent "carried" by the bank's capital stock. In either case, before anything Is drawn out something must first be put in. Take still another example large enterprises, requiring years for their completion, such as construction of ships, tunnels, miie-shafts, etc. Here the emploj-er must wait a long time for returns, although meanwhile the workmen are busy and drawing their wages. Right here, the superficial observer would declare that "these workmen are supported during that long interval out of the emplos-er's fund of capital or profits set apart for that purpose." No such thing!

ceives in wages else he would not be hired, for here is where the capitalists profit comes from. This is really the crux of the whole question. ADOLPH TWICKENHAM. New Castle, Ind.

HIS IDEA OF PARIS HAS BEEII CHANGED

M. L. Bowmaster of Cambridge Says It Is Not Quite as Pictured.

FRENCH POLITENESS, MYTH

WAYNE COUNTY MAN WRITES THAT THE "END SEAT HOG" IN AMERICA CAN GIVE FOREIGNERS POINTERS ON MANNERS.

Like the foregoing examples cited, capital is not advanced to pay wages, but the worker creates wealth for the employer before receiving his wages. No matter how long the time required in the enterprise, every stage of the work sees greater values coming to him, through this continuous exchange. So true is this that if the owner of ship, tunnel or mine were asked to sell his partly-completed enterprise, in the midst of the work, he would expect a profit. Let it be remembered that in all cases, the aggregate value of labor's product is greater than what he re-

M. L. Bowmaster of Cambridge City in writing to friends in this county from Paris, France says: "The best way to become disillusioned as regards a certain place is to visit it and study it. How many of my fancied ideas of Paris, the French and their customs, gained from read

ing the romantic and sentimental words of some enthusiast, have taken flight and in their stead I have the reality. ' "The language of the French I had always been told was soft and liquid, falling upon the ear like music, but the truth is it Is the reverse. The Parisian all talk through the nos9 and instead of modulation they gesticulate and the more they do so the louder they talk, so that one unacquainted with them would imagine a -ieadly quarrel to be in full progress, but not so, they are just talking; and again the proverbial politeness of the Frenchman can only exist in the minds of those who never met them. The American "street car hog" can give them pointers in politeness; thus an other idol is shattered. "We have been here almost four months and are learning the city and quite a good amount of the language, knowing the words but not the accent. Every day we go out we see something of interest and much enjoy our little

tours of observation, though our time is not all spent in idleness nor simply sight seeing. "Ever since we have been here I

have been taking lessons in sketching.

going to a school, near where we live. I attend three evenings each week and like my work very much. Paris is a great art center and hundreds of foreigners come here to study art In some form or other. Every facility Is offered that any one could expect. The best of schools, the finest teachers and the finest pictures are offered. Every fine morning, adjacent to the artists' quarters and the schools, on the street corners may be seen groups of models ranging in numbers from two to twenty. Old men, young men and girls, old women and young ladies all dressed in the picturesque costume belonging to their native country, is a picture to 'the lover of the quaint and queer. The sale of artist's materials make up a large por

tion of the trade of the city and especially in certain localities and yet

with all the competition they are not cheap.. I am sure the quality does not exceed ours, for no country can produce better goods than America. I am using a set of water colors bought in New Orleans and I doubt if as good could be purchased in Paris. "I wonder what any man at 16me would think or do if his wife would inform him that the bread box was empty and that he should go to the bakery and get a yard of breads I do not know of anything that struck us as so peculiar as the sight of the bread woman. She walks along the street with her arms full of bread, the loaves ranging In size from as large

around as your wrist to ten inches, and all the loaves three or four feet long, and carried just as one would carry a load of wood no paper around it. Then again the baskets on the lowcarts full of loaves set on end and the ends protruding far above the baskets and the weather cuts no figure. You buy five centimes .worth and place it under your arm without it being wrapped. "I saw the limit one morning while visiting the market. I saw an old lady using a loaf of bread for a cane. I called my wife's attention to it and we had a hearty laugh, though no one else seemed to thing it out of the ordinary. A common sight is to see men and women walking along with a long piece of bread and eating away on it as placidly as if they were at home. Many of the laboring men and women buy a piece of bread and then go into a wine shop and get a bottle of wine, sit there, eat and drink and that constitutes their entire meal. I will have to say that the bread is good, in fact it is the best I ever ate. "Paris for centuries has been noted for her good bread, and her claim I think is fully justified. While the bread is good, it is like every other necessity here; it is high in price. You tell them how much you want and they cut off a piece and weigh it. If not enough, they cut off another little piece, and all you have to do is to pay and look cheerful. "The butcher here is also a curiosity. Such a thing as a steak is unknown, but they cut and chop and have all sized and shaped pieces, with

the price of each marked in plain figures. You select a piece and the butcher proceeds to weigh it and adds a large piece of bone that was not in sight when the trade began. When you make energetic protest against the bone he emphatically tells you if you do not take the bone he will charge you more for the other, and he means it. too. "In purchasing meat a stranger must be careful and not be served with horse or mule meat, though all places selling horse meat are required to have above their shop a guilded horse head; some have as many as three. They say the meat is good, but I will try and worry along without it. To show the consumption of 'horse flesh here I will add that during the past year 400,000 horses were eaten. "The use of ice is entirely unknown. The meat is exposed to the air day and night. The shops are attractive and very clean."

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Former Librarian Explains the Absence of Complete File of Local Papers at Library.

New 1907 Models. All kinds Sundries. Bicycle Repairing. Wheels colled for and delivered. N. R. KIRKMAN V Phone 755 710 MAIN STREET

Editor Palladium: A former libra

rian would like to explain the absence

of files of the Palladium in Morrison-

Heeves library. In 1S94, when the reading room was opened, the Evening Item and the

Sun-Telegram were donated, but the proprietor of the Palladium did net

wish to donate a copy of his i aper,

therefore there were no papers to

preserve. The other papers were used in the reading room, and at the close of each month they were carefully wrapped and laid away for binding. The funds of the library were very low and the Item was the only paper bound regularly, but there are many more bound volumes of local papers. The Jeffcrsonian will be found among them. I am sure a list of the bound volumes and of others accessible for reference might be secured for publication. It was a great mistake not to secure the early papers offered by Isaac Julian, no such collection will be offered again. It is very important that local papers should be preserved and stored conveniently for reference in the Public library. During the past winter I had occasion to consult the broken volumes of the Palladium belonging to the Historical society, they are very interesting and contain information not to be obtained elsewhere. SARAH A. WRIGLEY.

W. H. HUSTON Watch maker m , My specialty is Repairing Old Grandpa Clocks for keepsakes and old time pieces. This has been my life study which fact enables me to guarantee first class work. Work that will please my customers. When I do the work, you can depend that it is done right. Clocks bought and sold. To Whom It May, Concern: It is with pleasure that we certify to the skill and workmanship of Mr. W.'II. Huston, who for us has repaired, and placed in first class running order ( an "old Dutch pipe organ clock" 150 years of age which has remained out of order nearly tweny (20) years, waiting for some one to solve the intricacies of construction, repair the clock, and revive Its usefulness. We recommend Mr. Huston to anyone in need of his services. L. F. WINGARD. Attorney-at-Law, Champaign, 111. ' ALSO WATCH REPAIRING The Success Loan Jewelry Store. 526 Main St. v Dr. Simmons, Prop.

LET US . . . CUT YOUR LUMBER Into, any size boards or finish, just as you want It. We have the machinery and do work promptly. See us for Fence Posts, Shingles or anything in Lumber. LOUCK a HILL CO. 200-210 North Fourth St., Richmond, Ind.

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