Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 363, 26 March 1907 — Page 4

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PRICE Per Copy, Daily ............2c Per Copy, Sunday 3c Per Week, Daily and Sunday 7c IN ADVANCE One Year $3.50 Application pending in Richmond Postoffice for Second Class Mail Matter. ARE YOU ASHAMED? Good citizen, are you ashamed, in view of tho 'astounding revelations that have been made public during the past two years, if you have de nounced tho railways, and through your denunciation have . influenced your state and national legislators to pass drastic measures regulating them? If you are not, the day is com ing when you will lx?, according to drover Cleveland. The Palladium contained a dispatch from Princeton, New Jersey, yesterday in which the ex-president Is quoted as saying: 'Thereis much of the nature of de lirium livthe popular outcry against railroad corporations, for instance. We Bhalllall'beshamed of It by and by. I date- say I have some reason to knowiof the. real iniquities of eorpor a.tions,and I do know them, but there Is much, that is not only groundless, but wrong, in the offhand attacks made on the railroads by thoughtless people on afl hands. What is well founded in them will be cured, but the craze of denunciation will ,,soon pass. We shall reflect that railroads are vitally related to our prosperity, and that to attack them needlessly is to attack ourselves. It is not the stock cf soulless millionaires, but the property of citizens, of widows and orphans, whose savings are invested in railroads, that is being damaged. We shall recall what railroads have been and are still to be in the development of our country, and this craze will pass. "Of course there must bo some form of governmental supervision, but it should be planned in a quiet hour, not in one of angry excitement." Mr. Cleveland, however, is mistaken, and history proves him so. Throughout the annals of time there is not a single record of any great reform being accomplished during the "quiet" hours. During those hours the great rogues of history and of modern times were always busiest, piling up iniquities, which were only wiped away when the people rose up in their wrath and denounced them. The present "craze" of denunciation against the corrupt management of our railways will not harm our great arteries of commerce. On the contrary if the vast wave of wrath sweeping from one end of the country to the other at present, will only be strong enough to sweep out of power such all-devouring 'monsters as Ilarriman and others of his ilk, the railways will hare been saved from their greatest danger, over-capitalization "watered"- stocks and bond. " And tho widows and orphans about whom. Mr. Cleveland is so solicitous, even they will reap benefit if the pub He's denunciation can curb or drive out these financial vampires who are running our railways. Their savings and legacies as invested in railway stocks and bonds today are composed of about seventy-five per cent, real value and twenty-rive per cent ' wa ter, thanks to our Ilarrimans and their methods of high finance. No. Mr Cleveland, you have taken the wrong-track again to reach public ap proval, that is, the approval of the real public, the public composed of those widows and orphans and others who are.-forced to suffer for the way our railways have been managed. Your kind of talk is the kind the railway magnates want to hear, not the public We know our wrongs and our denunciations are proof enough that we are determined to do our utmost to get them righted. NOT ALL ROCKEFELLER'S. John D. Rockefeller is a very wealthy man and from the amount of talk In reference to his fortune one is likely to get the impression that the Standard Oil magnate is about to foreclose a mortgage on the earth. A glance at the figures given out by the census bureau in reference to the wealth of the United States will serve to convince the most skeptical that there are a few pieces of valuable tangibility on which J. D. has not yet landed. These figures are of such magnitude that the ordinary mind cannot comprehend them In their true significance. Below a few are presented to bear out the point: The total estimated value of the national wealth in 1904 was $107,104,192,410, according to a special report issaed by the census bureau on wealth, debt and taxation, which represents an increase in tho four year period from 1900 to 1904 of $18.5S6,SS5,635. This advance in national wealth has no parallel in the history of the United States except ' the decade from 1850 to I860. In 1850 when the first estimates of the national wealth were

made the figures were only $7,135,780,228. The most potent cause for the increase in the nation's wealth from 1900 to 1904, it is stated, was the reaction from the low prices of the period of depression from 1S93 to 1S9C. The annual Increase of wealth per family from 1S90 to 1904 was $182. The various forms into which the" nation's wealth is divided with their valuations are as follows: Real property and improvements taxed $55,510,228,057; real property and improvements exempt $6,831,241,570; live stock $1,073,791,736; farm implements and machinery, $Sli,989,hCZ; manufacturing machinery, tools and implements, $3,297,754,180; gold and silver coin and bullion, $1,998,603,303; railroads and their equip

ment, $11,244,752,000; street railways $2,219,966,000; telegraph systems $227,400,000; telephone system's, $5S5 840,000; Pullman and private cars $123,000,000; shippins and canals $846,489,804; privately owned water works, $275,000,000; privately owned central electric light and power sta tions, $o62,ol,10; agricultural pro ducts, $1,899,375,652; manufacture products, $7,409,291,668; imported merchandise, $495,543,685; mining pro ducts, $408,066,787; clothing and per sonal adornments, $2,500,000,000; fur niture, carriages and kindred property, $5,750,000,000. PRISONERS SHOULD WORK. If the county and city authorities working together, are able to get even a limited amount of labor out of the prisoners at the county jail, they are to be commended. Evidence goes to show that many of the men who go to the jail do so from a desire to se cure a place to sleep and get three meals a day at the expense of the tax payers, a practice that should be brok en up as speedily as possible and perhaps no more effective svay can be found than to make it necessary for the prisoners to work. Some crushed stone has been provided for the streets of the city through the efforts of these prisoners and more should be Why should the tax payers year in and year out be called upon to carry the dead weight of a class of men who contribute nothing to the public wel fare and who glory in the fact that they are able to take advantage of the county in the way they do. There are changes for the better that could be made in the Indiana jail system and perhaps one is to do away with many of the jails and substitute a dis trict work house where work will not be at the prisoner's option but with out alternative. COUNCIL GETS IN LINE. Council, at its session Monday even ing, did the proper thing in rescinding its former action In reference to the tracton freight ordinance and Is now lined up with the city attorney, board of works and property owners and citizens with regard to the proper route for the freight line. The matter is now squarely up to the traction company and there can be no dodging No doubt the intentions of the council were good when it voted to suspend the ordinance for a month, pending final settlement, but it would have been a mistake to permit the traction company opportunity to resume Its freight business along Main street and the council realized this afterward. The advertising merchant is the one who does the business in these days of push and enterprise. There are more newspaper readers today, than ever before in the history of the world and the number is constantly increas ing. The newspaper places your busi ness before the eyes of the buyer. He sees what he wants and knowing where to find it looks up the merchant who has thus invited his patronage. Success in these days of sharp competition calls for eternal vigilance and for the merchant a part of this is the use of printers ink. Near approach of Easter reminds us that ages pass but that each re turning Easter brings again its les sons of sacrifice, of unselfishness and of great love for humanity. Great snowy banks of lillies, emblems of purity, will be offered in remembrance of the greatest self-abnegation in the history of the world. In vast cathedral and in modest chapel will vibrate the majestic music of praise for that most wonderful resurrection upon which is based the faith of the might iest people of the earth. The next time some one tries to impress you with the accuracy of the groundhog theory in relation to the continuance of winter yeu will be in a iosition to call him a name that implies lack of truthfulness. It was claimed the groundhog saw his shadow this year and that there would be six more weeks of winter, but the whole business Is knocked endwavs. ' It has become so much the custom to send keepsakes and remembrances to one's friends on holidays that one's purse is agape almost all the year round. This Easter season the shopkeepers have been most considerate and "prices for all purses" is the rule in" more than one store that makes a specialty of appropriate gifts. 1 ... Each year the poultry business is becoming more lucrative and is assuming proportions that will soon rival any branch of farm industry. Farmers are forced to acknowledge that the old hen can lift .her own weight wixen

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AROUND THE CIRCLE KEEP THE DOLLARS MOVING IN YOUR OWN COMMUNITY. IT MAKES WEALTH FOR ALL Buy of of the You Will Man Who Will and Your Dollar Come Back Again. Buy (Copyright by Alfred C. Clark.) As on the western prairies in pioneer days, the trapper's camp fire, kindled to prepare his frugal meal or to warm him from the biting wind, fanned into renewed vigor, spread, first on the tiny blade of grass to neighboring blades, and thence to the tangled masses all around until the broad plains were one vast sea of seathing flame destroying all before it, so the mail order business, Btarted in the eastern cities on a small scale, fanned by the breeze of judicious advertising, has spread until it now covers the length and breadth of our land and threatens disaster to the smaller dealers everywhere. The note of warning has been sounded, the light is visible in the sky, and yet, apparently oblivious to It all, the ones whose safety is being endangered, heed not the alarm nor the signal of disaster. The country merchant and the farmer, whose combined efforts can stem the tide of destruction that threatens to engulf them, are alone unconscious of the approaching devastation, that, like a great sea of consuming flame, is threatening to engulf them. The country merchant and the farmer the simple, honest dwellers in the rural districts, are the victims this gigantic peril is reaching out for to fill its rapacious maw. Each year its grasp becomes firmer, its power greater. Only a few short years ago the catalogue house was a thing unheard of, to-day It stands as one of America's greatest Institutions. And with great fortune comes great power, so now the mail order business kmay well be classed among the powers of the nation. Its efforts are already being felt at the national capital. The Endless Chain It Keeps the where our laws are made, and unless a check is administered the passage of the parcels post bill will mark one of its. greatest triumphs. But let us look at a few of the simple reasons why the farmer should patronize the home dealer. In the first place their Interests are centered in each other. Every season of plenty on the farm means a prosperous year to the country merchant. So In the prosperity of the farmer does the country merchant expect to gain. The farmer finds, therefore, in the country dealer, a staunch and' loyal friend and a defender of nis rights. They pay taxes together, live side by side, their children play and go to school together. When the crops are poor or misfortune comes, to whom does the farmer look? Not to the mall order magnate, but to his neighbor, the country merchant. How often does the mail order concern take any interest in the political ques tions or legal measures beneficial to the farmer? " Yet with their brighthued catalogue of pictured "bargains" they reach out an open hand for the farmer's hard earned dollar. And does he get value received? Not often. The first order he may, but that Is only a bait. The business is not founded on principles, it is not builded on honorable methods, its mighty, walls are erected on graft. The goods are shop-worn or shoddy, or perhaps many kinds of goods have defects so cunningly concealed that the naked eye can scarcely see a difference between these articles and those of a much higher grade. You are expected to send cash with the order or have It ready when the goods arrive with the big C. O. D. mark on the package. Your crop failure, or shortage of money doesn't Interest the mail order house, your credit with them is good only so long as your pocket book is filled. Your order is made 'out and you pay for goods you never saw, put up and se lected by men you do not know. If these goods do not prove to be worth the money, if the shoes do not wear well, or the suit is shoddy goods, will the mall order firm make them good? Not often. Yet the local dealer will do this. He knows his honesty is his best drawing card. So much for the advantage of dealing with honest men and not with grafters. Still other issues present themuess sub-stations or branch bouses it comes to helping raise a mortgage from the farm. Most fortunate are the children and oung men and women who are jrivieged to attend school in this city, for without doubt its educational advant

selves in thl3 connection. With the rapid growth of the mail order buslare being established. These large firms are dally reaching out for new sections of trade. What will be the result along thi3 line? With the growth of the catalogue house comes the death of the rural mercantile trade. Let them once destroy the country merchant and the markets of the world will be in the hands of a few wealthy capitalists. Their branch houses will appear in all the country towns and the farmer will no longer be independent. His friend, the country dealer, who through competition was forced to pay the value of the butter, eggs, etc., will be a thing of the past, and in his place will appear the fat, gloating face of the capitalist, in whose benumbed conscience there is no thought of pity, whose breast contains instead of a heart a great lump of cold stony gold, whose one ambition Is to build up a greater fortune than the world has ever seen, and who cares naught for the tears or trials, woes or weeping of his victims so long as he can squeeze a little more of the coveted glittering treasure from him. Again, the dollar spent with the local dealer stays in the community where it blesses the spender over and over again. The merchant pays it to the butcher for meat, the butcher gets his bread of the baker and therefore drops the dollar into the baker's till, the baker pays It to the miller for flour, and the latter buys his grain from the farmer, so the dollar once more jingles merrily in the farmer's trousers pocket. But spend it with the mall order house and it is gone never to return. It goes to build up the great commercial interests of New York or Chicago. Does it pay the farmer to send his money to help beautify and build up these great cities? Has he not more interest in beautifying and building up his own section of the country? If not, he should. If a place is good enough for a man to live in and to make his money In, It Is good enough for him to spend his money in. Who helps build the churches, school houses, streets, bridges, etc.? Does the mail order house help? Will they give a dollar to educate the farmer's children, or donate anything to support the farmer's 'widow or orphans? Do they help to pay the taxes, or add anything to

Dollar at Home Where It Belongs. bring comfort or necessary improvements in , the country places? Then why should the farmer patronize them? By actual test it has been found that the same goods can be procured as cheaply, if not at more reasonable prices, at home. Trade with your neighbor, whose interests are your interests, whose hand is always ready to assist you in time of trouble. Patronize those who patronize you. Ufee the flashy catalogue of the mall order house to help kindle the kitchen fire, and keep your money at home "where it will benefit you and your neighbors over and over again. The farmer's dollar, earned by honest toll, should not be added to the blood money of these great mail order corporations. The farmer must join the local merchant and the country editor in battling this great peril that is creeping, creeping onward with great rapidity, and unless these forces are combined and their efforts prove Increasing, the day is not far distant when the chance will be gone forever the power will be too great to conquer. IVER H. SMITH. Snakes Reared for Their Skins. The idea that snakes are useless creatures and should be exterminated wherever found, will have to pass away, says the Shoe Trade Journal, as in Australia they are now being systematically reared for the sake of their skins, which have a considerable commercial value in London, Paris and New York. Snakeskin is the fashionable material for slippers, belts, bags, purses, jewel boxes, card cases, dressing-table accessories, etc. Rabbit trappers supplement their means considerably by catching young snakes and extracting their poinsonous fangs. The blacks are also expert snake catchers. To them the snake is an agreeable article of diet. The Fortune Tempted. A well known British nobleman was actually engaged to Miss Coutts, but on her challenging him one day whether it was her personality or her great fortune which appealed to him he frankly acknowledged that although he was much attached to her, her vast property had been his special inducement in betrothing himself. Her reply was characteristic: "Let us then remain the best of friends instead of being the poorest of lovers. ages equal, if they do not surpass those of any city of like size and many of greater size. A proposed new beatitude:. Blessed are they that clothe and dense the body for tBey give the soul a chance.

THE MAGAZINES. . When France Honored Dreyfus. (Vance Thompson in "Success Magazine.") Then came the summer of reward. Raised i rank, Dreyfus was given a post of confidence; he was placed in command of the service of mobilization at Vincennes; a little later he was given full command of the artillery at Saint Denis, where he is his own chief. His cousin, Grumbach, was promoted and it was a shrewd blow at the anti-Semites given charge of the Bureau of Information so that he has control of the entire system of espionage. Marie-Georges Picquart was advanced with extraordinary rapidity; he was made Colonel; within a few months he was made BrigadierGeneral; then General; and as I write he is Minister of War the real head of the army. Zola was dead; but with great state and national honors, his body was laid away in the Pantheon, where Carnot and Hugo and the great citizens of France sleep their last sleep. Joseph Reinach-was given a seat in Parliament; Cleruenceau was made Prime Minister oh. rewards rained upon those who had fought the good fight! Nor was vengeance less ample. The Paty de Clams were driven from the army; and the ax fell right and left, upon the heads of the old generals, the epauleted forgers, the vicious and prejudiced men of state

and men of law. After the crime, the punishment; and that is well. A strange and tragic history. And now that it is told, what thought comes home to you? My thought is this: Surely this man's martyrdom was as somber and pitiless as that of the medieval saints who were tried by fire; but more marvelous still was the patient heroism heroism silent and great with which he bore the torture of the years. Is he a great soldier? I do not know: he has never fought. What one may be sure of is the Innate heroism of the man-steady, unbreakable, quiet as a stone. Of him, some day, the world will make a legend. In the meantime, you have read the truth. The Muck-Rake in Fiction The muck-rake boom is beginning to affect the value of fiction. Of course this was to be expected, for though fiction is like real estate in that it is late to respond to bull markets, it always does reflect them; not perhaps, in its city property (so to say) but at least in its suburban lots and speculative subdivisions. It was pretty bad a year or two ago, when all the minor lady novelists were bent upon solving the labor question. But that was nothing to what fiction threatens to be if all our young men take to pointing out, under the guise of love stories, what unutterable bounders the rich really are. The world is full of rich bounders, and before now they have made good models for excellent fiction; but the writers were interested in them as human beings and not as texts. "A Row of Books," in April Everybody's.

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e2E CAN SLEEPIN MUNCIE. RICHMOND PEOPLE HAVE A CHANCE FOR QUIET SNOOZE Sleeping Car Will be Picked up There at Midnight by Through Train on C. C. & L. Those persons from Richmond, dc' siring to go to Chicago over the C, C. & L. railroad, but who do not care to wait until the midnight train, which will carry a sleeper all the way through from Cincinnati to Chicago, can take the local seven o'clock train out of this city for Muncie, where they can enter a sleeper early in the evening and retire. The sleeper will be picked up by the midnight train at Muncie and carried on to the windy city. After leaving Muncie the north bound train will carry two sleepers, one of them going through from Cincinnati to Chicago. This service will prove popular with those who desire a good night's rest before entering the windy metropolis, as by taking the seven o'clock train in this city they can get into Mwncie and retire before nine o'clock.. . a SHOWING A GOOD ONE. The report of General Manager Mummert, of the Indiana Car Service association, shows that In the month of March, up to date, 77,897 loaded cars have been handled by this bureau, with an average detention of 1.53 days. This is one of the best exhibits made by this organization, since it was organized and that in a winter month as well. The movement of cars was the best of any of the thirty-

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enght organizations of this character In the country, and speaks well for the management of the company and the attention its representatives arc paying to seo that cars are moed promptly. SAFETY PAPER TICKETS. Through the medium and efforts of the American association of general passenger agents, it is probable thai the local ticket office will soon receive a large number of new tickets printed on so called "safety paper." All will be the same kind. The pres. ent stock of tickets will not be dispensed with till they are sold. SIXTEEN HOUR SCHEDULE. Samuel Moody, general passengei agent of the Pennsylvania Hues west, has issued the statement that as soon as the tunnels into New York arc completed, the Pennsylvania will b able to make the run between Chicago and Xew York in sixteen hours. Sinca the recent agitation against the slow Ing up schedules on passenger trains there has been hundreds of protests from patrons, reach tho passenger of fices of the Pennsylvania. Mr. Moody'l most recent statement entirely doe away with the idea that tho present eighteen hour trains will bo takcu oil entirely. AGREE ON ADVANCE. Traffic officials both east and west have agreed upon an advance iu gen eral freight rates averaging from twe to ten per cent. This increase will np ply to nearly all tho important com moditles. The committee in charge oj the arrangement ot rates has am nounced that the new ecbedulrt will go into effect May 1. aim sum WORTH WHILE." Crk, Mich.