Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 254, 20 October 1907 — Page 4

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TWO-CENT FARE MISTAKE. "Make haste slowly" is not only a good adage but it is also something we ought to use more in our daily lives, for by so doing we would avoid many mistakes that take valuable

time to eradicate. We have drifted into this vein of thinking owing to reflections about the two cent fare legislation that has been enacted by so many state legislatures during the past few months. When Indiana was wrought up over the question of two cent fare per mile on the railroads the Palladium believed in it and advocated it and we did our share towards helping the two cent fare bill through the general assembly. Yet if we had it to do over again we would rather see the two cent fare bill defeated provided the following program could be carried out. At this time the entire country is wrought up over the great number of dreadful accidents that occur every day or so on our railroads and are demanding means to remedy the cause for them. Wisconsin, which recently passed a two cent fare bill, had a bill pass one house providing that the directors of any railroad in that state could be held on the charge of manslaughter for a fatal wreck on their railroad. There Is no fairness about that measure and it is a good thing it was defeated. Suppose the engineer had disobeyed his orders or mistaken them. Should the directors be tried for manslaughter because that engineer's disobedience or carelessness caused a fatal wreck? Manifestly, no. But the directors responsibility should be determined by whether or not they provide proper safety precautions for the trains on their load and whether they have strongly built cars that will not smash to kindling wood In a wreck or collision. And there is where we feel our legislators made a mistake in going after the railroads with the two cent fare club. Reducing the passenger revenues of practically all railroads by one third, how can we expect the rallToads to heed our demands for proper safety appliances and better built cars for the citizens who can not afford to ride in Pullman cars? And by far the most important Improvement that is needed on our railroads is better built cars. The average citizen can not afford to ride in a Pullman car and is carried in a car that is no more fit to stand the shock of a collision than an egg shell. Realizing this how much better it would have been for all of us if instead of urging on our state representatives and senators to pass the two cent fare bill, we had through them given the railroads to understand that we would not reduce their passenger receipts one third but we would insist that one third of the passenger receipts be spent to eliminate grade crossings, to provide proper safety appliances and to replace the present egg shell day coaches with cars as strongly built as the Pullman coaches. Had we done that the wreck of the future, and we must all admit that any age without the possibility of a railroad wreck would be too decidedly Utopian to be true or possible, would not only be a

rare occurrance but would also be far J

less terrible than the wreck of today. So it is easy to see where we made haste too hastily in lopping off one third of the passenger revenues of the railroads by only allowing them to charge two cents a mile instead of three cents. We have succeeded in obtaining cheaper transportation but at the same time we have placed the railroads in a position where they are less able than ever before to provide us with better built cars and more Bafety appliances. It is not too late to remedy this mistake. The state legislatures can undo their recent enactments and allow the railroads to charge three cents per mile for passenger transportation and at the same time provide by law that one cent per mile for every passenger carried should go for the improvements we have mentioned above.

TO PUMP A GREAT SEA DRY. Little Holland, with its 5,000,000 peo-; pie living safely behind their wavewashed dykes, Is about to make a new

conquest from its old enemy, the ocean, writes Emmett Campbell Hall In The Technical World Magazine for November. Already Dutch engineers have begun the tremendous task which will result in turning the Zuder Zee into 1,400 square miles of dry land. Where of old the great Dutch war fleets gathered, where now four thousand fishermen sink their nets, there will rise happy villages, broad pastures, poplar bordered roads and sleepy canals new farms and homes for 50,000 Dutchmen. The task to be undertaken is a tremendous one. It will cost nearly $70,000,000. In return the government expects to secure annual rentals of more than $5,000,000 from those who occupy and till the hard won land. The Zuyder Zee has occupied a moit prominent place in Dutch history. On Its shores are the ancient towns of Medembllk, Hoorn, Harderwyck, Norden and Enkhuizen, under whose walls the Dutch fleets used ta lie at anchor in the days when Holland disputed with England the supremacy of the Beas. It seems peculiarly appropriate now that Ho'fnd has turned from the ways of war to' the paths of peace, that she should win in a great fight with tae sea a fight that has continued throughout hundreds of years attaining victory only by ceaseless vigilance and fierce endeavor. And yet one cannot but experience a feeling of regret that those ancient cities, which, though nations rose and fell, made good the circles of their battered ramparts, defying alike the power of the sea and the might of spain, should become quiet inland towns, far removed from the roar of the breakers against the dykes. The above is but the opening of a beautifully Illustrated article of interest and importance, well worth the price of the magazine to any reader.

MASONIC CALENDAR.

Oct. 21 Richmond Commandery, No. 8, K. T. Special Conclave for work In Red Cross. Four candidates. Houses In Berlin are numbered in luminous paint.

COMMON-SENSE SOLUTION OF CRIMINAL NEGRO PROBLEM. From "The Negro and the South," by John Sharp Williams, in the November Metropolitan Magazine. These thoughts suggest some sort of common-sense remedies of the negro question upon the criminal side, principally in the nature of preventives. In the first place, they suggest the rigid enforcement or vagrant laws and the strengthening of existing vagrant laws by new laws, wherever, in justice and right, they need strengthening. In the second place, they sug 3st a closing of all low dives and brothels where the vagrant, tramp, and idle negroes consort, and where their imaginations they being peculiarly a race of imagination and emotion are inflamed by Trhisky, cocaine and lewd pictures. It must be remembered that that which would not inflame the imagination of a white man will have that effect upon the tropical, emotional nature of the darky. In the first place. I suggest that we ought, like Canada and Cape Colony, to have mounted rural police or con

stabulary, whose duty it would be to

patrol the country districts day and night. They would, to a certain ex

tent, take the place of the patrols the Southern States used to have. We would, of course, find some inconveniences in that. The white man hates to be held up on the road to give an account of himself, where he lives and whither he is going, but we must sacrifice something to meet the peculiar conditions under which we live. Putting up with that 6ort of inconveniences is but a slight sacrifice to mak?, in order to remove the sense of fear and to give an assurance of safety to our women, sometimes alone and unprotected in their houses, while the husband and father is in the field, gone for the doctor or otherwise necessarily absent. Above all things, we must show common sense and courage an l as much moderation as possible, in dealing with each happening as it arises. BANKS THAT ARE TRUST COMPANIES. In New York we have banks that are called banks and banks that are called trust companies, the difference lying in a more liberal attitude of the law toward the banks that are called trust companies. Many trust comapnies have been organized in the last twenty years, and some of them have had historic careers. One, called the State Trust Company, was founded in 1S90 by Mr. Willis S. Paine, as a kind of collateral enterprise of the American Surety Company, of which Mr. Paine was a director. The business of the American Surety Company being chiefly to bond employes and to indemnify employers, the premiums from its policies constantly produced for it a considerable stream of ready money. Now to have ready money instead of credits to handle is a great thing In the Wall Street game. One that has control of the investing of

much ready money con do well and lawfully although the money be not Tl -. 1 1 . I

American Surety Company thought it was a great deal better to invest the premium money than to have it in a bank subject to somebody else's investing. But the law rigidly restricts the investing of insurance funds by Insurance companies. Hence the utility of a trust company that Is really a branch of the insurance company but operates under another name an advantage thoroughly appreciated by the big life-insurance companies in the palmy days before 1905. Charles Edward Russell, in the November Everybody's.

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Have you noticed the improved service to Chicago via the C. C. & L! Through sleeper leaves Richmond at 11:15 P. M. dally, arrives in Chicago at 7:00 A. M. Try it. apr6-tf

SHOULD BE PREVENTED. Editor Palladium: Friday noon while transferring to a Falrview 6treet car at Eighth and Main street, a young woman was almost run down by an automobile running beyond the limit and the occupant went right on and paid no attention. A crowd of frightened people were surprised that she was not killed. Steps should be taken to prevent such accidents. A READER.

OBITUARY.

WATSON PASSES THROUGH. Congressman Watson stepped off a Grand Rapids and Indiana train at the Pennsylvania station early Saturday morning, making connections for Indianapolis. He was at Ft. Wayne, Friday night where he spoke.

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Is Xfc e Stomach Dispensable f An operation for tta removal of tbo stomach in a Chicago hospital recently, promoted discussion amonsr the targeoa whether the stomach could be removed and the patient be none he worse for it. Before the discussion bad wei: lied out, the patient had died. It demonstrated ie could not live without his stomach. To keep be stomach in (rood condition, and cure constiction. indigestion, etc., use the great herb l&xa ive compound. Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin idruggisu sell it at SO cents and Si a bottte.

Melvina Commons, daughter of Jonathan and Mary Ann Commons was born in Franklin township, Wayne county, Ind., March 22, 1S41. Departed this life October 7, 1907. Aged W years, 6 months and 15 days. She grew up to womanhood in this community and was united to John V. Blose in marriage May 9, 1S61. To this union was born three children, William H., Cora B., and Frank E., all of whom survive. She was of a family, who were the pioneers of his community and one which is well known to all the older citizens. She united with the M. E. church In early womanhood and lived a consistent christian life and was ever ready to give a cheering word or a helping hand to the needy. She bore her afflictions, which were severe at times, with patience and christian fortitude and was ever watchful lest she was a care to the loving hands who ministered to her. She was of a jovial and cheerful disposition, looking on the sunny side of life which endeared her to neighbors and associates. She was a kind and loving wife and mother. She has written her history. It is finished. She has passed into '"the great beyond" buoyed and sustained by an unbounded faith In "Him that doeth all things well."

THREE ANNIVERSARIES

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Turner Family Has an Unusual Distinction.

GOLDEN WEDDING REACHED

Stella How do yon know she re membered your birthday? Bella By the ostentatious way sh forgot it. New Tork Sun.

A rather remarkable coincidence has taken place in the family of Leslie Turner, of North Twenty-first street, this year. Mr. and Mrs. Turner celebrated their silver wedding anniversary a short time ago; Mr. and Mrs. Leonidus Turner of Marysville, O., father and mother of Mr. Turner, recently celebrated their golden wedding at the home of their son in this city; and Lee Turner, son of Mr. and Leslie Turner, was married to Mis3 Josephine Powell of Boston, last spring. The occurrence of a marriage and the celebration of a silver anniversary and of a golden anniversary within a year is a distinction that Is seldom experienced.

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