Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 73, 28 April 1908 — Page 7

THE KICII3IOND PALLADIUM AND SUX TELEGKA3I, TTTE5TDAY, APRIL 28. 10OS.

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CORPORATE CONTROL JD LABOR SUBJECT OF SPECIAL MESSAGE

Once More President Roosevelt Sends Communication To Congress Urging It To Do Something Noteworthy. POINTS OUT MISTAKES OF FAST ACTIONS.' Cails Attention to Laws Which He Thinks Would Meet the Meeds of the American People Today. To thf Srnr.tr- and IIot:.;o of Ropre "Ti!! t! vrs: In tv. v lrtf-ssr. ze to the er.njrre-ss of March 2". 1!HK I outlined certain men-u:es which I believe the majority of our eemntrymcn desire to lave cnneied into law at 1 1 1 1 . lime. Thesetiie.Tsvres do not represent, ly any n. miis all that I wouM like to see done If I thiiiiffht it possible, but they do rrpiesent what I believe can now bdone if an earnest effort toward this end Is made. Lawn He Wants Knacled. Sine" I -vrote this message an cmplovers' liability law has been enacted tchioh. it is true, conies short of what or.jrht to have lceii done, but which docs represent a real advance. Apparently there is ooil ground to hop'.' that there will lie further legislation providing for iti omjH'nsinj; all employes who suffer injury while enjraged in the public service; that there will bo a child labor law enacted for the District of Columbia: that the waterways e oinmissitm will lie cont'ioed with sufficient, financial support to Increase the effectiveness of its prepstory work: that steps will lie taken to provide for such investigation into tfliiff conditions, by the appropriate mm mi t tee of the house of representatives and by government experts in the executive service, as will secure the fill! information necessary for iniiriediite action in revising the tariff t the hands of the c.c-njrrcss elected next fall; and finally, that financial legislation -will le enacted providing for temporary measures for meeting any ti"iuble that may ari-e in the next year or two, and for a commission en xperts who shall thorouglily Investip:te the whole matter, Imth here and In the great commercial countries broad, so as to tie able to recommend legislation which will put our financial system on an efficient and permanent 1 asis. He Mentions a Few More. It is much to bo wished that one feature of the financial legislation of tills session should be the establishment of postal savings, banks. Ample ppropriation should be made to enMe the interstate commerce eomnmalon to carry out the very important feature of the Hepburn law whic'n gJres the commissien supervision and control over the accounting1 systems of the railways. Failure to provi le means which will enable the eommilon to examine the books of the rail ways would amount to an attack on the law at its most vital ivoint. and would benefit, as nothing else could benefit, those railways which are corruptly or incompetently managed. Forest reserves should be established j throughout the Appalachian mountains region wherever it can be shown that '. tl.ey wiil have a direct snd real con-; nection with tlte conservation and im- , provctnfnt of navigable livers. Two Measures in Much Doubt. i There seems, however, much doubt about uvo of the measures I have recommended: The measure to do away with abuse of the power of injunction ana the measure or group of measure to sirengthen ami render both mere efficient and more wise the control 1 y the national government over th" great i corporations cluing an inters tat-? business, i niscrssns tiik injunction Recommendations as to a Change in I'rocednre. First, as to the power of injunction : end of punishment for enntc:v.pt. In contempt eases. Mve where iruaedl-. to action is Imperative, the trial Hhould be before another jttdpe. As regards Injunctions, smr.e such leu;lsIr.tiott as that I hnve previously re'-; om mended should be enacted. They j r blind who fail to reahze the extreme liirterness mused simoiig larjT'J 1 edies of v orthy citizens oy the us ! hat h-ns I tcn repeatedly n.tulr of tho 1 l-;er rf in.nmct. j:i ir. labor di .pv.tes. j Those in whose p.dpuiejt we har most r1ht to trust are of the opinion tint wrdl vn-wii of the complaint avra'.ns: the use of the injunction is unwarranted, yet rh:t it is r.nquestionaHy true that in a number ol CAses this power has been used to th:' Crave injury of the rights of laboring men. ! ask that it be limited in some such vay as that I have already pointed out in my previous messages, for the Tery reason that I do not wish to see an embittered effort made to destroy It. It is unwise stubbornly to refuse to provide against a repetition of the abuses which have caused unrest. In n democracy like ours is idle to exect permanently to thwart the det rmlnatlou of tSe grrear body of our rtiizens. It may be, ai;d tfften is, the highest Cuty of a court, n legislature, or an eseeiuive. to resist and defy a sust o" popular passions, and most ceitainly no public servant, whatever may be the consequences to himself, should yield .to what he thinks wrong. But to Question which is eiuuhatieaJ-.r

one of public policy the policy which the public demands is sure in the en-l to be adopted; and a persistent refusa' to grant to a large portion of our people what is right is only too apt in the end to result in causing such irritation that when the right Is obtained it is obtained In the course of a movement so ill considered and violent as to be accompanied by much that is wrong. The process of injunction in labor disputes, as well as where state laws are Involved, should be used sparingly, and only when there i3 the e.esvest nepssity for it; but it is o: sn necessary to the efficient perform."v of duty by the court on behalf of the nation that it is in the highest degree to be rearretted that it should bo liable to reckless ue: for this reckless use tends to make honest men desire so to hamper its execution as to destroy its- usefulness. Every fanighted patriot should protest first of ail against the growth in this country of that evil thing which is called '"class const 1 usness." The demagogue, the sinister or foolish socialist visionary, who strives to arouse this feeling cf class consciousness in our working people decs a foul and evil thing; for he is no true American, he is no self-respecting citizen of this republic, he forfeits his right to stand with manly self-reliance en a footing of entire equality with all other citizens, who bows to envy and greed, who erects the doctrine f c lass hatred into a shiblwleth, who substitutes loyalty to men of a particular status, whether rich or poor, tor loyalty to those eternal and immutable principles of righteousness which bid as treat each man on his worth as a man without regard to his wealth or his poverty. Hut evil though the influence of these demagogues and visionaries is it is no worse in Its consequences than the influence exercised by the man of great wealth, or the man of power and position in the industrial world, who by his lack of sympa'hy with and lack of understanding of still more bv any exhibition of uncompromising hostility to the millions of :'.ir working people, tends to unite them against their fellow-Americans who are better off in this world's goods. It is a bid thing to teach our working peopie that men of means, that men who have the largest proportion of the substantial comforts of life, are nee ssar.ly greedy, grasping, and cold-hearted, and that they unjustly demand and appropriate more than their share of the substance of the many. Stem condemnation should be visited upon demagogue and visionary who teach this untruth, and even sterner upon those capitalists who are in truth grasping and greedy and brutally dlsrerardful of the rights f others, and who by their actions teach, the dreadful lesson far more effectively than any mere preacher of unrest. A oafTs sntrawe" left too long without remedy breeds "class consciov.v ness," and therefore class resentment.

CONTROL OF COKPOUATIONS Reasons Advanced for Strengthening the Anti-Trust Iaw. The strengthening of the anti trust law is demanded ujxn bo h moral and economic grounds. Our purpose iti strengthening it is to secure more effective control by the national government over the business use of the ast masses cf individual, and specially of corporate, wealth, which at the present time monopolize most of th? interstate business of the country. Aul we believe the control can best he exercised by preventing tho growth of abuses rather than merely by trjiugto destroy them when hey have alrewdy grown. In the Iii..est sense of the word this movement for thorough control of the business use of this great wealth is conservative. YVe are trying to steer a safe middle course, which alone can save us from a plutocratic class government on the one hand or a socialistic class government on the other, either f whi,-! -would be fraught with disaster to r.r.i free institutions, state and national. VVi are trying to avoid alike the evih which would flow from government ownership of the publi" utilities 1 which interstate commerce i chiefly i carried on. and the evils which th wj from the riot and chaos of unres ricT- d ! individualism. T here i g av dange: j to our free institutions in the. or-' rttpting intiuencc exercise! l y great I wealth suddenly concentrated in tiirj hands of the few. Wo should in s uno! manner triy to remedy this danger, inj spile of the sullen opposition of these j few very powerful men. and with .ho! f'tll purpose to protect them in v.)', their rights at the very time that we! require th?m to deal rightfully wit1' others. j When with steam and electricity ! modern business conditions wef:! through the astounding revolution! which in this country began over halt I a century ago there was at first much! hesitating as to what particular gov- i crnmental agency should be used t. g-ipple with the new conditions. At! almost the same time about twen;.j years since the effort was made tt ! control combinations by reguatlii; i them through the interstate commerce ; commission, and to abolish them by means of the anti-trust act: the tw'c ; remedies, therefore, being in part mu j tually incompatible. The interstatf! rommeree law has produced admiraBTe" results, especially since it was sn-engthened by the Hepburn law two years ago. Th antl-trut-t law, though it worked some good because anything is better than anarchy and complete absence of regulation, nevertheless "ras proved in many respects not merely lnadeo.uAte but mlschievcv-. Twenty years ago the misuse of corporate power had produced almost every' conceivable form of abuse, and had worked the gravest injury to tu-?l-nss morality and the public con rlence.. For a long time federal regulation of interstate commerce had been purely negative, the nattionaJ judiciary merely acting In isolated cases to restrain the states from exerting power which it was clearly unconstitutional as well as unwise fo; them to exercise, but which nevertheless the national government itsci: failed to exercise. Thus the corporations monopolizing commerce made the law for themselves, state power and common law being iuadeauate to aocjmDUah am

errcctTi-e r?gii."ton, and 'Tie nafljiial power not yet having been put forth. The result was mischievous in the extreme, and only shortsighted and utter failure to appreciate the grossnes-? of the evils to which, the lack of regulation gave rl can excuse the wellmeaning persons who now desire to abolish the anti-trust law outright, or to amend it by simply condemning "unreasonable" combinations. Powti- should unquestionably b lodged somewhere in the executive branch of the government to permit combination- which will further tlu public interests, r.t it must always be remembered that as regards the great .;'.',1 we;:!i'j7 'M.iV'.i t;o:n through which' ii:o.-t of the inrersi:r.:: business of t'x'.ay is done th-- 1 ;u d- n of proof should l e on them to shr.v that iliey have n ::'-!it t eit. No judicial tribunal has the kn-.Avle-igc . r

the experience to dfirst place whether a tion Is advisable or :. interest of the pn'. !:t w hether a com:!: : -si .n. der the departn.ent , labor. shoi.M be given My personal belk'f : ' rmiue in the eiven combiua-'-ess.i rj in The Some body, or a ' n'reau tin c. oamcrv,. ;,n,l f'-i- ) '''!'. is 1! at ul i'uatead' l t ;t national ;. U-'h 1 am i 1' ly we shall nave t incorporation law, th aw.nc that tills may be In. possible , pro-ent. Over the act if ns of tin executive body in which the j ower is placed the courts si onM possess merely a power of renew analogous to that obtaining in conne( t;,,n with the work of the interstate coiiiineroe e:.nimission at present. To confer ihipower would n-t be a h'.ip in the dark: it would n:erel be to carr still fur ther the theory f e-iTcrtive- governmental control of corporation which was resimsib!e for the creation ot the 1 . ter.state commerce c -niiimKsioi' and for the enlargement of its powers' and for the "creation of the bureau o-f corporations. The bii.nsj'i'e commerce lccisiii.tion has worked aumira.i ly. It i.as benefitted the public; it has benefitted honestly-managed and w is. dy. , ,,,, iucte ! railroads; and in spite of the fact t! a: the business of the country has enormously increased the value of this fed eral legislation has the way in which it federal government most pronounced of varied abuses which Inu'iiM s world t we: been shown h. i;as enabled the to cor: cot fie the g: eat an'. existed in tic ty years agi - while the many abuses that main emphasize the n-"cil . ; sllil re furthei and more i ": vonghgolng legist; fiorSimilarly th- !i:re:ui of enrnorationhas ainfdy justilicd its creitiou. In other word'--, it is dear that th. principles employed to remedy ra great evils in the business wo id 1 a v. worked well, and vhi y can now i o t m ployed to corrr-t the evils that tu'tlie: coniniercial growth has brought mopprom i not) tly 'o tiie surface, 'l he p,,v. ers and sccip. of the interstate commerce commission, and (.:' a-iv siniihit body such as i,e bureau of eerpi.ra tions which has t. deal w:1h the mnter in baud, sh.uild be grafly ( nhirg. ,1 so as to meet tile ; epii rcmcoi . s of thf present da.. DiAi, covntofj i.'ipossim.i-; Nation, Not State, Can Act Wiselj and MtTectively. j The decisions ' the -ujireme court , in the Minnesota and Nor'h Carolin:-' cases illustrate lc-. i -up o-s-ihlo 1- : dual co'itrol of i : i i i i 1 1 ; 1 1 commerce The states can not cotitrol it. 1 they can do is to control intrastaic! corn in toe, and this now fortes but a! small fraction of the commerce car i ried by the l iiiirotuls through tacit1 state. Actual that the effort to be nullified sooner or later. experience has sliowr at state control is sure in one way or anothei The nation al ne ca. act with effectiveness and wisdom: it should have the control both of the business and of the a cent by wlii'i the business is done; for any ;itteni;i) to separate this control muse result it: grotesque absurdity. rl"his means that we must reiy upov national legislation to prevent tic. commercial abuses that icn, exit .'.tithe others that are sure to ari-e un less some eilicient governmental body ha? adeuu.ite power of co-itrol o-c them. At present the failure of Uk congfoss to utilize and exetci-c i!n great powers onfe:red noon it as re sards interstate comn er- c leaves th' commerce to b retttt'.'itd, n t I j tin state nor yet by the con-iv-is. but M the occaio!iai and necessarily made, quate and cnided action or" th-? fed eral judiciary. However upriirhf and able a curl it Is can not act const nu-tively: it c-'.r cr.'y act negatively or dest motive ly, a an agency of go ernment : and tiiittiwtis that the on, ts are aul musali'ays bo un.-ib!.-' to deal c,T . vi'l; w:th a problem M;.e .he prcs.i. whi.requites i-oustructie action. A cc." can decide whit is faulty. 1 :: i l.a" no power to mnke letter what tt thns finds to be faulty. There shou'd l" an efficient exec u;iv bedy r aid with power enough to correct abuses and scope enoush to work ettt problems that this great ;e c:i-lcK uutry h:ts developed. It is nor tion to say that such sudiient o'.ijo."n bodv may to g'lilty of unwisdom or of abuses. Any : governmental boly, wliether a court or ' a commission; whether cec-.tive. leg-' js'ative or judicial: if given power : enough to enable if to do effective ; work for good must also in . iuibly tcceive enough power ti make it p,s- j sibly effective for evil. Therefore it is clear that tuniess a national incorporation law can b forthwith enacted s"iue b- dy or bodies '. in the executive service sh-mld l e given power t( pas upon any combination or agreement in relativu to in-j terstate commerce, and every such j combination or agreement rot tints an-1 proved should be treated as in violation of law and prosecuted aecrrdingly. The issuance rf the securities of anv combination doing interstate business should be under supervision of the national govemmcTit. AS TO LABOR IMMUNITY Pn?sident Gives. His Views on That Important Stit;ce-:. A strong effort "has ieen :.. . j have labor ergani2ations eompk:ely exempted from any of the operations of this law. whether or not their acts are in restraint of trade. Such exception would In .11 probability make the Hli uueougtiUit kMi&L. sj kUie

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ture Las no more right to pass a bill without regard to whether it is consti ttitional than the courts have lightly tc dechire uiiconstitution.il a law whic h the legislature has solemnly enacted. The responsibility is as great on the one side as on the other, and an abuse of power by the legislature in one direction is equally to be condemned with an abuse cf power by the courts In the other direction. It is not possible wholly to except labor- organizations from the workings of this law, and they who insist upon totally excepting them are merely providing that their status shall be kept wholly unchanged, and that they shall continue to be exposed to the action which they now dread. Obviously an organization not formed for pro:;? should not he required to furnish statistics in any way as complete as those furnished by organizations fot profit. Moreover, so far as labor is engaged in production nly its cluims 1c be exempted from the anti-trust law are sound. This would substantially cover the right of laborets to combine, to strike peaceably, and to en er i 1 1 1 tra.de agreements with the em plovers. I'.ut when labor undertakes in a wrongful manner to prevent 1he distribution and sale cf the pre duets o labor, as by certain forms of the boycott, it has left, the Mold of prodtteti ui .iiici '.i a i'tti-'ti n :i.v -:T np f..i restraint of trade, and inns' neccntv ! be subject to inquiry exactly ; s b: the the V lie sent: col'! a-e cf any other combination for a me purpose, so as t rieterm inner su h action is e-on'rary tc 1 public policy. The bcnti'St tl gemont should le given to thr wage workers to form labor union and to enter into agreements with their e-n'iployors; and their rights tc m .'"to . so hug as they act peac eably, m.'c-t be preserved. Rut we should sa-action neither a boycott nor a !' a delist which would h illegal at common law. The measures 1 advocate are in tlie interest both of decent eonrritijuand of law-abiding labor unions. They are. moreover, pre-eminently in the in terest of the public, for in my judgment the American people have detinitely made up their minds that the d.tys of the reign of the great law-de-fing and law-evadiitg corjorati:n are over, and that from this time on tee mighty organizations of capital necessary for the transaction of busl ness under modern conditions, whihor.eouraged so long as they act huiestly and in the interest of the general public, are to be subjected b careful supervision and regulation of a kind so effective as to insure their actini; in the interest of- the people as a whole. AUE SCCII LAWS SEEDED? President Says Yes. ind Gives an Example of Sinno6itr. Allegations are often made to the ef feet that there is no real need for these laws looking to the more effective control of rhe great corporations, uo; the ground rhat they will do theii work well without such control. 'I -al your attention to the accompanying copy of a report just submitted t: Mr. Nathan Matthews, chairman of the finance commission, to the mayoi end city council of Boston, relating to CSTWitt vil aractices at various cor

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poraf.onS winch nee tie "en bii"Jers ifurnishing the city with iron and steel The report shows that there have been extensive oonVbinatlons fe rmeel atnons tlie various corporations which have business with the city of Roston. in eluding, for instance, a carefully planned combination embracing practically all the firms and corporations iu the 1'nited States engaged in manufacturing cr furnishing structural stee' for use in any part of New England It affected the states, the cities and towns, the railroads and street railAvays, and generally till persons having occasion to use iron or steel foi any purpose in that section of the country. As regards the c-ity of Reston the combination resulted in par celling out the work by collusive bids plainly dishonest and supported hf false affirmations. In its conclusion the commislo?! lecominends as follows: 'Comment on the moral meaning of these methods and traupac'iions would seem supeTlluous. but as they were defendel at the public hearings of the commission anil asserted to be common and entirely proper incidents of business life, and as these practices have been freely resorted to by some of the largest imb-st rial e-:n orat nns that th" wor'd has ever known, the commission deems it proper to reco -cl its mvn cplnion. The eomm'ssion dislikes to believe that these practices are. as al leged, established by the general ens- ; torn of the business community: and i lb':s elefe Use it-clf. if unci; .1 lien god j ami tints 1 n grave aecu-ati"ii agai:st, the honesty of present business moth- j ods. I "To answer an invitation for public or private work by sending in what purports to le s! nnine bits, b-it what' in realty are collusive figures purpose-: ly nr.ule biul.er than the bid which is kite. -An will be submitted by one of the supposed comi etitors. is an act i of plain di'-h nesty. To sur, o't these, misrepresent! us by false atiimei-1 tions in writing that bids are submitted in good faith and without fraud, colb'si n. or conur. tior. with any other bidder, is a no-i.ive anl deliberate fraud. The successful bidder in the competition is guilty of obtaining money by false prrrns-s; and the ethers have mado themselves parties to a conspiracy clearly unlawful at the c-ommoa law. "Where, as i:i the ease of the 'Rosten agreement. " a number cf the most important manufacturers ami dealer in structural steel in this country, including the American Rridg? company, j one of the constitu- nt members of the! T'nited Statfs Steel Corporation, have' combined together for the purpose ofraising prices by means of collusiv bids and false representations their conduct is not only repugnant to common honesty, but is plainly obnoxi uu to the federal statute known as the OLici ui.;n or auL-uuti an. "The commission believes that anj example should he made of these m"-n. and that the members cf the "Boston agreement.' or nt least all those whS in October and November, 1HX5. entered in the fraudulent competitions for the Cove s'.r?et draw span and the Brook line street bridge, should be brought before a federal grand j"ury for violation of the act of congress o; July 2. 1S90. The Three years limitation for participation iu these transactions has not yet elapsed, and th; evidence obtained by the commission is so complete that there should be no difficulty, in the government secur

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ing a eon vi' tAm ur t!i;S cas-.--I have submitted this report to tie? department of justice for thorough investigation and for action, if action shall prove practicable-. Surely site h a state of affair? as that alcove set forth emphasizes the need nf fun her feebcai legislation, not merely because of the material benefits such legislation will sen-lire, but above all because this federal action should Ik- part, ;iid a largepart, of the- campaign to w.ikei- our pe-ople as a whole" to a lively and effective condemnation of the low stun! n-d of morality implied in sin h conduct on the part of great business concern. The first duty of every in tin is f provide a livelihood for himself sin-I for those dojK-ndonr Uon him. It is from every standpoint ele-irable that each of our citizens should endeavor by hard work and honorable methods to secure for him and h's such a competency as will carry with it the opportunity to enjoy in reasonable fashion the comforts and re-r!ne.c nts oi "liTe; ana rurrnermore. the man of great bu.siuess ability who obtains n fortune in nprisrht fashion inevitably in so elcing e-onfers a bonefit uj.o!i the community as a whole and is entitled to reward, to resoect, and to admiration. Rut among the many l;i 'cls of evil social, industrial, and puiti al which it is our duty as a nation s,tej-nly to combat, the re is none at the same time more base and more dangerous than the ejetd which treats the- plain and simple- rules of honesty with cynb-al contempt if they interfile with making a profit. And as a nation v e e-ati not be held guilt ness If we condone such action. The man who preaches hatred of wealth honestly acquired, who in-cub-ate-envy and j'.i!o'.isy ;.r.d slanderous ill-will toward those of his fellows who by thrift, energy and industry have become m'-n of mean. Ts a menace t thn community. Rut his coun'erpnrt in evil is to be found in that particular kind of multimillionaire who is almoM the hast envhibl -. ami i certainly one of the Urmz admirable, of all our c irize-ns a man of whom ir has been well said that his face has grown hard and cruel while his berxly has grown soft; whose son is a fol and his daughter a fcre gn prim-ess: whoe no.: dual pleasure are at best those- of a tasteless and extravagant luxury, and whose realj etelight. whose real life work, is the! acc-umulr.f ion ami use -,f power In It! most sordid and least elevating form, j In the chaos of an absolutely un-' restricted eomme:v-ial Inelividualism '. under modern conditions this is a typ" that becomes j rominent as inevitably j as the marauder bnron b e -a m " pr-mi-l lnent in the physical chaos ,f the cl;irk ages. We are striving for legislation to minimize the abuses which give ;hItype its nourishing prominence, parti v tor the sake' of what can be acr-om-i plisbed by the legislaticii itself, and' partly because- the legid:itir-n mark I our participation in a great rr. 1 stern , moral movn;"nt to bring our ida!i i and our conduct into measurable uc cord. t h Fior o n.F. i; ore si-; v i: lt. The White House, April '7, HQS. Consolation. 'Wo?s hup. Billy?" "Fader says my big brudder's gorn "eaven." "Don't cry" hopefully "mebbs e tsln'tr' London Opinion.

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The Ki-Minfler Motor Buggy $375.00 and upwards. A practical, successful, economlca., automobile at a small coat. Doublecylinder, air cooled. 10-12 11. P. Solid rubber tires. Will run through deep mud or sand, and will climb steep hills. Write for our Agency Terms. W. b). KIBLINGER CO., Box N. 320. Auburn, Ind. Low Rates to : ; jt t and North Pacific Coast Points One Way Second Class Colonist Tickets, Via C, C. & L. To California Points $41.55 To Washington, Oregon, Etc., $41.55 These rates are In effect Mar. 1st to April 30th. From all points on C, C. &. L. Railroad. For Particulars call C. A. Blair. Home Phone 2062. Round Trip Sunday Rates Every Sunday Via The C. C. & L. R. R. To Cincinnati, O IMO To Cottage Grove, Ind. ...... .63 To Boston, Ind. .25 To Webster .18 To Williamsburg .35 To Economy J0 To Losantville .70 To Muncie - 1.20 To Marion 2.10 To Peru 2.95 Trains Leave going East, 5:15 a. EnTrains Lv. going West 10:55 a. m. Daily. For further Information call C A. BLAIR, P. & T. A, Home Tel. 2062. Richmond.