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C. S. MELLEN OUTLINES
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Declares There's No Reason for
Lines Not Selling Their
Bonds Direct to Public.
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hands of selfish human nature, I 8
almost sure to be abuged, and in the
end to deprive the public, through
extortion and graft by those who
contro] the monopoly, of the very
benefits which is claimed for
monopoly, and of which It 18
economically capable of rendering
There is no lesson 8o clearly
taught by history, both bhusiness
and political history, as the Yesson
that absolute power will be abused
by 99 in every 100 men. The very
selfigshness which nature implants
in us te stimulate our energies for
progress makes it almost inevita
ble that we will abuse great power
" gver other people when we have it
How Abuse Affects People.
Probably the public does not
realize that during the last 50
years the stockholders of these
great corporations have suffered
even more than the public from the
license which the managers and
those outsiders who control the
managers of these corporations
have enjoved.
The salaries of the executive of
ficers need not he exorbitant. They
are not pald these enormous sala
ries to make them faithful to the
railroad and to the Hmkhnldvv!.)
but they are pald by a little coterie
_of influential men among the direc
_tors who wish to bring the presi
ent and the executive officers un
‘der their particular influence He
“knows that it wasthrough theirin-
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Rises From Poverty
- To Head Big School
SANDUSKY., OHIO, June 6 —~Henry
B. Williams, Ph. D., former su;mrln»
godem of the public schools of this
eity, who has heen appointed president
of the State Normal School at Bowling
Green, Ohlo, costing $2.0060,000, 1s a fine
example of a self-made man.
Twenty-flve yeare ago he was a coun
try school teacher in Hardin County,
He was 86 poor that he was obliged to
deny himself many |hlnfu in order to
buy books. From Bowling Green he
‘went to Magnetic Springs, where he
10 start in by thrashing two or three
the big boys who had been “running
ings."”
Negro Boy, Aged 10,
Receives $l9O a Da
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CUSHING, OKLA., Yune 6 Running
wild, free and irresponsible as a colt,
ablivious to the events of the world as
an Eskimo, in a four-room housge on a
rocky Oklahoma farm of 80 acres, lves
: ten-year-old colored boy who doesn't
- w that -he is one of the richest boys
4n the State, and if he did the fact
would carry no significance to hig brain
The month of March saw deposited to
hig credit $12.000, and every day he
m?-}:." not less than $19%
n Tucker is the son of James and
Elisabeth Tucker, children of slaves of
the Creek Indians
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Church to Provide
. TOPEKA, June 8 .--Automobiles and
rocking chairs for the use of old peopie
will be Emvidm! by the North Topeka
Baptist Chureh to increase the attend
ance at the church, according to an an
nouncement by the pasior
¢ The ‘IaFI:-I' said he would send an au
tomobile for every aged person who no
tifled him of & desire to attend any of
the services. A large number of rock
ihg chairs he sald, had been placed
nßeaAr the front of the church audito
rium. to he occupled by persons re
_sponding to his invitation
To Make Furniture
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REPUBLIC CITY, KANS., June §
R W. Polley has cut down a wainut
tree planted forty vears ago which was
more than two feel In thickness T
seed was brought from Nemaha County
fn 1872 by his brother, M. C. Polley
former member of the lLegislature from
Republic County
Mr. Polley got 250 feet of good tin
ber from the tree, and intends convert
ing it into furniture
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DETROIT TO BUILD ITS OWN SUBWAYS
DETROIT, June 6.—ln accordance with a resolution adopt
ed by the Detroit Municipal Street Railway Commission, the city
will proceed immediatels to construct a system of city owned
subway lines.
Three subways will be built, but they will extend only past
the congested districts within the threz.mile circle, there to
connect with the crosstown surface lines.
fluence that the unusual salary is
paid, and therefore the recipient of
this unusual gratuity comes under
the thumb of the few confederates
in‘the directorate who were respon
sible for his Increase in salary.
Railroad Like Tammany.
A great railroad |s more nearly
like a Tammany political organiza
tion than the people have ever im
agined, and the attitude toward the
stockhoiders by bosses of the rall
road is not different from the atti
tude toward the people by political
bhosses. Too often the boards of
directors of our corporations in han
dling the business of stockholders
nre like some Boards of Aldermen
or the members of the Legislatures
in our cities and States,
They do not represent the stock
holders at all. They really repre
sent and are under the control of
bosses entirely outside, who make
enormous profits through their
control of the railroad In outside
business,
Abuse of Voting by Proxy.
This condition has existed during
a great many years for several
reasons, One is the abuse of the
voting by proxv. There outside
boskes having no personal interest
in the road except what they can
make out of it, and having little or
no money of their own in it, wil
often control a stockholders’ meel
ing and elect a board of directors
by an enormous number of proxies
which they are abie to obtain,
I would make a stockholder volg
at the atockholders’ meeting or not
vote at all. 1 would make his per
sonal vote just as important ag the
vote of &« man at a politlcal elec
tion,
Do yvou realize that as little at
tention as the people give to thelr
public affairs, =till if they gave as
little attention as the stockholders
give to their corporations and took
Female Mosquito Is
Deadlier Than Male
MADISON, June 6 Declaring the fe
male mosquito i deadlier than the male,
the University of Wisconsin issued to
day & statement on how to fight the
summer pest. The male, said the bul
letin, feeds on juices of frults and
plants, but the female "‘gorges herself
with blood that her eggs may have
abundant nourishment."”
Hated Witfe's Face;
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atea Wile's Face;
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She Gets Divorce
TRENTON, N. J., June 6.- Having
sued her husband, Frank E. Smith, of
this city, on the charge that because
he hated the sight of Fer face he was
brutal to her., Mrs. bmith was granted
a finnl decree of Alvorce by Chancel
lor Walker
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it one of the best appointed on the Atlantic Coast. Seventeen /
miles from Jacksonville; eighteen trains daily. Special summer L f'fl
rates-——517.50 per week for one person; $30.00 for two, with- ~& (.
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as little part in the control of their
government as the stockholders
take in the control of their prop
erty, our republic would not last a
generation?
I would compel the stockholders
pergonally to take some responsi
bility in the management of thelr
corporation or forfeit the right to
have their stock voted at all
It may be that personal attend
ance mav not be necessary, but in
any event the specific questions of
fundamental policy should be care
fully formulated and submitted to
the stockholders with the argu
ments pro and con, just as you pro
pose It in vour newspaper that the
political questions shall be submit
ted 1o the people through the initia
tive and referendum
So Easy to Shift Cost.
Another reason why stockhnlders
have submitted to the evil of out
gide control of our public service
corporations ig because it has been
g 0 easy for these corporations to
shift the cost of this kind of bad
management over upon the shoul
ders of the public. The stockhold
ers are contented when the divi
dends are regular. but if they were
to see a reduction in their dividends
wherever their property is obliged
to pay the price for outgide control,
they would soon look into things
and see that they were done differ
ently.
1t should be no more possible for
a railroad to make a railroad con
tribation to a campaign fund with
out the knowledge of the public
than it would be for a city or town
or State to make such a contribu
tion. A railroad is a public service
corporation. It is performing a nec
essary public function with some
of the powers of sovereignty dele
gated to it
Should Be Strict Accounting.
The railroad accounting should
be so rigid that not one penny could
Wife Sued for Divorce
FRESNO, June 6 -—Although she
flatly refused to prosecute her hus
band on a charge of assault with a
deadly weapon, Mrs. M. E. Watson
began suit for divorce from William
W. Watson on a charge of cruelty
Last Thursday night Watson fired two
shots at his wife and Ludwig Dorge,
'a roomer in the Watson home,
;Ofiers Reward to
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- Show Church Cordial
CLEVELAND, June B.—Dr. Henry C
Kelker offers §6 reward to any person
or persons coming to the regular church
services at West Boulevard Christian
Church who dces not meet at least
three persons and recelve an invitation
to come« again. That is, provided they
remain fifteen minutes after the services
in the church lobby or auditorium.
HIS IDEAS FOR REFORM OF RAILWAYS
be spent for influencing legislation
or public officials without the
knowledge of the public. The temp
tation on the part of men in public
life to receive asgistance from the
corporations, in cash or influence,
In their campaign for election ought
to he removed, 1 would do this by
absolutely forbidding any candidate
to pay any expense beyond inci
dental and personal expenses,
I would also have the legitimate
campaign expenses taken out of the
public treasury.
Kvery expense which is reason
ably caleulated to give the voters
information that is material to the
{ssues of a pending election should
be given them at the public ex
pense, The candidates themselves
ought not to be asked to bear this
expense,
A candidate for office ought not
to be considered a self-seeker, but
a man who is being asked to per
form a public duty. Why, then,
should he be also asked to pay the
campalgn expenses particularly
when it means, as It has meant in
the past, as it always will mean
80 long as the present system pre
valls, that he will go to the spe
cial interests, to the men and the
corporations who are seeking fa
vors at the hands of the Govern
ment, to put him in é6ffice in return
for favors to be shown after elec
tion ?
Make Roads Sell Own Securities.
1 would next oblige the railroads
to market their own securities. The
control which the bankers exercise
over the ratlroads through the priv
flege of underwriting the securities
—that is, by ralsing money for a
railroad-—is what makes them the
rallroad hosses and what gives
them a contro] that is often abused.
If public confidence were once re
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stored to our railroads, and our
public bodies, charged with the du
ty of regulating them, also were to
enjoy public confidence, there is no
reason why their securities could
not be as safe as the securities in
the savings banks. and when as
gafe ag that, the difficulty in sell
ing the securities would be gone.
Then the railroads should also
deposit of railroad cash to bid for
compel those who wish to have the
them, and it should go to the high
est responsible bidder. Consider
the enormous profits which bank
ers make who have these corpora
tion connections, through the de
posits of the corporation funds in
their banking houses. They do not
have to keep a big reserve as do the
national banks under Government
regulation, They pay only 2 per
cent on the deposits, and they make
a difference between 2 per cent and
6 per cent.
Suppose a banking house has two
hundred millions on deposit from a
lot of corporations of which it is
the fiscal agent. Then the profit on
that business would 99 4 per cent
on two hundred millions, or eight
million dollars a year!
Would Make Directors Direct.
Then I would make the board of
directors direct. In the first place,
the reforms as to voting by stock
holders would tend to elect direc
tors who would serve the stock
holders as a whole and not some
outside interest, who would repre
gent the people in the corporation
and not some financial boss outside.
I would see that they really direct
ed the affairs of the road. They
ought to go over the road person
ally three or four times a year,
They ought to know all its prob
lems and all its conditions them
selves. They ought to give thelr
time to the work, and they ought to
be paid a sufficient salary.
Now they are directing a quasi
public corporation, all of whose
operations are clothed with a vital
public.interest. There ought to be
nothing secret about their consulta
tions. Thelr meetings ought to be
as open as the deliberations of a
board of aldermen or a legislature
or a town meeting, Their records
should be kept under oath and a
stenographic report of the remarks
of the directors carefully taken.
The light of day should be shed
upon all these operations. Every
thing should be a part of the pub
lic record. If there should ever be
a necessity for an executive seysiou,
then a representative of the Gov
ernment should be called in to at
tend.
I would also compel the rallroad
managers to advertise for bids for
all purchases of any considerable
amount and for all construction
work and other work which involves
a large cost, The cities and towns
are now obliged to follow this
practice, and the States and the
National Government follow it vol
untarily as a sound, honest busi
nese principle. The railroads should
do likewise for the same reason.
The accounting of the railroads
of the country should be uniform,
so that the authorities can see at
a glance how the rallroads are be
ing managed in comparison with
other railroads, and what the cost
of the service on each road is. In
this way the roads can be made to
compete with each other In effi
ciency and cost of service.
Should Protect Minority.
The stockholders ought to be en
couraged to take a personal inter
est in the management of their
property, and the rights of minority
stockholders should be protected so
far as is consistent with the prin
ciple that the majority rules when
it is not grossly unfair to the mi
nority.
The minority stockholders ought
to have a right, when they dissent
on a question which touches the
good faith of the directors, to ask
the courts to compel the corpora
tion to pay the expenses of an ap
peal to the courts, provided they
satisfy the court that their prima
facie case is good and not frivolous
and not brought in bad faith.
This is not an extraordinary
proposition. If a wife to-day, under
our law, sues her husband for sep
arate support or divorce, she can
ask, when the suit is flled, to have
her husband compelled to pay the
expenses of the suit against him
self. This is obviously fair, for in
many cases the wife would Dbe
quite helpless without such a right,
and the stockholders in their rela
tion to the corporations are just as
helpless.
Government Control.
. You ask me why 1 believe that
public ownership is inevitable, and
that it is coming fast in this coun
try, even if all these reforms of
which 1 speak are adopted. My
answer is that if all these reforms
which I speak of are adopted, those
who control railroads and who ex
ercise the political power through
them and through newspapers or
otherwise would be quite willing to
have public ownership come.
Men who are honestly managing
a railroad corporation for itsstock
holders would just as soon manage
it for the Government. They are
working for the salary and the
public service in either case, and
when once the public feels confi-
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dent that thelr work is honest and
patriotic, their positions will be
honorable, and this honor will com- v
pensate them more than even
their salaries,
Opposition Will Cease.
The cry against public owner~
ship will vanish in the alr 'when
once the opportunity for making/
profit out of the “concessions,” so
to speak, of the business is gone.
A great many thousand people
honestly fear public ownership be
cause they apprehend that it wiil
put a tremendous army of em
ployees into the hands of politi
cians, to be manipulated as an ine
vincible political machine, Buf
there is little in that objection.
In company with a great many
other men in big business, I have
long believed that public ownership
was inevitable. I did not think,
however, it was coming so fast as
it seems to be approaching now,
You would be surprised to know
how many men in the conservative
walks of life secretly belleve that
public ownership. must come.
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