Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 10, 1886, Page 10

I——— TH X MOTTHR. EAL ESTATE AGENCY 211 South 15th Street. f 1ot on Nicholas etreet, near 19th, 5 room house, well, cistern, ote. 6,000 No. 81—Full lot,nioe T room house in Han- RESIDENCE PROPERTY 3 T No. 8. 15 lot, nice co‘tage, in Arm- No.4. Fu'l lt on 8 20th, two houses, near Leavenworth st. A bargain... § Fall lot on 8, 0th, two houses, near Lo avenworth st Cheap No. 80, Kluaut 1)-room house, city wa or, bath, gAs, etc, on Park ave . 0,00 No. 47, 80x160, near 20th and Douglis, with ‘arge fiue hotso, the bi st burgan in Omaha 7,20 No.72 Two tull lots on Park avenue with Ia go fine house and all eonveniences. A 0 bargain . . 5,000 No. 7%= Two tull lots in Nelson's add,, 6 room house, at n bargain g No. si—Full acre, Himebaugh's add., with 6 room house,now and allin good No. ropnir . 250 No. 61—100x 148, ool 7 room liouso, barn, well, eistern; ronts for 0 per mo 4,500 scom Plucy in the eitv, the micest neighborhood stfront, ologant view 3,500 No. &1-Kull lot, Lowe's 18t add, b room house,well cistern and burnjensy terms; bargain stroaw’s ald. Viry cheap.. ... ... 2000 No. 01 Fa'llct, sma’l house, in Improve. ment Agioation add.; $300 cash, bal- auog $10 per month. A bargain 170 No. 9. 2 fu'l lots in Walnut Hill add., nice 5-rovm COtAge: VOIY easy pay- ments v L2400 No. Nice %100m house on Farnam stroet. Ensy terms 6500 No. 121, % lot near 18th and Californin 8t4., 6-dooin Bou e, all « elien ey 3,000 No. 141 Full lot with huse in Hawthorne add. Thisis ‘o y h an. 1,700 No. 148, J. L RedicK's sub. full lot, 75x140 cas £ ont. #0od6r0)m ¢ t0 go, mod- ern couvenizaces. Theie 8 1,000 of nbargain in this now,and on e L L) VACANT PROPERTY. 2lots1n Hillside, en:h 2010t in Hi 2 lots com Pluce obaugh Place . 1 ot in McCormack's ada 2lots in Thornburg Place. 21018 in Kountze s ith add 2lotsin I'e'ham Placs Lot in Keyes add 4 lots in Mars ts in Re letsin Low 1018 i ‘s bt ald s Place Lilots in Boloxd Place 21ots in Auburn Hill 5lots in 8y ing Hill 25 lots in Kilby Place £3,000 3,000 0 £ 3,000 00 410 630 ot 0 $600t0 1,500 10 lots in Saunders & Himebaughs, £300 to 1010ts in Howe's ada 2lotsin Dupont Place. 5 acres in Mayfield 10 lots in Lincoln Place. . 21ots in Coburn’s sub-division 110t in E.V. Smith's add ots in Fosters s In Terrace ndd 81 blots in Lake's naa. .. Lot in Creston $1,800 to 4,200 St i 2,500 % “‘E::" Business Property. 0 5,00 S e 1 full lot on Jackson stroot 12,000 foet on Jones strent. ... ... 8,000 ull lots on 8th strect 000 feet on Farnam BHXRS foot on Jones st., bargain £,000 | Full 1ot on venworth st, with iots of teacknge tront 11,000 45) | 14 lot andstore on St Mary's Avenue ... 4,200 These are only a few of the manv pieces I have, and I would like to have you call and see me, and I will make you money. Remember the place and namse, W. H. MOTTER, 211 South 15th Sireet. INTERESTING HISTORY of OIVIAHA Shown up in its peculfar romantic light 1s well of heing familinr to everbody, and a brief ity intorest those who have not time o read through the minutive deseription of u his- toricnl Yonrs ago, when Omahi was i more 11 and out stroots echood from Indinos, the chicf of a starn (thut located: where our prosent high ehool stands) had @ wonderfully fafr duughte called Maha, Being possessed of many o chiem, this Mah wis worstipped by the eruel Tndinns with u rare devotion, and e<pecinlly, two youns Indiany carried this devotion so 'far that it Fipenod into o warm love. Ono of these young men was financiully poor,” but intellectually rioh, whilo the othor wak the possessor of worlaly riches, but mentully poorer. Mahn Joved dearly the fivst one, but hersolish tather had mude up his mind that she should marry the other one or div. In tho silence of one mild summer night Maha and he @ lovor flud, no- companied by several soldiers of the old starn that wero in sympathy with Maha and her ehofee, find called thomselves Omahas or Mahas tollowers, honce the namo Omaha. They organized thomclvus and camped near shore of the Missouri where the present rail- Yond bridge is loeated, Kesting upon such a yomantie foundatton, Omann to-dny is gaining the ndmiration of the wholo Union. He gress has been astonishingly rapid and hor citizens heir and_liberality towards The vito eastorn people that love plont come out_and build their homes in t ity Ioud over the briuin Jist this w cod in_real estate by onc of Omah’s successful business men and convince yoursolf. IMPROVED PROPERTY. North jof lot 4, block 12, E. V. Smith’s s of add | with an el cistern, buggy s gant 7 room house, well, od, wagon sied, barn, choice frait trees, ete,, §3,250; $1,000 cash, balance to suit. 4 lots 66x124, Isaacs & Scll's addition, with 7-room house, barn, etc wrn alone cost $1,600) 300 els cistern, 100 b rels fiiter, good well, fruit trees; cl $£8,000; $2,000 eash, balance on easy Lot 45x188, cast front, south 16th st., ‘0oom brick house, cemented basement with wooden floor, barn for four horses, veli, cist ud out-houses, $5,000, one- thivd cash, bal. to suit purchaser. Lot 66x)15, on upper Capitol avenue, 3 houses with 7 rooms each. %6,000. Rents r month, £3,000down, bal.3 yrs. Corner lot 66x113, on 26th and Capitol ave., with 6-room house in first-class con- dition, £4,250; $2,500 cash, bal. easy. Lot 66x182, Davenport st., with ono (}-rnhum and one 5-room house, £6,000, half cash. Lot 50x132, Improvement Association, with a 2 room house, large barn, ete., $1,8.0; $170 cash balance €10 pér month. Lot in Shinn's 3 5018 Kou £3,000; torm casy. + & Tuth's ndd., $1,0005 $100- $16 por month, st front, corner, 7 comented. ot 3 $5,000 oach; §1,200 cash, ba'ance eust front, N. 19th st., with room hous: 2 elegant hous balance easy. Full lot ¢ nice sash, balanc UNIMPROVED PROPERTY & S llovs Lot §150; Lo sin W $20d04n, bil Lot in from the oy 1t 8,0 Lo dyear Lot on Virg ance Lots 40x140, in Clifton Place Lots in W. A, Redick’s add., down. Lots in Dupont Place, $630, $150 down balance $10 per month i opportunity to securce a homeo for nothing. Lots Tn Hanscom Place, §1, . in lene ) eash balneo in 3 . Hte dek s 1d on ot ;. inP os oct yoar:a cash, bualance 2 years. Corner 11-room lot 66x house, one ¢ and one 8 it ad 1 on wthin 1% bloeks d.or3) day s only ¢ ls yeavat s, $0,000, one-third cash, 32, on California st., with 06,600, one-third ler, sprrce t. Lot0s132in Irnoe & Seldon's additon, $1,1.0; f4ncash inan ot Wost Sd 1 3 fuctor Al do vn, baln de n Ha oo u Place, $L,000; Y cash, balunce 0x150, Hanscom Pl Chi add tion ) cu by 05 % cash, 2, enst front %1,500, half down, bal- $200 almost , $1,0°0 one | within 8 anc room hounse, stable and and well, $15,000. Lots in Sunny Side add., from $1,100 to 1,800, and also lots in Parker’s add. from £850 to $900. 1 have also the finest lots in the following additions: Saunders & Himebaugh's, alnut Hill, West Cuming, Donnecken’s Addition, King's Addition, Kilby Pl Oret Lowe's First Addition, Bedford Place, Plain View, Kirkwood, a Carthage. and the new scconl addition to Bedford Place, where a home can be socured at extremely chedp figures. Will have a, new, beautiful addition Iaid out next week, Come early and se- cure bargains, Beautiful acre property in the lovely Lovgren Park at $400 por acre Acre property in different divections, 34 miles from the postoftice, $200 to $300 pe C. granary, eistern It will pay you to invest your money with us as we do not indulge in speculat- ing schemes, but carry on a strict commission business. us, and assure you a careful attention and honest treatment. J. A. LOVGREN, Real Estate and Loan Broker (504 Farmam st. up-stairs. Telephone, 753, We invite you to call on MORSE & BRUNNER, REALESTATEBROKERS Rooms 12 and 13, Paxton Bilding, Cor. 15th and Farnam. Largest list of proverty of all characters, City and Suburban, Farms and Lands for sale throughout the stat: BUSINESS PROP 3—A fine lot 66x132 on Jackson-st., ar 18th, very cheap at §11,000, No. 1 132 feet square on railroad track. A fine location; a bargain at 15,000 No. 110—A fine improyed brick block, business property, on Harney st, #30,000. splendid corner on Saunders st., 120 At, 8 bargain at $4.00. No. 8041—2 splendid full lots on warehouse or fobhing prop ner, both Tor $25.00). No. 614 —A full lot on 11th st , corner of alley, rgain at $10,000. Jones st., fine 2 0n0 4 cor Asplendid business property on unders st, 126 feot frontage, and 500 worth of improvements, all for 500, A full corner lot on Howard st, |-my improved with 4-story brick lock; rented for ¥8,30) per year which ean bo inereased with a small outlay to $4,800, Ounly for a fow diys at $40,000. No. 477--150x180 on vouwortl close to Bolt line, & good prospective business property. vory cheap, 3,000, 9~ splendid fots, ¢ 20th wnd akest., 1 prospe business property. the two, cheap at ). No 1. One of the finest cor Mok 48 410 b 10 got Noli. One 6f the ohoicost corners on lith st., nonr Millwrd hotol, 86,500 No 108. A splondid corner 44x182 on Harney st. and i ayenin at §20,000 No 6. A fine corner 129x120 on £0uth of tha bridge, cheap at £ No# 2 Oueof the best corners on Saunders st., 120x120 Sand B (rout, a bargain at € No 0iV. A splendad corner, 86 ivet Tront ou Cume ing st., With 3 stores, & bargain at £10,00) aut corner 10t with smill b clienp ut §9,000 e business lot Gix180, housoT aluiostsurrounded by stores, on § es 8t fap a few dave only at the' low pric 1=4"0hoité Goruer lot and hot se on Sata . caeap st §3,0. ovs on Harnoyst., Telephone 779. IMPROVED RESIDENCE PROPERTY— No 1 room houseand barn,* lot 83x140, on19th st., $3,000. No. 171--tiood house and lot on Harney #5,000. A splendid proporty renting 0 per year; & bargain at 7—Elegant house, large lot, 10 room house, modern improvements, two blocks from court house, $10,500. No. 168—A splendid 2-story house, 9- ooms, lot 66x140, 1 block from car line. A bargain at $4,000, No. 140 »om house, barn and half lot, ne sh School, §5,000, 8x132 on Californmia st, ne 21st, 8-room house, south front, very desirable and choap at $5,000. No. 460---House of 9 rooms, lot 83x132, south front, on Webster, near 20th st, 00, 530---A corner lot, 162x80, near 11 School, 2 houses on and room for more; when alt improved, will pay 20 per cent on investinent, $13,000. }--A fine south front full lot with house 3-rooms, shade and_frait troes, clese to a stroet car lipe, Terms eus and romarkably ches 2,500, No. 165—11-room house, modern mprove- ments, good barn, corner lot, block from streot car $7,500 Nolil A choloe corner with 2 houses, Sand § rooms, d Llocks from car line, f bargaiu et §.200 No1id. A fino east front lot 00x14), i Luke's ad,, with nige house, cheap at $3,00 o 117. A elogair § roow house, eust front on 0Orgla uve, #4650 full lot, new No#dd. East tront on Georgia ave., house S rooms, modery lmprovements, $1,0)) No &2l A choiee south front 10t 3)x135, houso in nice ordor, 8 rooms, on Sowurd st, choap, 85,0 003, A choive east front lot $3x140, house 3 100ms. §1.750, No 17 fmproved o property on 8 wye, 15x165, 10, No 608, 1ot cast front, B blocks south of StMurys avo. 2 Louses ronting for 835, s bar gain nt 83,000 No 85 —~1100d aouse and lot ou Saesusn ave, Ot Zix, @ Loap et 0 161l No. No No. No. No. | | No. No No 8l and 2, and §900; some 2 blooks from strevt car | on Ouming J front, No o4 -A ! No. No. nioe addition ) 3 choics lots in Marsh's Placo sti ots ono n cor L, b room houst 8y torms und u grout bark nice cotlage 8 milo west of P plondid full lot wnd 10 room b on Burt st., noar20th.price yery low at om Park and w Each $1,600. choice south front lot in Den- $10)0. lot s 2d add, or, oast front, on South | No 10ther Improvements. | oI 0, ¢ RESIDENCE LOTS, —15 choice lots on Sherman from $2,500 to #3,000 . =380 choieo lots a block from Sher | N, man ave., from $1,500 to $18,000. —100 _choice lots in South Omaha, beautiful, on projected street oar line from $450 to $500. 301—10lots in Thornburg Place. from No . 350 to $350 each. Lot on Vir [nin ave., $1 4 —Lot blook Hanscom elevated beaatiful lots on Vir- .. & bargain for all, $2,20), Shinn’s add., §650 A splendid elevated lot fronting Hanscom Park, price low at $1,800 3 four of the in the city, ¢ re getting sey 1 terms inquire at our oflic 3 on Park aye, and north of the park, aud very choicest 3 east front lots north of Hans of Park ave. A tew choice lota left in Hillside No 1 uming st 2, east ave., Place, residence uch For price cheap at 18 going 1o bo paved this summen 3 blocks beyond thase lots, | ain & bargain. Nu 03, front, in Bb lots, one a corner, cast front, on Vix ginin uyo. , 2,000 No 483, A splendid property on 8t Mary's ave, 132 € Square, cornor of streot and ulloy, south tront, $14.0.01 No 60.'A ohoice lot on Virginia ave, §1,10 N Two elegant full lots on Paik dve, oast nt ana a bargnin ut 4,00 A choice lot on Virginia ave, $1,500 1. 1 choice co lot, cust front, on Vir- ot far Loavenworth, $1,500, t 10 the corner, $1,600 20." A choico lot on Park ave, grest bargain a$l, 400 No 5. A fing lot ko's add, $1,100 81 dof the t lots hor'th of € st” cust front, ine shade und fruit trees 50 No 18844, 2 ciegant lots on Virginta ave, i .cavenworth, one & corner, for the £4,700 1yis © south front lot, 4 blocks wost k ave, and nocth of the park, § i spléndid lots 2 bio st'of Park A north of Hanscom Place, one & cor ot bargain at £1,30) n Oxford Piace Trom $300 to $40) boantitul south and eust front lots in Ws add, nour venworth st cheap, 300 and 2,500 cach Lots i Huwthorn add from $500 to $9% 1 elagant jots 0n Lowe uve, 2 blocks Dr. Morcer's mansion; flue view, clozunt place for & Hne home, wrice from $1,030 10 $1,250. ACRE PROPERTY — No. 46210 acrep near Tuttle's subdivi- sion, $3,000. A No. 815—Acre log in, Park Place with 6 room house % a0, No. 417—A chosi| lot in Tuttles subdivision f:u' No 6. 15 acres 4 2 the P. O, will di bargain at §2)0 per avro s siquo faunrry und timber, 3 n Omab, ned rallroad. A great bar #1,000. Two oloyant lots, 000 & porner, east | NO DS 2of the an.m-c-J-;m in Wost Omaba blocks from car line making § lots, for & (0w days valy at the low wrlce o 3080 | sive it may be, King Oonsolidation Usurps the Throne Competition in Railroad Affairs, THE PROBLEM OF REGULATION, | tho state to establish Centralized Wealth and Power Su- nment—-The Apply 1t pori Il to the Gove redy and How t M LAST SATURDAY.] dar Scwence Monthly f Ty Consolidation, consolidation, conso dation, is the trend in the development transportation [CONCLUDED ¥1 Toln €. Welch tn the 1 competitive principle on which our n tion has sought to stand. T'his nation h sought to look to no rulers of groat an long-continued importanc It has stoa on the grovnd of remstating its rule with power at short intervals; this en phasizes the idea that the sovercign power rests with the people. Next this, the dominating idea on which we have rested hy among our i affairs, in tl Inrge been that competitic t part of it which do power to not delegal in our publie policy otherwise, the compact of thought of th fathers with its traditional acceptance by intervening generations does not hold 0w pure in deed at this time. The aggressive statesmanship in founding th he mo affairs sinc day has not been aggre: distinguished names in ¢ that day have been Jac aggressiveness vepelling no broke the ik of the the rebellion by his eman mation, and attained th inspiration and d t reache by an Ameriean statesman; butit was Ll heroie stroke of defense, not of agare sion. No statesn the forty years that it was practic issue, that was able and aggressiv cnough to keep back the war for slaver and sccession, although it was immediately after the war w it was aowar for an abstracti straction of selfishness, ignc udice that was dissipated in the li new and an abstraction tha ht have been dissipated a genc Ler, witbout the bellows of war, wit ‘orent order of statesmanship. While we miay be proud ot our founder: we need not be proud of all the state manship that has preceded us, nor accey the belief that a fival orthodoxy | reached in this country for the goverr ment of agreat nation, It is certainly not the highest order ¢ society that it should be automatic; it so in Chin Accepting this to be th fact, we need not fight off innovations s though in them were the sceds of d struction. What is it th status of the transpor the monopohes country ¥ The ‘chicf proprie pation procl highe: ¢ excellence of thi ors have life-lease of power, Lo be beqacathed to whom they will, while civil officers and legislators have to go frequently by to be reinstated or depo: yeluss aroun them, who establish colossal fortun swecial rates, rebates and drawbacks are exempt from the American princ of competition. ard Oil company is the great typo. They possess great power over the in comes and savings of the people by eor trolling avenues of investment, i e and do g such investments for themselves. y have the powe arily, and so tax it all they think . barred only by one strong it fluence, their internal jealousic They cheek pe pendence and cuterprise, us suc very mmportant tields of activity ean onl, be obtained through them. “The rapidity and case with which their fortunes have boen acquired, the m tude of their fortunes, their treedom frov porsonal relutions, and cons from whom they i them a ¢ other that has over e: And yet the society is that th to d the evil, if it be an ey 15 favored above an ted. e 18 110 0PPOSINE DOWe presentativo of the class has draw a purallel betwoeen himself and his class i of the he Now and the highest represen solitical power of the people Vork Sun, of Docember 14, 1885 acconnt of an interyiew between its porter and Mr. Chauncey M. Depew cou cerning the late M i Sun’s terviews, as is approved before public son interviewed, had a poor opinion of politicians of a; kinds. He said to me: ‘What is there i politics to be desived? Ther init, and by going into it a man br up hiis busines ml‘[-mf, rerally resume it afterward. 1t lays him open t ell known, ar W endless abuse and gives him no end ¢ troub) There is very little honor in i Politicians never impressed me at all, had three United States senators in m, oflice the other day, and I paid no mor attention to them than if they were so muny clerks, 1t they had been g shippers, great railvoad men, or g business men of any Kind, I should hay been interested e them, but as it was, did not understand them impress me at all. Whenever I go t Washington they want to scll me patent, or ask for a place on some of m. “not this refleet opinion of ralroad mas and in great de highest representatives of the people that toes pianacles of their greatness, they ar amenable? I have clain special and remarkable feature of tran; portation, whether it be of railvoads i any of their forms, telegraph lines, gi lines, and still other forms of transports tion developed and developing consolidations in their character, tending to the brin, ing of any one system, however ex under u single mang for I'his is s0, 1 spite of the sns would control our The theory of no-governinent- individuals—and the lot-alone theory have gone hand in hand But, curiously or republic; the statesmanship since that on and Lincoln, has been that of wtions or evils; Lincoln ave-power and of - t point of wnship arose, during | lly an | Yo 5 been now confronts us in_the fon companics, :K to the people | one lc wealth beyond the dreams | the by | competition ple | or has OF this class the Stand- tly use this power to absor! to tax commerce sonal ambition, inde- | hig consequont free- dom from sensc of obligation to those derive their incomes, | and virtue which .millions of dollar: spirit of much of our | on the weak or gallod W upon; it s a case of laissez fnire; f und 1n so far as n evil, will work itself out in time. nderbilt, The tion by the per- Suid Mr. Depew: “He i5 N0 monc; ks | the prior knowle: ally unable to at | farthe hey do not saying that they want to get out of correctly the nates themselves, 06 popular opinion, that these 1ma znates are greater than the is 1o luw to which, from the d consolidation as the s | opment. These | ment than we hay re national and municips business competitor of tho favorea one. This is positive evidence, as the condem nations of puhlic and private property for their use is negative ovidence, that of | they exercise public functions | If it was not profitable for individuals | to establish the most approved means of | transportation, it would be the duty of On this v the United stat rnment nts lands and its eredit for the con wetion of the Pacifie .railroads, indi vidual states have built eanals, and cities construct water-we and sewers, All this, in connection with the charae ter of the power of railroad and other transportation managers, means that they ot in the exercise of public power and in the execution of public functions, 1i | the same as Kings rioted in their poy £ before it was satisfactorily demonstrated Of | that their only or most legitimate use was to exerc for the nterest ot the publie them, S OVC thee a legated power i he United States, standing on the W | ground of laisses faire more than any 1 | other " civilized nation, has been the od | Slowest in asserting itself_in regard to iilr while we cannot wei rately the value to us a ation of over to | consiruction and over-competition in railroads, prosuming that there has been ue in them, we have had violence n | done to the spirit ot our istitutions; we have had the conditions of life, actual or _ | relative, made harder to the average man; e have had suspicions cast upon the dictum of Lincoln, that this is a gov- ernment of the people, by the people, and for the people: and we have seen the transportation corporations usurp or con- ho | trol the wealth, the honors, the govern- ment (of their own specific and of a gon- eral kind) of the United States ina way that is abhorrent to the general sense of s | justice of civilized, or at le glish- \e | speaking, people.” We have arrived at that position where we cannot claim St | much advantage, oxeept our yirgin soil s | and what comes from our extent and isolation, over the governments of Eu- rope that emerged into civilization from the dark ages,” whose people have been afthieted with the theory of the diwvine right of kings, and who ave, in one coun- try or another, now loaded with primo atic orders in T8 | the public functions of m- | nies, and, te o | geniture, entail, aristocy i | Socioty, eluren government imposed upon stute government, and a system so prejudicial to personal advant s of youth are condemned tc pation in”or preparation for w special kind of humanity that, has been elaimed, grew and would c¢ontinue to grow on Ai can soil, seems to have many departures from the bousted type, and we assimilate more and more to the older governments, or—if we go on as 1t | o arc woing shall’ we not be forced to adniit it?—to the more steadfast types of b | civilization. Already the toryism ot Great Britain is looking with admiring guze to the de- mooracy of the United States, rapidly )t | establishing, as it is, a privileged and a favored class, and such leaders as Cham lain and Morviey, on the erest of a for ard nent, men of oflice and a ng, forge ahead on the line nd freedom such as the lattor wo | part’ of the nincteenth eentury has brought forward, and give small heed to the teachings and institutions of the United Sta Back of all these facts and postulates is the question, How far is transportation is | legitimately a Subject of government branch of " government—this as distin '8 | guished from being a matter merely of commercial enterprise? We see how easily transportation runs to one head, to dership. Competition does not keep this back; we have thoroughly tried competitive principle, with all the predilections of our people and our gov d | ernment in its favor, and it has fail 5 been minated; nolens d | volens, the single leadership ving rrived. The question then is, is that leadership to be held by a single in dividnal intent on seeking his own for- 1 | tunes, building up bulwarks of private 1- around him, breaking down re- n i re position by tray b | esties of courts, by legislators who smile and smile, and » their y to vote for him, by douceurs to the placable, by dol- it | lars at elections, by f des, by tele- p- | graph franks, by proprie and ‘subsi- dized newsp s, by retainers to ler . by political economy manufactured expressly for his benefit, y | by milurs of socicty droning of the dun gerous tendency of the times, by laiss faire, by andacious self-ussertion and robbery, by chameleon politics, by lofty u | public” spirit, by smiles, lies and en- treaties, by the advertising generous hand, by the adulations of intelligence o v N- of is | of equality y | casily command, and—when all clso fail—- Dy sordid and brate_foree pressed honio pot of the body or | politic or the private intercst? This 13 the commercial side of transportation a: presented in the United States in the ye of grace 1886, 3 IS Would it not be well to what there is in governmental trans- portation, to pay some attention to the n | ser experience of contemned monarchical governments, to cry a halt on the liberty n | that permits ‘one or a few to absorb the - | substance of the state; to orgunizo this, «- | or commence it at least, by some of the simple forms ot regulation that demand ‘o | publicity, that ferret out diseriminations that meih commercial theft and punish them, that stop yibrations between low 11 | and high rates in accordunce with the n | whims of disturbed gall or exultant v | avarice of transportation rulers, thatstop e of a fuvored few of what is to be, and so deprive them of de and wans- o | enormous advantages in tr ot | portation? t his i3 the way, or the most important L | step, in the lin ion of wealth in the y nited States. Place no embargo on en ¢ | terprise by a dead-line on which is writ- u, “Thus far shalt thou go and no " Let the incengave of ambition, it | of avarice, if you will, be keen to the ¢ | last, but hedge the opportunities so thut I | no one man's opportunity greatly ex ceeds that of others; put the strain, not o | on getting a living, a competence, bit on a | getting enormous multiples of these y | Even then extraordinary fortunes may come, but they will come the result of circumstances tnat could not bo guarded agaiust, and as the resultof commanding , | and extraordin talent that never comes in rafts (which would be implfed if the present great fortunes wer taken us - | & eriterion of ability), and these sporadic fortunes will not be a threat to and o cor e | rupte will not build up & Aepi 7ill be seen us only one of the unusul things in social devel n A govetnment relation to and regula w | tion of railronds is clussed with o dargor v | general regulation of society by govern heretofore had, and al | which ig in course of development in - | Germany under the leadership of Bis - | marck, ‘which is eonstantly attaming ter ground in England in the popu ment. Instances are almost too trite to | lar mind under the leadership of Cham be worthy of mention, In the greatest | berlain and others, which isnot strenu- exmmmples we have the Western Union | ously objected to by Gladstone, nud which Telegraph company; the Huntington, th Garrett, the l..,.u.i, the Vanderbilt an other railroad systems; in aflairs, the consolidation of the clevate vailrouds ot Now York; the consolidation of the o lines, and the consolidation of the interests. How far do we have to loc into futurity to see. judging by the pa the management of the railroads of ti United States emanating from a singl office? In this sorviee of t dividuals who are served eohere, the become the publie; the transportatic company, aeting in its proper spher the “servant’ of the public, as the dent and all executive oflicers are se ats of the public and of the people transportation eompanies favor one does not end there, it injures s else; the favor municip: ad | from the excitement of its recent foreign nsportation the in nebedy cived is an injury to the we | bids fair, when that at pres d | country gets rest from the exciting Irish il | question and has time to recover itself complications, to_express itsell in luws bearing on the internal polity of th country ‘I'ne United Btates has not | greatly entered the lists in thi respect t | Tt has ot enlarged upon the principles he | of govermment incorporated by it in the le | constitution; 1t hus been almost the ast to { yield the principle of slavery, und now | nds by, seeing Germany, at least, try oy | ing experiments in governmens which it i | has not ventured upon. Itmust be ranked is | at present smong the conservative gov ernments of the world The national r- | trepidation of ‘‘reforms” is great 1f | Groat Britain, where there is not the ab t | solutism to hold them in check that there 18 in Geracany Suppose we want to stand on the it disturbed | | Ple in our government ground of incorporating no new princi \ < thnt wherg d Weo soe tho taken and are leave the railroad problem consolidations_that have taking place. Those consolidations moan cent ation aind contralization has been the bete noir of the United States I'he question 1s, shall that centralization remain in private hands, with the various 1 and viole to our stitutions that Wi ¢ of, or yme under N o or be sharced by the s iin things are natural in their rog. tion and government L'he tirst of m is the war power, wh the start mg point of ¢iv iion Noxt is the preservation of order from disturbanes by internal outbreaks andviolence, which is the function of the police. There is the preservation of custom and the growth of cquity, which is the function of the law, the courts, the legislature; and ther the execution of the law, which is the function of the ruler and his ants. A superior civilization aids commerce by the establishment of light louses, by improvements of rivers and harbors, constructs canals, looke after the public health in the establisnment of quarantine, provents tho sproad of infec- tions disoase, provides cities with and sewers, secks to insure education among its citizens, regulates and con trols the medin exchange. Thegov- ernments of civilization have been pro ressive in these regards. This country w confronts the problem of too great sl n power in the hands of the wielders of wransportation—thoy Shwart the first principles of our government, and the iron of their oppression has entered into the soul of our people. Lt . 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Men who «luum.u& themselyes too shrewd to he fooled were ludicrously taken in by ephone that pretended'to run to Chicago, but really had its other end in tho cellar of the same building where it began That was all there was of a long-distance phone scheme so enthusiastically ad ited by W D. Miles. When this young man came to New York he entered the ‘vrmlm exclginge and drove a thriv ing business as o Noor-trader. As ho had formerly been employed by H. A. Ar mour, the Chicago speculator, it was nerally believed that he represented tint house in the exchange. He did ctually exccute some order for Armour, and so it came about that the other brokers on the tloor watched s actions closely. When he bou So he made money fast, inagiven line stocks it D an immediate demand that the pr wauys rose several points, wher Miles sold at a handsome profit. tel upon When the boys at last saw that he wis specu- lating for himself, and not acting on in- d structions for Armour, they chang their tactics, and when he bought the sold. Miles, of course, lost a ool des of moncy before he in his turn discov ered t he bad exhausted the possibili- b othiis goh o SE hcxs n e beard of a very voseate hue, and he had not been in the produce exchunge many was nicknamed “No 3 riety of grain, and by that' sobriquet he 15 universally known toduy. He has n pleasant address and won many friends. A LONG-DISTANC PHONE Not long ago he began to take up long- distance telephoning. It was generally understood that he possessed himself of vement that would ion between such points as New Yovk and Chicago a sim- ple matter, Aficr.awhile he announced that he had gone to the expense of g ting temporary conucction with the City of the Lake, and had placed s telophono in hisollice. Ho was so brilliant a fellow and, withal, so att personally, that he found little difl] in interesting his friends in the ente . Itwas the sani old scheme, to start off' with a eapita; stock of 0,000, of which 10 per should be subscribed to pay for aav tising, construction cxpenses, perhaps, and other outlays. But ho did not want anybody to put moncy into it before it had been tried, and gentlemen interested might investigate the contrivance at will in his office. He was now a member of the stock oxchange, and seve wont down to his Broad stre tried the telephone, It worked to n charm. The Chicago man’s voice could be heard with perfect distinetness. They hts in a great impr render communi inquired about stocks, quotations in grain, the wi all questions wero answered promptly and clearly. They A the advices received with the and found them correct in every sular. It was a big thing. Tho boom started and it grow. 0“There’ o hurry about this,” saia “No. 2 T have to go to Chieng this week, Call me up when I get the and let me talk to you On the day av- pointed his friends n}:]rliml their lips to the transmitter in Broad street, and in response to the Low-do-do!” came the well known voice of “*No. 2 Red” with his “Sume to you, thauk yo!" 1t was wonderful, One would have thought the aunburn-haired operator was no further away than Wall street, or Hoboken at the most, Stock wis freely subseribed, und the 10 per cont paid in, it is assorted, 10 the tune of H18,000. e of this wis certainly spent in advertising, but mighty littly in “construction AN UNKIND SKEPTI But one , a8 the business did not seom to dovelop very fust, one skepti hard-hearted and unkind, made an ori inal investigation, and discovered tl Clhiengo end of the wire in “No. 2 Koa's cellar. There a silent, or rather an un- kunown, partner in the enterprise sat be- side a ticker industricusiy communient ing with New Yor| No. 2 Rod's" visils to Chi » wore explained, and the only query is. did he live in bis sellar all tho time? The mvestors were much ashamed of themselves. They were inclined to Keop it quiet and let the imgenious speca Intor oft on the repayment of (9 per cent of the meney paid in, but it has loaked 1zhing 1 with Wy out, and Wall street has fallon w1 Then those who were bitten me more i . Mr. Miles hy his seat in the exchange for threat of trial befors the mang « mittee, a procecding that would mid cdiy hiwo rosulted in hig expulsion. I sule took place yosterday, and Miles miles away - Kirk's Gevman Iile Olng Sure eure for blind, bl Ll itehing Piles. One box has cured the worst cases of en years standing. 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