The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 5, 1907, Page 4

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Sunset Lok and we Wi send Fou & CORT aloe He " Te this way we can de certain of atving aus. we & perfect vervine-—and & the only way How Marriman ond His Pals “Mad Dollars” Some of the prominent railway managers are appearing tm print to voice their concern lest the popelar feeling against the railroads of this country may “go too far ad endanger our prosperity.” It is atated—with both truth and reason—that in ne other coum try is there so much hostile feeling agaiast the raltroads. Im no other country has there been so much contempt of popu Jar rights shown by railroad managers, In no other country has there been such shameless exploiting of ratlway property Here fs a typloal Incident To his testimony, last week. before the interstate commerce com mission, BH. Harriman was forced to disclose the story of the Jeagiing of the stock of the Chico @ Alton Railroad company When the Alton road was bought the first step was to transfer the property from “The Alton Ruilroad company” to “The Alten Raliway company.” Nor was this change of name a mere dummy expedieat—a dif ference between (weediedee and tweediedum, The new corporation ‘was lege! and distinct. Aso soon as the stock was transferred to the treasury of the new @erporation the modern Monte Cristo began his operations. Pour of them—Harrtman, Schiff, Gould, Sti|imaa--were tp the game. ‘They first put 2 mortgage on the road of $40,000,000, which was what they paid for & That ls to say, they got the rosd far sothing. ‘The next step in high finance waa to Issue bonds. Firat they ued $32,000,000 to themselves at 65 cents on the dollar, SEVEN DAYS APTBRWARDS THEY SOLD THESE BONDS AT 8¢ CENTS, putting the profits Into their inside pockets. ‘Then these four—count ‘wm, four--declared a dividend on the Stock of THIRTY PER CENT. and pot the swag in thelr pockets. When they got through with the bond inflation they had outstanding ‘Over $68,000,000 of bonds ahead of the stock, When they bought the road {t had only $8,000,000 outetanding fn bonds. ‘Then came the climax: After all the deals tn bonds and comsotidations, after paying each 5 of the robbers 36 per cent. dividend, after selling the securities from left hand to right and the reaping of untold profits, they began te weload the watered stock. In watertag this stock they had cap- ftalized $12,000,000 OF LOSSES MADE BY THE OLD DIRECTORY BOARD. They then piped « part of this water Into one of the big New York life insurance companies and part into the Union Pacific & treasury. Harriman, ae president of the company, fixed the price a for the soiling of the stock of (he other-—so doaitt to the satisfnetion f of bis pals. ‘This i how “swollen fortunes” are made while you wait. And bere fe the people's side of this hoki up: re ‘The people who patronize the Alton raflroad are required to pay ; q interest_on the Bonds aad watered stock of the road—INFLATED <9 TO THREE TIMES WHAT TIA PROPERTY COST. ‘They must pay a return not only upon the valiiions of Inflated securitios, but UPON THE MILLIONS OF SWAG IN THE POCKETS OF HARRI MAN, GOULD @ CO. Because ft is the rule that the rates of a raftway company must > be so adjasted as to pay fixed charges and a reasonable return upon the investment. The courts will uphold this rule. So that when ft Is proposed to reduce the freight or passenger rates on the Alton road Mr. Harrfman's managers potnt to the road's Tevenure and make good the claim that it ts “barely earning a low vate of interest on the investment.” it is this manipulation of values, this coining of “made dollars,” as Tom Lawson calls them, that has done much to provoke the pop ular anger. Talk about government ownership! ALREADY—in afi equity—THR PROPLA OWN THE RAII- ROADS IN THIS COUNTRY. They bare paid for them over and over again-—the original cost and bi¢ interest. It is alight wonder the people have some notion of supervising and regulating those national highways that have cost them so 2 much. Whatever may be the outcome of the popular agitation, if the country is to atop shert of goverement ownership, ome thing the gov @rnment must do: THE GOVERNMENT MUST HEREAFTER BE IN POSITION TO STRICTLY REGULATE THE ISSUANCE OF ALL STOCK OF ALL RAILWAYS. i. “Prevention of Cruelty to the Soil” Here ia something new under the sua A man named Rockwell Sayre, of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, has proposed « law for the “prevention of cruelty to laad.” He has organised » anelety after the model of the Soctety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animal. He says the land of the country ta belag “abused, erwelly ed,” by heartless farmers who plant the same crop year after There is no rotation, no resting of the sotl by using it as meadow or pasture Therefore Mr. Sayre bas bed « bill drawn which he has sent to @evera! state legislatures, forbidding the planting of the same crops Year after year on the same land He sams we have lost the buffalo and the pineries of the north, both of which were deciar inexhaustible and mow are exhaust ing the soll on the same theor treat your There is no dowbt the pe of the eastern states are now face to face with the alternati And more or lesa, a like sitmation will soon confront the owners of lands in the middle-western and western states. Millions of dollars’ worth of fertilizers must be used every year on the worn-out lands of the cast. In the country weet of the Mis sisslppl where the land is newer and more fertile the necessity is Rot yet apparent—bat it will be. Begause it etands to reason that excesses of any sort produce degeneracy. Overburdening of the sol] Is n0 exception sth of America is the strength of {te soll, When the goner the people must degenerate pht his finger upon a very important ¢ —Photo, Henri Manuet, Parte lace A teveties ~ ONE OF THE LATEST — | RENEE EERE REE EERE EE EERE ERE HD : RECOLLECTIONS OF AN EX-RUBE—NO. 2 * . * \* . lee ys Me * * * TORRE EP ROR SERS REI OLR SSS A255 0.5. 28.8 | Cartoonist Bushnell writes them and draws them, OUR OLD MERINO RAM, ‘The blockading of the street cars| and stare from my «ree and looked this morning by © large flock of | around te see the big ram nibbling stubborn abeep broaght vivid recal-jand nosing tbe scattered corn and lections to my mind of my first ex- | my father aod the tired man hold- pertence with « marine ram my fa- | ing thelr sides, comvulsed with any- ther had just boug®t—our old buck. | thing but silent grinf which we hed raised ce @ bottic, 1 immediately became enthosed and wae & family pet, baving dled of | with the inatinet of self-preserve- eome sickness, 1 was “dole eheres” | ton, and the seventh rait from the te the morning a8 usual, and while! bottom ef our barnyard frase Jeutuedt eresing the farmyard with a basket | good to me for a while wnith | began of * to feed the horses, I eud-| to breathe again in a patural man- denly became conschous of a thud/ ner and my heart quit shipping ané a jolt in the email of my beck | beets like & thousand of Drick and « For some time after, when I had sense of ascending, then turning a] to cross the barnyard, | went around half somersault. [ bit the barw-/it until I hed become better so- yard slush with # splash, quainted with the habits of cur pew Tn « Gased way ! Dituked the tears | merino rem. NUSMNELL Sh Se ET a a= seme | sm mens ae = STAR DUST By “JOSM” o A Painter's Oaughter? j~dut I had to give tH up I waiter Molly Daob, of Rice, 0, hae teen | ine rows with my neighbors ali visiting with Joba Majors and fam time s intwerp (0.)| “What about?” ged, ay oe “L eoukint keep them home, — “Why didn’t you have youp, “Your trip to the aoe, Be a Mower gardent™ 1860 mast hare been a ae a one, grandfather.” HARD LINES, =f) | “Ne, my Gear,” grandfather ao lewered, “there were ao rafiroeds im thoes days.” As opera estar prevented a panic) : jt Chicago by etnging “The Star) \ Spaagied Banner"—~which proves —_ | | there ls gomebedy ia the United | States who can sing ft. “I don't lke to bother you.” she maid, ax she leaned over the count of, “but this store advertions that it x no trouble to show goods.” | “Exactly so,” the obliging clerk lretorted. “Our trouble is in sell | mg them.” A WORD FROM JOSH WISE. | = seeeee eee \* “Don't yoo find living a problem | > these days? Everything has gone) 4 up nm ts | “Yam't it a fet, Mr. Lion? Why,! pg Spo bw I'm fm the hole nearly all the thoe . etboo easier Elte—Oh, dear, I left my watch up otalre. | Witt--If you walt long enomsh i ied will run down. ew. iy it's 2 Boom. Johbn—What is the greatest curt le | flying trip |8lty In the world? ® j ‘The a ogg a — pe Josh—Give R up. \* lthrough the town ature " . a comnted 150 teams fromthe country| 20he—-A Chinaman, bag may he's} ¢ bitehed on the streets, and in adai-j@* © Heng end tall on the seme), | THE SEATTLE STAR—TURSDAY, MARCH od by @ few select « “What, if any, ie the ady ie of ‘On the hand, what virtue the caudal appendane.” quoth Molle. | does he possena,” quoth Roile, “by other words, i it an seeet or «| “whieh bie protetypes do not tT” | tebany Weill, Rollc’s father re- | “That le & nut an hard to crack as | Mectivety due t smoke cigar the nut on an tm tect belt,” re- | ettos ! turned Rolio’s father, “Heme say he} After which they went to the} usen his tall to steer while heaping | leeward to look woud himeetf from the ur from bowgh te bough in the wild- | at the it alec serves to featoon [twittering pluintively beageous ban! homelike pine perches “\NEWSPAPER MEN 5._ 1997. an tree while he & “ tiverous and culls fre the fleet, filibuatering flee, Hat, on the sther hand, hin tall, however rudi mentary or docked tike @ sh horse's, prevents him from entering any but ore de le creme « sockety o terma of equality Therefore, spinal column is, an Hh were, & ne of savagery” suggested Kollo, shrewd yy Por being « good bey and learn. Even like « nose ring; yea,” as tng tele be rented Retio’s wire, “Could he but by bie tp to the soo,|#huck the tall, the simian could there to absorb profitable knowledge | stand upon an equality with the rest of the froticksome founa Indigenous |of the population. He has many to thin terrestial sphere. traite thet you couldn't tel from ‘Mere, Rolle.” announced the} human nature r he jofty-domed parent, sowing ap in| constetentiy uliltaes for other pur je tenant- hropold spect nt of a commeodions poses anything whieh he finds it tn impossible for him to ent tr mens, “here we behold the peanut | be imitates everyth | trust and organ grinder’s little | nee others do \ friend. Note that, like the human | ligic # hard into | race, he has a face, hande and feet.|a fonaciesn member of im for good |the tribe. Hverything but the tall of him te eligible to be! a A A If, of all words of tongue or pen ‘The saddest are, “It might have been. Then heaven Iangunge stitt affords The chotee of many other words: And wweetest far of all 1 reek Are @impiy thee “Inciosed find cheek.” the * Ah, whet the morning brt Along with bitte and other things When comes a letter, eloquent (Rut lately manuscript you've sent Or ventured in @ Tittle spec) With there three words: “Inclosed find check” Lat poets prete of paasioned verse, Let theole ett! asperse The jove of gotd—but an for me, I'm armed—accoutered cap a ple For rosy cheeks and Clicquot see, When people writer “Inclosed find check.” wey WOULD ACQUIT HARRY THAW Remarkable Result of a Poll Taken Especially for The Star by the Clever News Writers Who Are Reporting the Great Case. eee ee eee believe the actual fury in the case * *) will find. They expressed their Note—Not even the jury @/opinions as if they actually had which is sitting in jude *| the case in their own hands to de} om Harry T hes a bt cide and not what they prophesy in chance to weigh the me their stories as to (he probable out the case than the new # | come of the case. writers who are *| This poll of the writers was tak trial for the pre the world. @|en after the whole of Bretyn This intelligent, keen, trained #|Thaw's dramatic story had been body of men and women hear ®| heard and after Dist. Atty. Jerome} every w of the testimony; @) had fintehed bis terrific crossex as each day passes they study @/amination. The verdict of the every bit of evidence; they ®) newspaper writers le based largely | observe every move of the @/on that story and partly on the tes-| actors in the great drama, and @/timony of the alienists. This ia} consider the meaning thereof. ®) how the vote stood What, then, might be thelr # The Jury and ite Vote. opinion of the case? How @!| J. Swenbardt, New York Evening would they vote if thay were */| Sun—Convict the jury’ These questions sug| MacGregor Bond, New York gested a poll of the trial re #| Bvening Telegram——Acquit porters, and the staff corre #| Wm. Hoster, New York American spondent of this newspaper | —Acquit as Instructed to take it. Hie #| Morrie Scheek, Philadelphia Tel | story of the result followa— # | ograph—Mattenwa j Hon to this there war @ great mum-| SS # Editor The Star *! Katt f ber of people here on tneback If] ” Klein, the shoemaker, 217 Jymes bt HN noi Leckle, special writer | t n't gol ome we " see } Hin to keow the receon why —Koo jee eee ee eee eee ee) Frank W. Spencer, BerippeMe | , | . Rao Press Association and Publish: | awa (Okia.) Chief sg EW YORK. March 6—If thelors Preas—Acqutt | - ate of Harry Thaw were left to a “ ‘ © En-) A Kanean scientist claims the ret eat oad go athens Amr ng we H Brings, Newspaper En. | Garde { Bden was located in t t t : terprise Asrociation——-Convict Missiaatiept Now we understand | — wel os rial, the majority! Beatrice Fairfax, special writer | Now vote wou! » for acquittal Acquit | why Adam ead Rve didn’t make a 7" al. | t the V ere are omy two « for] Saqui Smith, London Telegraph biggor fuss when they were put out Jeonvietion out of 15 af the leading | acquit 5 araph—| Sure Way. Feporters and correspondents at the] Louis Maclaughiin, Philadetphta | “1 tried t i chickens last} al | Bulletin—Rvidence so far not} SO cerca aden This newspaper jury has heard! enough to convict co tana! Siemaath andeaneenbemediase fe wera ge Mae rd of tt Robt. Wilkes, New York World we - las has the jury that wil deeide| acquit Oriental Bittard and Poot Par-} 4} what tet Ri cu decade | Acaitt lora, 1413 Third av., have eight now (Ay) what te to become of Has aw.) Robt. Cartwright, New York tables and the only Sx10 pool table {| —- stand re = Evening Journal—Acquit in Seattle, A place for gentleme ncqucttal. Gne be that F.N. Robertson, Associated Pree , en. vide: » far pr ed by the|— acquit y a tate againet Thaw is not sufficient] trving Bacon, New York Journa » con bir but he w 1 not) A ‘ ote to acquit, One ox pondent Julian Hawthorne, special w Wi Ss i h jecides thet Matteawan ts place Acquit b 1 be feted of the m Pianos €stantord White. |Meat Prices That Please| t is fair to say that in i In the first pl ff several writers thet . 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It is a recognized fact that cure of Bright's Disease and Diabetes have secured the | highest percentage of known and recommend tt Silk section is a lively place these days. 344nch Black Peau de Sole, worth $1.75 a yard; for | anv sveadbeueane 81.39 | 2éinch Taffeta, a beautiful Ins | trous black; regular $1.50 | quality ose 2Tinch Shepherd Check Sttks | and plaid = effect Note the 56 silk; for + 1.00 | See our assortment of Pongee | Silke, from 5O0e Up to, 81.50 | WASH GOODS width; a regular $1 } | SiLK 12%ge WIDE STRIPE OR- | BLEACH GANDY— } OUTING | FLANNEL— TIM noon only Karty show ing of eholce designs in at yard Se this popular | Long nap, fabric; most wearing and washing qual ities unsur- passed; only yard ly Orfental ef. fecta, and medium dark Price only co FANCY FIGURED LAWNS NEW SHIRTINGS White grounds and —Neat and pring flow ! print er per yard ings for Fine 10¢ make f m 6c Carpets at Cut Prices Many Dollars Saved on Every One You Buy BRUS: % AXMINSTER CARPETS $1.10 $1 ] 98c VELVET CARPET é $1.12 V $1.124 Watch Out for the East Underwear Sale Shortly week Vinol is a Tonic SPECIALS For Wednesday and Thursday SILKS and DRESS G0 PET , INOL trent Cod Liver O11 prepat = W omer Fulton's Compounds for cures. We are Seattle Dress Goods Section ts on a spring appearance, goods are coming in dally; the rest of the story— 26-tach New Check Dress in brown, in black aad Tee quality; J put on sale for one Sample | Base: Shoes | ment} Do you want package to save $1.00 sarden Seeds or $1.50 on a pair of Good Cc Shoes? Look at our Shoe Win ose bare Af still come nspec tion, Sam package the \ 2 vt and 20¢ i Fruit $2.25 Coaster SELS CAR $1.69 E CA 65c er Muslin