The evening world. Newspaper, February 27, 1907, Page 12

World’s Daily “Magazine, Wednesday, repwruary 27, 1907. b P Ci No. 83 to @ Park Published by the Press Publishing Company, > 3 ti aD Entered at the Post-Oftice at New York as Second-Class Mail Matt J WOLUME 47 20. cce cee eee cere ce etee wneeee cneen cress NO, 16, -ONE WAY. TO GET-RICH. AKING money. ctshonestly ‘is okfer than the ten commandments. Otherwise the com- mandment against stealing would have been superfluous, : The robbery of a community is more profitable than individual theft’ because a community has more to steal: + The State of-liinois is a rich and SS \ perous , community. Its people travel fre: “quéntly, Its soil produces abundantly. Its: wealth invites robbers “Keross this State theré ran a railroad called the igo and * eight per cent. dividends ; : » and té buy new engines and-‘cars.’ From time to nl : \ freight rates and shared the benefits af its property with un people who _ gave it its franchise and whose Industry produced the freight, Nine years ago Mr. Edward H, Hanan formed a'‘syndicate which bought 97 per cent. ‘of the stock of the. Chicigo and Alton for » * $39,008,600, The old president resigned and Mr. Harriman became ‘president. The money to make the payment was obtained. by loans, —-—wilh-the-stockas.-collateral. Access. to. life instirknce money provided the funds. | ’ No sooner did Mr. Harriman get control than he issued over $40,000,000 pf bonds to : himéelf and assdciates at 65. These bonds were promptly sold to ine westors, especially the big life insurance companies, the Equitable taking one batch at 92, a protitof twenty-seven point From- these-proceeds-a dividend of $12,444,177 was promptly paid by Mr. Harriman to himself r this. transaction the loans—on—tHe. === stock were paid and Mr. Harriman chad the ‘StOCK™ besides =a profit: Gn his— bond transac- tions. Next a little road fifty-eight miles long was bought by Mr. Harriman and $22,000,000 more bonds to himself at 60. ii He also exchanged ‘his stock for $19,493,000 Of new preferred stock and $19,542,000 of new common stock, thereby ing the capitalization to -$122,872,328. ¢ After all these transactions were concluded Mr. Harriman still had contro! of the Chicago ard Alton and a cash profit of about $47,000,000. _Not content with this, he sold a block of his stock to the Union-Pacific Railroad at 86, which did not interfere with is control and added $8,823,000 to his + profits. To suminarize these trankictions; which ure.-as-involved—as-high-priced-lawyers-could make them and which were concealed from the puttic “untit the Interstate Commission brought-out the facts: - x First, Mr. Harriman formed -a- syndicate. — Second, Mr. Harriman as syndicator elected himself President of the Chicago and Alton. p = "Third, as President of the Chicago and Alten-he-sold-bonds to-him- Self as syndicator. «Fourth, as syndicator he sold bonds to himself as Equitable trustee. -— Fifth, as President of the-Chicago and-Alton he issued stock to-him- | self as syndicator. as on. Sixth,-as. syndicator-he-sold this.stock-to-himself as-President-of-the|- Union Pacific. - E. himself into) As a result of all this the people of the United States have been Fobbed_of-over-$60,000,000, for-every-eent-of-this: money-came-out-ot heir pockets. No new- wealth was created, E ng values were -trans- ferred from-the publieto-Mr. Harriman, Part of it canie from the polic holders of the Equitable and New York Life. Part came from innocent investors, Part came from the érdinary holders and bondholders ot the Chicago and-Altom and Union Pacific But the bulk of it comes from ~the-mass-of the people in-higher freight rates, in higher passenger rates, “In / run-down railroad equipment, in. death-dealing «accidents, tr Organzation of the industry and the commerce of the Uni Letters from the Thauks from a Commuter. To the It!tor of The Bre: Kindly accept my for your very apt cartoons a reterring (o-the rotten service Erle Nalirond on {ts saburban bri You cannot make your criticilams tc sto jand from iactun} knowledge 1. « that- the H est d articles of the of Londo f strong, You have earned the eyerlast- himeelt-ot-hiv-earlt ing gratitude of.ak “New. Yorkers’? | tdi | who ‘ve in New) Jersey. T » Honnework. vor\d unked, all success EP. Mop d work to By pulling from thc fa even wit t@h ja the sy Liveris To the Editor of Asin citizen i share TR. J, Gs pride in records of bravery and four splendid Fire Departm loc age. “What chance has a ‘ser- theless, bis Teasona ter according it} vant to form the sonueintancy ofa puprem: are rather in. ye many } au! je man Vherever al e ia Liverpo@), | Mngland, ta @ “eenrant¢* — Met be remembered that cach of the -eppiicants-for a-iicense was a -successful ‘The Cheerfu People. | A By WOULD You LIKE To BUY THIS 5? | i. MANY ag nt RAE i HARRIMAN SYNDICATOR, So Easy. Maurice Ketten ANDTHIS AH, TOO EASY! I LLUNOT RETIRE AT 60 ~ ITWAS ONLY. A TORE MARRIAGE license clerk—Morrlé Bulmnonson by name—out in Chicago hes taken to conversing with applicants for matrimonial permits and has classified thelr statements into a remarkable series of hints to lovers. It Wooer, and that such men’s views ‘and experiences along the line of proposals must be taken more or less as expert testimony. To a writer for the Chicago ‘Trfune Mr, Salmonson gave the following result of his investigations. Proposing," begun Wis veteran dispenser pf Noenses reflectively, “1s the Cru= clal point in love, and love, I have learned from these young men, regembles business in many ways as far as the proposing point !s concerned. Tho paycho- logical instant in many cases {s a matter of mathematics, and can easily be pre- _jarranged by amy young man who carea to make a study of women. Most young. jnto-the game witout_observing its rules, and that—ta-one of the-reasons why we have suicides before marriage and the divorce courts atter- ward. Write down thpse rules: : ; “1. Propose before_the winter_seta_tn. “2 Propose-tn-the moonlight, twilight, gaallght (turned low), and never tn the eunlight, daylight or electric ght (unless you've got smoked glasses). "3. Propore to a girl when she’s hungry or just after whe has eaten, "4. Never propone to a girl before 4 o'clock in the afternoon, “$, Don't make up your mind beforehand as to what you are going to eny when you propose. 6. Don't met on your ‘Knees to propose. ‘7. Don't propose te a girl too soon after gaining her acquaintance, “% Don't walt too long. Rm eG Expert.in Love Affairs Frames 66 4 f P . 9? ‘Nine Rules for Proposing. “9. Ply your eirds carefully; and the average girl can be made to propose to you, in actions at least."’ ‘Why should the proposal ‘be delayed until the winter sets in, Mr. Salmon- sont’ - “My boy,” sald the marriage license clerk, “that !s an important rule, In the spring, you know, a young man’s fancy lightly tums to thoughts of love, and In the winter a young woman's mthd leans to dreams of a cozy little Mat of her own- All’ giris-dream of a-home, and-they dream of it-most-when the parks are Greary and the bleak winds -biow,4—— TT i A girl should be proposed to efther Just before she has eaten or immediately after, according to the marriage licen: lal. If her lover pops the big que thon -when-his-lady love is. ungrs ahe ap! ximnce.down the stretch of yeara that make the future and-to-think of the probate occasions when ahe will be hungry-again,_and in that event it {s more than Mkely.ahe will reply feroratty. “A> ‘business man !s most approachatle Just after he has eaten, and why shouldn't girls be -the same way? a It’a no use to prearrange your apeech for the momentous occasion, because you are gure to forget it when the time comes, and then you are !n an awful predicament. Forgetting what you Infended to say, you can't collect your. thoughts <o think of anything else, = === =e ~ ‘A girl Mikes to be wooel before she ts won, and for that reason it !s not sate to propose too soon after gaining her acquaintance Girls are go &nxtous to got married nowadays, ways Mr. Balmonson, that they will take desperate chances ff a young man shows the least hesitancy, and a lot of worrying that young mon do 1s entirely useless for that reason. it Primer. Little BO J & Fierce WHAT-D'YE-CALL-EM. SEEN A STRAY SPARK PLUG LAYIN’) ‘| for: the nobles, |p Bucceadad_by his—prother ta: _|Fenglish_monarch still refused to _oboy, “| desperation, Dut still John was obstinate. ~ By C,W. Kables.|/ | SIXTY HEROES: No. 20-STEPHEN LANGTON, the Hero Who Conqu:red fame and yictorica without the aid of murder, treachery or violence. can never be pald (and therefore 1s generally forgotten). Before telling Burope was’ governed largely by what wus known—as_the-Fendal when the Norseniens rataged the country. Te poor people could. not. pro- WHO MADE HISTORY a King. aly He was Stephen Langton, Cardina! and Archbishop of Cantcrbary. Langton’s story it Is necessary to outline the conditions he hud to overe System. “This system at the beginning ws a good ching. Vater It bo- tect or ever support themselves, for thelr vos aud thel> or | By Albert Payson Terhune. HIS ts the-story of almost the only ‘ero of the Middle A who won To hin the plain people of England and all the world owe a deyt that come. came—unbearable-and was at inst aboli2ned, In England tt tod 1s tt were in constant danger. So they sought. help from nobleman. In return for armed protection and food they rend serilea--Gonre-wt inst YeCtin’, BINS, OF Berle, And: Wore 1kUn thefr master's. naine_ cn, mil{tary or other aid. Others Wore free, but must render thelr. lord -‘The nobles. protected the poor and the poor worked But as timo went on the nobles, began to look oa vaelr zaseals as mere animals. Then {t swas' that-serfdom- began, and men-were 2 a ; Le ee “or ag Duvlehment. The nob'esin turn—were often vassals tewencneieaee ul, nobles, and-the-iatter occupied a similar ponition All over Hurope, during the ninta anv 1 part of the tenth, centuries, lawlessness and hard times prevailed. yas Lisle a i 8 It was the age of gloom and misery, Wars and the raids of robber bands kept the peopla, poor. due cation, culture and civilization lapsed in baroitiam, Pestilence and fanine swept. many countries, The Feudal System and tts Strange Beginning. : > -Men starved to death by the thou robbers to gain a Hveliiood. was nol unknown among the starving poor. ‘Thus it was that they-turnedto-the-nobies for ald and. sustenance and she Feudal Sys- tem came into existence. ‘The nobles grew ARE and more powerful. The poor grew ever “more destitute and By the time Henry I. of England mounted the thr E ; nobles had srown to powerful they even scoffed at roval yowae ieee put them down With an fron hand, and gave the plain peo coptsla rights they had not before possessed. He ecrod nothing—terthe-peopte. bat helped theni in order to humiliute and weaken the nobles, or “becobe: aa they were called. Henry died, end his eon. Richard Liondart caine ta the throne. Richard's relgn was mostly spent in fornign wars, for whlch he overtaxed and ground down the people. Ha died childless and aras —Jchn Ses] Wea nea ravt-w : the faults of Henry and Rickard without any of their courago or prowess. He deprived the nobles nic the.platn-poople-allke-of-ae-many tights she conid—-He-had- tried to stent the crown from Richard, and wheey a had forgiven him. set abcut trying once more to + Richard's death. tne rightful heir to the ‘crown was you of his dead brother Geoffrey. But John setzed the k! King Phillp of France took up ‘Arthur's cause. noe and called on the lérons te aid him. Ho t: 1 a would not obey. He captured Arthur, then lerrearmenseeree me onded by having him assassinated. Philip revenged Arthurs mecger annexing most of England's French territory, Sealy, The Archb!shop of Canterbury died in 1206, and th vacancy Stephen Largton,an~Englishman vw: reputation as a priest and philosopher. Joh Archbishop. The Pope, in retalfation, At ng Arthur, the son ngdom for himself, John declared sar_oa @ Pope named for the ho-had already won great n refused to recefre Langton as * excommunicated John. As the under “interdict.” In other words, he forbade all religious 5 a i services held there. Churches were closed, no marriage cere: 7 vices, no observance of Sunday wore allowed to be monies, no burial ser= / . This drove the people ta — At last the Pope threatencd to | have John dethroned. This touched the cowardly sovereign he yielded. Langton was installed as Archbishop, Cee and | | At_once_Langion—made—bis-presence-feit: oppressed, and took their past. Hoe summoned tho barons to. a council and induced them. to draw_up, or rather revive, a.code of -lawa-insurtae justices + and! freedom to all menvand giving each citizen a chance at honest uw | oppressed livelihood. ‘The code was-known_as_the-Magna Charta, or Great t Charter. Through Langton's influence John was forced to swear to observe this cbarter and to do away with tho old, unjust state of affairs.” This the ” ‘King reluctantty dtd, stening the charter near Runnymede Aug. 25, 1214, ~The Ink-on_his-siannture Wie. scarcely dr betaro John-broke-his oath, He sent to the Pope a garbled account of the mattor. and Induced vey Holiness to fesue writs of exc => ommunica { against the barons, ony The Monarch Who Coutd Langt t NOSES ie We ngton to publish. Tan (aoe Ne ie blank, and protested aga wicked and wholly unfair, : suspended from office and went-to-Rome-in-dincrace: FOr To eee remained ont of office, but {n 1218 was-rstored to his Archbisbopric Ag soon as he returned to England he brousat together and presided over w* council! which solemnly confirm: he Magna Charta. For ten years. Teas s he_lived_ta_werk_In the holy-easse-of-}iherty——— Tie IRR a e The barons, !n—foreing ~(he -Magna- Charta-on Kin, ¥ more love for the peoplé than had Henry I. when in Ge eres ay he had used the people as a wenpon against the barons. The latter wero uctuated-by the same motives-as Henry Had been.-Tho Peoplo were merely the pawns {In a gigantic political game. To Stephen Langton alono of alt the actors in the great drama {s due the credit of personal love for justice and_humanity, and_to_him ja due the signing and Inter enforeement of the Great Charter, To this English clergyman, whose very name is now forgotten by the © average twentieth century reader, tho world over an inestimable debt of gratitude. t eames i ston refused point inst the measure ag | ? with = BACON ON CONVERSATION, S. able to- hold -alt-arguments, than of fudgment in dlacerning hatte true; as if {f were a praise to know what might be sald, and not what should be thought. Some have certain commonplaces and themes ‘to give the occasion, and again to moderate and pass-to somewhat else. it; 1_good’.in discourse and speech of conversation to. vary and..thtermingle specch ofthe present occasion with arguments, tales with reasons, and fest tolth earnest. For 4¢ 4s a. dull-thing to tire and_jade anything too-far. de religion, . . any man'a present busincss.of importance and any case that deserveth plty. Yet some thnk their twits have been asleep except they dart out something that {@ piquant and to the quick. That is a vein which should be bdridled, to Time Yourself “Reading This. OME in their -dlecourac- desire rather--commendation. of wit; tn detny wherein they are good,‘ and lack variety. The honorablest part of talk 4s for fest, certain things ought to be privileged (debarred) from it, namely ae Grover and the Married Life. By Walter A. ‘Sinclair. + (Ex-President Cleveland gaye only, married men should be Prvnidents.) CLEVELAND says that married men alone. should rule this land. G And all the down-trod suffragettes are loudly shouting "Grand!" ° To have the White House managed by the woman In tho case. They want all mean old bachelors dropped quickty“from the race If women must be barred from yotes they truly Wouldn't mind To have the power, vested in tho clever Wife Behind. The Big Stick tottera on tts throne, admitting {t's all in, And gives away in terror tothe Great Big Rolling Pin, When ‘Dear Martaa'? run the Job and handle Hubby’s task, There isn't mucl for which the voteless Games have left to ask. And ‘bachelora? «Well, what! of them? They have no place tn life. And whe would trust @ President who couldn't win a wife? Oh, Grover, think of all the, woe that you have brought about! Declaring forthe married men and barring "batches" ont, And does it mean that wisdom {s displayed in such @ move? ‘Then chadge that grand, immortal mo that Henry Clay once Behe “He-siw how the poor were] His-Holiness—piaceq-att England > ‘These _—writs—were-aallt to oo) Oh, tell us, Grover, what the lear Goes getting married prove? reehyy