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The Evenin ‘Qt the Post-OMice at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. by the Press Publishing Company, No. 53 to @ Park Row, New ork | UNEARNED INCREMENT. in whom the public have present confidence. refusal to join in whitewashing the Mufual Life his ‘ejection by E. H. Harriman from ti of the Ilinols Central are two good re: ing with serious’ consideration. whatever Mr. chooses to say concerning the railroad situation.» The-gist of his defense of the tion is found in this sentenz that a railroad has a ee to ada its future factories. Therefore the: profit shquld be adequate. a ‘ommon stock or the Consolidated Gas stock dividend: ‘without et service! by an individual or corporation. jimity’ instead of on Manhattan ‘Island they would Be wore off to- fifty years ago. The Population of New York has’ increased, ~ The population-of Schoharie County has been stationary, so rs have had to work| for their living. ght have better transportation facilites. y have been expended to influence legislatures and politicians, railr hises as a nile cost nothing at all.: “ate them against the grantor and to make the public pay for ercapitalization? - mt-that- much production in Which labor value as land where nobody lived. Fish’s argument is sound NewYork has fo tightto=red The people have ‘metgtr more. Appropriate fhe earnings of others, and that the productive power of fOmmunify shal] be used for the benefit of idlers and speculators. ~ The evils of this.in railroads are to-day apparent. allowing any man to appropriate the productive efforts of anot! was already declared in the Emancipation proclamation. Letters from the People. the pursult of happiness,” or town laws are’ subservient. to Idea of thee freedom of the individ to do as sults ‘him best affairs. 1 howeyer, admits of m Vto ant from theaues, and ye give them #cats in the morning? give up thelr ecats to ladies in the even- Saye generally on account of éfess or peauty. Bot in the morning when both fe bound for thelr work do not Ink of the dress ar bentity so much tyn- ears, No, 1 A Pair tn Bryant Pa Ealtor of The kveing W [To the tetitor of xposition | | Tiask readers’ 1 wonder how many | nelghborhoo: ders remember tne World’s Fatr In|atle w Ww York. It was before most of you| garbage r born. 4t--was up where Bryant/actér the Ix now: and th: jen | fase left. Th Up | tor dur’ health Hing to look nto mi ba de man ime @ suburbs In thoae Dut moe remember tha at 4 nt as done neat, the Fo the sweep: To forget the exacr y qideriy people write ber of thi Bachelors Need Not ie MR of tiie Auggenied law Ai king marriage compu} NO. 16,658. ui sos 3 n ew. rich on unearned increment, “if their lands had been in Schoharie s additional immigrant, every new baby, has raised rents and land A-railroad’s “unearned increment’? includes a franchise, That was 2 Except for such moneys What right have their possestors thises and land are valuable only because of the community in which they Jocated. A railroad franchise where. nobody lived would be of as {Unearned increment merely means that its owner has the p power to The wrongfutness Men, Women and Ca’ forty years toe marry, {s_ Impossibiq {6 the EAitor of The Evening World: for Wie simple reason that we have a A reader asks why men give Conatitutian which guarantees to |« PATE In curs i foe evening on th eltizen the right to “Life. Iberty and and Sta in domestic the affair ETZE) Abd. very fow pedple, men or w Montclair, N. J. Who Haye to stand on their feet et jen hours during the day are go April 12, a fow ming esas fava meldora Daye a On what ster fall {n 1894? TUYVESANT FISH is one of the few railroad men Hic and]. presidency ons for treat- Fish railroads’ capitaliza- don't see why 4 railroad has not just as much right to. an unearned _increment—as_an_individual?’Therefore—he—argues and Should a railroad have the right to capitalize anything except ils Retual investinent? ‘That the ralé of profit on the real capital invested Sstouldbe liberal is conceded. ‘The interest rate on: Government bonds ) savings bank deposits would not attract capital to, railroads or manu- But that profit id snot come in such ots) as Maca inflation of the Chicago ae bonds and half as much | more aan or the. B. R.Tys ‘issue of A legitimate ute of interest, is sone ee a swindling issue-of bonds and stock is day and so its as ‘oad the haf right has - vany one to property for which he has not eer an sc isnt? Food,-clothing, buildings, luxuries and necessities alike re} al“are joined. Ex-f pt land and franchises, all this value represen individdal effort. .Fran- ace a y's “uneamed ee wili be impaired. The Western jegistatures flinddmental laws of existence. no ght to demand a ere street: -car service, which would cost the traction] with! regard to those pertalning to property and rights before the civil law; the her this duatl Ls any aire Pe World's Daily Magazine, Thursday, has tal | Aes [NEE the Freedom of the Modern Woman. ac- cording to those who discourse to and of the new woman, who, by the way, seems to be made after all of} much the samo material as the sex has been since the days of Eve, this emancipated creature {s at Mberty to ‘follow her own sweet will, and Js absolutely free to do Just what | she likes, If she is not firmiy persuaded that nelther | friends noz parents have any right to control her, nor to} —wterfere—with-fer-action tn any TEEPE of having been told so many ‘times and oft. Yet for all this the doctrine Js absurd upon the face of It. > woman, on earth, how- ever great or powerful, Is absolutely free to follow every Impulse, whether of reason or unredson, without fear of the consequences either: to oneself or to others, For all, ex- cepting a few untrammelied tyrants, thera Is the policeman with tho Jail behind him, while nature has a word to say even to autocrats, She is like an Ind{an tn suet ashe never forgets nor forgives an injury, and those who defy her laws are fure to be punished fooner or Jater. So hots Theva whether Thu oF Woman, whd, eXéepUng within straight and nare Who If given such Miscretion would not tm all provadiilty have cause to regret the fatal boon? Obedience is among tne} | { | It {s tindoubtedly true that many of tho restrictions which fenced Im and ham-| pered women a century ngo have been done away with, Happlly, also, especially The Cheerful. Primer. a When Teddy Tackles the Panic, By Maurice Ketten, Te HOt for Tack Yor promormgintercotrse—-beisvoon—human beings, whether colle IGREAT manycooote ! put Tals ‘PANIC oN THE FRITZ... The. New Woman” and Why She Is Not Free \< py Helen oldficta GREAT deal is sboken and written nowadays con-| Statutes which made wives and daughters wholly dependent upon hubbands and} 4 present.” fathers who sometimes were altogether unworthy of trust. Moreovel, which ts an Immense step in the way of progress, public opinion, tat unwritten law which Is the severest of’ all codes, nowad: allows any woman to earn a living In nay avente of honest labor tzhich she hes skill ts qpen and strength to pursue, During tong a Indeed ever since people begat to dwell together in com- munities, soclety slowly has been buflding up and perfecting a system of con- ventions, a rystem popularly known as and much polishing has become a moat effective machine, whex properly used, vely_or indl- The centcal wheei of this maghine, the one upon which fis efficacy the power to make oneself agreeable by Gefer- ration for the projudices of other people. No alented or beautifal, ever will go far without it It serves to amooth thelr progress through the crowded highways of the world. The people who Insist non having their own wa, without regard for the con- ventence or comfort of other people are hated aa masters, punished as servants, ‘Above all, no man likes an aggressive woman. Only great talent, amounting, indeed, to genius, can bring such a one success In any walk of Iliff, against the eppestiian.schich her attituds. Js, cortaln.to exelte. and even then the achievement rarely brings love in its train. — Although the rod of payental authority and the chaperon may have been con- signed to the Imbo of old}fashioned things along with other Instruments of the bygone subjection of women, tne fact remains that there still are powerful re- straints upon conduct, Jn spite ‘of her boasted freedom, not one woman In a thousand can be found who will dare to incur the censure and brave the conderj~ nation of her set.—Chicago Tribune, Ry C. W. Kahles. vidually. most*depends, Is that of courtes ence to the opinions and con one, Man or worian, however et Seethe LA-DIES. They Will Not Let the Fish: monger MONG als FISH. LESS NOISE, LADIES! Yousc'u) WAKE UP THE DEAD, “manners,” which by tong continued use ABOUT GIRLS. By Gertrude Barnum, ~~ Natlonal Organizer of the Woman's Trade Union League. { WUE —The Working Girl and Her-Presents. 467 SEE they reed salesladies hete," I said to the cletk tn I @ five and ten cent store. it a good place to workT" “It'n a good, steady job," sald the girl “You can work’ up fine.” She thought I wanted work, . What could I make?" From four up—dependa on, how long you atay, 1° Worked four years, I began on 4 and now I get #6. Be= aideq they give you a present of $5 at Christmas, I've got 420 in presents, Ty Christmas : I had gone tn. one entrance of that store, from curtosity, in the evening dyrin.> the “Christmas rush,” and had been carried along through by the pushing, shoving, grodning mass of bargaln-Hunters, thun ejected from another entran Into the street, more dead-than-aitre; “T thin: we would about earn the extra flyo, “That's right, too,” sald the girl, make the most of her “noon hour."" “How long do you have at noon,” T asked. sethrée-auarters of an hour. If you want to come along with te I'l show you a trick.” 1 rushed madly ov. with the hurr. ing clerks, accompanying my new friend tae large department store a few blocks away. She led me to the “grocery de- partment’? and sald merrily: “Here's where you get your money’a worth. Talk about free lunch!” A “demonstrator” urged us to parte de a Uny sample cup of malted mink. We partook. I sald. as she prep critically, | “Very nourishing,” sald the demonstrator, foo@ and drink. Healthful for ‘old and younk.”* “I don’t think we care to * uy to-day,” satd the girl. She led off to tho next counter, giggling delightedly ‘atymy surprise “Try the wheat cakes,” sald another hawker. ‘‘Lightest wheat flour on the market. Toss it Into biscults In fifteen minutes,’ We tested tho wheat cakes and biscuits, Bott-went. We each Invested 3 cents In a glass of buttermilk and helped ourselves freely from the crackers and creain cheese on the counter for “samples,"* We sampled beef, tex, corn flakes, corned beef, baked beans, doughnuts, Jama, &c., as long as the fort¥vfive-minute lunch hour would permit. “You go to different] counters every day, and by the time you go again to the same one they forget you-so many come and gu. Anyway, if{the: catch om they only laugh, It tsn’t them that’s losing.’ “This alze 20 cents a bottle. Both doing the same sort of ‘sampling’? without her sense of humor. They looked natamed: One child expectaliy, probably a cash girl, stole furtive glances about to wea Af she was watched and stood gulping her stolen junch lke « hungry but uninvited dog ‘in a butcher shop. “Moat every--- {8 on to this trick,” sald the girl. As we turned back to the five and ten cent store I sata: ‘I don't seo how you can live on $4. You have to buy some tooked food, I suppdse—and then room rent"*\— “Llive at home with my mother,” said the girl in stately tones. After this day I dropped in to nee the girl in the ten-cent store severai times and we got vy “chuminy.”” “One day [went “home” with her. Bhe was not very eager to ask me Jn, but could not say no when I asked to meet her mother. She lived on Weat Eleventh pitreet, and we went up some dark steps directly into a little kitchen about 12 by!9 feet. A heavy smell of soapsuds and cooking food greeted us and the alr wax hot and ateamy. The pallid, wrinkled mother urged me to come in and “take a bite’ with them. This I declined to do, but as we exchanged clyilities I looked around. The kitchen contained a sink, china closet, stationary tubs, now used as a supper table,/alsa an old coal range and two chairs. The only other room of this “home” wad barely large enough for a double bed. It had no closet; clothing was hung over the bed on nalts in the wall, and it was evident from the size'of the bedrocm: that my friend and her motne must climb directly orto the bed from the kitchen, which was thetr only yistble dreasing room. They made many apologies for the “looks of things,” and the mother ex- plained that it was Monday and ahe took in a “bit of washing now and again on Monday. As I left Eleventh street I reflected on the subject of presents. The thought of the Christmas gifts had hypndtized the five and ten cent girl She had lived four years under the spell of four gift. She had worked from 215 to 615 dally all the years and Heaven knows how Ia\ She had condemned her mother to hard prison cells, ot r in “rooms” which closely’ resembled She ato free lunches and Greased herself trom the: eweated stock argain counters, “The five and ten cent store is a cheap store,” I sald to myself, “but tn our hunt for bargains we'll not find anything else as cheap as that girl. She ts iJmost A Mortuary Fund for “Bill.” By Walter A. Sinclair. 1. need a Mortuary Fund to Jay away poor “Bill;"* ~~" "7 He's not been killed at Albany, but we have hopes he wil, —He's dying -hard;-not-by the card:—-So-he,y fil up We Wm We've got to rate a fund to have a funeral tor “Bil.” Bill! Bit! Bingham Bill! { Natural he'll look and still. Bend your cash to fiz his hash— Takes a lot of coin to kill, Bill! Bill! Won't look it, Strange how he Coes tariver Bs “I won't e-re for ‘that, do your" sald the air! to me, sipping the Inst drop, at night during the Christmas season. 2 Ea Si i ' 1 ‘ t t ~_Iy¥-compinton seemed to be having fun, but I saw other girls and somen Raise a fund. He's only stunned, And may yet keep aiive. We need a Mortuary Fund to lay poor “BIII" away; So chip in freely, fellows, from your Ittle monthly pay. | We will take anything in sight from coppers up to plunks To bury poor old Bingham Bill and bury him in chunks. Bill! Bit! Bingham Bill! | Lay him underneath the hill, # Send your dough to help him go Where the Bills sleep snug and stitl. Bill! Bitl!” He witt 10 Such a nice long boz, Though we've gunned, we need a fund, Bo send along your “rocks.” a + Pointed Paragraphs. OME women neem to enjoy boasting of their troubles. S It Isn't pleasant to get: called down—except to breakfast. Talk ia cheap, yet some people uso extravagant language. Lots of men have recovered from thelr annual swear-off. Getting busy ofton takes a hard fall out of a fit of the blues, Many a man's popularity 1s due to the fact that he isn't aware of It. The tramp ayolds many of the walks of life by catching freight trains, In many a man's Iifejthe turning polnt 1s reached just after a pretty girt passes, Don't try to do the things you can't-and don’t do somo of the things you can. ‘Any man can tell a He, but it takes a born diplomat to induce prwle to pelleve it. epee You will have smiling friends as:long as you keep atill and let youe:noney talk for you. Bome people never stop to count the cost because they realize that they HF haven't got the price, anyway, iY Fcoahl It ie*aimply impossible to convince the average man that water le the thing in which to drown hls troubles.—Chicago News. prope! Siamese English. NEW Siamoso paper has Wurst out with this: ‘The nows of Englizh, we tefl the latest, Writ in perfectly styio nnd most enrilect. Do 4 murder get com: mit, wa hear of and tell it, Do a mighty chief dle, we pubtan it and in gomber, | Stalt Pat one been colieked and write Ike HC! sar