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...that the rates charged are so high as to enable the companies to pay high dividends on excessive and fictitious capitalization many times the value of the property used in their business and that their rates are now more excessive and extortionate than ever before...
...If these conferences fail to end the fight, it is said it will be left to the government arbitration board...
...replied that they did not...
...It states that on the several lines of railroad, the express companies enjoy an absolute monopoly of the business...
...Prince Albert, a nephew, succeeds to the throne...
...The saving to the shippers of Wisconsin, if a reduction is ordered by the commission, will be of immense value...
...What it does is to bring to bear on this case the medical testimony of the whole world in regard to the effects of overwork on girls and women, and, through them, on the next generation...
...Sugar Scandals Grow The disclosures of the last few months involving the Sugar Trust in the lowest forms of corruption, have aroused such strong public disapproval and condemnation that it is almost certain Congress will be forced to investigate the persons and corporations involved in the disclosures, and it may even be possible to force a reluctant Congress to do away with the protection by which the Trust was enabled to exist and wax powerful...
...The tariff situation which has arisen between this country and Canada as a result of the passage of the Payne-Aldrich bill is giving President Taft much embarrassment...
...Wellman in the Chicago Record Herald, says that during the tariff session the President gained the pledge of the "Boss of the Senate" and the "Czar of the House" to help in the passage of the progressive measures that the people desire passed by Congress...
...This law, it will be remembered, was passed at the last session of the Illinois legislature...
...A straw vote recently taken by Success Magazine, is significant...
...Meanwhile the President appears to be relying upon the promises of Aldrich and Cannon to support a progressive program...
...In the case of the Adams the following is maintained: capitalization, $12,000,000...
...net operating revenues, for the year ending June 30, 1909, after the payment of all operating expenses and taxes, $1,704,000 in addition to which more than $1,000,000 were received as income from other investments of the company's accumulated profits...
...But his attempts to protect the government were thwarted and ignored by men "higher up...
...Women are finding the way prepared for protection from the grinding wheels of Industry...
...Ballinger to be Investigated In spite of the reassuring report of Secretary Ballinger and his repeated denials of the charges brought against him in regard to disposing of the public domain, the public continues suspicious of his policy...
...The law is identical with one passed by Oregon and upheld last year by the United States Supreme Court...
...In all the walks of life there are evidences that the idea of the brotherhood of man is becoming a vital force in shaping the affairs of Society...
...It is expected that the final decision will be given before New Year's day...
...Federal Judge Peter S. Grosscup at the annual dinner of the Illinois Manufacturers' Association on December 15, condemned the present attempt to regulate corporations and declared that a combination or trust was formed only in consequence of a natural law and that attempts to prevent their formation were absurd...
...total cost of all its property and equipment used in the conduct of its business does not exceed $6,150,889...
...is becoming more and more a test of practical action...
...Leading women in the trades unions and consumers' leagues appeared and lobbied for the "girls' bill," as it was called...
...Taft to Lean on Aldrich...
...On the 21st a vigorous and aggressive complaint against the rates and services of all the express companies doing business in Wisconsin was filed with the Railroad Commission by the Merchants and Manufacturers Association of Milwaukee through its transportation attorney, Walter Drew of Madison...
...Developments of the week show that the trust has influenced not only the legislative but the executive branches of the national government...
...Express Companies Must Defend High Rates While the women of Illinois are thus asking for protection from the evil effects of overwork, the merchants of Milwaukee are demanding relief from the excessive rates charged by the express companies...
...Members of the committee were forbidden to give out any information as to the results of the examination but the Associated Press is said to have learned that the records did not contain sufficient evidence to sustain the explorer's claims...
...Daily News...
...He outlined the work of the government in the Philippines and said that Americans were being supplanted by natives in the government offices of the Philippines...
...The brief is remarkable in that it contains only three pages of law...
...Said Representative Hitchcock: "Although 99 per cent, of the mem-bers of the House want this investigation, they can't get it because the speaker is opposed to it...
...In the case of the Northern, it is set forth that the capitalization is $5,000,000...
...The press is practically unanimous in its demand for a thorough investigation and the application of the same law to both big and little offenders...
...His resolution was buried by Speaker Cannon in the Committee on Rules, but it seems certain that Congress will order an investigation of the Secretary's department after the holiday recess...
...The controversy involves 150,000 men and the average increase in pay would amount to 15 per cent...
...Cook is still in seclusion...
...At the time, the interest of the entire nation was fixed upon it...
...Typical of the rest are the Adams and the Northern express companies...
...The strike of the railroad switchmen of the northwest continues and up to the 20th no agreement had been reached, although conferences were being held between the strikers and the railroad officials for the settlement of the difference...
...Last week it was announced that a brief of 610 printed pages' had been filed in the State Supreme Court by Louis D. Brandeis of Boston in favor of sustaining the ten-hour law...
...Civil Service Reform Still Necessary The National Civil Service Reform League met in New York City on the 9th and was addressed on the same evening by Charles W. Eliot, president of the organization...
...Women to Fight for Ten-Hour Law Even now there is a struggle on in Illinois to establish the constitutionality of the recent law limiting the hours of labor of women workers to ten a day...
...He took a fling at the Sherman act and said that the regulation of the future would provide a fixed dividend which railways might earn...
...News Notes On December 16th, President Zelaya of Nicaragua, resigned, after a violent popular demonstration against him...
...It is planned to enlarge the unions new existing in the steel trades, and to appeal to Congress for an investigation of the conditions under which labor is employed by this corporation...
...The insurgents of the La Follette and Cummins brand have more religion than they profess...
...The fangs are being drawn from Greed...
...Confidential official information and copies of secret reports have been given to the Guggen-heims...
...net operating revenues for the year 1909, after the payment of all operating expenses and taxes, over $723,336, or more than 380 per cent, of the total cost of its property and equipment used in its business as a common carrier...
...A letter was sent out to 22,000 subscribers throughout the country, requesting an answer to nine questions...
...The complaint alleges that the express companies, in addition to paying large dividends on excessive and fictitious capitalization and accumulating enormous surpluses for speculative investment, have wasted and dissipated enormous sums out of their earnings in the payment of large and extravagant salaries to their general officers...
...Corruption is giving way to purity in politics and in business...
...William S. Washburn, United States Civil Service Commissioner, formerly Director of Civil Service in the Philippines, addressed the League on the 10th, and pointed out the danger of allowing the patronage system to control in the government of our dependencies...
...Frederick A. Cook completed its preliminary report...
...The complaint sets forth facts of a most sensational character...
...It is rumored that Japan means to seize Korea...
...It is charged that the United States Steel Corporation has worked its men under the most terrible conditions, and that the union is the only organization which prevents still worse oppression of labor...
...total cost of all its property and equipment used in the ccnduct of its business, June 30, 1909, not more than $189,409...
...On December 16, Representative Hitchcock offered a resolution in the House calling for an investigation of the land office in connection with the charges recently brought against Secretary Ballinger...
...issued and paid shareholders special dividends of $12,000,000 in 1898, and $24,000,000 in 1907 in 4 per cent, bonds, all of which were distributed free to shareholders and represent a distribution of the company's accumulated profits acquired through its excessive and extortionate rates and charges as a common carrier...
...They have deep designs down in their hearts for reforms that they are not making public, and when the people start up of their own volition to make up clubs for La Follette's paper, it shows there is a political disease abroad of a contagious character...
...President Eliot also stated that with the extension and perfecting of the civil service, a civil pension became desirable, and spoke of the consular service which was recently put upon a merit basis by order of President Taft...
...This policy, however, is apparently not regarded with any degree of hope by the people...
...The reductions of express rates by the legislature of Nebraska is cited, the act having been upheld by the Supreme Court of that state, and it is stated that the rates of the express companies in Wisconsin are 30 per cent, higher than the maximum lawful rates fixed by the legislature of Nebraska...
...A. K. Hoag, President of the National League of Postmasters of the Fourth Class, pointed out the improvement that has taken place in the postal service since the appointments of postmasters of the fourth class were taken out of the hands of Congressmen and made on merit...
...Ballinger after appealing to the President to protect the Alaska coal lands, was a victim of entrenched fraud...
...And it is good to note that this birthday of Jesus of Nazareth finds the spirit of His teachings stirring the hearts and shaping the conduct of mankind more than ever before...
...Petersburg contains the information that Japan has been preparing its army for a campaign...
...The complaint declares that all the express rates are grossly excessive, unreasonable, extortionate, and in violation of the laws of Wisconsin, and demands reductions to from 60 to 70 per cent, of the existing rates...
...to set Man on a higher plane than Man's handicraft...
...Legalized Wrong is being superceded by Legalized Right...
...A movement is on foot in Canada by which that country may be directly represented at Washington...
...Statistics of the capitalization, investment and profits of the several companies are contained in the brief...
...They are a revelation as to the "high finance" methods of conducting the express business of the country...
...Evidence is accumulating that the government has been deuded of more than $20,000,000 by the sugar companies and other large importers...
...were almost equally divided in opinion, nearly half of the number expressing dissatisfaction, while the Democrats were far more emphatic in expressing their dissatisfaction...
...True hearts have no need of many words...
...Madriz, Zelaya's choice for successor, entered the capital on the 19th and was enthusiastically received by the crowds...
...and because this is so we find a growing tendency to place humanity above property...
...A dispatch of the 19th from St...
...There is a free masonry among these beyond the understanding of mere politicians.—Jolict (Ill...
...It appears that James S. Clarkson, surveyor of the port of New York, nearly eight years ago discovered the frauds and made appeal after appeal to his superiors in the Treasury Department, pointing out the rottenness which existed in the customs service...
...The money changers are being scourged from the Temple...
...This case is one of the most important ever brought before a railroad commission...
...Speaker Cannon's apparent unwillingness to permit such an investigation, it is pointed out, has not strengthened Secretary Ballinger's cause nor the position of Cannon himself...
...He pointed out that there was still work for the League in the extension of the civil service and declared that civil service reform, together with the adoption of a shorter ballot, would do much to put the machine and political boss out of business...
...It contains striking proof that overwork produces a toxin of fatigue similar to that of diphtheria or tetanus...
...On December 17, the Standard Oil Company filed its appeal from the recent decision of the United States Circuit Court, ordering the trust to dissolve...
...Questions 3 and 4 on the attitude of Senator Aldrich and Speaker Cannon with regard to the tariff legislation brought an almost unanimous response of disapproval of their position...
...How can the House of Representatives get the same free access for an investigation...
...that there is a close and strong community of interest and control, and that rates are fixed at competitive points by tacit if not expressed agreement...
...It is expected that the corporation will not alter its policy of aggressive opposition to the union...
...The question Illinois women workers are asking is this: Is it legal for Illinois to do what the United States Supreme Court unanimously decided Oregon could do...
...By the adoption of a system of oppression and cruelty toward the natives which shocked the whole world, King Leopold amassed an immense fortune from his estates in the Congo...
...They appear to have access to everything they want...
...On December 20 notice was given to railroad managers on all eastern lines of the demand of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the Order of Railway Conductors for a general advance in wages, equal to those paid on western roads...
...King Leopold of Belgium died on the 17th, after a long and eventful reign...
...In a speech he declared that Glavis, who was discharged by Mr...
...The Republicans answering question 2, "Are you satisfied with the first nine months of the administration of President Taft...
...And the answer to it by the State Supreme Court is being eagerly awaited throughout the country...
...What would Jesus do, if he were a citizen...
...He will meet with strong opposition, however, on the part of the revolutionists...
...dividends on its excessive and fictitious capitalization, 1909, $400,000...
...At present all official communication between Canada and the United Stites must be had through the mother country, involving much red tape...
...While five men, former employees cf the sugar trust, were found guilty of conspiracies to defraud the government, in New York on December 17, the men who are really responsible for the scandals have not been reached...
...These statistics have not before been made public...
...Labor Clashes Imminent Meeting at Pittsburg on the 13th, the labor leaders of the country held a two-day conference, at which it was decided to make a determined fight on the United States Steel Corporation...
...The majority of Republicans answering question 5, "Do you approve the position of President Taft in the recent tariff legislation...
...Cook's Claim in Doubt On December 18, the committee of the University of Copenhagen, which has been examining the records of Dr...
...And on the 15th, two independent sugar computes confessed to participation in the frauds and offered to make resltution...
...while the answers to questions 6 and 7 show clearly that the country does not desire the President to enter into an alliance with the leaders of the two houses for the passage of any legislation...
...dividends paid regularly for many years on its excessive and fictitious capitalization ranging from 6 to 10 dollars per share...
...Little children are being rescued from the devouring maw of Profits...
Vol. 1 • December 1909 • No. 51
