MORGAN
Morgan MR. MORGAN left his impress, in a large way, upon his time and generation. It is perhaps within the truth to name him as one of the most conspicuous financiers of all time. The world was his...
...They tried this on the Indiana legislature...
...gigantic enterprises were his pawns...
...A Specious Plea PUBLIC UTILITY lobbyists have resorted to a new kind of "argument...
...It is the duty of government, both state and federal, to see that the people receive reasonable rates, impartial rates, and adequate services...
...Fowler...
...WEEKS, The election killed lota of pigeons...
...It should, indeed, be an incentive to the states...
...it is made to work only by a most unreasonable expenditure of labor and pains...
...That fixed the standard for Congress and the states to apply, though for fifteen years Congress refused to act...
...They have had the name without the substance...
...System Stool Pigeons, Too...
...GOOD NATURE is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it, and certainly to everybody who dwells with them, in so far as mere happiness is concerned.—HENRY WARD BEECHER...
...GEORGE KERSCHENSTEINER, the German vocational expert, is impressed by the success of the American public schools in...
...Morgan operated on a large scale...
...The distinction must be kept always in mind by legislators who are to pass upon public utility legislation...
...each state must provide for the regulation of traffic wholly within its own borders...
...A manufacturer is chiefly interested in securing as good a rate as his competitor enjoys...
...Little can be done to avoid these, but epidemics of some infectious diseases can be successfully guarded against...
...It should not fail of passage...
...Will the gentleman yield...
...Look...
...I will for a brief question...
...Mr...
...DR...
...Under no possible pretext should the fact that Congress has, at last, enacted a physical valuation law be permitted to stand in the way of state legislation of the same nature...
...Physicians Warn Flood Districts BOIL all water and pasteurize all milk used in the districts now suffering from flood and storm, is the warning sent out by The Journal of the American Medical Association...
...monopoly power was the winner's portion...
...Eight years ago Wisconsin made physical valuation the cornerstone of her railroad commission law...
...With the breaking of dams and sewers and the flooding of water-supplies whether of wells or reservoirs, the water is bound to be polluted, and typhoid fever is almost certain to become wide-spread unless the simple precaution of boiling the water is immediately adopted...
...There is not a wild pigeon alive in the United States today, and within the memory of man they nearly furnished sufficient game food for the localities where they existed...
...Fowler...
...Fifteen years ago the Supreme Court of the United States declared that the basis for ascertaining reasonable rates is the fair value of the property used by the railroads for the convenience of the public...
...Undeterred, these same interests are striving to defeat physical valuation in other states where Wisconsin's successful experience has made an impression and where the passage of the La Follette bill by Congress is proving a stimulus to similar legislation...
...Weeks...
...Watch...
...But the great public, the ninety million consumers of railroad and public utility service, demand more than equality of rates...
...For vespers ring the freedom Of night's beacon-rippled stream, One the flint, the steel or tinder of that now unfettered dream...
...The experience of this state was before Congress last February when it passed the federal law...
...Longworth...
...An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.—President WOODROW WILSON...
...Naturally, says The Journal, we may expect a large amount of pneumonia and other congestive diseases in the afflicted areas, as the results of exposure on the part of the survivors...
...the transportation crowd was dominant...
...Where sewerage and water systems have been affected, the slogan for several weeks must be boil the water and pasteurize the milk...
...The gentleman from Ohio says there is a wild pigeon in the zoological park in the city of Cincinnati, but I want to correct him...
...In both of these states a physical valuation clause, more or less perfect, was put into the law...
...The mountains, crouching brigands, Seine the sun's gold-laggard rays...
...Yet release them for a ransom Which incarnadines the haze...
...It didn't work...
...There is one wild pigeon in the zoological park in my city...
...Will the gentleman permit me to inquire of him if it is not true that the indiscriminate killing of wild pigeons has practically exterminated them...
...the rules of the game were enforced or set aside according to his need...
...This is a specious plea...
...The day has gone by, when the public utilities may direct the course of legislation in state or nation with impunity...
...Congress may regulate interstate traffic only...
...The system he created stands today challenging the might of government itself...
...The immediate havoc wrought to life and property is only a part of the results of storm and flood, for following in their wake will stalk sickness and death from exposure, the unavoidable lack of food, medicines and care, and disorganized sanitary conditions, with polluted water...
...That pigeon has died...
...Fickle Hesper, bold Arcturus, Lyred Vega, wing'd Altair...
...Weeks...
...Dream...
...they are entitled to have the rates made reasonable...
...Morgan's almost unbroken succession of winnings cannot be attributed wholly to genius...
...The world was his table...
...I think there is not a wild pigeon in the United States...
...This should be continued in every household for weeks and perhaps months until danger from this source is past * * * POLITICS in America is in a case which sadly requires attention...
...For years the attempts of the people to control the public service corporations of that state have been fruitless...
...Let no state be deterred from incorporating physical valuation into its public utility law...
...Weeks...
...And there is no possible way of determining whether or not a rate is reasonable until the value of the property is known...
...What the great cities have been doing in transforming immigrants from all parts of the world into thinking citizens," he declares, "seems to me from my personal observations in the country itself to be unexampled in the history of education of civilized nations...
...That may satisfy shippers...
...Laughter...
...An Extract from the Congressional Record) MR...
...Morgan is dead, but "Morgan" still lives...
...Now the states, one by one, are setting about to incorporate this standard into their laws...
...Regulation has been rendered innocuous because Sundown at Cragsmoor By RICHARD BUTLER GLAENZER HUSH...
...It is well known that there are birds that will eat their own weight in insects in a single day...
...They are attempting to keep physical valuation out of state laws on the ground that "there is no need for it in the states since Congress has just made provision for determining the value of the property of common carriers...
...Then it has died since election...
...The government which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of bosses and their employers, the special interests...
...With government as his silent partner, with his fiat regarded above the law, what may not a man accomplish...
...They used it in Missouri...
...Weeks...
...LONGWORTH...
...And they should not put on the statute books any law that does not contain a provision for physical valuation, the first step toward finding reasonable rates...
...For twilight, dusk enchantress, Floats in shyly on a breeze, Swiftly changing olive lowlands Into amethystine seas...
...the task of assimilating immigrants...
...Let every progressive citizen of Minnesota keep his eyes upon his representatives in the legislature...
...ha passes the charge on to the consumer...
...Each clang of homing cattle Wakes some spirit of the air...
...HAMILTON of Michigan...
...It is not enough that the rates should be made equal...
...The law makers have only to look across the border into Wisconsin to determine what kind of regulation really regulates...
...It is just as necessary for the states to base their regulation of the public service corporations upon the value of their property as it is for the nation to do so...
...With the nation and the states working together on the right basis, regulation all over the country will mean something...
...Whether it is high or low does not concern him so much...
...Laughter...
...Are there not wild pigeons in the mountains of California today...
...Minnesota's Need MINNESOTA, the home of the Hill transportation interests, needs a public utility law with teeth in it...
...The system set up by our law and our usage doesn't work,—or at least it can't be depended on...
...It should be made thoroughgoing and effective...
...Will the gentleman allow me to correct him...
...Now, this bill not only applies to game birds, but it applies as well to insectivorous birds...
...Now the legislature has before it a public utility bill designed to give relief to the people...
Vol. 5 • April 1913 • No. 14
