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The Railroads Can Rob the
People IF*--
They Can Arrange to Keep American Ships from Free Use
of the Panama Canal.
Copyright, 1913.
In a cartoon printed several days ago our artist showed the
Panama Canal with American ships held back by American loco
motives.
That was a picture of fact, although many citizens do not
know it
All the solemn talk about "treaty obligations” about our
duty to England, our national honor, is merely so much “rail
road talk, ' a good deal of it well paid for by the railroads.
We are told that it is dishonorable, unfair, treacherous, etc.,
to permit American SHIPS to use an American CANAL, unless
we also let English ships use the canal, without charge.
And the so-called friends of national honor—who are in
reality gentlemen and newspapers subsidized or controlled by
railroads--have actually managed to compel all but coastwise
American ships to pay toll, like foreign vessels.
The railroads want no free use of the canal by American
coastwise ships, and they fight such use through the politicians
and newspapers that they own, for a simple reason.
The railroads make money carrying freight from the Atlan
tic to the Pacific. And the more they can CHARGE the more
they can MAKE. Hitherto ships carrying freight from New
York to San Francisco had to go all around South America.
Therefore, the railroads could charge for freight carried 3,000
miles across the continent as much as It would cost to send a
ship all around the continent. And, in addition, the railroad
could add a charge for quick freight as against necessarily slow
ocean freight.
Now ships will go from New York to the Pacific Coast
through the canal, and the cost of water freight will be very
small—UNLESS THE RAILROADS CAN MANAGE TO
FASTEN A TOLL ON AMERICAN FREIGHT USING AN
AMERICAN CANAL. This the railroads are trying to do, in
the high-sounding name of national honor, treaty rights, etc.
For, don't you see, every dollar that railroad influence can
lay as a tax on American shipping in the canal IS A DOLLAR
THAT THE RAILROAD CAN ADD TO ITS FREIGHT
CHARGES.
Let our Government charge American ships S3 a ton for
using the canal, and the railroads can at once add $2 a ton to
their freight rate.
Quite simple and clear, is it not?
Remember that when you hear the pitiful sobbing talk
about protecting poor Great Britain against such an ■‘outrage”
as letting Americans, who built the canal and paid for it, give
free use of it to American ships.
England, as a matter of fact, is very little interested in the
matter, except that England's rich men own the Canadian Pa
cific Railroad, and they, like our railroad owners, are working j
to fasten a tax on American ships IN ORDER TO ADD THAT
TAX TO AMERICAN FREIGHT SHIPPERS
Fortunately the matter is pretty well understood.
This country will let all American ships use the canal with
out charge very soon. And our coastwise shipping will be. free
at once.
The Congress in this instance will not be used as a rail
road freight collector. One Senator the other day introduced a
resolution to set aside the existing treaty with England en
tirely—a thing we have a right to do at any time. There is no
doubt that whatever may be neceesary will be done to make
and keep the American Canal FREE TO AMERICAN SHIPS.
Even the railroads, after they lose their foolish fight, will
find it a good thing FOR THEM to help the general American
prosperity.
Free use of the canal and low freight rates will bring lum
ber to the Atlantic Coast from the Far Northwest and bring ;
fruit to the East from California and other Paciflfc States.
Eastern products will go at low freight rates through the
canal to the Pacific. Business will grow, enterprise will find en
couragement, labor, industry AND the railroads will share in
the benefit of a canal UNITING THE COUNTRY MORE
CLOSELY AND MORE CHEAPLY.
For every carload of cheap freight going through the canal
and taken, apparently FROM the railroads, there will be two
extra carloads of high priced freight FOR the roads. Profitable
long hauls will increase and profitable short hauls as well.
And within ten years intelligent railroad men will thank
the Panama Canal and free use of it by Americans for prosper
ity such as they have never seei^
MEANWHILE.-IT IS IMPORTANT TO REALIZE THAT
THE RAILROADS AND THEIR MANAGERS, NEAR SIGHT
ED AS USUAL. ARE THE REAL POWER FIGHTING TO
SHUT AMERICAN SHIPS OUT OF AN AMERICAN CANAL
in the name of our holy duty to England.
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS
t is* ilifliruh to keep »evreu»
m thoa** w ho have your friend -
SofBP men never heeri a sugges
tion that is not accompanied by a
kick.
• * •
Speaking <*f perches, the pinna -
ie of fame is the most uncertain
of all
• * •
Matrimony will not always re
form a man. but it will make him
more cautious.
• • *
WTw© s good man goes wrong
bo eeteorally gallop*? down the
broad pathway of sin
When matrimony brings man a
• t of trouble he seems morn anx
ious to take a second chance.
• • •
A lot of character can often he
;aken from a man's face by shav
ing off his mustache.
Those of our women folk who
aie not en«^**®d in moving are
looking out the front window at
the new neighbor's furniture.
• * a
When a grown-up man meets
ihe sweetheart of his youth lie
often wonders* whv sonic one did
oof S 1 .* his passion with i
mi
The Modern Gulliver ■* B > w.™ so . H *: c * Y
The Lilliputian hosts of child labor wear their lives away piling up dollars for the heartless Gulliver
who employs them.
How Your Mind Can Aid Health
feeding from one person to an-
By GARRETT P. SERVISS. |
GREAT DOCTOR once said: I
"Successful practice re
quires one-third science
and two-thirds savoir faire”
(knowing how' to do it
Hv that he' meant impressing
the imagination of the patient.
;md impressing it the right way.
Any doctor can affect his pattern's
Imagination, but many send its
mercurial spirit dropping down
ward like a thermoneter in a cold
wave. If doctors ever really do
kill their patients it is through
what they administer to the
mind. •
We are only just beginning to
learn something of the extent of
the minds control over health
and disease. Many persons are
willing to admit that the mind
influences nervous affections, and
that the imagination may either
bring them on or drive them
away: but they refuse to believe
that mental influences which pro
duce “lessons”—1. e., physical in
juries to certain parts of the
body.
Inspires With Confidence.
But they are wrong in their
><kepticism. The imagination can
produce lessons* as well as
heal them. There never has been
a great epidemic in which a
large percentage of the mortality
was not the result of mental up-
.**»! Mere fear kids like « light
ning strok by paralysing the
nervous system, whereupon the
bodily machinery tears Itself to
pieces through loss of the central
control.
1 do not t-Mppose that the imag
ination ever broke a bone or set
one. but I am sure that it has
either saved or losi the life of
many a sick person, according to
the way in which it happened to
be directed, either by the will of
the patient himself or by the
guiding influence of a doctor or
a nurse.
The successful doctor is the
i man who enters the sick room
w ith his face full of cheer and of
masterful confidence, and' not
w ith his* pockets full of pills. The
good nurse is worth her pay be
cause she keeps her patient cheer
ful and confident. When you
choose a doctor for your family,
set* i t one w hose look makes you
feel stronger. His presence will
be like that of Napoleon on the
battlefield.
It is not sympathy that heals;
too much sympathy sometimes
kills. It is confidence that does
the good work Away with your
morose-looking doctor—unless it
happens that behind the grave
face there is an appearance of
power, for that is worth more
than all else in breeding con
tide nee in the patient.
It tyas been suggested that "per-
«**»rt* nM.vitetism'Jk an actual,
d y n a m i c t mo v i rf l oree pro -
other.
There is much to support that
view. When Caesar in his scarlet
cloak, with his bald head bared,
rode through the lines of his sol
diers at Alesia, something passed
from him to them which enabled
them to hurl back the assault of
tiie three hundred thousand Gauls.
It was the personal magnetism of
Caesar that saved the day. It put
courage into despairing hearts
and energy into tired muscles.
Rut the best way to combat
disease is to meet it with your
own will. The patient who gives
up can rarely be saved. Believe
with all your might in your pow
ers of resistance. Think of re
covery. not of death.
Exerting Will Power.
A hot summer is before us. and
it will bring its lassitude and its
sicknesses. real or imaginary.
Prepare yourself beforehand to
meet these conditions by culti
vating confidence, cheerfulness
and'will power. Joke about the
thermometer when it goe* up to
ninety or a hundred in the shade,
and don’t draw a long face before
It. If an epidemic breaks out. treat
it as the Roman emperor treated
the comet which terrified his
friends. "Oh.” he said, "that hai
ry star is after the king of the
Persians, who ha?- got w hiskers.
It won't trouble me."
And if you are doubtful about
the power of the imagination to
influence your body. read the
stories of the "Stigrmata” whtch
ippeared on some of tic
of old, when they concentrated
their minds for days and nights
together on the wounds of the
Savior.
All Could See Them.
St. Francis, it is recorded, had
all the marks of the Crucifixion
upon him. though not produced
by any hand or weapon.
* Everybody could see them. St.
Hieronyma Oarvaglio had the
spear mark in her side, which
bled every Friday. St. Cathar
ine. of Raconteco, had the marks
of the Crown of Thoms on her
head. All of these things, and
many like them, are said to have
been produced solely by pious
meditations. You may smile at
that, or you may not. according
to your stand ards of belief, but
you can hardly refuse to believe
other.things as wonderful that
have been recorded on medical
authority.
Whether you call it Christian
Science, or mind healing, or blind
faith, or anything else you may
choose, there is no doubt that you
have it in your power to influence
by mental concentration the
health and well-being of your
body. Cultivate that power, and
you will be the better for it.
You will save, or shorten, many
doctors' bills—but don't negie^
the doctor, either; help him. ®
DOROTHY DIX
Writes on
The Suffrage Pa
rade—It Was a
History Making
Spectacle and
Marks the Exit of
the Doll Baby
Woman From the
Stage of Life.
By DOROTHY DIX.
W HAT did people see as they
watched the Suffrage Pa
rade in New York last
Saturday?
They saw the first real democ- ,
racy of woman.
They sew Judy O’Grady and
the Colonel’s Lady marching
shoulder to shoulder. They saw
the petted darling of the draw
ing room walking side" by side
with the girt of th« sweat shop.
In that profession were mill-
ionairasaes keeping step with
scrubwomen: college professors
with the pupUs of night schools;
Ftfth Avenue hostesses with
waitresses from cheap lunch
rooms: old woman with withered
cheeks and gray hair with girls
in the Brat flush and bloom of
youth and beauty. Ail lines of
wealth and class and social
diatinotion were wiped out by
the greet cause that touches
ererr woman high and low. and
that has hrought them together
in one great sisterhood.
What did the people see when
they watched the Suffrage Pa
rade?
They saw one of the spectacles
that make history. They saw the
passing Of the old order of
things and the entrance of the
new.
Exit of Doll Baby Woman.
They saw the exit from the
of life of the doll baby
woman of the past, of the wom
an who could find the whole of
life in adorning herself, whose in
terests were no wider than her
own home, jrnd who saw' no
shame in getting what she
wanted out of some man by ca
jolery, or flattery, or lying, or
whatever other means was neces
sary.
Dull, indeed, were the eyes
that did not see in those thou
sands and thousands of earnest
faced women the type of the new
womanhood that is marching
onward to a place beside man.
no more to be his toy and play
thing, but his equal and his part
ner in doing the work of the
world and reaping its rewards.
What did the people see as
they watched the Cuffrage Pa
rade?
They saw the spectre of injus
tice marching in every woman’s
shadow. The crowds through
! which those ten thousand white-
I clad women tramped were most
ly silent, as well they might be
with shame if they had eyes to
see and a heart to comprehend
the significance of the scene.
, Own Millions; Can’t Vote.
They saw women who owned
millions of dollars’ worth of
property, but who were denied
the right to stay what taxes
should be levied upon their prop
erty. They saw the representa
tives of six million working wom
en. but who have no power in
f shaping the legislation that af
fected them.
They saw mothers whose littie
children’s lives were crushed out
of them in factories; housewives
. who must sweat every nickel to
make it go a little farther when
trusts put up prices; women
who represented one half of the
population, and who were af-
facted by its every law, but who
had no voice in making them.
They saw highly educated women,
brilliant professional women,
noble women philanthropist",
| saintly church women, women
who represented all that is finest
and best in humanity, but who
were denied the previleges that
the most illiterate, the most de
based. man enjoy?.
What did the people see as they
watched the Suffrage Parade?
They saw one of the most
pathetic sights the world has
ever witnessed. They saw woman
hood humbling itself before man
to ask as a boon the privilege
that it should demand as a right.
They saw the wife who has
grown gray and old in service
to her hus'band, and who has
given him the best years of her
fife, asking to be made his equal
They saw the mother who has
borne his son in her arms going
before him as a suppliant.
They saw the rich woman ask
ing a dole of her butler and her
footman.
They saw the woman college
professor begging the ignorant
and illiterate foreigner to share
wdth her the right of govern
ment that he has and she has
not. It was a silent, sad appeal
to man to right the injustice he
has done woman—to strike her
political shackles from her.
Made Even the Doll Think.
No one except those who took
part in it know what courage,
what sacrifice of personal in
clination. it took for quite, digni
fied, reserved women to tramp
I the streets, and make themselves 1
a public spectacle for hundreds
of thousands of curious eyes, and
to be the butt of cheap wits and
village cut-ups.
To most of the women every
step of the way was the way of
the cross, but they trod it un
falteringly, because there was
no other mean?* that could so
effectually carry the message
they had to give to the public.
It was a spectacle that made
even the dullest think.
What did they see as they
watched the Suffrage Parade?
They saw victory marching on
to Its crowning. Every woman !
face wore the uplifted look of a
martyr, of one who would strug
gle on undismayed by defeat un
til she finally conquered. No
one who witnessed that parade
will ever jest and scoff again at
woman's suffrage. He will know
that it is a fact to be reckoned
wdth. and that it is just as sure
to come as is to-morrow.
THE LAST TOWN
By WILLIAM F. KIRK.
Where is the Town at the end of the Line,
With its lure for the great and the small?
How shall we fare when we come to the sign
That was painted and huDg for us all?
Long is the traek and we can not go back
To wait for a faltering friend:
Through meadow and mart we are whirled from the etarf
To the wonderful Town at the end.
Some reach it in youth on a flying express
That passes the stations of strife,
And others grow gray while pursuing their way
On the laboring locals of life.
Some curse the Conductor and pray for the end.
And some think the pace is too fast;
Whatever the pace, we are nearing the place
Where we all leave the train at the last.
'Tis a mystieal Town that no mortal has seen
Till the end of his long earthly ride;
But after the trip these is Knowledge to glean
About pomp and possessions and pride.
And perhaps we shall gain when we swing from the train
All the things we were forced to resign.
For the Agent is there, with each passenger's share.
In the Town at the end of the Line.