Watson's Jeffersonian magazine [serial] . ils,knowing that their natural tendency and effect will he to cause arailroad smash-ui?, are just as guilty, before God and man! as thewanton creature who recklessly fires into a crowd. On the other hand, there are the Railroads, also ravenous fordividends upon fictitious capitalization, operating the propertyfor the primary purpose of making money, forced by the neces-sity of earning dividends upon watered stock, to practice fero-cious economy; and thus logically led into buying the chcaped mils, WHEN THEY OUGHT TO EQUIP THE ROADS WaTH THE ^^:RY BESTT
Watson's Jeffersonian magazine [serial] . ils,knowing that their natural tendency and effect will he to cause arailroad smash-ui?, are just as guilty, before God and man! as thewanton creature who recklessly fires into a crowd. On the other hand, there are the Railroads, also ravenous fordividends upon fictitious capitalization, operating the propertyfor the primary purpose of making money, forced by the neces-sity of earning dividends upon watered stock, to practice fero-cious economy; and thus logically led into buying the chcaped mils, WHEN THEY OUGHT TO EQUIP THE ROADS WaTH THE ^^:RY BESTTHAT CAN BE BOUGHT. The watered stock compels the cruel economy; the crueleconomy causes the purchase of cheap rails; the cheap rails causethe wreck; and thus we have the criminal lust for net ear-nings V^hats B£C0/1E Ofny ClilMlf^AL COURTS ^\ f?EPOnT By\ THE COMMERCE COMMISSION\FOR THE THREE MONTHS END/NQ\ DECEMBER 31. ^ A/UEO ANDINmED Z0S44 AN MffEASEE P/iECEOINCr 1<5PAN/SH~AMCmAH \fi/AR ?KILLED MO WOUMDED 688. THE ONE LIFE DESTROYER GREETS THE OTHKiJ, SIIAKR PARDNEU. EDITORIAL 625 upon fictitious capitalization killing more people than wero slaughtered by the armies of Grant and Lee. Murderers! Of course they are murderers! And JudsonClements, member of the National Inter-State Commerce Com-mission, spoke but the literal truth when he gave out the boldstatement that some of these big railroad criminals ought to boput behind the bai*s! Caught between the upper and the lower mill-stones, thi^Steel Trust above and the Railroads below, we are ground topowder, without pity, without relief, without limit. Presidentscome and Presidents go, but the damnable system grinds onforever. Nothing halts the soulless man-devouring corporations, mon-sters of greed, defiant of law, insolent in the strength of im-munity of Money! At every hour, of every day in the week, some little group ofmourners follow to the graveyard some dead man, or deadwoman, or dead child, murdere
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