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TUESDAY, MAY 11, 1920
A CONSTRUCTIVE CONGRESS
Two of the greatest constructive
measures ever placed upon the statute
books the coal and oil land leasing
bill and the railroad reorganization
bill have been enacted by the Re
publican congress.
At previous sessions the Democrats,
in full control of the house and sen
ate, proved absolutely impotent to deal
with this important legislation.
Susceptible to all sorts of influence,
afraid of their shadows and subordi
nating all other considerations to poli
tics, the administration party disre
garded public interests and permitted
things to drift.
Demand for the opening of govern
ment coal and oil lands to meet the
country s growing needs had gone un
heeded for years. There was univer
sal agreement that something should
be done, but the Democrats of con
gress demonstrated an utter inability
to pass upon and adjust the problems
involved. Legislation hung fire, de
ferred from one session to another, un
til the Republicans came into control
of congress, when, with business abil
ity, they succeeded in framing a leas
ing law that is pronounced both con
structive and progressive in the high
est degree, and will surely operate to
promote the welfare of the whole
people.
So, likewise, the railroad legisla
tion. The President had no recommen
dation to offer when he announced
that the roads, impaired and demoral
ized under government operation,
w’ould be turned back to their owners
on March 1. 1920. A colossal loss re
sulting from ruinous management I
meant chaos in the absence of upbuild
ing legislation, and it was reserved
for Republican law-makers to avert
.the impending calamity.
Unswayed by the pressure of selfish
interests, unawed by the threats of
labor and the proponents of the Plumb
plan, which was backed by a powerful
lobby, a law was evolved and enacted
which even a Democratic attorney
general is compelled to approve as
sound and constitutional, and wrhich
is hailed by economists as the great
est step forward in many years.
Meamvhile .this Republican congress
is enforcing economy—cutting the es
timates of Democratic department
heads by the millions to the ultimate
if not immediate relief of the over
burdened taxpayers.
THE CANADIAN DEFICIT
Canada is going through much the j
same experience with governmental j
eoatrol of railroads as did the United
States. Our deficit was larger, hut
then we had more railroads. That
seems to have been about the only
difference.
The first year of nationalized rail
roads in the Dominion has just been
•ompleted and after striking a bal
ance the government finds that it is
j«st $47,000,000 in the hole on the ad
venture.
A deficit had been expected, but so
large a one was beyond most pessi
mistic expectations. That roads which
had shown a surplus under private
management failed to make expenses
fcs regarded as particularly amazing.
Those who still defend the govern
ment ownership offer the explanation
that the deficit is due greatly to in
creased cost of operation without cor
responding increase in transportation
rates, but against that assertion
stands the fact that the Canadian
Pacific, which has had to contend
with the same difficulties, but re
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mains under private management,
has shown a handsome surplus.
In the current year the Grand
Trunk is added to the nationalized
railroads, and unless better showing
is made, a deficit of $50,000,000 is to
be expected.
In view of which it is not at all
surprising that there is a rapidly
growing sentiment in Canada in favor
of getting the railroads back where
they belong—in the hands of the pri
vate owners. The lesson has been
expensive, but both, the United States
and Canada, have learned it well.
Intelligent governmental control over
railroads is desirable and produces
excellent results, but governmental
operation is a horse of an entirely dif
ferent color.
THE BOUNTY ON EAGLES
The American Museum of Natural
History, the moving spirit of which is
Dr. Hornaday, has begun a campaigr
against the Alaska law authorizing
the payment of bounty op the Araeri
can eagle, and says there is dangei
that the species may before long be
come extinct. I contends that the
eagle usually feeds on rodents anc
other animals that are harmful tc
crops. It also contends that the sep
arate states ought not to have any
control over the eagles, as they are
represented to be migratory, and nol
properly subject to the jurisdiction ol
any one state.
If fhe people who run the American
Museum of Natural History would in
vestigate the situation in Alaska il
would discover that here at least the
eagles live chiefly on the food fish
that constitute the basis for the prin
cipal industry of this territory, and
they would discover that the extenmi
nation of eagles would count for the
conservation of Alaska’s material re
sources—the resources that sustain
life and count in the development of
the country and people. The eagles
are also destructive of deer and other
game animals and of game birds.
One of the menaces to Alaska is
non-resident hobby riders, most noto
rious among whom is Gifford Pinchot,
but not the least of whom is Dr. Hor
naday.—Juneau Empire.
Article 10 has gotten into such
shape now that it’s doubtful whether
even Henry Clay could frame it up to
suit everybody.
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