Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 4, 1901 Page: 2 of 16
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SOUTHERN MERCURY
Thursday, July 4, 1901.
8COUNDREUSM RAMPANT IN
PENNSYLVANIA.
Heaven knows there has been enough
stealing, fraud, Imposition, and lying
to make anythfng that can be written
on the subject stale and ancient histo-
ry. Yet sometimes a thing of this kind
happens that attract attention owing
to some novel element or peculiar sur-
rounding. Rascality In politics, gen-
erally speaking, makes one tired. One
says: "Give us a rest." This is be-
cause everybody has become used to it
and expects nothing else, which is sure*
ly not a healthful sign for tlife success
of a republic founded on the virtue and
intelligence of the ctitizen.
One of these unique cases has just
happened in Philadelphia. It was not
a bigger steal than other, nor a more
aggravated one, but there was a touch
of the picturesque about it which h~as
been rarely visible in other instances.
In other steals there has been some
pretense of the public welfare, some
of that homage which evil pays to vir-
tue. Here, there was nothing to sweet-
en the pill. The Philadelphia steal
was "a hold up" pure and simple.
Revolvers were cocked and covered the
victims while the looters went through
their pockets. For a generation he pub-
lic buildings of the city had been the
basis of corrupt jobs. That means of
manipulation being exhausted other
ways had been* found to supply
v-.e bandits and leaches. They are
imperialists in Pennsylvania in pol-
itical organizaztlon. They recognixe
the advantage of the one man
power, for the interests of the
followers. This central power has
been vested in Quay, and he never dis-
appoints his lieutenants upon whom
his continued success depends.
Here is what Quay did. There were
millions on millions of franchises to
be farmed out to the faithful if the
Legislature would pass the bill. Quay
ordered the passage and it did pass.
The bill gave the right to grrb all the
franchises of the streets of Philadel-
phia, above ground and below ground,
for street railways and other purposes,
and to hold them, world without end.
We are interested in the way they
do things Jn Pennsylvania, because
there are not a few of the Democratic
and Republican leaders in our state of
Texas who will join hands to accom-
plish the same thing here. They are
as much the tools of the corporations
as were the thieves who stole the peo-
ple's rights in Philadelphia.
|Justice," a paper published at Wil-
mington, Del., gives the following de-
tails of this piece of Pennsylvania
scoundreltsm:
"Never has there been a great steal
carried out so quickly and in such
open defiance of public opinion. The
Republican majority in the State Leg-
islature and City Councils of Philadel-
phia made no pretense of listening to
the protests of the minorities, but rush-
ed legislation through by force of num-
Pranchlses worth millions of dollars,
giving monopolies to miles of city
streets and country roads, have been
dealt out to members of the political
ring wHich has the Keystone State In
its grasp.
The raid began May 29, when two
bills were introduced in the Legisla,
ture, giving to corporations chartered
junder their provisions the right to lay
surface tracks in any unoccupied street
or road in the state, or to build elevat-
ed or underground lines along streets
already occupied by surface lines. The
constitution requires that the consent
of local authorities must be secured
before railways can be constructed,
so this proviso could not be dispensed
with. But the bill was so framed that
the first companies to secure charters
hold the exclusive right to the streets
for seven years without having to oper-
ate the line, so that they can prevent
any locality fronn having railway ser-
vice for that time unless it accedes to
their terms.
For these valuable franchise grants
no compensation to the state is de-
manded except an incorparation fee of
one-third of one per cent, on the author-
ized capital, t Amendments to limit
rate of fare, to secure percentage of
receipts, to forfeit privileges unless
construction was begun at once, and
others, were all voted down.
These two bills were rushed through
l>oth branches of the Legislature in
six days. The governor held them two
days, and signed them at midnight of
June 7. Notice of the bills being sign-
ed was with withheld until nearly 11
o'clock the next morning. Senator
Quay; his son, who is president of sev-
eral of the new companies; Senator
Penrose; and a number of lesser lights
of the machine, came to Harrisburg.
Early on the morning of June 8, while
representatives of A. L. Johnson and
others did not know whether or not the
bills had become law, applications for
charters were filed by thirteen compa-
nies, all incorporated by the same co-
terie of politicians, covering all the
streets of Philadelphia. These char-
ters were granted by the State Depart- ,
ment, in violation of a rule that had
been in force for years, that no char-
ters would be granted on Saturdays,
because of the State Treasurer's office
being closed. That day, however, it
was open too. Other charters were
granted then and since, covering near-
ly every available highway in the state.
The entire force of the State Depart-
ment was kept at work Sunday, June
9. copying and certifying the Philadel-
phia charters. The Select Councils of
that city was convened in special ses-
sion Tuesday, when ordinances con-
firming these charter privileges were
placed on tha calendar. The law for-
bidding them too be passed the same
day, Councils met the next day and ■
the ordinances were rushed through
both branches, with scarcely any op-
position. Amendments for three cent
fares, etc., were hotted down.
Thursday John Wanamaker sent a
letter to the Mayor, urging him to veto
the bills, and making an offer of $2,
000.000 for the same franchises. Mr.
Wanamaker stated that he believed
they were worth much more, but he
made that offer In haste, and to em-
phasise the protest against giving the
privileges away for nothing. Thurs-
Lonely Homes
A horns It Mvir complete without children.
Yet many homes are childless. Many wives are
desolate for the lack of a child to love; Their
lives are -aimless—void of the high motives of
motherhood. While barrenness is causing Incal-
culable sadness snd sorrow, it exists In most
cases on sccount of some little female trouble,
which Wine of Csrdul would speedily set right
This pure Wine regulates the disordered female
organs by building up the worn out nerves and
regulating the menstrual flow. It restores the
fallen womb to Its proper place. By strength*
enlng the generative organs, It makes. preg-
nancy possible where barrenness exists. You
can depend on
WINE'CARDUI
Suffering women all over the land have been
depending on It for seventy.flve years. No
more convincing proof can be given than- the
testimony of Mrs. Benson, who is only one of
thousands of women to whom Wine of Cardul
has brought • permanent cure. Many cases of miscsrriage—that trouble
which robs mothers of their hopes—have been avoided by timely use of the
Wine. You ere asked to try Wine of Cardul and Thedford's Black-Draught,
Its companion medicine. Nine out of ten cases of female trouble, barren,
ncss included, yield to them. All druggists sell $1.00 bottles of Wine of Cardul.
Vandervoort, Ark., April 2,1900.
which was followed by flooding. I read
your Almanac and my husband got me a bottle of Wine of Caraui
stopped my flooding and restored m;
cured after tal
Last May I had a miscarriage,
ir Almanac and my husband g< __
■topped my flooding and restored my fallen womb to its place. Now I am
" taking three bottles and have another to take which I got this
and it
morning. I am expecting to become a mother and Wine of Cardul will bo
my doctor. Mrs. MART L. BENSON.
For advice and literature, address, clTing symptom*: * The Ladles' Advisory
Department," The Chattanooga Medicine Company, Chattanooga Tenn.
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Nearly every user of a wagon in the South-
west knows that the Bain has for more than
half a century been the best that money could
buy. They know that quality has never been
sacrificed to meet the demand for a cheap wagon.
To those who are not informed, permit us to
say that Texas requires altogether a different
wagon than the old States. The extremes of
beat and cold and wet and dry render a wagon
considered first-class in the old states, worthless
in Texas; therefore, do not be deceived by flashy
paint, and the oily oratory of the dealer trying
to sell you an inferior wagon because there is
more money in it for him, but buy the Bain which only costs a little more thnn the inferior
wagons and is worth a great deal more to you. We also handle the O'Brien A James and Gra-
ham Wagons, made specially for Texas climate. Write us for circular and prices if you can't
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