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MUNCIPAL OWIRSHIP. "A Menace to Cities" (Prof. Few senden)-Prover i False Opin 1on. Editor The Herald and News: Setting aside assertions, the only argument of the professor in ")A Menace to Cities" is as follows: "A. danger which is always associated with the ownerahip of industrial un dertakings is that the capital in vested may ,e lost through the de velopment of new and oheapeL methods and processes." This might pass for a mere opin ion were it not backed by an illis tration, which places it under eon sideration, viz: "The Carnegie cm pany is reported, coreetly it is be lieved, to have scrapped on one oc casion more than $1,000,000 worth of new machinery which had never been used." A pertinent question suggeits it self right here: Mr. Carneg hav ing suffered such loss, did he keep on spending more money just for the fun of it? Or did it not pay to keep up the enterprise? Where Mr. C. loses one million he makes other millions. Then why should it not pay a city to pursue exactly the same plan and not suffer finan eially. It would require a very large city, e. g. New York, etc., to own plants comparable to Mr. Carnegie's,-ever to encounter such a loss as that, and smaller towns much less (if ever). Again, the neccessity does not ex ist for a city to throw away (scrap, any new machinery estimated to do its work efficiently. Not so with Mr. Carnegie who was in competi tion with others; for if he did not have the latest improvements he could be undersold and put out of business. A city working a plant for itself alone could afford to de lay getting the latest improvements. Notwithstanding the force of bis latter consideration, it fortunately happens that we know of a munici pality that did precisely 'as Mr. Carnegie is represented. It was Holyoke, Massachusetts. At the same time affording an illustration of perfect success, and excelling in efficiency of its lighting and electric power plant all the privately owned plants in Massachusetts. Th facts were given to the public in the Thrice-a-Week World (N. Y.) of Jan. 9. 1907. Nearly a column was taken up with it-a few extracts only can be given in our space. It is of Holyoke, M.assachutsetts as follows: "Under corporate ownership which terminated in November, 1902, the city of Holyoke paid $100.00 per year for an arc street light eosts the city now $60 per arc ih For. Sprains Sloan's Liniment is the best remedy for sprains and bruises. It quiets the pain at once, and can be applied to the tenderest part without hurting because it doesn't need to be rubbed -all you have to do is to lay it oa lightly. It is a powerful prepa ration and penetrates instantly relieves any inflammation and con gestion, and reduces the swelling. Here's the Proof. Mr. L. ROLAND, Bishop of Scran ton, Pa. says:- " On the 7th of this present month, as I was leaving the building at noon for lunch, I slipped and fell, spraining my wrist. I returned in the afternoon, and at four o'clock I could not hold a pen cil in my hand. I returned home later and purchased a bottle of Sloan's Liniment and used it five or six times before I went to bed,'and the next day I was able to go to work and use my hand as usual." SSloan's Liniment KilE is an excellent anti septic and g erni . killer- heals cuts, burns, wounds and contusions, and will draw the poison from sting of poi sonous insects. 25c., 50c. and $1.00 hor.es, eattle, ~hep 3. H Dr. Earl S. Sloan, per year." " To corporations and individuals the city of Holyoke furnishes elec tricity for heat, light or power, at a lower price than prevails in any other New England city or town." "The record of the past year ia the more noticeable because the concessions to users of gas and electricity, instead of being made possible by pulling, hauling and straining, are merely a conservative reflection of the splendid manage ment of the gais and electricity pl:nts.'" "Four years ago against the pro tests of powerful interests, Holyoke took over the gas and electricity plaits-paying there4or approA!-1 mately $1,000,000. The cost would have been less than $400,000, but Massachisetts' laws are not favor able to pu,blic ownership." We see then $600,000 "scrapped" at the very start. Besides which note the following: "The city was obliged to pay the corporations more than $500,000 for franchises which had been granted by the city without monetary con sideration." Another "serap" to begin with, making one of more than $1,100,000. This beats Carnegle's and that too by a city of less than 50,000 population. But that was not all: " The case had been in law sev eral years, in which time the corpor ate ownership of the plants had let them deteriorate to an extent which necessitated replacing immediately inach of the equipment which the city was forced to buy at an exorbi tant price." Making in all the equivalent of "scrapping" to the extent of about one and a half million dollars. Where then is the. profeesior's "Menace to Cities" because of having to buy new machinery at times? Holyoke has burst the ar gument as a bubble! And notwith standing the enormous unnecessary expenses incurred by the opposition of the corporations and the mayor and the State, splendid success fol lowed, and with cheaper service to the people. "In a general way the results of the past year may be summarized by stating that after paying all ex penses, meeting interest on- bonded indebtedness, setting aside the re quired amount in the sinking .fund, adding thousands of dollars worth of new equipment, and making due allowance for depreciation, t'h(re remains a considerable sum, which for want of more urgent regaike men.ts, has been set aside as profit and loss. " Thus far as to benefits to the public at large, but the motst beau tiful feature is left for the last, it stands out in bold relief against the greed of the privately owned, to wit: " The laborers of the 'department reieeivevd $2.00 for an eight hour day, where corporate management paid $1.50 for a ten hour day.'' Holyoke presents a graphic pic ture of the superiority of public ser vice, with the incentive of duty, over corporate management with the "incentive of great profits.'' Vidi. BEE~F T3UST INDICTED. Meat Barons to Be Tried for Ohdat ing the Puiblic.-6 Packing Concerns and 21 Packers. Nels York, Februaairy 25.--fhg Beef Trust of the United States, embracing six great packing compa nies and twenty-one packers, sev eral of them mu.lti-millionaires, so eially and industrially prominent, were indicted by a grand jury in Hudson county to-day, charged with conspiracy in limiting the supply of meat and poultry. The indictment is drawn under the law of New Jersey, which provides, upon conviction-, a maximum penal ty of three years in the penitentiary or a $1,000 fine, or both. The of fence is extraditable, which means that practically all the meat barons of this country must either success fully escape extradition or come to Jersey City for trial. Pierre Garven, the public prose entor of Hud&son county, annou.n eed to-night that he would forth with notify the defendants of the indictment, and would be ready to force eidradition in every ease where the individual concerned is not willing to face trial voluntarily. None, he says, will be spared. The deefndants as named are as follows: Corporations--The National Pack ing Company, Armour & Co., Swift & Co., Morris & Co., Hammond Pack ing Company, C. H. Hammond & Co. Individuals-J. -Ogden Armour, A. Watson Armour, Louis F. Swift, Edward F. Swift. Charles H. Swift, Edward Morris, Ira Morris, Arthur Mkr, Ewa Tien, L. A. Car ton, Thomas E. Wilson, Thomas J. Conners, F. A. Fowler, L. H. Hey man, James E. Bathgate, Jr., George J. Edward&, Frederick B. Cooper, D. E. Hartwell, Henry B. Darlington, A. A. Fuller, Lemuel C. Patterson. Morris Tried to Escape. Ira N. Morris sent a lawyer to Jersey City this week from Chi.ca go to inform Prosecuter Garven that he had retired from the directorate of Morris & Co., but nevertheless he was indicted. Frederick B. Cooper, James *E. Bathgate, George J. Edwards, D. E. Hartwell, H. B. Darlington and A. A. Fuller are 6aid to be officers and Eastern agents of the National Pack ing Company, while the others named are either -directors or offi cers or former directors or officers of the National Packing Company. Capiases for the arrest of all the defendants will be issued immedi ately, and the grand jury will re sume ite investigations on Wednes day next. Cooper is the New Jer sey manoger for Swift & Co. The indictment which bristles in its arraignment of the men named, also refers to "divers others" as be ing responsible. These, however, are not specified. HANGED AT LEXINGTON The Negro, "Coot" Lever, Execu ted for Attempt to Commit Rape. 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