THE SCRANTON TftlBUNE-i. WEDNESDAY MOE&tKG, DECEMBER 16. 1896.
Lively Times May Be
Expected in riichigah '
Governor-elect Pingree Tells of His Plans for
Radical Reforms in State Legislation and
Whets His Snickersnee for the Corporations.
From the Chicago Tlmes-Horuld.
Detroit, Dec 10. Governor-elect Pin
Kree hua Bald It. Michigan la tu be
battered this winter with the bullets
of reform, while the whole country
looks on at the battle. The famous
mayor-Rovernor has outlined his plan
of action and the coming tight between
him and his legislature will contribute
the moat Intensely Interesting chapter
in the history of commonwealth govern
ment In the United States.
Mr. JMngree . will go to Lansing
primed with several far-reaching and
radical measures that will profoundly
stir the people of the state and attract
the attention and Invite the study of
the nation. He has In meditation
many reforms calculated to draw pub
lic Interest to the snapping point of
ti'iislty. Ho proposes to apply corro
sive remedies to conditions long stand
ing and to ;ut an entirely new face
on inuny important matters that have
been accepted as permanent In the
past.
W ILL BE A HARD FIGHT.
In a word, the new governor will at
tempt to overturn completely much In
the business. Industrial and agricultur
al life of the state, and to do this
without delay. It will be a hard fight,
but Huzen 8. Filigree Is a ha id tighter.
To a correppondent of the Times-Herald
Mayor I'lugree outlined his plans
today. "Yes, sir," said he, "I'm going
to see to it that the people of Michi
gan get a 2-ccnt railroad fare. That
will be one number of my programme,
If yon choose to call It by that title.
I've said in my speeches that I stood
for 2-ccnt fares on the railroads, and
what I said I meant.
"You know, don't you, that the peo
ple that have plenty of money can ride
one-third cheaper In this state than
those that are poor? If a man has 120
to spare he can buy a 1,000-mile book
and ride for 2 cents a mile. But if he
Is poor the railroads make him pay !)
cents. Nice state of affairs. Isn't It?
Fine thing for the railroads, too, you
know.
"Did you ever stop to figure how
much ready cash this mileage system
gives a railroad? Supposing the Michi
gan Central has 10.000 mileage books
out. The people pay $200,000 for them,
don't they? Well, supposing they are
on an average half used up, that leaves
tlOO.ooo that the railroads keep ahead
of their patrons. They manage to keep
ahead of the game right along.
TWO-CENT FARES.
"They say they couldn't make a liv
ing on a 2-cent fare basis. I claim It
would be the best thing that could
happen to them. Let them get their
prices down to where the people can
alTord to ride and thev won't be slow
to get on the cars. They act scared
when I mention 2-cent fares, and say:
'Why, we'll have to have a receiver.
"We can't get along on a 2-cent fare.'
Now, thut's all bosh. How do they
know they can't? Thv never tried it.
I tell you the people want to ride, but
they can't afford to pay one-third
mure than their rich neighbors, so they
stay at home.
"Now, one of the best arguments I
have seen in favor of a 2-cent fare road
in Michigan is right to the point. It
was a road that sold a G00-mlle book
for H0. That's the Flint and Fere Mar
quette road. Why, I was never so as
tonished In my life as the day I struck
Saginuw and didn't have quite money
enough for a 120 book. The agent
told me he would sell me a fiOO-mile
book. I thought he was fooling me
at first, but he passed It out and 1 paid
for it.
"Now, If roads that sell transporta
tion for 2 cents a mile have to have re
ceivers, why doesn't the Flint and Pere
Marquette get one? And why doesn't
the Grand Trunk? They've been sell
ing tickets for any distance in the
state for 2 cents for several years now,
and the Englishmen that own the road
haven't asked for a receiver. It must
be this receiver business is an Ameri
can dodge a regular sharp Yankee
trick.
A POINT.
"And, do you know, the very day I
bought that &J0-n)lle book they sold me
a sleeping car berth a lower for $1;
clear from Saginaw Into Detroit, too.
Why, I was so astonished to see a rail
road corporation with so sensible ideas
I couldn't sleep! I remarked to the
porter that a fellow could afford to
take a whole section at that price, and
he took the breath away from me by
Buying that would not be necessary,
he would not let down th upper. I
might take the lower and pay for It,
and if any one came along wanting the
upper he would Just say it was taken,
and In the morning I could pay for It.
If no one wanted it I shouldn't have to
pay.
"That's the nearest thing to a cor
poration with a soul that I have ever
come across. I asked If the president
of the Flint and Pere Marquette was
not a Massachusetts man. You know
down there you can buy a 500-mile tick
et and a whole family may ride on It.
The agent told me I was right, the
president did live down east.
"I tell you this simply goes to show
that a railroad can do business profit
ably without fleecing the public. The
Flint and Pere Marquette railroad Isn't
every big system, you know, and I guess
If the 2 cents a mile with a GOO-mlle
book doesn't compel It to hire a re
ceiver and go bankrupt the Michigan
Central and some of the other roads
could do it. Two .cents a mile these
days, when all sortsof farm produce and
labor are so cheap, Is worth as much
to the railroads as 4 cents was twenty
years ago.
THE UPPER PENINSULA,
"Of course, you know the upper pen
insula la a little differently situated
than the lower, and the 2-cent Idea
would have to be made Into a 3-cent
fare up there. They charge 4 cents
there now. One of our legislators had
a bill last session to reduce the rates
to 3 cents, but the railroad lobbyists
got it on the side track, and It is there
yet. I'm going to shove It off this win
ter If I can. You see, the country is
pretty sparsely settled un there, and
they can't carry people so cheap as
they can down here."
LOWER FREIGHT RATES.
' The 2-cent fare Idea Is only the first
plan that Mr. Plngree hopes to get
into the form of law this winter. He
also expects to tackle the freight trans
portation matter. The governor wants
lower freight rates and no discrimina
tion. "It Is largely for the interest of the
farmers that I want to secure a law
regulating freight rates," said the
mayor-governor In discussing this
phase of his programme. "High freight
rate are an Injustice to them. Every
extra cent it costs to get the produce
to market Is so much Out of their pock
ets. Competition would do the work
If we had enough competition in rail
roading, but we haven't.
"When only one road runs through a
given territory Its freight charges are
fixed at the point where they think
they can bleed the people most without
the people kicking over the traces. The
very wheat and potatoes that are
shipped over'such a road have to com
pete In open market with wheat and
potatoes shipped over some railroad
that, through competition In transpor
tation, could charge only half as much
for carrying them. .
"Just let me Illustrate what I mean
about these freight discriminations and
show how they work. At Gladwin, this
state, this very year, it cost a farmer
MO a car to ship his wheat to uetroii.
It was the only line there was and
there was on escaping its greed. If it
had said $50 the farmers would hav4
had to pay It. But $40 was enough.
That road had a straight line to ue
trolt, no change of roads, and It charged
the enormous price of $40 a car. But
the Flint and Pere Marquette road
got an extension to within ten miles
of Gladwin, and now what do you
think It costs to ship a car of wheat to
Detroit? You would scarcely believe
that It is only 317. but It is true.
"Now, do you suppose for a minute
that the employes of the Michigan
Central were getting any more when
the road was drawing wheat for $40
a car than they are now with the
transportation at $17? Don't you think
so for a minute.
"In this connection I want to get a
law applying some of the principles of
the Inter-state commerce act of the
federal government. There are simi
lar discriminations between people and
cities In the state that there are along
roads runnier Into different states
and there ought to be similar remedies.
The Inter-state commerce commission
can't touch our state roads, but the
legislature can, and I want the legis
lature to do this very thing this winter.
VWhen there are two cities equally
distant from Detroit, there Is no reason
why transportation of freight should
not cost the same on either road. But
If one city has railroad competition
and the other has not; then you will
see a discrimination against the peo
ple and the city with only one road to
release their products."
TO TAX RAILROAD PROPERTY.
The third topic the governor took
up related to the taxation of railroad
property and corporation property In
general. It Is not third In Importance
with him. neither has It taken a back
seat In his advocacy of different re
forms. He spoke at some length un the
subject, as follows:
"Do you know of any legitimate rea
son why the poor laboring man should
pay city, county and state taxes on his
cottage and lot, while the big railroad
corporations pay no city taxes and get
off almost Bcot free from state taxes?
When I was down east a while ago
they looked at me in blank amazement
when I told them that our railroads
never paid any city taxes. There ought
to be a law to compel them to pay the
same rate of taxes on their assessed
valuation as any man pays on the val
uation of his property, say the furmer
or the laboring man.
"You know, the railroads of Michi
gan do pay a specific tax from 2 to 3
per cent., according to amount per
mile, on gross earnings. That money
goes into our primary school fund, al
though I don't suppose half the people
know what becomes of It.
PEOPLE IN FAVOR OF IT.
"I expect the railroads will squirm
like a worm that has been stepped on
when a bill calling upon them to do
their share toward maintaining gov
ernment comes up, but the people want
It. They have paid taxes for the cor
porations long enough. Why, we give
franchises to the roads and let them
cut across our country roads and our
streets, and everyone has to get out of
the way or get killed. What do we get
in return? Not a cent.
"They tell us It is for the public
good. Maybe it is, but It's pretty much
a private snap, too. We have been
hearing about equal rights to all and
special privileges to none for a long
time. I think we shall try to put It into
practical use at Lansing and see If we
can't squeeze a little money out of
the railroads to support the govern
ment. "And It Isn't railroads alone that
need attending to. There are other big
corporations that are sucking their ex
istence out of the people without giving
anything to tne government In return.
Do you know we exempt telegraph and
telephone companies from taxation Just
the same as we do churches? Too
bad about these fellows that own stock
In those corporations. They don't en
Joy life, you know, because they are
afraid of receivers and such things.
1 guess if we taxed them the same as
we do other people they would appre
ciate what the government does and
be more willing to pay for it.
AS TO STOCK WATERING.
"I want to see some measure that
will clip the wings of the trusts and
monopolies in this state. One such
measure should be a law prohibiting
stock watering and over-capitalization
and such schemes for enriching stock
and bondholders. Stock watering is
wrong, and it will never end In this
state till we have a law forbidding It.
I shall do my best to make Vanderbllt
pay as much taxes as plain people pay
or I shall make trouble.
CONSOLIDATION OF ROADS.
"This consolidation business Is a bad
thing when the railroads take it up.
They have gone and done it In the
street railway business In Detroit, right
squarely in the face of the constitution
of the state of Michigan, too. When
you have consolidation there are al
ways lower wages and higher rates of
transportation. The effect on mer
chants is seen in the lessened ability of
discharged men to buy goods. The
farmers feel It, too, and the railroads
suffer also. If they wee not so hard
headed they could see it. But they try
to get even through excessive rates.
Combinations of this kind contemplate
the least amount of work, the least
pay for labor and the greatest possible
charges.
"There Is not he slightest difference
between the Detroit street railways
and the Michigan Central and Lake
Shore reads, except In degree. Mr.
Vanderbllt owns the bulk of stock In
both of these railroads, against the ex
press provision of the constitution of
the state. If these roads were In com
petition, as they should be, there would
be the greatest number of men em
ployed, wages would increase and fares
and freight rates would come tumbling
down. Unfortunately, railroads are op
erated to aid speculation and overcap
italization. The money gained by ex
cess stock manipulation and mortgag
ing goes Into banking businesses and
transportation becomes a side issue
with most of them.
THE FARMER.
"State governments have created
possibilities that these shrewd corpor
ations have seized. By neglect on the
part of the state these burdens are
thrown on the producing class, espec
ially the farmer. I have alwavs
watched the farmer and guided my bus
iness according to his success. I think
farming is the most depressed business
In the country. We manufacturers
cannot expect to sell our goods till
the farmer sees better times.
"When I realize that all wealth comes
from labor it Is plain why there Is no
business in the country. The grent
army of people are consumers. All
wealth comes from the laboring man.
The schemer who sells watered stock
doesn't produce anything. We have
people In this city who have made mil
lions In three or four years, but the
sweat came from other people's brows.
It Is evident when 60,000 laboring men
In Chicago and 20,000 In this city are
out of employment why I can't sell my
products. . j
"I'm a trifle off my 4U but I'll get
back to it all right. What I' desire as
beneficial to all, the railroads Included,
Is to carry out the provisions of the
state constitution and. obtain the com
petition that Instrument calls for. It
Is a law that would be of benefit to the
railroads as well as other people and
prevent the wreck toward which bad
management la surely leading them, for
monopoly ends In wreck sooner or later.
"There must be a strict enforcement
of laws and constitutions made tor the
general welfare. There must be no op
pression of any class or corporation.
All must be subject to the same bur
dens. The word class should never be
used. In the great human family there
should be no favorites. Even the
semblance or shadow of oppression
must cease to exist."
TO REFORM THE PRIMARY.
One of the most important measures
that Governor Plngree will father in'
the legislature will be a primary elec
tion or caucus law that has been for
some time a hobby with him.
"Yes, sir," said the governor-elect,
"you may say that I am going for that
law. There ought to be a change.
There's too much trouble, crookedness
and expense connected with the pres
ent system. We can't have a conven
tion but the smoke of jobbery rises
right away. It costs us here In Detroit
several thousand dollars for every con
vention, and each party has to have
one lefore each election, you know.
"There Is not much to my plan, but
here you have It: I want all candi
dates, for whatever party voted for,
chosen on the same day and at the
same time. Any man wanting to run
for alderman should have his name put
on the ticket as a Republican and the
Democrats as Democrats, just as we
do In elections now. The regular elec
tion commission should take care of
the work. The voter would take his
ballot. Just as he does now under out
Australian system, and mark It for
those he wished to vote for. He could,
of course, vote for only one candidate
for each office, and If he marked two
names he would lose his vote entirely.
CANDIDATES BEAR THE COST.
"All there Is to It. is that the go-as-you-please
caucus would be done away
with. Every party would nominate Its
candidates on the same day and every
man would have an equal show if he
wanted to run for office. The cost of
the caucus or nominating election
might be borne by a fee charged upon
each candidate to pay printing ex
penses and so forth.
"Don't vou see that we should not
need any packed conventions? Every
man would be his own delegate and
there would be no chance to carry a
convention by buying up a few votes
for a small price. It would simply b?,:
determined which man of a party was
the man wanted to run for the office. '
I tell you It's a sure cure for $ good
deal of the caucus Jobbery that bothers
us and that makes our present system
so odious to good people.
"In connection with that, there's an
other matter that ought to be attend
ed to by the legislature, and that Is
this matter of coercing Voters by meth
ods Ihut are not just right. You know
these big quasNpublic corporations,
and some that are not quasi-public, but
Just as big and powerful, often take
advantage of a laboring man's depend
ence upon them by gently suggesting
to him for whom he shall vote. Such
tacit force is unbecoming an Amerlcnn
institution and a law to stop It should
be passed at once."
VOTE ON FRANCHISES.
Municipal legislation affecting De
troit is looked for at the coming ses
sion of the legislature. Much of it will
be purely of local importance, and a
majority of people are as much inter
ested In It as is the mayor. But one
thing he does advocate and will
try to get a measure thereon through
the legislature, and that refers to the
passing of the people themselves on
valuable franchises given to corpora
tions such as street railway companies
or llenting concerns.
"It should be fixed," said Mr. Pln
gree, "so that the people would have
a chance to pass their opinion after
their representatives, the aldermen get
through with their work. There Is a
good deal of Jobbery among the latter
in such matters, and often an objec
tionable clause that would do the peo
ple millions of dollars' worth of harm
goes through greased by the applica
tion of a few hundreds In sliver. Give
the people opportunity to kill any such
legislation.
"Yes, it Is the referendum applied In
a special case, but, then, that is noth
ing new. Here a year or two ago we
voted whether we should have free text
books or not. It's on a similar princi
ple. It's plain what I mean without
any further explanation.
FEDERALISM IN CITY RULE.
"Yes, I am In favor of the federal
system of city government, making the
mayor the direct head of all affairs,
with the commissions, like the public
works and lighting board, directly re
sponsible to him. As it is, our munic
ipal business is disjointed, because a
half dozen disconnected commissions
have charge of them. But under the
federal system, the heads of all would
meet weekly, or at stated Intervals,
for conference, and all parts-of the
municipal service would have a connec
tion that would be beneficial to it.
There would be a definite responsi
bility to the mayor, and he In turn
would shoulder the load of responsi
bility to the people."
The fourth class of legislation that
the new reform governor will attempt
will be rather negative In character. It
refers to many statutes on the books
of the state that are practically dead,
or worse than dead, repealed by the
will of the people, though not by law,
and standing dally as violated laws,
a reproach to the community.
"I want to get rid of some of those
old laws." said the governor-elect, "for
they don't do any good, filling .up vol
ume after volume of statute books,
forceless and forgotten. There are too
many of them lumbering up the stat
utes, and I want to see to It that some
of them are repealed and taken off the
books. I can't specify, but everybody
knows that the statute booty are full
of them. It will be simply a cleanlng
up process. That's all."
HOW THE LEGISLATURE STANDS.
Mr. Plngree's election to the chair of
the governorship was a distinct expres
sion of the people's will. His plurality
was some 83,000 votes, and this is taken
as an indorsement of his reform meth
ods by the people of the state. He is
not allied with corporate concerns, but
Is peculiarly Independent of them. He
owes not an lota to the corporations or
trusts of the state for his election, for
they opposed him with all their pow
er. If anything, he will enter office op
posed to their Interests and favorable
to legislation that will trim their edges.
The great farming element and la
boring men. all of whom cast their
votes for his election, are united In ex
pecting great things that will redound
to their industrial Interests from Mich
igan's coming governor. "There'll be
great times in Lansing this winter," Is
a common expression in street corner
talk, and the "you bet" that Invariably
follows in renly. Indicates that there
Is wonderful unanimity of opinion as
to the legislative din that Is to be
raised.
And Governor Plngree Is not going
to disappoint any one. When he Is
asked for his programme to be fol
lowed In the legislature he refers his
questioners to his speeches made dur
ing the campaign.
No one expects that the governor Is
going to have his own way In matters
of legislation. There Is not a particle
of doubt, that the opposition will be the
strongest that a governor ever encoun
tered in trying to bring about legisla
tive reforms. Out of the thirty-two
members of the upper house it Is cer
tain that half are opposed to what Is
distinctly known and recognised as the
Plngree machine.
The mayor's greatest political enemt
In state politics is Senator William G. i
Thompson, of Detroit, who was re
elected after one of the most strenuous
rights of the state campaign. Without
doubt he will try to clip the governor's
wings, although he says he will support
any Plnsree measures) that command
his good sense. Arrayed with Mr.
Thompson are some blue bloods and a
coterie of old-timers in the senate, who
will without doubt be united In oppos
ing many Plngree reforms.
However, the mayor will have some
fighting material in the upper house.
From Detroit there will go to that body
Senator C. W. Moore, who has served
In the lower house, and who has served
as comptroller of the eity of Detroit.
He will be the exponent of Plngree
Ideas, and there will gather at once
around him a considerable element in
sympathy with the reform ideas of the
new governor.
CONDITIONS OF THE HOUSE.
In the house, which is looked upon as
more nearly reflecting the feeling of
tne people at large, there will be no
small opposition to Plneree reforms.
Nothing more Is expected of the old-
time members, who are in sympathy
with the McMillan machine, than that
they will make all possible trouble for
the new governor. It is Impossible to
reflect at all closely the opinions of the
lower house before Its organisation or
to determine with an accuracy the Pln
gree elements.
This situation, with the senate al
most certain to be anti-Plngree and the
lower house uncertain, is just what Is
sure to make a lively session, for It
means opposition, and the more oppo
sition the mayor-governor has the
harder and often the more effectively
he tights. Some of his municipal fights
were made against the biggest odds
and out of them came his greatest vic
tories. HOPE OF THE PINGREEITES.
If the governor cannot liuve his way
In legislative matters he will leave no
room for doubt In the minds of the
people that the legislature and not him
self Is to blame. And right In that
point lies a birr post of reliance for the
Plngree adherents. They say that
even though the legislature be strongly
opposed, to Mr. Plngree personally and
politically, its members will not dare
to rlv Into the face of the people In
openly fighting some of the reforms
that he has so assiduously preached,
In and out of season. They argue that
no representative wiH want to go to
his constituents and face their anger
after a vote adverse to their Interests,
given just because the measure in Is
sue was the product of Mr. Pingree's
reform propaganda.
Perhaps this view Is correct. At any
rate there is no doubt that the per
sonal hatred of Mr. Plngree In the leg
islature will make some Interesting sit
uations certain, while the pro-Pingree
members will see to It that he has good
fighting lines for his reform attacks on
the corporations.
The mayor will scarcely acknowledge
that he has any legislative "pro
gramme." This is the way he prefers
to state it: "I have some Ideas that I
want to see made into law, but I have
no programme."
The Plngree programme, in brief, as
can be seen from the foregoing. In
cludes proposed legislation of five sorts:
Taxing corporate property as other
property is taxed, exercising the right
of the state to fix maximum rates of
fare and freight, amendments to cau
cus laws looking to the abolition of
the convention system, giving Michi
gan cities the right to purchase and
own street railway tracks, and the ref
erendum in cities for the final adoption
of important franchises.
What the people of the state, who
are primarily responsible for the big
Plngree majority, will look for will be
laws controlling more effectively the
giant corporations, especially the rail
roads. The farmers are pretty unan
imous In thinking the railroads Impose
upon them, and there are thousands
besides the farmers who want lower
fares, and these the mayor-governor
stands for almost before anything else.
NMV STORY OF MR. BEECHER.
How the Preacher Won the Harm
. Regard of Two Irish Girls.
From the New York Tribune:
Here Is a new story of Henry Ward
Beecher, which illustrates better than
many well-known anecdotes of the
great preacher his ready sympathy,
cheery good humor and love for un
usual incidents.
About ten years ago i. young Irish
woman named Bridget Dowd, employ
ed as a servant in one of the families
In the Heights district, sent to the old
country for her cousin, who wanted to
try her fortune In the New World.
The cousin came accordingly, landed
In New York, and came over to Brook
lyn to And the address she had receiv
ed. She reached the Heights, finding
her way by asking strangers, but when
she had arrived there she could not
find the street In which her cousin liv
ed. The longer she wandered about
the streets the more hoDelessly In
volved she became. Finally, In despair,
the determination to ring the door be.l
of the nearest house, and ask.
She did so, and the door was opened
by a noble-looking old man, with a
magnllieent physique and wavy white
hair. She asked him the address, but
instead of answering her he asked In
a kindly way what she wanted. En
couraged by his manner, the young
Immigrant told him her troubles, and
explained why she wanted the ad
dress. "Well," said he, "you Just wait till
T get my hat, and I'll go along and
show you the way."
In a moment he reappeared, and the
strange couple started off together. As
they walked, he asked her all about
herself, and her life and troubles In
the old country, and she told him ev
erything. They chatted together like
eld friends, and the young woman, de
lighted as she was with her new friend,
could not understand the reason of the
puzzled glances that met them from
every one whom they passed.
At last they stopped before a hand
some house, and the old man said:
"You stand here at the gate, while I
ring the bell." He then went down
to the basement door, when the sen-ant
girl appeared at the door, and asked:
"Pets Bridget Dowd live here?"
"Yes, sir," said the servant; "she's
the upstairs girl."
"Well," said the visitor, chuckling to
himself, "will you kindly tell her that
Mr. Beecher would like to see her?"
The girl carried the message upstairs,
but on the way she met some of the
members of the family, to whom she
told the astonishing thing that had oc
curred. "What!" said one of the ladles. "Mr.
Beecher at the basement door? How
dreadful! Why didn't you ask him to
the front door? Go right down, you
foolish girl, and apologize to him, and
ask him to come to the other door."
But Mr. Beecher firmly refused , to
budge from the basement door. . He
wanted to see Bridget Dowd, and' in a
few minutes that young woman, much
flustered at the honor that was being
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