“The comparative smallness of the increases
in casualties due to coupling and uncoupling
cars, and in accidents to men on the tops of
freight cars, is undoubtedly due in large meas
ure to improvement in the maintenance and
care of automatic couplers and to the in
creased use of air brakes on freight trains.”
Is it any wonder that the people, from one
end of the country to the other, are so stirred
up over the railroad question?
If the proper equipment of safety appliances
will prevent accidents of one kind, other safe
ty appliances will prevent accidents of another
kind.
The railroad officials know this, but they
know it is cheaper to murder people than pay
for proper equipment, so they continue to do
MURDER.
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Florida, Louisiana and Alabama are calling
extra sessions of their Legislatures. Those
states want things done. In Georgia, however
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Clearing House Certificates amount to a
forced loan—forced from the public by the
banks. The banks have the people’s money,
and when the people want their own money
they have to accept the banker’s note. Thus the
banker compels the depositor to lend his mon
ey to the bank when the depositor needs it
himself. Thus a Clearing House certificate
is the same as a loan exacted by force.
Such a thing is in violation of law and some
of the criminals should be brought to justice.
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There is much talk of “restoring confi
dence.”
How can confidence return when the banks
are acting this way?
They can find money to lend to Wall street
at from 50 to 200 per cent, but they cannot
find money to pay back to the millions of
wage-earners and ordinary business men the
actual cash which those depositors entrusted
to the bank.
