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iW ALBANY EVENIN8 TRIBUNlUB TUIBUNB COMPANY. rUBUBHSWSiPJPICP, E© FEAS1. STBBET.IPER PACKARD.EDITORMMTM* otUMjMMdtfUe at A«* Atbam*. Ind.TERM OF SUBSCRIPTION.Aly Trlbana, OaUvarad, 10 oanta • weak.aly Trlbana, ona yaar, In advanoa------M Mdly Tnmii, six months, in adaanoa.. i Ti jiy Trllmna.thraa months,In adaanoa, 1H iiy Trlbana, ana month, In adranoa.„ tc tor club* of taa m aztra copy will baaaattzaa UHUttM.lt;0 aztra ebari* foe papata aaat by bzU taaaj rtof tbaOaltadSaaaaaI'O BOBSCRIBEBS. loha W. ■ ondaoa, baa ebarga of tbadrcoba lOftbaN KNIHU TK1BUWB In Haw Albany Pba pal ,a of tha earrtaa boya wUl plaaaa ba idyto yayary Batardaj oalaaa aaothaa day la aoa 4.for an fat tha EVEN INS TBIBUBE by gtrtng it cuna to a carrier boy, by ordarlag It at tha Its, or by dropping a aota U tha poatofflea. Vhaaaaar any aabaorlbar to tha THIBUM, raad by the carriers falla to racatra tha papar lat tha fact will ba promptly mada known at tha lea. Wa daatra o. orraet all inch omtmtona 4 praaant thalr Ms jrrenca.MONDAT, JANUARY 14.ime any this world lg a bad, bad world.Bnt lt’a always been good to me;1th Its errors there live dear hearts that forgive.And hope for the things to be, ils world Is not old or cold;This world is not sad or bad; you look to the right, forgetting the night, And say to your soul, “Be glad.” —Ez.We sell the thrones of angels for a short id turbulent pleasure.—Emerson.The president is reported to be very toomy over the flaancial outlook. The iport is probably true. There is nothing irticnlarly bright or encouraging in le situation. Congress is not likely to use any relief legislation. More gold mat be had in a very short time and it in be had only by issuing 5 per cent mds. And when the time comes that le bonds will not sell, what then?.Can anybody tell what the administra-on of Preeident Cleveland would have me daring the last six months to reeve the empty treasury, if it had not sen for a law passed long ago by the Re nblicans, which now has to be made use f ostensibly to keep up the gold reserve, sally to pay current indebtedness? To ive the treasury from utter collapse the icretary le compelled to resort to epublican enactment.EEDFUL GOOD ROADS LEGISLATION.The Tbibune today presents the follow-ig extracts from the address of Hon. hn A. Stotaenburg delivered before is association for the Improvement of ghways at Indianapolis on the 8th ist“Oar road system Is a relic of feudal-m. I had almost said of barbarism, sstracted first by some of the older ates from England and France, where embodied the principle of compulsory ad labor by the vassal to expedite the issage of the feudal lord and his men , arms on their wandering and fighting ipeditious. In process of time it was irrowed by our law makers.“It is as much a curse to Indiana, as ir years has been that other silly, op-'essive mediaeval system prevalent In lis state of taxing steamboats and other ater craft for the privilege of lauding ; the wharves of the cities and petty wns of the Ohio River border. Cities id townships have heavily and almost lextrlcably burdened themselves with *bt and taxes; and their enterprising abllc spirited citizens have made and ■e always ready to make donations of ts and depot sitee to induce a railroad i come into, or even pass tbrongb the ty or township, bnt from the force of mg habit, withont reason, and in directitnarnninm tn thflir nvn inforaflta. thftplaining, the patient, the paying public are entitled to better roads than neighborhood roads. I detest the phrase— neighborhood roads—so often used as applied to pnblic roads. Pablic roads are not for the neighborhood merely; they are for the general pnblic of the state and nation; they are for the nse of all the people, rich or poor, mile or female, yonng or old, president or panper. As the public demand and have a right to demand that a railroad shall be equipped with the very best road bed. ties, steel rails and appliances;! to insnre the comfort and safety of the traveling public, so the pnblic demand and are entitled to the very beet roads that the taxes levied on the property of the people can give us.‘Contemporaneously with the abolition of the forced labor and commutation or working ont system, connty boaTds shonld be required to employ a skilled person to make a survey and plan of all the public roads with profiles where that ha9 not been done; and then nnder their supervision a system of construction and repair should be adopted and adhered to. Perhaps the connty surveyor’s office onght to be dignified with that dnty at a decent and respectable salary. Certainly the great schools of the state can supply engineer graduates competent for such work. There is no reason why a connty engineer shonld not be as bright and skilled In road making as a city engineer. There is no reason why the farmers shonld not have brains and skill provided to aid them in tbe art of road making as the denizens of cities now have.”Yes, ’tis true;Foley’s Honey snd TarIs the best Cough Medicine. C. D. Knoefel, druggist.Co-opcralion Unawares.Much noise has been made about cooperation, government ownership of railroads and telegraphs and of other industrial enterprises of interest to the whole pnblic.But meantime, withont any flourish of trumpets or great announcement of what was to be done, there have already grown up several vast and successful financial organizations established by the people themselves and run wholly on the mutual benefit plan. One of these that may bo mentioned is the Mutual Life Insurance company. As a matter of fact, it has no stockholders, none at all There are no dividends to be satisfied such as most corporations pay. The company was organized, probably without a thought that it would signally illustrate tli6 power of co-operhtion, yet that is precisely what it docs. The Mutual Life company has a capital of $100,000,000. It has officers who un doubtedly get large salaries. These manage its affairs. But aside from these it is run by the people themselves for their own benefit. They pay the money and get the insurance. The officers transact the business of the organization and see to it that surplus funds are invested safely and wisely.Savings banks and building and loan associations tho country over are another brilliant illustration of nnion for their own benefit among the plain, intelligent people of this country. The people put their savings into theso banks and draw a small interest tboreon. They expect the officers to invest the money so that it will justify such interest. The savings banks are practically run by the people themselves. Hundreds of millions of capital are invested in them. Thousands of individuals of the very best class in this or any country have been enabled by them to build homes and become comfortably well off in their old ago.Consider the vast moneyed interests involved in tho building and loan associations, called in Massachusetts the “people’s banks.” Their officers until very recently worked altogether without pay, simply for honor and out of good will. Now small pay is given to certain officers. Since the beginning of tho nineteenth century no economic system has been devised which lias conferred such benefits mi tv.-ge earners as thoy have done. Yet thebe who organized them never dreamed tiiev were for-
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New Albany Tribune
New Albany, Indiana, US
Mon, Jan 14, 1895
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