The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-05-17

TO CREATE A PRfvILEDGED CLASS OF
CORPORATIONS, PROTECTS ALL
THE OLD ROADS.
THE LEGIsLATURE PowERLEss TO IMPOSE
TARIFF RESTRICTIONS ON ONE GLASS
OF RAIL ROADS AFTkB HAVING
GRANTED CHARTER EXEMP-
TONS TO ANOTHER GLASS.
Another stroug protest is published
from East Mississippi, in another column
against what we are prone to believe was
an unprecedented declaration of ouI
worthy contemporary the Aberdeen FIX
SIMMER, that the Democracy of East
Mississippi does not regard the question
of corporation supervision as question
of politics. If our contemporary had
referred to the proceedings of the Con-
vention of 1877, and read the names OF
the Committee that unanimously re-
ported the resolution declaratory of the
doctrine of supervision, he would have
hardly risked making the statement
The denial of the Examiner, and the i'm
piled intention to strike it out of the
platform-or what is equally bad-to
ignore it's awakening deep feeling
among the people.-JackSon Clarion.
This other "strong protest" like the
anonymous communications that have
preceded it on the same subject in the
Clarion, lacks every element of strength.
It seems as though the advocates of
Corporation supervision" as our able
contemporary calls it, deem the submits
sion of facts, figures and arguments en-
tirely superfuous in their appeals to the
reading public, and therefore utterly
ignore their use aud fall back upon
rhetoric alone IN the presentation of
their case--a cause that can not be bet
ter bolstered never yet had chance to
win.
The Clarion is mistaken If it believes
our declaration on this subject "unpre
meditated," for the confidence of the
EXAMINER in the soundness of its posi-
ton is based upon its high appreciation
of the intelligence and good judgment
Of the people of the Commonwealth and
while it recognizes the fact that there
are many men of ability among the m
who have ridden this hobby of estate
Supervision of Rail Roads" until the
rider and the hobby have become so
assimulated that prejudice has displaced
Judgment and the horse and his rider
are as near one flesh as the Aztec imag>
ined his Spanish enemy to be; 1t knows
OF many who were once, under other
circumstances, imbued with those views,
who have since abandoned them, and it
has faith that the great mass Of land
owners and thoughtful, progressive men,
are arraying themselves upon the other
side, which Is THEIR OWN SIDE.
As to the resolutions of the convention
of 1877, We only attach the Importance
to them that we give to those OF 170S;
six years is long time in this progress
sive age, and we prefer in all our sailing
nowadays to keep steady in the clear
channel, ever mindful oil the fact that
the sands are shifting and the bars are
forming. and that he is poor pilot who
8 ;eers his craft by ancient charts or old
time soundings.
And the Clarion must recognize one
fact that appears to escape its usually
keen observation, and that is, the De- !
mocracy of East Mississippi and of Mis-
Bissippi generally ignore politics and
political platforms ill all discussions and
actions that involve the building up of
the State. Here, and we presume else
where in the Commonwealth, We meet
upon common ground when called upon
to consider gu stions of material pro-
gress, and our whole people, Democrats,
Greenbackers and lnde-
pendents fall into line, and stand
shoulder to shoulder in the good fight;
and the D, mocrat who under such cir
cumstances wuu d attempt to quote par
agraphs from the platform of his party
TO the sturdy line would be considered
as much out of place as grave digger
at ball or a divorce lawyer" at a
wedding.
But after all, there is no fight over
this plank of the platform of 1877, for
there is no man who denies that "cor-
porations are supelvisable by the Legis~
lature, within Constitutional limits, in
the interest, and for the protection of
the people," TO deny it man would
convict himself of rank idiocy, for the
clause was so constructed as to preclude
denial by any man who has sense enough
10 recognize the fact that Legislature
,an do anything sin the interest, and for
Bhc protection of The people" that will be
",cHhtn Constitutional hmIs' II is not
a question of power or ability at all, but
simply of policy, and all that the plat
form of 1877 declared, if 1t declared any.
thing, WIS that the Legislature had the
power to pass constitutional laws, if
such laws We're regarded as polite and
necessary for the supervision OF corpor-
atoms, and this power every sensible
nan comedies, aud 1t was conceded alike
by his friends and his opponents when
IN 1877 Hon. j. NJ. Stone was over
elected Governor of the
State upon a platform acknowledging
hat power, though every man who voted
or him knew Us positively as he knew
Inything, that Stone was. opposed to its
exercise aud would veto any bill that
VAS calculated to discourage railroad
,uilding in a State that was languishing
or lack of transportation facilities, and
hat had not dividend earning railroad
within its limits.
The Clarion in another editorial in its
ssue of May End, says:
''We will nd further that there is no
lse kicking against the pricks. II has
;ot to come. The People have demand