The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-01-03
PURE MALICE.

The Railroad Commission act was
passed because 1t was known that the
people of this State were being oppress.
ed, despoiled and injured by the rail.
roads. It was passed because the roads
were guided in all their action towards
the public by the interests of the syndi.
Gates and chiefs Of corporations and dis.
regarded the principles Of law, Of buai.
ness, aud of justice. It was passed be.
cause the best thinkers of tho State saw
that the railroads were becoming the yir.
tual rulers aud masters Of the State and
the people and using their tremendous
power despotically and in arbitrary do.
fiance of all rules and circumstances. It
was passed because the Hon. E. B. Muir.
ray, Representative from AnasTsoa ssia
editor of the Anderson INTELLIGEEcER,
clamored and spoke for It In aud out of
season and expended all the force of his
mind, voice, experience and influence to
pass It: and because large number of
legislators who had come directly from
the people oSSyed the peoples com.
mand.
The commission bill was virtually 70.
pealed because ths railroads demanded
that it should be, aud enforced their de.
mapd with all the mysterious and com.
plex inhnences usual in such circpmatnD.
ces; because 1t was audden!y discovered
that the Commission was repelling some
hitherto unheard Of and still unknown
foreign capital; because Hon. E. B.
Murray. Representative from Anderson,
editor of the Anderson Intelligencer and
Director Of the Columbia & lGreeuville
Railroad, suddenly turned from the evil
OF his ways and urged its repeal diligent.
.iy, aad because nine colored members
and our esteemed Oharleston cotempora.
~ also reversed their political course and
discovered with remarkable unanimity
and enthusiasm that they bad been en-.
:irely wrong and altogether stupid. That
is the history In brief of the Railroad
Commission which now ought to be abol.
ished because 1t he's been made power.
less, useless and expensive:
This is purely personal malice on the
part of our Greenyille contemporary, for
there are at least ten other. as honorable
men as can be found in the State who
changed their votes upon the new rail.
road bill. Our contemporary will fnd
that Mr.. Murray is not the only railroad
director who changed his vote, but az.
other leading member Of the House
whois director in an important proiec.
ted railroad changed his vote, and still
Notwithstanding and influential member,
/ who hss been made president OF a pro.
jected railroad with which the Ns,os is
sequainted sincs the last session of. the
Legislature, also changed his yoso ii this
matter. The Neips, however. seeks TO
criticiss Mr. Murray alone. he can
etand 1t, for his. constituents favored a
more extensive curtailiug Of the railroad
ilsgislaticn than that forwhish Slr. MGR.
raySotei. The Ne,ps no doubt did mol
I favor any clttailfng Of ,the Comnission,s
. poWsrs Its bas tlst drawn s66, ,fosi n ei. 1.
yertisipg for The Commission during he
past fonr months. These adgeriisemants
fsere mainly The rates iof freiehts. and
our contemporary paid ths Regi:ssr for
supp a.aents and obtained d handsome
profit for simply folding these @ supple; III
Ssants with The daily Ne,rs and sending