The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-10-11
SENATOR DANIELS VIEWS.
What BE Thinks Of The Railroad Laws In
Virginia.
1 PART OF his MANCHESTER SPEECH.
a Column Of Interesting News From the
City on the Other Side of the River.
Briefs and Personal Points.
MAScHys1Er BurEAU RICHMOND TINES,
Corner Fifth and Porter streets.


There was q great deal of talk on the streets
yesterday about the eloquent address by Hon.
John W. Daniel Of the night before. Lack OF
space yesterday forbade full report of tho
Grafton. Below is q verbatim report Of that
portion of tho speech which pertained to the
railroad subject, which at the present time
is commanding so much attention. Major
Daniel said: The man in New York, with
icicles on the caves Of his house, enjoys the
luscious orange just plucked from the tree in
Florida. In Richmond you can have the ice
berg from Maine on your breakfast table in
| August or July.
Railroads and corporations are granted
great privileges. IL you or were to start
I dry goods store or a land agents ONCE IL
don't think We want to start land agents
| Office Just now or any other kind of thing
We must buy piece of property II We can
stand upon our own hook. Every man IN
possession Of his own property is monarch.
| But for public purposes any man 5 property
can be taken, and the railroad or the corpora
ton can come along and 60 through your
property by paying you a fair price. IL IS en-
trusted with part of the kingly or sOver-
eign power of the State and being entrusted
with it, it is under the surveillance and guar
dianship of the State. Whether it be of iron
common law. the kings highway IN this
country the people are the kings and II Is the
peoples highway; it is the servant Of the pso-
pie.
THE DEMOCRATIC PANTY.
The Democratic party in Virginia has al
ways shown, with references TO railroads and
everything else. that it IL not subyerslve to
good order; that it wants to build up, and
in everv case in which there has arisen ques-
bstu Ia rafir and
has always appealed to the great touchstone
of Justice. Let that be the solvent of all our
difficulties when you come t. decide cues
ton between money and poverty. between
railroad aud shipper Ju,tice-that is the
greatest principle that ever resided in the hui
man heart because it is tho resultant of clear
understanding and of wise and honest deal
Eight or ten years ago il you had been
killed on railroad it would not have done
you a bit of good. and IL would not have done
your wife any good unless you were very shah
by fellow. But to-day you can Just get killed
on the first railroad that comes along, if you
want TO, and the railroad will be bound, If it
was mes igcnt in killing yOu-or any other
transportation company-to pay $4,000 to take
care of your wives and little ones. Isn't that
right? ] say is right because if wrong has
been done that has caused a loss OF life he
that has done the wrong should be response
be-
HELP THE SCHOOLS.
Some eight OF ten years ago there was great
trouble in this Commonwealth about your
public schools: there were many obligations
and little to pay them with new railroads
came into existence and the wisest men of the
State cot together to see what they could do
in the midst of these troubles. Amongst
other things they found that there wa no
railroad in the Commonwealth that paid a
I'LL. - 20 ha tia
protected them. If a man put rail across
the track to throw the train off the county
sent its officers there and arrested him and
put him in Jail and if q man sought to
burn depot or iniure railroad in any
way the county protected 1t. Now the Dem
ocratic Legislature met and they said that
railroads should pay taxes-equal rights TO all.
special privileges to none. At once stream
flowed into every county of this Common.
wealth OF taxes wherever there was a railroad
or transportation company. Wasn't that
right? Now you may depend upon the Dem
ocratic party to deal with the problem Of
TRANSPORTATION as they have dealt with every
thing else. with that spirit of economy which
will solve the difficulty and render 10 every
man his dues This question OF transpOrta-
ton is one of the most important questions
OF modern times.
THE RIVERS.
The rivers of the country used TO build the
cities. from Babylon to the Euphrates. and
from London on the Thames. and from Paris
on the Seine. from Washington on the Poto-
mac. from Norfolk at the mouth of the sea TO
Richmond and Lynchburg on the James. all
these old cities, from Thousands wears back
to the day Of our own boyhood. were built by
tho rivers. Why did the river put the city
there, and there and there; Ii WAS because
the river could move something IL could take
tho ships across tho ocean and bring them
way up here: pas enger could float out on
the great doep asleep and could float back.
Now electricity and steam. tho steel rail. the
iron horse has come and 10. man has built for
himself iron rivers that climb up over the top
OF the mountain that tunnel through the
mountain as straight as al arrow. that jump
across the rivers that climb the hill and cross
the dale and lol behind these iron rivers are
the builders OF modern time IL is therefore
necessary that law should have its eye TO the
iron river and SEQ that il dispenses justice. as
tho great highway of commerce, to all who
have dealings with il.
BLESSINGS.
II is not your interest, nor the interest Of the
farmer nor the merchant, nor the mechanic,
to deal harshly with these iron rivers they
have been great blessings TO mankind The
steel rail is an evangelist carrying the gospel
of peace all over this country. / have often
thought that if the railroad system with our
nation had begun fifty years ago we
would have had no war. Ii you
could have taken oil the people
OF this country and put them in one vast bag
and shaken them up and down so that they
could have seen one anothers faces and
dropped some Nirginians IN New England
and some New Fnglanders here. and some
South Carolinans out West and some Da-
kotans here. there would have been no war
men who would have compared their opin-
ions and would have settled by the comfy
of peace that which WAS settled by the arbl-
trament of the sword. The man who was in
Dakota is in New York to-day: the man
who was in New Orleans day before yester az
is in Richmond to-day. The Yankee and the
Southsrnsr. the HoosIer and the far Western
man have come together. We are getting
here III this great American republ OF ours a |
new people. with courage aud intelligence |
and wisdom in their faces to settle difficulties
without bloodshed and without the lead of
grape and the wine OF gore.
CHLsTLHTIrLD MARRIAGES.
Mr.. William Farewager and Miss Rosa b.
Perdue were married Thursday night by Rev.
i. J. Nettles at the residence of the brides
iather Air. n. Is. Perdus. in Chesterfield |
county.
The ushsrs were J. I. Barewager. brother
of the groom. Austin Lush. D.. A. Hecher |
j. ii. Wilkinson 3. +. Patram. L. Il. Chill |
dress, A. J. Gill, and G.. L. Perdus, brother |
of the bride.
Alter the marriage ceremony was over the |
company partook OF . tine supper and were |