The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-03-25

In submitting tae estimates for
the fiscal years Of 1898, 1891. and
1895 this office declined to include
the item Of special facilities" for
reasons heretofore stated.
He got tired Of stating them. He
has stated them here twice. This
time he simply calls attention to the
fact that he has already stated them.
Then what does he say under i'll
That the Department declines to rec
ommend the appropriation. But
that very year Congress voted it with
out one particle of evidence, with the
Post Office Department askirg the
Government not to waste the money.
Now, here We have q deficit OF
Sc, 900, 900. We have been talking
to- day about how to make both ends
meet, and yet here is where the
Postmaster 6 General shows you are
throwing away that much money.
Then why do we vote iti
Mr.. President, here is the Post
master Generals report for 1898.
He says:
In submitting estimates for the
fiscal year l89394. 1895 -9G, this Office
has declined to include the item of
special mail facilities for the reasons
heretofore stated.
He was tired of stating them. He
stopped stating them. He simply
calls attention 10 the fact that he
has stated them, and stated them,
and stated them. What does he say
right under it9
mo estimate is submitted by this
Department for the next years for
those facilities"
because it is unnecessary it is waste
of money; it is an annoyance to the
Department. A former Postmaster
Generals report stated that if ever
there was any necessity for this ap-
preparation in the beginning, it was
like having a protective tariff for in
fant industries; but after they were
grown and able to stand On their feet,
he did not think they needed what in
FAINT industries needed, and therefore
he declined to recommend it.
| lean understand how some Sena-
tors who live along the line of these
railroads may have been made to feel
by arguments presented to them by
persons whom they know connected
with the railroads that this would be
a great accommodation to them and
would help them in many ways.
can understand how they could bemade
J to feel kindly toward the roads, help
ing it as a business proposition, prob
ably. No doubt a great many Sena
tors have voted for this without evel
reading the Postmaster G Generals re-
port No doubt their only infOrma
tion was what was stated to them b!
persons who were their friends, ant
l.. who were the presidents Of these road
or connected with them. A man nat
/ urally would feel kindly to road run
: ming through his State and woul'
f be willing to help the road if b.
9 thought he could add some facilitie
to the people living in the State. Thi
line runs through North Carolina. l
) the Postmaster-Genera was to sa
? that this appropriation was neces
q sary, or if there were data and fact
>, offered to show it was necessary t
!, improve the mail facilities of my Stat
/ and the States below it and above il
+ then I should be one of the first t
q vote for it, if was convinced it wa
g necessary. But the facts are all to tn
= contrary.
l. Mr.. President, these railroad cOrpt
rations stepped in the last campaig
% over the dead line that business col
IS porations, that public corporation
It should not dare to step over in a fire
" country. These railway corporation
. . owning great public franchises, thes
railway corporations exercising gres
public functions that touch the we
fare of every business as we'll as a
re most every individual in the cOuntr
al instead of keeping themselves With
TO the lines of their business as busine
te corporations, performing public Sc
If vice and receiving the protection
~ the law-what did they do? They e1
- tered the last campaign as a ward pol
81 tician or heeler would enter it for h
20 man. They have grown great ar
ne powerful, rich and fat, off of the su
stance of the land. Our people ha'
a felt so kindly toward the railroad
Ill every State has felt so kindly towal
r. them, we have been so anxious to e.
+o tend them, to broaden their lines,
~ have them ramify every section of o
y country, that We have granted almo
90 any and every thing that they ha
od asked. We have granted them cha
at ters with unusual and startling pri,
it leges, we have voted them subsIdl
er bonds, help, protection, as no 9th
he corporation or individual in Amer
,w has been favored. Under these high
:; favored conditions they have grOy
so powerful, so rich, that they felt tt
is they were almost Independent of
people in the last campaign. They
lid fed the public and entered into q |
ng litical campaign as partisan ent'
re- into it for his candidate. They CT
,ot tributed in that campaign large su
30. of money that they had gathered fr
-: the people. They contributed it
us the side that some in this Chaml
se' favored aud some opposed. They ST
ed ped over the line.
EN- And now, Mr.. President, l want
zen say that if they have made enou
Re- money that they feel they can thr
lit into a political campaign to sh'
An, the results, and if they are enough
... terested in the result of politi
uts campaign to spend millions of mon
ear then l submit that it is getting tt
oes for Congress and the peoples reI
the sentatlyes to deal with them on str
the ]y business principles. l submit I
the the time has come to stop granting
owe yors for the asking, to stop voting 8
,oto sides by the thousands and mllll'
but to deal with them as one busir
man deals with another.
u The cry that these corporate
rla- raised in the last campaign was I
lub they were interested in the labor
If man: that if fre e. coinage bill she
we be passed their employees would b
oad their salaries reduced, and that t
100 would have to dismiss part of Il
"se employees. They pleaded eloquel
ust through their circulars which
rect distributed and handed out with
New men,s nav How many men here
'rm- them? Every railway employee
club his little gold circular stuck into
ntry hand when he drew MS pay, am
poly was told that it was to the inleae' Ere
the the empioyee anu fu. ene s;,ua. Hompan ny P p
ness 20 Vote asa.i;s' ;S III. aot;vos .nd
Yet ueh', 1nSy ~ ".-: