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though there another remedy
known among :. lawyers as the
strictly legal. T. table and legal
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TreFeutIVe process should be en-
couraged and enlarged. The policy
Of every judicial system should be
to prevent the commission Of wrong
With the centuries looking down
upon us sInce the law was given
thou shall" and thou shall not" we
should have passedthe period when
a complainant could be told from
the judgement seat you have shown
that the defendant is about 10 wrong
you, but you must wait until he
does it and then get compensation"
TO CCT DOWN ExrESsEs.
The condition of the State Treas.
ury is such as TO demand the most
severe economy IN all departments
| OF the State government. This is an
exigency which should be faced and
not evaded. The expense of the State
government outside of the peniten-
tiary and agriculture department
have increased from abont 1920 900
in 1850 to $4S2 900. in 1890 ard
$J27 600 in 1896. TuIs is an in
crease IN expense of 10 per cent 10
ten years, and 10 per cent in SIX
teen years, while the increase
IN wealth in ten years was only !,
per cent, and in sixteen years only Go
per cent. The property of the State has
been and is taxed to about the limit
of reasonable endurance. Is it not
clear that the only remedy is the re-
duction Of public expenditures
There might be a saving in the abo-
lition Of the Agriculture Bureau, but
for the fact that it is supported by a
fund which cannot be directed IN
the State. Treasury for general pur-
poses without involving grave con-
stitutional questions. BY the aboli
ton of the Bureau of Statistics and
of the Geological Bureau, there can
be saved by the S a'e alb )ut-,
and by close scrutiny of all apprO
priations in all departments our ex-
penditures may be considerably re-
duced.
LYNCHINGS AND MOBS.
When the Legislature adjourns
the word should go out to the world
that the crimes called lvnchings
must be stopped in North Carolina.
The way to end it is plain. Remove
the excuse for it. 1t is no justifca-
ton to say, what is not denied. that
in many eases the victims deserve
what they get. Barbarous brutes who
commit nameless crimes must be
killed. But let it be done under the
forms of the law. Let there be none
of the laws delay. Give the execu-
tive power to call court instanter;
order the Judge by telegraph to the
county of crime. Try the criminal:
if proper for an appeal, convene the
appellate court on shortest possible
notice, send down the judgment and
instantly perform its mandates.
Scarcely a case of mob murder Of p
guilty culprit has occurred where i'll
he would not have been convicted by
Judge and jury. In most cases the
| lyuchipgs have been attributable to
a spirit of lawlessness. The only
reasonable excuse that can be offer
ed is in the failure or the delay of
the law. Make the law so that there
can bo no delay aud no reasonable
apprehension Of failure. Provide
better remedies for the prosecution
of criminals who take the law into
their own lawless hands. Author
ize their Indictment and trial in
counties removed from their intlu
ence and put them on trial before
juries who believe in order and law
THE BENEFIT OF RAILROADS.
The regulation of State and in
ter state commerce by common car
riers is among the most importan
ana far reaching questions of th'
day. North Carolina derived NOR,
material benefit in the last fifteel
years from railroad development
than from any other one source. W.
should not forget that however prof
liable these investments may hav,
been to non. resident capitalists. w
also have been and are their bene
fl Charles Their inve stments in thes'
: properties should be protected b,
our laws and by a public sentimen
| that frowns upon all attempts t.
make preju lice against them be
cause they are supposed to be rich
State, municipal and corporal
: promises made to them for the pur
pose of obtaining expected bene fl t
Y to us should be sacredly performed
Z. We will not encourage, sanction o
r countenance financial repudiatio
in any form.
Railroads, while their earnin g
: and profits belong to their owners
S are the servants of the public an
:. under our system of government ar
y subject to governmental contro.
4 The time is approaching, if it ha
e not arrived, for the adoption of
:. policy which without wrong to thei
: owners shall look towards the cor
d version of them into public higt
o ways, owned and controlled by til
d nation. While we admit our obligs
's tions to those whose enterprise an
70 capital have constructed and be-
n tered them, We must always insl.
r upon just the strict enforcement {
2 their obligations to the publ
z Against vigorous opposition We hay
r created a railroad commission
Or benefits are apparent and ought
le be admitted by all. To it we are il
1t debted for the regulation and
e. many cases the reduction of trait
ID rates and to the excellent servic
re which is given by most of the ra
o. roads lin our State. The passe
Mt ger rates which prevail in our Sta
ne seem not to be unreasonable. It
questionable whether at this sessi,
of our Legislature there should
Il. attempted policy of rate reducti'
hr in this particular. AS to freig
~ rates, there are evidences that tn
on m are excessive when compared wi
IIn the enormous decline of the value
NC NC the commodities upon which tn
are levied.
of NORTH CAROLINA RAILROAD LEASl
as The State has a large, and WI
OF ought to be controlling interest
&C. the North Caro.lna railroad. An