The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-15
ONE VIEW OF THE MATTER.
MIR. MADDEN SCORES THE RAIL.
ROADS For THE JUMP IN RATES.
Roads Have Need to DO Something
Toward PncifyinE the People, and
Must Move Quickly.

Austin, Texas, December 14.--Hon. j. w.
Madden. secretary of state. returned from
Crockett yesterday, whittier he had gone
for few days visit to his family who
have agready returned to their old home.
On the expiration of his term OF office,
Mr.. Madden will resume the active practice
OF the law, his visit home having been
ON business preparatory therefor.
On being asked for news, Mr.. Madden
garded as news. but Il want to say this;
The Mccormick decision an9 events re-
sultipg therefrom are the all-absorb,ng
topics of discussion in my section OF the
STATE, and the people of all classes, ire
spective Of politics, are up in arms, so TO
speak, against the eXtort!onate freight
charges fixed by the railroad companies
since THAT decision. In the flush Of u tenn
poiaiy victory, won before a court where
ali who have watched its trend expected
they wound win. the companies have over
.eaped themselves; they have simply out
Heioded Herod In their eaggrness to fleece
the people in the matter OF freight charges
psnding u temporary injunction, and have
created n feeling Of resentment and hos
tilty among the people against themselves,
such us never existed before. and which
viii tax their cunning TO the utmost Is,
allay. Their ccn'tuct in this respect has
done more to convince the people OF the
great necessity of SOME Intervening and
remedial agency. such as the railroad com"
mission, to stand betwsen them and the
mere less greed OF the railroad corpora
tiops, than all the arguments OF the adyo-
Gates OF such agency have done since the
agitat on of railway regulation began Peo-
ple who have heretofore belittled The conf
mission and bis work and secuted the idea
that 1t was Of any practical value whateysr.
now admit Its necessity and realize Dy
co5tly exper. eace what great reliei u
has besn and how much hard cash II has
saved the people OF Texas. So II may be
that the Mccormick SECESSION Is bless
ing In Disguise after all.
1.-THE companies themselves are begin
ming To zee that they have oyerdone the
thing, and / am not surprised that tney
are getting In a mood to compromise the
matter II something IS not done tending
10 alleviate the temper OF the business
people and the farmers Of Texas. and that
without delay, VI is not too much to expect
Legislation. possibly az the hands Of the
approaching Legislature. OF sucn resent
full and retaliatory character RS VIII make
the roads wish they had never even 30
much as beard that there be sucn a man
as Mccormick I would not like to see H.
because two wrongs never make one
right, The MASSES OF the peopie are pa
tient and long suffering and viii endure
much rather than do wrong. but the ran.
road companies bali as well understand
now an later On that the people are not
going 10 long submit to such gross Dn1us.
tice Is Is now being put upon them. ana
whsn they see that patience Is no longer
e virtue fem dy mere heroic 10 iie ma
ture and mors frr tful Of gOai eslits VIII
be rsorted 10. and then Viii extremes
meet
..Now. I want 70 say thsf I am 40 alarm
tst, but IL you have any doubfl ABOUT the
way n people wltf out regard 10 class
are feeling ever this matter. all ASK g-u
10 d1 IL 10 20 out and mix with them
. little. and you Will not be long Ia finding
out that I have not ver-ststed the facts
as they actually exist. You would soon
Hnd that .. p. Barnes 4 Co. Of Trinity
are not alone in the complaints they have
made The business DeoDle seperaiiy IN
the interior OF the State. II not EVERYWHERE
fel the weight Of these sudden imposts,
ard are sharing In the views OF me IFin.
isy Arm ia IA extent that never existed
before. They are already iiscuss ng III
free ami impartial manner the why's and
wherefoSas lthess thinsS TOR ne purpose