The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-08-21

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these:
The Southern Railway has
the North Carolina Railroad 49,.
road and the service; the Souther
way has managed the North
| Railroad better than the State e-.
the Southern Railway pays tho g..
North Carolina more per year ~
| lease OF the North Carolina p..-
| than the State could make BY ruu~...
| road itself. Let these facts D. r-.
| because they are facts
But they are not facts. As 4 r-,.
fact the North Carolina Railroad
| bring today. if put Upon the mark.
! million dollars in cash. and ,5s
ought to have a rental upon thai
which would give enough to rr1 .
| schools four months in every year.
stead. this money has been given FL. .
| Rothsohilds that by right belon1 ,e .a
tax payers OF North Carolina.
So enamored is Bailey OF Vice P~...f.
Andrews, that he burns incense In
on all possible occasions. When the >
| board was completed Bailey was leg...r
| TO its Richmond celebration. and ,,a-.
| Writing Of the event he thus iniec.s .,
~favorite Colonel" into the article. e.r-
| ing him king" even though he gra-
Andrews road. through Ryan. had done
all in its power to defeat the Seaboa-a.
| plans:
w saw this and thought. The world
honors itself when it honors 1he man vt,
- NJ C~-l,y -~.- ~
| the king-.the canning man We sa-
mired Virginia for her welcome. No s.rs
man would hold back his applause for
man, young or old, who has fought tn
victory. We see this. and felt sorry for
| the men who had made it an object NJ
| their lives to pull down the men who do
| things, who when a man has risen q,
| power or built a great business. go ahovr
whispering he is to be dreaded or hated.
We saw this, and thought of a railroad
man in North Carolina, who has lived an
his life in Our State, who has a great part
in. the making of one of the great ral-
way systems of the world, a system thar
reaches from Washington to Florida and
| from Memphis to Norfolk: and, i'm the
| light of Virginia'S royal treatment OF har
son, we felt constrained to come back
and tell North Carolinians not only o'
Virginia's honor to her son, but their
debt to one of their own fellOw-citizcus.
whose life is an open book before them
| Colonel A. B. Andrews, First Vice Pres
dent of the Southern Railway"
Who is it that has made it an object
to their lives to pull down the men who
Go things? 1t IS a Pigment of Bailey
hypnotized Andrews imagination, and is
used here to prejudice men who say 70
corporations: you shall have every
right that the law allows, but you shall
not be permitted to escape your jus.
share OF taxation" That's his idea-.o
gain the favor of a powerful railroad mag
nate by finging at such men as John B.
Holman and Martin S. Willard who wish
| ed to put an end to his t~ax-dodging. Here
is another slur-and at all people VINO
think the railroads ought not be allowed
to have their own sweet way. 1t is in
the issue of June 18th:
of the people would take better care
CT public roads, they could make a better
claim to running the railroads
Referring to the Craig law INTRODUCED TO
| CONNIE 1ONolHn CORPORATIONS 10 IA oil"
courts, he says: This bill failed before
the last General Assembly. 1t touches
dangerous ground" The next week,
after it had passed the House and thore
his opposition could not avail, having
doubtless in view the intention Of The
Southern Railway to refuse to obey the
law, he said: "Of course there are I'M
stances in which this cannot and shoa.I
not be prevented. On the whole, hoW"yef,
since the bill gives somewhat Of definite
ness to our Statehood it is to be COM
mended."
In the issue of August 2, 1899, Bailey
commends Simonton for granting a nest
of railroad injunctions and deprecate" 'a'
violent prejudice manifest IN SOME
quarters against injunctions."
He opposed the anti-frec pass bill. a..
said: ct does not prevent r~ailro".'
from giving passes to politicians.
In the issue Of November goth, ne "
posed separate cars for the white ..
colored races, and on February lv.h. ..
ferred to the bill as the race discrlm.a-
ton cars"
BAILEY AND NEGRO.
Editor Bailey was very indignan'
cause the News and Observer and ha
tenths OF the newspapers Of the
say that a Mckinley negro PoStma@
as good as a Butler negro State oil
and says he may vote for Mckinlty
protest if the negro question is Thu.
jected into the national campa-gn.
matter Of fact, however, he was as a'
uously opposed to introducing the
question into the State campaign
now is to having it raised in the na."
campaign. On Wednesday, Apr-
1900, he said:
The campaign has scarcely begun.
this much Of gall and Of hate has '-'
to the surface. There is no room IN
Carolina for such feeling as tins.