The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-07-24
THE SOUTHERN SCOOP
SOME FACTS FOR REFLECTION.

The Morning Post, OF this city, the
organ of the Southern Railway, scored
a scoop on all its contemporaries
yesterday. The Charlotte Observer,
the Wilmington Messenger, the Will
mington tar and the News and OBJ
server are counted as live newspapers
in North Carolina, but neither of them
is connected by an underground pipe
line with the Southern Railway office.
Neither OF these papers, therefore,
published the following important
piece OF news which appeared yester-
day exclusively in the Southern Rail
ways organ, the Morning Post:
"A PRIVATE TELEGRAM received
here yesterday from the Flat Rock
states that Judge Simonton has grant
ed a temporary injunction restraining
the Corporation Commission, the State
Auditor and the State Treasurer from
collecting and enforcing the assess
ment for 1900, which the Corporation
Commission levied on the Seaboaru
Air Line Railway, the Atlantic Coast
Line and the Southern Railway.
The restraining order provides that
the railroads shall pay taxes on the
same basis as last year until the case
is settled.
"The date for the hearing is set
early next month"
The "PRIVATE TELEGRAPH came
from a Southern Railway official and
went into the Morning Post just as a
report o a railroad conductor goes
to his official superior in the natural
course of business. There was a time
when this corporation newspaper
made Soma nrntpncn tnnJ II W. NOT
as much the property of the Southern
Railway as a cross tie or a freight
car. This publication shows that it
has no shame in its subserviency
but faunts its turbulence in the face
of the public.
The Democratic party Of the Repub-
lie in its recent National convention
both reaffirmed and reasserted it's hos
tility to government by Injunction
the government which permits a cor
poration Federal Judge to annul the
assessment of railroad property in
North Carolina made by the duly au-
thorized officers Of the State, and
substitute in its place an old noto-
riously small assessment by the Fus-
ion Railroad Commissioners. The last
State convention of the Democratic
party OF North Carolina, held in Raj
eigh, April 18th, not only affirmed
the Chicago platform thus declaring
its hostility to government bv in
Junction. but specifically approved
the assessment made by the Corpora
ton Commission which Simonton set
aside in 1899 and again this year.. That
plank read:
w approve the passage of the Cor
pOratfon Commission Act by the last
Legislature and the administration
of the affairs of said Commission, by
which fairef rates nave been secured,
which are more just to the people and
to transportation and Transmission
corporations, and SUCH ASSESS
MENTS OF RAILROAD PROPERTY
AS WILL MAKE 1T BEAR IT'S FAIR
PROPORTIONS OF THE BURDENS
OF TANATION.''
That is the Democratic pledge to
stand by the fair assessment of rail
road property nae by the Corpora
ton Commission which Judge Simon
ton has without warrant of law set
aside. The Democrats will be true t o
that pledge, no matter how many Fed
eral Judges or corporation organs seek
to annul it.
Recently the liberty-loving men of
VIC NIoIS Ia DSSIi dIOuS1A ~
the highest pitch of Indignation be-
cause Federal officials have sought to
control State and local elections. This
Indignation shows that the spirit of
the fathers still animates the people
of North Carolina. Holton and his
Radical Commissioners deserve the
denunciation which was voiced by the
Winston meeting, but the high-hand-
ed attempt of Holton at Winston to
control North Carolina elections is no
worse than the equally high-handed
attempt of Simonton and his hackers
to control the taxing power of the
State of North Carolina. Unless the
people of North Carolina can regulate
their own elections and control the
taxing power, then it is no longer a
State, for these are the two funda-
mental functions of a sovereign State.
On August End, the people will rise
up in their might and rebuke HOltOn,
Butler and the rest of the gang who
are trying to introduce Federal con
troll of State elections, and when the
Legislature meets in January, the rep
resentatives of these people will find
an equally effective way to restore to
the State of North Carolina the same
right to assess raIlrOads for taxation
lndu IL mas TO assess a house IN town
or a farm in the country. And no
corporation organs, grind they ever
SO melOdiOusly, can prevent either.
Government by Injunction" gov
eminent by Holton, Butler and the
negroes; government by Simonton;
and government by political corpora
tins for selfish ends will come to a
close IN North Carolina on January
1St, 1901.
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