The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-03-03
WILL DEVELOP
OUR RESOUSCES.
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| expending nearly a million dollars in cash.
and il legislation IS not interferred with
bv such mon rs MIR. Ebbs will be instru-
mental in bringing many millions more
| into these counties.
| Now nv friend Smathers charges me
| with getting introduced a bill that legal
| ICES a nuisance without qualifying what
| there Is TO Offset the NUISANCE. | will
ask Mr. Smathers, if he does not know
| that the great Carnegie Steel Works.
| which has now been consolidated into
one billion one hundred million dollars
| stock company was not voted by the citi-
| Gems of South Bethlehem, Pa, as NUS
ance. | will ask Mr. Smathers. If he does
not know that the incorporation of West
| ptttsburg and that the citizens of Moline,
did not declare the great Standard Oil re-
fneries at those places a nuisance; yet, ]
| believe il Is attributable 10 these nuis-
ances that the greatest channels To the
sreatest resources of wealth known TO
| the world has been established, yet, they
have been left free from criminal prosecu-
tion and Indictment for communicating the
waters and killing tie fish in the streams
| for miles and miles below them, and yet,
| these two great institutions covering the
steel iron and oil industry OF this coun-
fry believe contributed more money
| from their nuisance resources to fasten
on TO the great old State of North caro-
| lima. the Republican fusion Legislature
that an men of sound mind have pro-
| nounced q nuisance the odors of which 1t
| Il tal1ino the entire work of two Demo-
cratic Legislatures 10 de-oderZe, and as
Mr.. Craig we'll says il is taking herolc
action and this nuisance never added a
dollar of income to the taxable resources
| of the State My friend Mr. Smathers
| saws the bill smacks OF class legls!a-
| sion | am bit surprised that a man
| holding the position he does. would even
| vbisner that any bill smacks OF class
legislation Personally | like Mr.. Smath-
ere and so far as | know the people
amongst whom he lives like him, but why
did he not tell that committee. that my
| hill smackod of danger to his ana JeleT
| pritchard's scheme to have Natlonai
| park established in these western Norlh
| Carolina mountains. hoping il would cul-
| inmate as a Republican measure ana re
| nublicanize these mountain counties, py
| eating the government to buy few mil
| lion acres of these waste mountains tor
| q oark at about a dollar and hail. an
acre | have always been liberal Wheh-
! ever Mr.. Smathers has called on HayWood
| county for cash donations TO prosecute the
/ hin for the establishment or the PARK
| and ! am heartily in favor OF the PARK
| and will contribute just as much TABOR
| and lust as many dollars as Mr.. Snath-
ers will 10 secure II. nor 90 | DeheVe
| that this bill will affect the Government
! actions in the premises nor do sthink
| when the New England pulp mills VIII
| show to these people that they VIII pay
more for one cord of their pulp wood, than
| the Government will pay them for hVe
| acres of their land. that they viii elther
| he favorably impressed with Mr.. Smath-
| orc nuisance idea or his idea OF class
| Hesitation nor with his EFFORT TO delea'
such measure as this
Judge Conner asks the paramount ques-
| ton 10 the whole bill: why do these
neople ask to be relieved from criminal
prosecution" 1t is an established law IN
| nearlv all States that il person shall
| ,ut pcisonous substances into the water
| that will poison the fish, or any explosive
and explode the same that will destroy
| The fish. they shall be subject to indlct-
ment and criminal prosecution; so there
| is no man that is acquainted with the
operatiop OF pulp and paper mills, that
| does not know. that fish and every hVlhg
! thing that inhabits the water will be de-
| stroyed for considerable distance below
The plant in proportion to the size of the
stream and the volume of water. Inc
| same prevails with the great Maryland
| and Virginia DYE Works, and in tact
wherever factories are established that
usa strong acids of any kind. The Dill
asks for nothing that is not just. IL
| nroyides that these institutions snail III
Inc civil courts be made to pay for every
| established damage they cause. | believe
| Judge Conner will see the merits OF the
/ bill when he studies ii a bit
| Back now TO Mr.. Smathers again. VIII
| ne please tell me, how these three coun-
| ties will ever make use of the millions OF
| tons OF low grade copper ore and the IRON
| pyrites and the kaolin to say nothing OF
| over a hundred million dollars worth OF
| this pulp wood that brings about the
ability to utilize these low grade ores, II
1 such nuisances as he speaks of are not
| established. The only question at issue
on his line of argument is it necessary TO
sustain, the sewerage system and the wa
ter closet systems of Raleigh that the city
| of Raleigh might exist or in other words
| should a law that would establish city
be pronounced nuisance, because the
city within itself would be birth Of sew
ers and closets. 1T is a nuisance to the
| people of Pittsburg to be under the black
fog of such smoke that ever hangs over
that city, and no traveller passes
through that city, the greatest manufac-
turing city on earth, that does not de-
clare its black and putrid waters and its
over hanging cloud of SCOT, nuisance,
but | do not think Mr.. Smathers would
find one tenth of the people Of that great
city. voting to remove the causes of ~
nuisance; for the removal of that~cause
would turn IDLE thousands and thousands
of men and women, just as The establish
ment Of the nuisance provided in this
bill will give employment to thousands
of men. and in section of country where
there is not mile in circumference, that
the great master has not planted an ever
lasting and ever bubbling fresh spring Of
crystal water, providing in his wisdom
bountiful supply of water. that from its
surplus the great factories of commerce
and trade might move and their pollution
not destroy the opportunity of every hui