The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-02
Letters to The Editor.
ON THE RIGHT LINE.
The People Should Act and Quit
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 Editor The Advertiser:
 An electric car chasing down Dexter Avenue and siding up to "one or our hotels is deliberate irony--perhaps sym pathy of one inadequate existence for the other.
 Our people have long sung the need of a new hotel and street railway. Why is not more done to get these things. Unless there is a change in e1ort we will never have either and never IS long time. A comparatively small amount of money (with large amount Of vim) as nucleus will get from the East all the money required for any legitimate purpose. And what is the matter with the street car service? One concern IS operating Qn way) and every one else sits down satisfied that nothing else can be done. There is no need to regard the present bum affair as time has proven that persuasion is lost.
 The most deserving thing to do would be a canvas of the town to raise funa to employ the proper legal talent to an- null their franchise. This has been done before and can be done again. A de- termined fight waged in good faith Will doubtless develop many weak points upon which to work with effect.
 It is absurd for a people to be idle when their greatest efforts are so badly needed. Get a stret railway first and then a hotel. A franchise can be obtain ed and a comparatively small sum will command the balance required. There are streets left" sufficient to lay out and operate complete system and competi- tor would soon be able to dictate con- ditions. The present makeshift would have to improve or go out of business either of which would amount to the desired result in the end.
 We will have no street railway, hotel nor any thing else as long as those ap- preached for aid wait to buy some or their fellow citizens subscriptions at boc on the dollar.
 Many of our strongest men are guilty of this and are not particular in so ex- pressing themselves to the demoralization of any enterprise. Lets get ourselves right and get down to work to fight this uncompromising street railway situa- tion and go independently to work to complete another system and when that is done we can have courage for hotel problem.
 We don't need a hotel until the trans portation facilities of the city make better showing. If we are going to let the street railway run as at present, II would be best to go little further in our forbearance and move back the buildings around Court Square to give plenty of room for the antics of the rat tie traps.
 What are such wild runaways capable of? Death and destruction!
 What has become of the inspections agreed upon when our last efforts at re- dress went up in promises and farce generally, within a recent time, two runaway cars have dashed through our main streets headed to Court Square the very business centre of the city and the crew of the cars openly confessed that the things would not work"
 This thing will happen again as the conditions of excessive grade, deterioted property and poor management are still the same and conduce to that end. This will perhaps come at a time when car riages and people will be in it's track and we will wake up with determination to do something in the matter for our friends in mcmoriam.
 If The Advertiser will start a fund to secure legal talent to fight this condiuon the writer will subscribe $25 to that fund and guarantee at least two more of the same amount each, and If 1t will start a vigorous and enterprising campaign to build a new road the writer will help as substantially as possible and will guaran- tee bringing over at least two others. In others words some money and time and effort to get more.
 If we would call combined indignation and mass meeting of our citizens to go to work in good faith without any speech making, along the practical plan outlined above the problem would be solved.
 Do as much for Montgomery in raising interest in these matters as you have done for the State in politics and we will have what we want-an adequate street railway system and an up-to-date hotel.
 Citizen.
 (The Advertiser will subscribe liberally to the proposed fund for employing counsel to test the right of the street car company to longer abuse of its franchlse