The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-17
WILEY ANSWERS AN
 ANONYMOUS ISLANDER
His Railroad Bill Designed For Protection of Life and Property of Passengers, Crews and
 Operating Companies.

same, as we'll as the carriage of the United States mail. ought not to hesi- tate to confer upon the Federal Courts. concurrentiy with the State Courts, ample Jurisdiction to arrest, try and punish these incarnate fiends, who hold up trains. murder passengers and crews. and depredate upon the com merce of the Nation. No other coun- try upon the face of the earth fosters the train robber except free and civ- ilized America, If an honest endeavor on my part to stop this outiawry is a crime. then I cheerfu1ly plead guilty at the judgment bar of a law-abiding and peace-loving citizenship.
 wise and humane measure, in- tended to protect the lives of passen- gers and trainmen. as we'll as prop erty and freights. transported on rail- roads carrying the United States mall, is thus sought, for political purposes, to be warped. twisted and tortured into meaning entirely foreign to its purposes. This is unjust, unmanly and indefensible. This bill does not touch even remotely, upon the question of capital and labor; nor is 1t designed in the slightest degree to interfere with organized strikes. to regulate the conflicts of working men. or to adjust the differences between employer and employe. Everything pertaining to that subject belongs to another domain or Jurisdiction.
 Tn an address delivered by me to the Union Association of the BrotheEhoods of Railway Conductors, Locomotive Engineers and Bremen. at the Audito- rum Sin the city of Montgomery, on Tuesday, June 2nd, 1903, I expressed the opinion, open and above board l that arbitration was the best method | of settling peaceably and satisfa6tor- | fly such honest differences as might arise from time to time between these | two great classes--the employer and employed. used the following Ian. l guage:
 Mine different railroads converge to a focus here, making Montgomery the 1 pivotal point of trade of an immense territory. She is, indeed. a great rail. road center. composed of 'hrave men and true who have given the railroad | problem earnest and intelligent | thought and consideration, with the object in view of accomplishing the greatest good to the greatest number; of adjusting amicably the perplexine l questions of capital and labor and oi
 bringing about harmonious relation. between employer and employe. Tn, l public tnterests-Lthe repose and secur. fty of society-require that thert
 should exist no serious conflict be-
 tween these two classes: and If, per ] chance, at any time honest difference, ], shall arise. the peaceful method of ar
 bitration must be invoked to settl, them. In this way, every wrong vii
 be righted and every disadvantag, compensated by some counterbalanc, | of good"
 No man :'clothed in his right mind and possessing ordinary intelligence can fail to understand language s,
 plain and unambisuous as the forego
 ing words employed by me; but, i
 seems, that we have another strikinI
 illustration of the truth of the olC
 saying that "there are none so blin,
 as those who will not see"
 1 Very respectfully,
 A. A. WiIey.-lt