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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-19
SCATTERED FREE PASSES.

Even we'll informed men have lit
tie conception of the insidious methods
used by the Southern Railway to con-
troll politics and dominate legislation
and public affairs. Recent revelations
have uncovered "the lid in a few sore
spots. but the pass system of controll-
ing or silencing men with influence Is
much more far-reaching than is gen.
orally known. The next General AS
sembly should enact q law requiring
every railroad to furnish a list of all
parties to whom it issues passes, in
GLIDING employees. Those parties who
are actually entitled to transportation
can have no reason to object to a
publication. But, my, my, what SEN
sation it would create if all the names
of parties now riding free could be
printed! 1t would explain many
things that are now involved in mys-
terry.
We take the liberty of printing the
following letter from one of the ablest
men in Piedmont North Carolina-one
of many that the editor is receiving:
1.-THE influence of your paper as ex-
erted in behalf of the people of North
Carolina will be felt throughout the
State for many years to come. You
have evinced a capacity for discover
ing and uncloaking the devilment of
those who are antagoniZing the inter-
ests of the people more than any man
that / know of, and / congratulate
you on your coup de tat in bring
ing the railroad company to log
through Messrs. Cox and Cone, of my
county.
1.-THE Southern Railway Company
has scattered passes all over the State,
and if you were to publish the lawyers
who were in the last Legislature, and
those throughout the State who simply
hold free passes and have never rem
dered the railroad company a particle
of service, you would render your
State q valuable service. The rail-
roads are seeking to control every
thing. Dozens of bills against the
peoples interest were sent from
Greensboro to the last Legislature by
the Southern Railway Company for
the purpose of having them passed in
it's own interest, but happily they were
not carried.
81 hope that you will continue on
the lines which you have been at work
for many years, and the people will
see the result of your efforts and will
rise up and call you blessed"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-19
THE FREE PASS EVIL.

There is reason to believe that the
free pass law in North Carolina is
evaded in many ways. Some folks
say that certain railroads obey it only
when they do not wish to give the
passes. President Stickney, of the
Chicago Great Western Railway, in
his testimony before the Interstate
Commerce Commission, thinks penal
ties should be provided against the
person taking the pass as we'll as
against the railroad that,issues it. He
said
''As an individual rule of action, the
law against free passes was ignored
by the Congressman who passed IL
and by the President who approved it,
and subsequent Congressman and
Presidents, with rare exceptions. have
ignored it's provisions. Travelling they
present the evidence of their misde-
meanor before the eyes Of the public
in q way which indicates no regard
for the law. The Governors of the
States, many of them, Judges-in
short, all officialdom, from the highest
to the lowest-the higher clergy, col
lege professors, editors, merchants,
bankers, lawyers, present the evidence
of their misdemeanor in the same
manner.
Why should there not be a penalty
for both?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-19
THERE ARE CLUBS AND CLUBS

There are Women's Clubs and Wo-
mems Clubs. Some of them, where
women congregate and smoke cigar
cites, drink punch and play cards for
stakes or prizes, are very demoral1z-
ing. Those that have only the mis-
sion of improvement and help are no
more in the same class with the first
named clubs than the Norman church
is in the same class with the Metho-
dist church. Both are churches-one
stands for vital religion that blesses
the home: the other stands for creed
and practice that blight the home.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-19
WHY THEY CAN AFFORD TT.

The Armour Refrigerator Company,
orator cars to the strawberry shippers,
have already agreed to pay $780, 600
to the Chadbourn shippers for the
losses of the first four days. The ship
pers have met the company in a prop
err spirit and sought only the exact
for the highest prices paid for straw
berries on the New York markets.
One hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars seems a large sum, but as mat
ter of fact it is small in comparison
with the fancy profits the Armour pri-
vate car trust makes on truckers. The
New York Evening Post gives some
facts and figures showing why the
Armour Company is able to stand this
loss, and also showing why the de-
mand is so strong for laws giving the
Interstate Commerce Commission
power to fix rates. The Evening Post
says:
Railway presidents and managers
of refrigerator lines are panied by the
folly of people who cheer William
Jennings Bryan's proposals for ma
tional ownership of railways, Presi-
dent Roosevelt's plan for rate regula-
ton, and, in fact, any scheme what
ever for exerting greater control over
our common carriers. The arguments
against further extending the federal
power in this direction are cogent;
but the testimony taken in Chicago by
the Interstate Commerce Commission
shows why it falls on deaf ears. On
Thursday, for example, an official OF
the Northern Pacific, said that the
Armour Company charged $35 for
icing a car over a certain route,
whereas the actual cost ranged from
$1.10 to Site. Yesterday a witness,
formerly in the employ of the Ar
mours, gave interesting details about
system of secret rebates TO favored
shippers, and about tE@ Ode words,
such as 1avelle-rebate must be con-
fidential." 1t is all very we'll to say
that these evils can be cured by the
enforcement of existing laws. That
plea moves only men who have a
grasp of the large principles Of law
and government. The farmer or the
small shipper who is smarting under
injustice replies bluntly that the evils
have grown up under the present
laws; and he is therefore ready to try
something new. 1t is his Indignation
that makes him ready to support any
project, however wild, that promises
him redress. He is for hitting the
first head that he sees. The agitation
against the railways is thus, in the
last analysis, really started and carried
on by the railway operators them
selVes-the men who are guilty of
that wrong doing which fills every
honest man with wrath. $50
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-19
MUST BE A REMEDY.

The man who thinks there is no
need for rate regulation either is blind
or will not see or his interest makes
him think otherwise. In a recent pub
LEGATION it was stated that merchants
of Salt Lake City pay 1925 per hun
dred pounds on cotton goods shipped
from North Carolina, while San Fran
cisco merchants have their shipments
from North Carolina taken right
through Salt Lake City and delivered
to them more than thousand miles
further and pay $780,
Worse than that: A carload of
flour is shipped from Cincinnati to
Norfolk through Raleigh for so much
less than is charged Raleigh, that
Raleigh wholesale merchants are
grossly Disseminated against and con-
sumers pay higher for their flour. The
wholesale merchants can get no re-
dress or relief. There must be a
remedy 1t cannot be found except in
giving the necessary power to the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-19
Cox Applied For a Rate
Reduction.
Continued from Page One.)

requested to keep a record of all ship
ments and overcharges pending the
appeal. subsequently, The Seaboar1
Air Line withdrew its appeal agreeing
to abide by the order of the Commits
sion, that is applying the reduced
freight rate on all future shipments
of logs, and to refund to the shippers
all overcharges made pending the APP
peal. Mr.. Cox was so notified, as was
also the Clement-Ross Manufacture
ing Company at Sanford, and, SUISSE
quently, the Clement-Ross Manufac-
turing Company filed a bill for s55S.14
cvercharges and a voucher for $537.40
was sent through the office of the Com
mission in full payment of the claim.
IF Mr.. Cox was not interested in
this mill, then he did not get any of
this refund. He brought the suit and
was the principal party to same, and
if he made any shipments pending the
appeal (more than a year and one
half he was entitled to a refund. No
other claim for overcharges was filed.
81 did not say Mr.. Cox himself got
any refund. Note my words: Sub
sequently an overcharge of S55S.14
was refunded on account of over
charges on shipments to mill located
at Sanford" l would not do Mr.. Cox
an injustice. We are friends and when
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-19
High Point, N. c., Sept. II, 1900.

High Point, n. c., Sept. II, l9OO.
"Mr. H. c.. Brown, Clerk X. X. Conn.,
Raleigh n. c.
Dear Sir: / have your favor OF
the 10th. l have been trying now lot
about a year to get the Seaboard Air
Line Company to give me the same
rates on logs into my mill at Ralelgh
that the Southern does, and that other
railways throughout the South give
me to my various plants. [ herewith
enclose YOU copies of the rates named
me last fall by the Seaboard Air Line
on a basis of $4,000 pounds to the
carload. Take Cary, for instance,
which 1 think is about twelve mileS
from Raleigh They charge me $3.50
for $4,000 pounds, while the Southern
hauls me a car up to twenty miles,
40. 600 pounds for $500. l have even
been to see Mr.. CappS, the general
freight agent, of the Seaboard Air
Line and thoroughly explained mat
ters to his chief clerk, as Mr.. Capps
was absent at the time. l have gone
further than this. and have pledged
them two-thirds of the cars OF man
ufactured stock out that / make at
nv mill in Raleigh, that is, 1 will give
them two cars to the SOuthern's one.
I have done this from the fact that
I think about two-thirds of the raw
material is on their line, but with
all this they decline to give me bet
ter rate I had to close my mill last
spring for want of timber. l expect
to start there again soon, if | can get
this rate, but if I cannot get it, will
be forced to move my plant from
Raleigh. I will be under many OBJ
legations if you can get this matter
adjusted and at once.
yours very truly.
(Signed.) ~. ELWOOD cox"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-19
Spirit of the Press.
The People Ought To Appreciate The
Fact That The State Possesses an
Influential Paper That De-
tends Their Rights Against
Railroads.

Rocky Mount Record.
The Wilmington Messenger. severely
criticises The Raleigh News and OBJ
server for the following article:
Sorrows never come singly.
This week it is the Atlantic Coast
Lines week for troubles and ac-
cidents. 1t has been singularly
free from accidents, having had
less than any like system in
America. But it is getting very
large now"
The Messenger says the article is
misleading, that the Coast Line has
been unusually free from accidents
and especially SO considering the re-
cent rush of business. The Messen-
ger ends with the following:
IF The News and Observer
knew of the number of widows
and orphans in this section of the
State whose only support was de-
rived from a few shares of origin
al stock of the Wilmington and
Weldon Railroad Company which
had grown into a competency by
the excellent management by the
officers of that road and also real
lied that this was one of the few
railway systems in which the
small shareholder had not been
frozen out by the big ones, but
that the small fish We're allowed
to swim along by the side of the
big ones and enjoy the results
of the continual development of
the system it would not be so
prone to knife the system on every
real or imagined occasion.
A controversy between The Will
mington Messenger and The News
and Observer is none of our business,
but we do think the people OF North
Carolina ought to appreciate the fact
that the State possesses such an influ-
entail paper to defend their rights
against the railroads as they possess
i'm The News and Observer. If it
hadn't been for The News and OBJ
servers fight the Southern would never
have had to pay what it did to Sc
cure a lease of the North Carolina
Railroad. In many other ways The
News and Observer has championed
the cause of the people. The railroads
are indispensable for the welfare or
the State, and, should be treated fair
", but rates in North Carolina are
higher than in any other State in the
Union except South Carolina The
railroads are great institutions. but the
people make them so and they should
be made to treat the people fairly,
which they will not do unless they
have to. The railroads are wealthy,
they pay lawyers, they influence the
election of governors, senator's, ana
other political officers at times, they
furnish newspaper transportation ana
they have their defenders plenty nu-
merous. The State should be glad of
the fact that it has the News and OBJ
server as a counter influence.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-19
Will Uncle Sam Condemn His Own
Tariff Law?

Baltimore Sun.
A striking illustration of the bless
ings of a high tariff is furnished in
the announcement that the Panama
Canal Commission will buy ships.
machinery and the material for canal
construction in Europe rather than
pay excessive prices in the united
States. For example, the commission
can buy abroad for $750,0O0 two YES
sells which cannot be built In TINS
country under $1,400000 Thousands
of steel dumping cars" will be re-
quired for the work on the canal.
The American price is 40 per cent
more than that of the European man
ufacturer. 1t is true our iron and
steel manufacturers have two prices
for their products. In foreign mark
cts they undersell the foreign ma~r
facturer. At home they add g
amount of tariff protection to the SELF
ing price. The American consumer
is taxed heavily for the benefit of the
foreign Consumer.
Why should Uncle Sam refuse to
take his medicine when he compels
Americans to swallow the dose? Why
shouldn't he bow his knee to the al
legged trusts when he compels every
American consumer to buy trust
goods or pay a heavy fine in T. htpe
of duties on imports? Suppose a
company were organized to dig Il
canal in any State in this Union and
required ships and steel cars TO COM
plete the work of construction. Would
that company be permitted to buy its
material in Europe free of duty on
the ground that. it l. eeded to be
economical in its expenditures?
Wouldn't the government say that the
first consideration must be the pro-
lection of American industry and Ia
bor'' and that the home market must
be protected even if the private canal
company was bankrupted by exorbi-
tant home prices? But says a mem
Der of the Canal Commission, as quot
ed in The Sun yesterday. IF the
Isthmian Canal Commission is not
bound by any restriction of Congress
as to where it shall purchase ma
chinery, material and supplies, 1t
would seem to be it's duty to con-
struct the canal as cheaply as posi-
BILE and so to buy what is needed
where it can get it cheapest"
Unfortunately for the American
consumeI, Congress has discrinin-
ated against him in favor of the
Panama canal, although the consum-
er is taxed to pay for the construction
of the canal. The restriction which
Congress has placed upon the people
of the United States is the Dingley
act-a restriction SO oppressive that
Uncle Sam seems disposed now to
dodge it himself, declare home market
prices outrageous and cross the At
lantic to buy the products of "cheap
foreign labor" 1t is not contended
that our government is doing a wick
ed thing in refusing to pay the ex-
cessive prices demanded by American
manufacturers. But it is doing an
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-19

inconsistent thing. If the demands
of the protected interests are so I'M
reasonable that Uncle Sam will not
yield to them, every American con-
sumner ought also to have the privil-
eye of buying in markets where he
can get the largest returns for his
money.
If the Panama Canal Commission
makes good its threat to buy ma
chinery and material in Europe, be-
cause our trusts. through tariff pro-
lection, are enabled to exact too much
for their products, the American peo-
pie will have the most interesting OBJ
ject lesson on the working of the tariff
that they have had for many day.
Perhaps they will then insist that
Congress remove some of the restric-
tons which the Canal Commission has
found intolerable.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-19
Life Insurance Men Should Take
Heed.
Baltimore News.

NEWS.
Increasing the storm area seems to
be the only result thus far of the at
temptS to reach a settlement of the
affairs of the Equitable Assurance
Society. Policy holders seem to have
little confidence in benefits to come
from the inquiry being made by Mr.
Tricks committee. The Crimmins
committee of policy holders" seems
to be making little better progress
1t has lost it's chairman, and the re-
naming members of the committee
are now impugning his motives. New
York's insurance department seems
to be especially slow in arriving at
any definite conclusion. In other
words, a condition bordering upon
chaos surrounds the affairs of the big
life insurance company. The only
really clear fact is that policy hold
ers of that company have contributed
money which has been collected into
a gigantic fund, and financial specu-
lators, corporation lawyers and others
are fighting to control or to share the
money
This is not only an extraordinary
fact, but a fact that bears a menace
to every life insurance company do
ing business. Life insurance is the
means employed by the average
american W idy ny SOIutlIlIu5 1Ot
use in the hour of need for those
dependent upon him. 1t is a bust
ness insurance for the active worker
His enterprises may turn out badly
He may lose his fortune. His family
may be deprived of his services by
death. But his life insurance is the
one investment which he feels sure is
always safe. His family will have
that, at least, to fall back upon, hap
pen what may. If the great life in
surance companies are controlled by
incompetent or dishonest men who
are willing to use trust funds in gil
gantic promotion schemes for their
own special benefit, is not this feeling
of security likely to vanish? If it
does vanish what is to become of the
life insurance companies?
The day on which doubt is thrown
upon the honesty or wisdom of the
management of big life insurance So
cieties will be a sad day for both the
officers and policy holders. 1t is the
business of life insurance companies
to settle the Equitable tangle, and to
settle it quickly. The settlement, too
must be such as thoroughly to restore
public confidence in the security of
life insurance as an investment.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-19
Stop All ,TwaddIe.
Wilmington Star.

That proposition of Governor
Glenn s-"Stop all Twaddle''-ought
to satisfy the most discriminating of
the negro problem settlers. 1t beats
the forty acre and a mule" PROPOSE
ton with which the darkeys recon-
struction Republican friends inspired
him with the allurements of paternal-
ism right after the civil alteration.
The North Carolina Governors re-
marks ought to be enough to let the
Northern friends of the negro know
that the opportunity to work, go to
school and attend church will make a
better man out of the South's colored
citizen than a red blanket, rations
from the commissary and a money
annuity from the paternalistic govern
ment has made out of the Vests red
man.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-19
STATEMENT FROM "HIGHER UP"

The News and Observer was inform
ed a few days ago by one of, the first
citizens of Greensboro that Director
J. Elwood Cox travelled on an "A
pass" That statement has raised
mighty howl from other directors OF
the branch line roads who are given
only B. c, and d passes. These gen.
tlemen had their ire up because IA
voritism was practiced toward Direc-
tor Cox In order to quell the rising
storm, the organ of the Southern Rail-
way yesterday made official denial:
'Mr. Cox is charged with having an
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-19
Why Can't the State Insure?
Troy Montgomerian.

Why can't North Carolina have an
Insurance Departmn If these
large companies ma grown so rich
and taken out of !, : State so much
money, it looks like the State might
have a company of it's own and keep
its money here and grow rich too.
A look in the best business portions
Of our large cities at the fine build
ings of the insurance companies will
tell the tale of what these insurance
companies do The State needs to
take hold Of this matter and see if it
can't insure the lives of it's own citi-
Zens and keep the money here.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-19
Bonds for Sale.

The Board Of Trustees of the San
ford Graded School District offers for
sale Forty Year five per cent coupon
bonds to the amount of Ten Ihous-
and Dollars, issued for the purpose
of erecting and equipping a Graded
School building. Sealed bids will be
opened on Thursday, June 18th, at
II o'clock, m. Right reserved to re-
ject any and all bids. No bid consid-
cred unless accompanied by certified
check for 100000. Further informa-
ton will be furnished on application.
D. 70. McIVER, Chairman Of Board.
j.. X. Penny, Secretary.
5-1S-to june IA
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-19
Wants the Church Organized as a
Great Trust on Standard Oil
lines,
Wall Street Journal.

Wall Street Journal.
John d. Rockefeller is quoted as
having said in a conversation with
friends at the Fifth Avenue Baptist
church last Sunday that Industrial
consolidation had been indicated by
it's results. He claimed that great ben
eft to civilization has been achieved
by it, and he believes that the time
will come when the church will adopt
the same principle of organization.
1t will probably occur to most OBJ
servers that the world would be bene-
fitted less by putting the system of the
Standard Oil into the church than it
would by putting the spirit of the
church into Standard Oil. What is
wanted is a little more Christianity in
business and a little less business in
Christianity.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-19

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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-19
(Signed.)

On January 10, 1901, Mr.. Brown
answered several letters from Mr..
Cox, rs follows:
Raleigh, Jan. IS. 1901.
''Mr. J. Elwood Cox, High Point, N. c.
Dear Sir: l beg to advise you in
reply to your letter OF recent date
that the Seaboard Air Line Company
has appealed to the Superior Court in
the log rate case and the only thing
that you can do would be to keep an
account of the shipments made, and
if the Commission gains its suit, then
the company will have to refund to
you the $'yer-charge.
VERY respectfully,
I'll. c.. BROWN. Clerk
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-19

"A pass, good all over the United
States. This is not so. He has a linn
tied directors pass, good only over a
portion of the Southern Railway"
This is official. The other directors
now would like to know over what
portion of the Southern Railway, Mr..
Cox's pass carries" Does it transport
him to Washington?