The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-06
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 eide that the Commission had the power to fix rates. The Commission would then attempt to regulate rates and the railroads would again enjoin them, on the grounds that their earnings were not sufficient in which event railroad property and railroad questions would have to be investigated.
 q tell you" he said with vehemence. you must have a Governor and a legis- lature who will stand for you and Tor your interest"
 He said that the great sums that were being earned by the Alabama railroads were going to enrich the foreign bond holders. He told his audience that Colonel Tunstall and MT. Sanders were not in sympathy with them or their interests.
 The papers of Alabama, he said, the big dailies had been attacking the meat trusts, the machinery trusts and other trusts and declaring the men who run them ought to be in Jail and so they should according to the speaker. but the papers were silent and never satd word on the great trust which had Alabama in It's grasp, the railroad trust The railroads according to the speaker had controlled Alabama for twenty five years. He said that stand ing in the rotunda Of the capitol, he had told Milton H. Smith that he and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad had maintained a lobby that had con- trolied Alabama for the last sixteen years.
 T want to say to you old soldiers. l whom 1 honor said the speaker. march up to the ballot box and deposit your ballot and demand that 1t be counted against this great power which has controlled the State. I WRl say to you that you are as much #n the right when you do that as when you shouldered your musket and marched out to defend your State. He compared Greenville and other | towns of its class in the State which he said had obsolete freight rates to a Chinese woman whose feet had been hobbled with little shoes. As long as l the obsolete rates prevailed the towns would grope and stumble like the wo- man with the eramped feet.
 His closing remarks MT. Conner | devoted to arguing the need of a change in freight rates. The Cover nor of Alabama, he said. was boast. ing of the money that had been saved | for the State by the. change in ths convict system and by the sale of the | bonds at 8 premium. The amount saved there would be small indeed ir | comparison to the millions that would l | lowered, said MT. Conner.
 | Mir. Hill's Address. ;, MT. Hill was introduced by Senator | Powell as one of the very best Super intehdents of Education Alabama hal ! eveI had. Mir Hill was given a rounC of applause as he came forward fol theJ delivery of his address. Mir Coher had spoken for nearly an houl and a half and 1t was then afternoon Mr. Hill immediately plunged into hi. argument for the local. tax of one mill Because of the lateness of the houi his full speech was cut short.
 MT. Hill pictured Alabama as thu | richest state in natural resources O.
 the union. He paid tribute to thu high class of it's population. saying that 1t was of the purest blood ant the highest class of Angfo1Saxons O.
 the world. With such resources anS | with such a population why was |
 that Alabama had not taxen her plact \ in the van guard of states7 MT HI declared that tt was because Alabama had Jagged in educational matters ir the years that were passed.