Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1905-09-27

are needed, to appeal To the pas
slonS of the great masses of con
sumerS who are scarcely at sill in
tereSted and who know absolutely
nothing of this transportation
question.
Both rs u manufactures, 4 pro-
Queer and consumer of raw
material | believe that one of the
most serious injuries that could he
done to business to-day would be
the placing of railroad rate regula-
ton IN the hands of political body
conferred at Washington. | have
travelled something like 10000
miles, met hundred or more solid
business men, and have failed to
find one that does not agree with
me in this position. We know the
danger that would come from politi-
cal rate making, whether in the
hands OF Republicans or Democrats,
and between YOU and | we don't
care 4 continental for the political
side of it. We know that the rail
roads are always ready To meet the
manufacturer or the producer in a
friendly spirit, and where reason
instead of passion rules il is the
easiest thing in the world to secure
notifications where we can show
the railroads that they are unreason-
able or injurious to our business.
There Is not a section of the coun-
try but what has benefited within
the last ten years from voluntary
reductions IN rates or concessions
of some sort voluntarily made bv
the railroads to help open new
markets or to assist producers to-
meet competing markets or to helm
aggressive or progressive commu-
mites who want to find markets.
a Government railroad COM
mission never could and never
would help the manufacturer. the
grain grower, the stock raiser. the
miner or any other produceras the
railroads have In the past and as
they are doing every year. Ii is
pure selfShneSs on their part of
course, but the fact remains that
when conditions need To be rcmc-
died we can Get the remedy very
easily by talking with the men who
manage the railroads direct. We
do not have to put up the plea that
this viii help or hurt that Repub-
iican or this Democratic COM
munity, and the working mana
cement of railroads now has rs
little To do and cares rs little for
politics as the producers them
selves. That could not be soifthe
rate making power was in the hands
of political rate making commits
sion. for ii would be their duty TO
create bureaucracy that would
help the dominant party. Every
practical politician admits this to
he a fact and you can not getaway
from it.
IF Congress will simply siren
CITIZEN the hands of the Commission
in their fight to abolish rebates. do
away with determinations of all
kinds for all causes in all sections
of the country, and let the regula-
ton of rates alone, they will satisfy
the business men Of the United
State and they can satisfy them in
no other way"
1t was pretty good line of talk
that he put up at all events. deal
1t out TO YOU just as the cards came.
so that yon may look over his hand
and see if he does not hold a pretty
strong hand to stand pat" on.
The chances are that the coming
Congress has been framed up by
the Republican leaders so that if
will be practically do nothing
Congress, and if anybody thinks
that the new and added prestige of
the President IS going to move the
stand-patters in the Republican
party on the tariff question to do
anything looking toward tariff re-
vision, then he does not know the
temper of the aforesaid Republican
stand-patters.
The patronage for the new adj
ministration has about all been
parceled out and many of the lead
ers Of the Republican party do not
care a rap what the President
thinks of them or their attitude
They are going to refuse to make
river and harbor bill and MANY
other big appropriation bills in the
hope that it will held to cut down
the deficit in the Treasury, thereby
hurting the internal improvements