The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-14

went before that house. went before it and asked for whatf Asked for the Texas law Why the Texas nnn tSNt iSW? ss Be made; 1t vas made after trials. 1t was made after hottest fights; it was made to conserve and save add,escp the PeopbIe bet or am going to tell you here. When this law was being framed; the big rail; road companies were right there. ana said if you pass this law we wilt take every dollar of capital out of your State, and we will build nothing else here. The New York Journal of Com this country. wrote this article. that the Texas Legislature was sand-bag- ging capital: What did those old Tex and by the way you are always threat ening us when we try to pass such laws as this. If you mean that If we sfate s8 eoe and diST rue sSis State o that you viii
 go out, we say to you in all candor go out. we don't want you. we are gong te rnis this state eanect ape to control ths State as long as we live, and pass IL on down to our children forever That
 is what they sGid Slate Wna in tbs ~ds nion n ss now has built more railroads than 5sane tGaaTF n TFe.as t0Say s the hs
 aS result of it. That has been the his tory of every single one Of them 1ou farmers here recollect this please, You recoiiect when you formed the grange throughout the State to protect yourss selves, back in Iowa and Ohio ana men of the old granges of those States got together and formed the most ab- solute laws that any of our states nave cSntroliing these corporations in their charges; and they had the same same threats there.-and they always have ynsm' wilI not ehaI have yVu mile of railroad in
 your State. They did pass them 25 years ago, and since. that time up to
 and when they are carried into the Courts they are called the Granger de- cisions. I say three cheers for those
 old Changers or iowa ana IRahoIS; W on,,e enH1 oo down to the State which showed what can be done when the people take in-
 terest enough to care ,,t5 for t5eir S.In InroRy yn
 those states? They tell me in Iowa,
 that there Is no point in the State that
 is further than IS miles from a ratl-
 erty in the State has prospered world
 without end. That Is the history
 where the farmers live. want to tel
 builds the State,-the ground-wor of Alabama is the farmer. You take the
 farmers out of Tuscaloosa County and
 the adjoining Counties: a1d MdtSin Wnst haDe aD l y U" oNN ANA -S
 And will tell YOU another thing. It | is the business man in this country | who Is interested. he is bound hand
 and foot with the interest of the farm | CT, and the very minute that they
 abandon the interest of the farmer !; | is like a mother abandoning that ot her child, because they get their very growth from them; and the lawyers of | Tuscaloosa and the doctors of Tusca- | loosa the professors. what-not or rus 1 caloosa and the merchants and all eV- cry single solitary one of you. the ba- l sis of your interest is that of the farm as we'll go down and tear up every too' of their track If it was not for what l vou shtp both waYs--you are the ship- | per and the sender.
 want to say to you farmers, gen. tlemen, as they said to the old grang- CTS back wonder In those states yor are the salvation of the State. Now
 want to say to you. further than that that the rule of the farmer has never been destructive, as the rule of canita
 is dangerous. as the rule of combines and trusts Is dangerous-that Is wha' impoverishes. and enslaves State. t
 Is not the rule of the people. You give
 me the rule of the people anywherte and I will give you the sound and sat'
 rule of equal rights to all. and specta privileges to none.
 What I am trying to get Alabsm ma t' do is today to give the rule of tn State to the people of the State. Yo, 1 recolIect when we got before tha grand old Comrnittee in the House ap stopped Prof. Dubose one day inject ed an elective Commission bill into tn House. and it came like flash of light ming out of a clear sky. There nevc