The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-09

LHls ilue, you VIII pc ntTeu out l0TeNer- These statements were taken from their
 own books. and told them lp taking
 these statements they were doing the
 people of Alabama wrong; to pass 1t on
 to the courts and If the decision wasn't
 right. the courts would turn it down
 said. gentlemen, let's decide this in
 favor of the people" They did that
 Cemmlssion in Vermont and the Com
 mission in Carolina. We spassed it up
 and they decided against you. When you
 and you don't pass this thing up to the
 the whole law. and that's what they did. they were the whole court. you
 are going to have these rates forever.
 In every State that has a rate. 1t has
 been made by the courts and by the
 law They say the conditions in Ala We asked for rates as they had ii
 Georgia and finally compromised as . This was taken by Mir. Nesbitt and
 put in before the Commission two and
 a half or three years ago and he tells
 me it is right. It shows that in Ala
 asd 5ama ,n there are fGs d people to the rail
 men of the farmers of Alabama make
 as much as $50 of the Georgia farm
 ers?, There is no distinction. And
 then found out this, gentlemen: That
 in Alabama last year.-year before last
 now,-you made $50 .,ales If cotton to
 the railroad line aSl Georgia made
 
 Saingham district we have more ton
 mage than the whole State of Georgia.
 and am told that it is more than
 the whole States of Georgia and. Caro-
 lima combined. Then the question comes
 back to this higher rate and some man
 jumps on me and says. l am rehecting
 on the whole State of Alabama when
 ! say that. l am not; don't mean
 II that way. In tfat speech over there.
 l went through the matter thoroughly
 some or the papers took that statement
 0d hA na,,
 tenn of Alabamat and besmirched them
 There was nothing further from my
 mind than that. We have great par system. Take it this way. Georgia gave
 to her Commission mandatory power:
 Alabama gave hers advisory power.
 should take this Commission and give them the same power that the Commis- sion Of Georgia has. That is right and
 you should have 1t: But the thing has drifted so far that l go further than
 that and l am jumped on with both | feet and I say if you don't die by it, you will be derelict in your duty. They say that I am taking the whole thing, | that It Is my whole purpose to become l your dictator and then they put me on | the dome of the Capitol. riding the
 like that. You are farmers; the whole l State Government Is yours, you farm | CTS and business men. If you are driv. 1 ing. six-mule team. wouldn't you like | | And when you found two balky ones in there, wouldn't you cut them out? If
 you found four. wouldn't you cut them
 ors wisn Enow tnS yo oi6 6aS Snp or state 9i | represent you. What are you going to
 do about 1t? Keep them or cut the l balky ones out? Take the men thai
 don't pull with you and cut them out and put in men that will. That is | common sense. How do you expect to l pull anything if you don't? We have | had great many railroad lawyers-l
 call them legislators.-that may be a | misnomer. Who did they represent; | Who did you think they represented:
 They say when l say a railroad law 1 ing radical wrong; that I am saying | things which ought not to be said: that
 l am hurting great big, good men. | say I don't, but I told you the truth | Let's see if anybody agrees with me. ] have here in my hand the proceedings | of the twenty-eighth annual meeting of l the Alabama State Bar Association.
 am going to- read you one minute from | the address of it's President, Judge ! Roulhac. Judge Roulhac says there ev- | erything that I ever said:
 | He says a man In that service should not take up the duty of law making. and. gentlemen. if you make him your | lawmaker. then you can expect what | service he gives you. Back. way back | two masters Judge Roulhac says that men in their employ should not be found | Tn the l1St or law makers, and that IS l everything that I have ever contended. tell YOU gentlemen. that the trouble with all our laws is in a large measure some things that should not have been done in your law. You have the most abominable regulations and laws of any State, dare soy. in the Union. The I trouble is. gentlemen. the railroad has voiced them all. In the largest meas | ure they have been drawn by railroad lawyers, and you take Judge Roulhac here and I say he is right: they should not do 1t, and, gentlemen. If you ex- pect to have justice between you and | the railroads of the State. you have got to have them drawn by somebody other than railroad lawyers. And yet | they say attack great men and strong men when I make that statement. Let | them make the most of it. They said | that at the Constitutional Convention when I said that Mir Knox, a railroad attorney, was named on the Corporation Committee, and large number of them railroad men, to draw the corporate | laws governing between you and these great corporations should not be ap- | pointed. That you would be governed ! by the corporations. I tell you 1t was l wrong: dead wrong. Whoever heard | of articles of State Constitution gov | erning the corporate interests of the l State of Alabama between the people | of Alabama and the corporations being 1 drawn by a railroad lawyer? Four | ffths of them are railroad lawyers. On