The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-09
THE SEVENTH CRAZE.
Graphic Review of Recent Events. From Letter of John T. Dale In wileox

Graphic Review of Recent Events.
 From Letter of John T. Dale in wilcox Press.
 Now comes the seventh craze in my life time-the Railroad Rate craze. Ten years from today it will have spent sors. We propose under this craze u throttle the life out of the railroads, which have done more to develop Ala
 Saoe n na the al stae the %ha was wsf JeeF son County a few years ago2 What the wire-grass region of Southeast Alabama? "A bowling wilderness" To den respectable town? 1 answer, the railroad. If some old citizens who died there ten or twelve years ago could be some morning before daylight, they would not know the place. These are all facts which none will deny. With these facts staring us in the face, we stamp the very life out of the railroads to satisfy the ambition of few dema- gogues.
 road Commission after MT Conner was made President. He had all the big of ticials of the railroads in Alabama to : gether with M. V. Smith, President Of the L. & N, said to be the best inform MT. Conner put them all under oash The first question he asked them was this: What per cent does your road make on the investment?" The answer of all was From to per cent"
 Now let us make some comparisons. If farmer buys plantation and does not realize 20 per cent in way of in- come on his investment annually. he will most assuredly proceed to get rid not get from 150 to 200 per cent on his sRs drRRg hs he sells syanse Snt st ake rh Dutchman's l per cent Is nowhere Still, .n a fit of lunacy we want to put the railroads out of commission when the trade of the country making from 100 to 500 per cent. Am I overdoins l the picture? Have not written the truth? Some fool Is ready to rise and Republican. has just passed rate bill That is so; but they state that 1t Is Democratic thunder. for that was one plank in the Chicago platform. Shame Why are our members Tn Congress | Democratic, so iRlootent, so weak with so little infue9ce? Simply because the party has been guilty Of folly so often folly for the last fifty years. All | these follies and issues and crazes arc
 the off spring of the Democratic party.
 Mir. Roosevelt. in his life of Thomas Benton. says every party that has ever sprung up in this country was an of 1 shoot of the Democratic party except the old Federal pArty--all of which is republican party is so strong and infiu- ential? Because she never rhas any of spring to suckls her to death
 Let the Democratic party qui' siv- ing birth to all the foolishness and Crazes that can be matched In the brair ! of every old demagogue that comes along: lot her wIsh an undyine faith in the principles tai1 down by Jeffer- son, enunciated by Jackson, Cleveland and a host of other bright ana shining iigkts ir cur grand old party, turn her face toward the Capitol at Wash
 incton. with the constitution In ont hand dnj that platform laid down hv Jefferson in the other. yowing she will never commit any aore sollies, and my
 word for t. it will net be ten years
 until she will take the national gov. ernment hy storm, and nod the citadel for an indefinite time.