The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-09

seat alone, but as far back as the coun- " goes. There are children there. and
 as the other children. If was your
 chief magistrate. I would do what I
 could along that line.
 l was over at Fayette making a talk
 the other day to the olo soldiers I be-
 lieve in the old soldiers. and I believe the rev years we have. he should be csred for. After my talk one old gen
 tleman. an old solcier. presented me
 with hickory cane. He said that Old Hickory Jackson gave him the cane.
 and that I was like old Hickory I I am like Old Hickory. because Old | Hickory would take a position and stay there and die there if necessary. When 1 the end of the day comes. | will be | there. My wife says that too, I don't | mean ladies, that 1 rule at home. You l all recollect the story of the eggs and
 wife that he would go out with bask-
 ct of eggs and a pair of horses, and at l every house where the wife ruled, he
 would give the man an egg, and where l the husband ruled. he would give him
 a horse. Late in the evening, most of | the eggs were gone, but he still had
 the two horses, when he struck one
 house. and asked who ruled at that
 house. The man said T rule" the wo-
 man said, "that's right. he rules" the
 man said 'Aal right. come and get a
 nor, horse, The other . man says Well | The woman said, NO. take the gray" | The marf said. No, I think the roam
 is the best horse" The woman said. l The man hummed and hawed, and final
 ly said. All right. will take the gray
 and the other man said, No, you won't; you will take an egg"
 Now, about immigration. l am in | favor of immigration, but am not in | favor of Coolie labor-cheap labor | That~won't do. know that the dream | of the farmer is to have high priced | cotton oh a hnt work It never did work. High | priced product and high priced labor | go together. You show me a country | anywhere; where they have cheap labor and I will show you n mighty sorry country. If you expect to build up Chiffon County, you have got to have
 this coolie labor IS concerned. I am bit- terly opposed to 1t, as I said over In Blount County, you make the wages | right, and the people will take care of
 immigrants. but we have got to build
 up the country with good citizens We are always anxious for them, but noth-
 ing builds down a country so much as cheap labor.
 Now train loads and car loads of im- migrants are going away from home. What Is the trouble? Because the con- ditions are not'right to maintain those people. We ought to- make Alabama with such conditions that the people will stay here and die here, and then
 immigrants of the right kind will
 want to go over this great fight
 that we have been making with the
 trusts. for the purpose of securing for freight treatment. take the position that d trust in Alabama is the same as trust anywhere else. I take the position that the l.. and N. Railroad,
 that it will do so as Armour & Com
 pany would; if it had the power to
 make new freight rates, they would
 make them higher. That is only hu-
 man. If they didn't, they would be a different character of men than any ever heard of. You take a man who
 has 1t in his power to make d higher
 rate, and he makes 1t. You take a
 man who has 1t in his power to charge | more, and he charges more; if he don't. you have got to make new class of have gone further than that. and said | that We have two men that control 1 the State of Alabama. am going
 through the papers showing if your l freight rate doesn't cut much figure l in your business. What is the differ | ence in the rate claimed by the com
 mission, and the. rate charged in busi-
 ness? They claim that cutting down | the freight rates won't help you prac- l tically. Let's see if that Is true. In l Chiffon County your overcharge on | guano is about 75 cents d ton in freight. | They say that isn't much. But think | of 1t. when you have to pay toll tax and how many of you don't pay your | poll tax. On two tons of guano you have to pay as much excess freight as your poll tax amounts to. You pay DO 1 per cent more than Georgia, and 100 | per cent more than Carolina The
 law actually goes into the little gr.st mill and charges for grinding your | eighth of bushel for grinding bushel | of corn. In Georgia they pay one eighth and in Alabama they pay one
 eighth, Suppose .n this same business
 Mississippi charges one-eighth of a bushel and Alabama charges two -eights
 of bushei. wouldn't you go and tear
 your mill up? Would you stand it, and
 They say that isn't trueA Let's see if | it is true. This isn't my work; 1t is
 not from Conner. but from Mir. Oliver,
 and Mir. Oliver was for twenty years the
 freight agent of the L. and N. Road . l I will read from him just a minute. | This is published in The Montgomery
 Advertiser. It was read all over the | State, and 1t has never been denied.
 never corrected. and never objected to. In other words. the Alabama toll | sheet Is 1 7-S per cent. bigger than
 the Georgia toll sheet is, On 1 500 items | the rate on 45 miles is three per cent. | They object to my comparison because l they say l go down and get things that
 are not fair. but this is Oliver and have got a comparison I made at | the same time on 51 items. On those | 51 items of freight, and I will read you the list and after have read the | list. l want you to think what you
 make outside of that; what you ship | beyond that
 | made these comparisons with the
 same rates in Georgia and the rate
 was from twenty to l20 per cent. high
 CT in Alabama than 1t is in Georgia | In other words, your toll sheet runs
 from one fifth to two and one fifth
 times as big and yet they say the peo-
 making light, they are prosperous,
 making money. and have nothing to ne | dissatisfied with: that you are going | to quit. l tell you in reply to that | that you can feed negro and q dog
 and feed them so much that they will
 you feed a white man, the higher he climbs. and Buster Brown says that the more the ladder holds out. the higher you can climb, and Buster is l right. I put those comparisons in and | I tried the case on that and I tried | item by item with the different rates
 as long as I could stand f, but I | When we put that before the Commis- l sion, they said they could not allow a | cut in the rate because the roads were | not making enough money. That un- | der our law they ought to make more | money than they were tmaking before l this good: All of those statements were -parte statements of the rail | roads They gave their own state | ments of value and their own staie c. | ments of incomes from their books | and everything was perfect by their gle, it wouldn't be right to levy on the | farn1ers of Alabama. and if you don 4