The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-27

| of so per cent. Here are these twenty one items of common product and use l and consumption. The roads of Ala
 bama charge Alabamians 80 per cent.
 more than the same roads charge Geor- gians. Mark you that Is taken from
 the Southern Railroad, where they
 cross the line. As soon as they cross
 the line they increase the rate 80 per l cent.
 | Some doubt was tried to be cast up-
 on these figures and at the last in l vsstigation, after I was elected, took
 up the question ana checked over item
 by item and I say to you verified that report. That statement and the conn parison given you at that time Is the
 same comparison that exists today. On | these twenty-one items you pay S1.S0 ! where Georgians pay $1."
 Reading the list of articles he said:
 These were the items on which we tried this great freight rate question
 of Alabama and the comparison made with the freight tax paid by the Geor-
 gia manufacturer, producer and con
 sumer on the same class and the same
 railroads shows that Alabama freight
 tax is from 12c to 220 per cent. higher
 than Georgia. In other words, Ala
 banIa paid the same railroads and the
 same class of roads from $1.20 to s2.2O
 where Georgia paid s1 on the above
 Items"
 Referring to people maintaining their
 rights, he said:
 People from the beginning of the world, who have not dared to maintain ; their rights, at the point of a gun if , need be, were never treated right You
 take the story today of China: how
 any country gees in and cuts loose ter
 ritory and occupies it. and the other
 story of Japan in her fight, not to , maintain territory but tc maintain trade i relations. how they entered into the . greatest war, perhaps the world has 7 seen. and they stand today on the pin- nacle of excellence. the marvel of the world, and China stands today on the
 other pinnacle of excellence as being one of the lowest"
 He made his usual appeal for a law I made rate, and said that where any
 man or corporation had a right to fix f its prices. there was no limit Ito his cu- ptdity how much he should charge you" r You can measure anything on earth { except cupidity. What a man wants for , himself, has never been measured and never will be. The same railroads and , the same class of railroads charge, you 5 in Alabama one price, and they charge in Georgia another price, simply because
 in Georgia they have a law that says, : thus far and no fur ther shall you go, and In Alabama they haven't got the | flaw.
 l They say of me that. back wonder Fl 5 Commissioner I would straighten this
 thing out. never said so. said I .t,4 :v t5 dr #. v,S tt. .i~e
 thing I ran up against? One man for
 the people and two men for the rail-
 roads. one man elected bY tho neorl-
 one man railroad lawyer and another
 man a railroad politician. One Colo
 nel Sanders. the other Colonel TunstaIl.
 a railroad lawyer and a railroad poli-
 tician, to try the case of the freight
 rates for the people of Alabama.
 "rhe tax on the freight payers of
 Alabama of $2S,00o,000 a year; s2s,0G0,- , 900 a year that they get from ducer of Alabama, is s2S.000.000 a year.
 and the only thing between you and
 that $2S,000,000 is Tom Sanders and ] Wylie Tunstall. Think of 1t, trying a mans case with his wife and daughter ', on the jury.
 Do you know this 5000 900 is prac-
 tically nine times the amount of your
 State taxes Twentyeight million for
 the railroads, and three million for the , State"
 , Mir. Conner paid his usual respects to . the railroad attorneys. and said, "I f don't want to be misunderstood here. I
 don't want to be found stating that l 3 don't believe in the honesty of the rail- , 1 road lawyer, because do believe he can
  state that environment controls a f l man." .-- t In this connection MT. Conner read ex- 8 l tracts from the speech of Judge Roul- hac at Jackson's Lake saying the rail-
 road lawyer had no right in politics = He stated that Congressman Underwood . had said that the rate legislation bill c now before Congress would pass the L House but could not pass the Senate s because there was too many railroad e lawyers in the Senate
 Many of our politicians" he de l. clared v"don't know what the country :, suffers. They have been a long way: e from you. They have taken this Dem f ocratic party of yours that is founded
 on the people and made platform. but n many of them have gone off and Jeff y the platform. You take the St. Louis e platform. the last one made by the Ma e tional Democratic Convention, and tha r platform is antitrust for the contro l. by the people of these very things ,e am talking about"
 L. He said that he had been called { ' dangerous man, and appealed to thu > fathers and mothers that If that wer' IS so to teach your children to b' IS dangerous men. because In such dang Is erous men lies integrity and the sal l. vation of the state
 To Speaking of Governor Cunningham Is he said Governor Cunningham is of nice man, like him. His platform i! n, as solid as a dollar. a gold dollar d Id that There Is nothing better. Yot 'e couldn't want it any better. He ha le out Comered Conner. Dut back of hin Il is A crowd you are afraid of That il
 the crowd he has to associate with an'
 has carried this over to. That Is no ." for you and never has been" le He made his usual pass issue de
 claring that the farmers and business
 1 -lS " never received them, while the politi lg elan did. Again referring to Dr. Gun ,- ningham, he repeated that four year H. ago, when he asked the doctor wher le he stood with reference to q com ,u mission with power he didn't know ,u He didn't know then but he know " Inow because he knows where you are d Two years and half ago he stil ,e didn't know where you were so h 'd took himself of to Europe to escap " that election. Today he knows exact ,e ly where he stands Today he stand
 for the whole thing
 ,aI MT Conner pronounced himself i io favor of education, local option an | the care of the old soldier
 "a At the conclusion of his speech h ~ made his usual offer to answer ques s tions and was queried by Colonel Mo a' Master as to the change in the la' with reference to stock killed by raj ru roads. which he answered, quoting tn 'e present law. He was also requeste
 by Chairman Reynolds to give th
 valuations of the roads as given in III the auditor and the commission. r'