Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-08-25

pass Will understand. Consider, too
that the recipients of passes are the
most intelligent, fearful and aggres-
SiVe' the natural leaders In each com
munity. The 5000 holders of passes
III IL De that number-who, by their
natural gifts, by their education, by
thelr happy endowment of forceful
personality, ought to be the leaders
IN uplifting their neighbors, are in
reality the bell-wethers who betray
the other 100000 fare-paying resi-
dents of New Hampshire into the
power of the railroad.
The most conspicuous and most
powerful, though not the most num-
erous, class of pass-holders are the
newspapers. That is why Mr.. Church
Ill, In his campaign against the rail-
roads, can count on getting his
speeches into only seven papers in
the state"
The lawyers, Mr.. Sullivan tells us,
form another important class of
pass-holders. We read:
With all the newspapers and all
the lawyers of a state thus employed
TO be stified, what relief can be had
against public or private wrongs
committed by the railroads. Quite
apart from the political effect of such
widespread pass-giving to lawyers,
suppose you are hurt in a railroad
accident; you carry your case to the
leading lawyer of your town, you find
he has been thoughtfully retained
by the railroad-in his inside pocket
is pass marked RITZ; you try the
next leading lawyer, and the next,
and the next. They have all been
retained" Only some obscure law
yer, of capacity so mean as not to be
thought worth while by the railroad,
is left to redress your private wrong"
What does New Hampshire in
slavery literally mean; asks Mr..
Sullivan. And he answers:
1T means that any man who
aspires to high Office in New Hamp-
shire gets on the train, rides somes
20 miles to Boston, goes to the office
of Lucius Tuttle, president of the
Boston G Maine railroad, and asks
Mr.. Tuttle If he may run; 1t means
that any member of the legislature
who would like to get a bill through
gets on the train at Concord, rides
to Boston, and pleads with Mr.. Tut
tie, showing him that this bill won't
hurt the Boston & Maine railroad or
any of Mr.. Tuttle's interests and
only when Mr.. Tuttle gives his gra-
cious permission does the member
dare to introduce and press his bill"
For further description of Mr.. Tut
ties methods we read:
He came into a perfect autocracy,
and filled it with dictatorial and
vindictive personality. He visited
reckless vengeance on all who oppos~
ed him. In 1896 the governor of the
state, was as susual, railroad man,
a director in the Concord & Montreal,
one of the subsidiaries of the Bos-
ton & Maine. But this governor in
advertently allowed his functions as
head of the state to overbalance his
function as a railroad director. In
message he advocated the building Of
trolley roads to compete with the
Boston & Maine, adding, as a timid
palliative to Tuttle's anger: L do not
believe it will be a menace to the
Boston & Maine, because it will bring
as much business as it takes away.
For the rest of the incident | am in
debted to ex-senator Chambers ac-
count: Mr.. Tuttle. reading this in
tervlew at his railroad Office in Bos-
ton, demanded by telephone that the
governor should not be reelected a
Concord director, and on. October lS
his orders were carried out"