The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-08-21

home. frame l,i~ .,a>- and hang il up
in his house and tell his wife and chill
drcn what IL means:
"New Hampshire III slaveE-thAt
IFS d figure Of speech. a generality
Specifically and exactly. what does IL
mean IL means that any man wno
iaspires TO high office in New Hamp-
shire gets on the train, rides some
seventy miles TO Boston goes 10 tn"
office OF Lucius futile, president OF
'Ihe Boston ana Maine Railroad, and
asks Mr.. futile II he may run. II
means that any member OF the Legs
Iature who would like To get a bill
through gets on the train at Concord,
rides 10 Boston, and pleads with M.
futile. showing him that this bill
won't hurt the Boston and Maine Rail-
road or any Of Mr.. Tuttle's interests.
and only when Mr.. futile gives his
gracious permission does the member
dare to introduce and press his bill.
In the case of minor officials. not inn
portant enough 10 approach the throne
they need not go TO Boston. but must
see the heads of M. Tuttle's ma
chine and lobby. the men who are on
the firing Line in charge Of both par
ties. Alvah w. Sunoway, Benjamin y.
Kimball. Frank :. Streeter, Henry NJ.
Putney. James f. French. John II.
Grown, postmaster at Concord, New
ia III IDSIlll =. L dul LII 1iih'd o.
Consul at Sherbrooke. Canada; Rufus
\. Elwell, John NJ. Mitchell, and Henry
f. Hollis.
Mr.. futile. with these lieutenants
dominates New Hampshire. What
the railroad chooses Il do. il will do:
nobody car stop ii. What il il not
willing to do. it will not do: nobody
can compel it. II i the master: the
people are its slaves"
Now, even from the standpoint OF
the railroad, this is not necessary. New
Hampshire has long been subdued; its
people submit without murmur To po-
: litical domination and endure the most
Wretched service in the The
railroad long ago got all it wanted;
the entire State is organized in its
service. But the lobby which it or
ganiZed ten and twenty years ago VII
not be idle. 1t creates the necessity
for it's own activity and remuneration,
When persons Of the ANDY Hamilton
! stripe are sent out to suppress leSiS-
latiOn. if there is none to suppress,
they VIII inspire it. They must live
md they must Justify their exist
ence. else their living Is gone. HaN-
ing no work to 90 for their oWners.
they hire themselves out to other in
t~erests. When the fire insurance com
panieS wanted protection they asked
the railroad to take charge OF their
interests, n its lobby did so, and the
insurance companies paid the rail
road instead of lobby agents of their
own. When the New England Breed
erS' Club wished to nave the Salem
Race Track chartered with the same
privileges given by New York to its
race-track gamblers, the railroad lob
by took charge of the work. Incident
ally, when the moneys We're distributed
which had been provided to secure tn
passage of the bill they We're placed
in envelopes, most of them containing
$500 each. 1t is believed that when
the envelopes We're prepared a larger
sum vas put in each, but the diStriDu-
tor of the envelopes took out enough
to reduce the aInoun to $500. and
retained the rest for his own use. or
to use for the coming fight in the
Legislature Of 1907, where an effort is
to be made to obtain new Legislation
! allowing gambling.
Good citizens, tanned 20 enduring
What they consider the benevolent
despotism of the Boston and Maine,
journey 10 BOSTON and plead with Mr.
futile to diSband the lobby, for which
he has no further use and which,
for lack Of Worl, TO do for the rail
road, creates infinite mischief to this
state. nut Mr.. futile seems TO deem
it best to maintain his standing army
1t is against his system that Win
StOn Churchill seeks the nomination
for g~oyernorship n a platform which
demands the abolition OF the lobby. OIL
free passes, and of c~alnpaign contribu-
tons from corporations; and calls OF
the railroad to pay its just share oil
the taxes. Whatever the outcome. he
has touched with the enthusiasm OF
rebellion a State so apathetic in it,
slavery that no man thought to See il
rise for many a rear to come.