The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-11-05
4 RAILROAD AND RADICAL HUI
LABALOO TO HURT THEE
CAUSE.

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Those papers which never raised
their voices because the railroads are
charging the people Of North Carolina
half a million dollars too much every
year on freight and passenger fares
are suddenly very much disturbed be-
cause the rate litigation 10 costing
snn.s n OF curse II 10 costing
money. You canno be ha.ed into the
Federal court, compelled 70 60 to New
York and Washington. forced to en-
ploy experts, and fight the machina-
tons OF the most astute railroad
lawyers in the country without spend
ing money. one reason Why the
Southern Railway moves its cases
into the Federal court is because the
cost is 3, great and the methods 90
u~nknowable that n average man
feels that he cannot maintain himself
in that forum without bankruptcy.
Therefore most individuals. who have
claims against a railroad that runs
a through fast train for its cases to
the Federal court. are forced to
compromise and surrender a part of
their just claims. A convenient II
friendly Federal Judiciary has In that
particular alone saved the southern
Railroad hundreds Of thousands Of
dollars and has by the same oxen cost
humble %litigants the amount saved to
the railroad.
When the Southern Railway procured
its injunction against the State Of
North Carolina-(a proceeding re-
quiring the overruling of that pro,
vision OF the Constitution that says a
state cannot be sued)-itS lawyers
argued that the State would surrender
or COMPROMISE because the cost or
maintaining the suit would be so
great. They forgot that if the South
ern Railway has large the
State of North Carolina car match
dollar for dollar in a contest to de-
eide which is to be sovereign IN North
Carolina-and that is the question
now involved. They forgot, too, that
in Benjamin Frank lin Long 1t had 2
Judge who would uphold the honor OF
the judiciary and the right of the
State to make and execute its laws.
And they forgot that in Robert B.
Glenn thu State had a Governor who
would be- true to his oath of office
and maintain the right of the State
to enforce laws affecting public ser
vice CORPORATIONS as we'll as private
individuals, no matter what the cost.
And, more than that, they forgot that
the people of North Carolina with a
unanimity unparelled in the history OF
the State are behind the Governor,
glad and ready to foot the bills to
make the necessary fight to enforce
the laws of the State. BY Federal
Court coercion. the Southern has
compelled individuals to surrender
their rights because it cost too much
to maintain them. But it cannot
coerce the State of North Carolina It
has the means and it has the will to
maintain its rights, no matter what
the cost-and the sooner the rail-
that. the better it will be for
all concerned.
Those radical and railroad organs,
which are so much troubled because
the State is paying eminent lawyer
to defend 1t from the attack made
upon it's right to enforce its laws.
have never criticized the law defying
railroads for steady and systematic
extortion Of the people amounting to
$500 600 a year. If the State wins
this case, it will save to the people
of North Carolina from the Southern
Railway alone, according to their
own statement $296,747 a year. Is it
not worth paying tens of thousands Of
to effect this saving? And if
the reduction would mean that much
the Southern Railway alone. the
saving on the Atlantic Coast Lin and
the Seahoard will increase that
materially.
The truth is that the State has not
paid all it's attorneys as much as At
torney Thorn gets in one yea not to
speak OF the amounts paid to Attor-
neys Stetson, Rodman. Avery. Pou.
and others every dollar of
Is collected by the Southern
IL of the people of North
and SO far the total expenses
has not been much more than the
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Evening Times, nor one
t~housandth part as much as it has
spent in substituting the old Raleigh
Tribune. Morning Post, and other
newspapers and lawyers and lobbyists
and politicians who have been in its
These railroad, radical and
kicking organs never had any criti-
cism of such use of money aiken from
the people by excessive fares and
freights fer such unlawful purposes.
They hold all their wrath because pub
lie none: is being spent to stop such
unwarranted use of money and to stop
extortionate charges aggregating over
a million dollars a year!
The people of North Carolina are
a~bundantly able to carry on this liti-
which they have begun and
The inspired hullabalo about the cost
Will not affect any of them except
those who sneeze when a railroad
magnate takes snuff or VINO are
to kick at whatever they did