Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-09-26
GIVES HIS VIEWS
Senator TIIlman Talks on CUES
tlons ofthe Day.
TOURED MANY STATES

pie Regarding Real Issues-Thinks
That American People Will Never
Be "BambOozled" by Corporation
Interests-Says Capitalization VIII
be Vital Issue i'm Coming Campaign
Senator Benjamin r. Tillman, af.
ter visiting thirty states since the
adjournment OF congress, and meet
ing thousands of people, gives the
Hearst New Service at San Francisco
his observations on the vital ques-
tions OF the hour and issues that will
predominant in the coming presden-
tial campaign. He does not discuss
candidates or politicians, because he
says he does not know anything
about what they are doing in the
way of political combinations and
tickets
The one significant transaction or
fact that has come to the front since
the adjournment of congress last
March is the apparent clash, or
threatened clash, between state and
control corporations and railroads.
Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Nebraska, /,
New York, Pennsylvania, North Car
olina and Alabama have passed two
cent fare bills and taken other prom
inent action in the direction of regu-
lating charges for freight and pas
senger transportation. Governor
Hughes vetoed the New York bill.
The Pennsylvania railroad, which
owns the State, set about annulling
the two-cent fare bill. People of 9TH
er States felt grateful except in
North Carolina and Alabama. Unit
ed States Circuit Judge Jones issued
sweeping injunctions restraining the
state officials from enforcing the laws
The constitutionality of the law was
not attacked. 1t could not he at
tackled, except upon the plea of coa-
fiscation. y
While the matter was in the pup
lie mind, the plutocratic press teemed
with editorials and cartoons, all 10
tended to direct the attention of the
people to the ghost of state rights,
which we were told was shot to death
In 81 and '65. The country was led
TO suppose that North Carolina and
Governor Glenn were attempting a re-
yival of the old ante-bellum doctrine,
In truth, these organs of Morgan,
Hartman, Rockefeller, ct al, have at
tempted to mislead the people and
bolster up the Root idea of national
authority upon absolutely false
grounds.
When Judge Prichard and Jones
stand up and proclaim in laundering
tones I'VE are the nation; we have
1.-THE power and authority to protect
vested interests and the state shall
mot destroy the property of the rail
roads" they wave their arms franti-
Ically and the ghost of Calhoun is con-
(jured from under the bed. The bid
lit be gone. People who have eyes
land who examined this affair closely.
lsaw, looking over the judges shoul-
tders. the grinning faces of the rail
lroad magnates-and the judges are
l'mere mannikins, obeying the orders
lof their former employers.
The American people will never be
bamboozled and driven by fake ap
!, peals to the national spirit, invoked
Rockefeller gang in their efforts to
compel producers of the country It
pay tribute to them and dividends oil
watered stock.
The ursurpations of power by the
federal judiciary and the absolute
sovereignty by many federal judges
In the interests of the trusts and th'
necessity for congressional action in
clearly defining and laying down the
jurisdiction and power of federal
courts, will attract more attention
than the great question of regulating
trusts themselves.
judicial usurpation and trust abus
es and co-relative luestions-the two
are interlocked and one hinges on the
other, as President Roosevelt recent
ly recognized when he made the is
sue in 1904 and 1905, that the rail
road rate fixed by the commission
should go into effect Immediately AMI
stick there till reversed by the courts.
or course, we all know he surrender
ed on this important point and thai
Aldrich came off victor. This bit of
legislatives history turns the light on
the striking fact that in North Car
olina the attempt was made to do
just what the president declared
all railroads ought to be compelled
to do. But the federal court butted
In and said they could not do 1t, but
they did.
The Root idea of Capitalization
will be the vital issue In the next
presidential campaign. The Root idea
will he pressed bv the Republicans
and Roosevelt; the Democrat Will,
naturally and inevitably. take the
other side.
This nation must speak Though
congress and define the powers Of
federal courts that are clutchine
states and everything else by the
throatS.
The real and proper method oil
government control and regulation ol
trusts is the other important cues
tIon which must be determined in the
next campaign.