Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-04-06
Express Rates Filed.

Express Rates F1eo
The Southern Express Company has fl
ed with the Alabama railroad commission
partial schedule of it's rates, as required
by an order of the commission at its last
meeting.
The new law gives the commission
authority over the express companies
we'll as the railroads.
The ruling with reference to express
panies is new. 1t is said the Southern
Express Company has 13l 900 rates in Ala
bama. Heretofore none of these rates
were distributed to the public.
We do not know how many rates, secret or
public, in Georgia but they have one rule that
is workde overtime, and that is to charge as
much as they think the consignor can pay or
will stand for. If there is blood sucking
vampire on the commercial south that at all
compares with the Southern Express Company
we do not know of it. The time will come when it
will be regulated by the railroad commission
MR
Editor Tom Watson OF the Jeffersonian al
ways, virile is not nearly always right. The
following from the editorial section of this weeks
Jeffersoniau is characteristic of his pointed
style as we'll as his unfair comparisons of char
acter:
"Surely, The Senator Was Drunk"
Cd Cornelius A. Jackson was signalman
on the Elevated Railway in New York City.
Owing to his neglect of duty, car filled with
passengers ran off the tract, September 70,
1905, and twelve persons were killed. jackson
was tried for criminal negligence, convicted and
sent to the penitentiary for five years.
Cd Percy Martin, young man who It IS
said had been smoking cigarettes, reading dime
novels, attempted to hold up and rob Seaboard
Air Line train in Mecklen burg county, N. =.
He was tried, convicted and sentenced to th1r-
teen years Penitenary.
Attempted, mind you! Percy did not hoid
train, nor did he rob one.
But he got thirteen years, Just the same.
A powerful corporation was after him, you see.
Who is at the head of the Seaboard Air
Line Railroad?
Thomas f. RYAN How did he get it?
Stole it from Shelton Williams of Rich
mond, Va.
Williams built up the Seaboard Airline
system and after he had got it in shape to ne
profitable, Tom Ryan slipped into the hem
house and made off with the poultry.
With infinite address, profound cunning
patient diplomacy, ruthless rascallty Tom
RYAN, under approved Wall Street forms, stole
the whole Seaboard Airline Railroad from
John Shelton Williams.
How hell must have roared with laughter
as Satan related to his COur1erS the trial ConV1C"
ton and sentence of Percy Martin tor attempt
ing to rob the Seaboard Airline Railroad J!
Percy attempted to hold up one OF the
trains; Ryan held up the whole bus1ness-roao'
bed, trains, passengers and all.
Percy stole nothing; Ryan stole the whole
outfit.
If we had written year ago that gambling
in Savannah would be given death blow with
in a wear we would have been hooted at. But
truly the world do move, and with 1t clPlza-
ton.
The Savannah news of yesterday says edi-
torially:
It has been said SO many times in years
past that the police couldn't be used to
break up gam bling in this city that the public
had come to believe that the gambling
houses were impregnable and that professl-
onal gambling was something that we might
expect to abide with us forever. The raid on
gambling houses by the police late last night
shows that it is an easy matter to break up
gambling establishments and get evidence
against the gam bers when the work is under
taken in a determined and intelligent
manner Policy gambling was broken up
some time ago. and now the other kinds
of bling, it is pretty safe to say, have
received their death blow. When the
courts have done with the offenders there
will be little disposition to reopen the gam
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