The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1907-08-09
The Railroad Civil War at an
End.

The controversy between the
/ North Carolina State laws and the
United States authorities, which has
been in progress for some weeks and
had almost reached the extremes of
violent, forceible conflict, at
Raleigh and Asheville. in the State
mentioned, has been brought to a
basis upon which all violent demon
STATIONS are to be wholly abandoned
and the peaceable methods of judi
cial arbitration be depended on for
I am adjustment.
The State of North Carolina,
through its Legislature, had adopted
a railroad passenger rate in. the
limits Of the State OF two and one
half cents q mile. The railroads
had been requiring more than that
rate, and refused to obey the law
Railroad offenders were arrested and
punished, and the railroad corpora
tons were heavily fined. The rail
roads appealed to the circuit FEEDER
al courts and secured injuncti0ns
annulling all State laws in the prem
Uses and declaring void the judg-
ments Of State courts Herewith con
nected.
The Governor of North Carolina
defied the injunctions and these de
crees of notification, and when
threats of Federal forces were launch
ed against him. they were met by
declarations of defane and of a
determination to continue to enforce
/ the State laws. The next step must
have been to use Federal force, but
the idea Of wantonly and deliberate
ly bringing on civil war became SO
serious that a reasonable settlement
was found to be imperative, and
that must be accomplished by the
courts.
The railroads had unnecessarily
started the trouble. They could
have found redress first by applica-
ton to the State courts and then in
case Of appeal the United States
courts were available, but they were
not willing to conform to obvious
methods. Their idea was to use
the national power to annul the
State laws and to overthrow the
State courts, Thereby expressing for
both laws and courts unmitigated
contempt.
Perhaps most other State Cover
nors would have submitted to the
first blow from the gloved hand Of
the National Government, but Gov
ernor Glenn was not of that sort
He returned blow for blow and was
ready to meet the mailed fist with
like show Of force. The seriousness
of the situation brought the railroads
to their senses, and the basis upon
which a settlement was begun is
that the State laws remain in opera
ton until the constitutional Ques-
tons involved shall be adjudicated
by the courts. If the railroads had
adopted such an obvious and proper
course in the beginning there would
have been no trouble, and it Is the
correct thing that they have been
driven to DO this after all their va
porting.
1t is doubtful if the railroads in
the Southern States can with safety
to their reasonable interests endure
a reduction of their passenger fares,
but there was only one way TO settle
the question and that is through the
court in a peaceahle way. The IN
wise and and incorporate acts Of
the railroads in North Carolina came
near precipitating a revolution
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