Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-05-03
DIFFERENT SPEECHES BY Different
MEN,


lie I'm that the text Of the speech some |
how got loose from the White House
several DAYS before it's delivery and
struggled into Wall street, where it
bumped about in such fashion as to
cause quite rise in various stocks.
Since reading the speech we have won
dered what there was in it which could
perform such feat. Possibly it was
because he did not visibly show his
teeth and threaten dire things, or call
any body Ananias, or jump directly on
the railroads or other corporations.
About the same time another speech
was being delivered. This was one
from the mouth of Mr.. Melville E. In
gals, President of the Big Four Rail-
way. This was delivered to an assem-
bly, consisting of three hundred or
more railway presidents, vice presi-
dents, freight agents, traffic managers
and other officials, manufacturers.
SC, who were the guests at banquet
given by the Traffic Club of Pittsburg.
Mr.. Ingalls, was not the only speaker,
but the only one We will at this time
mention. MIR. Ingalls, had in his mind
the man who was speaking at the
jamestown Opening-for he referred
sarcasticallY to the tendency of calling
on the President to rectify every thiDg:
Mr. Ingalls, condemned rebatlpg and
se3ret contracts, designed to crush out
competition, but he maintained that
there are always dishonest men in every
profession. but the great mass of re-
bares and contracts in the past have
been made by railway officials In abso-
lutte good faith and, as they believed,
for the interests of the property they
represented. Now the end had come
and special privileges were to be no
more. AS to the future. he said:
"YOu may abuse the railway men,
you may by chance force into bank
ruptcy railway lines, but you cannot
wipe out the great transportation in
dustry, the great business represented
| by the railways, without destroying
| the business OF your country.
You must manage your railways"
be said, addressing himself to the rail-
road men, $50 as to placate the public.
While being conservative and protect
ing your interests you must give the
| public the consideration that ia due
| them. You must reason and explain
your situation to Congress, to Legisla-
lures, to city governments, to CONNER
cial bodies.
| "Above all; you must have legisla-
ton giving you authority to contract
and make agreements between your
selves which can be enforced. These
agreements must be public, and in case
of complaint, passed upon by the In
terstate Commerce Commission. You
must have legislation providing that
no new railways shall be built or new
stock and bonds issued, except with
the approval of the Interstate Com
merce Commission.
In the above extracts is much food
for thought. They show that Mr.. In
gals is sore. that he does not like the
President, that he condemns rebatins
after years of practice, and when he
simply had to, that dishonest men ir
railroading are mere visions in hil
mind, and do not 90 further than the
clerk who purloins cash, that the con
!, tracts be says we're made in "absOluts
!, good faith"-such possibly as hav'
, just been shown between tho STANDARD
Oil and the Chicago & Alton RY.
where the Standard Oil has been fount
; guilty in 1400 cases, and is liable t,
fines of % million dollars; the goot
faith being that a favorite was pro
, tected and the general public sQueez
ed, and the good faith being furthe
, found in the fact that all the time tn,
] rebator and the rebatee knew the,
were violating the law of the land
and would be still doing SO. but for tn
fact that the man who was speaking a
jamestown that day had ordered pros
ecutions. They show that danger o
bankruptcy is held up by railroads a
a bugaboo to scare off needful legisla
tiOn. and lastly they show that ther
5 is now a concerted effort on the par
Of the railway magnates to Obtain
4 some kind Of law by which No NEy
RAILROADS shall be built except wit
the approval of the Interstate Com
merce Commission. When a railwa
magnate finds himself before crow
J. of loyal sympathisers, as Mr.. Ingall
: did on this occasion, then the trut
q will bubble over, no matter how AYERS
e he may be to it on all other occasions
}. The railroad world is now trying t
make the Interstate Commerce Con
mission supreme, and then they wi
own the commission, and thus the
. will be supreme. This is a happ
thought, just as happy as those othe
9 thoughts which seemed to indicat
: that railway magnates can in "abst
= lutte good faith" violate the laws G
the land, as they have been doing q
openly and as boldly as ever a maske
l. dark lantern man pried open doc
. with jimmy, or dYnamited the vaul
of bank.
). Mr.. W. A. Cardwell, late Speaker G
y the Virginia House of Delegates, ha
u decided not to run for the Legislator
again. The cause of his declination
g not made public, but it was said h
O intended entering the Congressions
j, race. This be now denies. We thin
+ his course a wise one, since publ
g opinion, whether rightfully or wrong
9 fully, seems to oppose such central
\ zatiOn of power in Hanover county a
the e. g. o. Ry. seems to exert there.
The Hon. "Bill" Taft and tie Hor
e Joseph b. Foraker, both candidate
a for the Ronuhlican prosjdontioI NOM,