The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-11
Lstters to The Editor
Law. order and Conasncn Sense wfiI
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Law. order and Conmcn Sense wfM
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 Editor The Advertiser:
 Tn the recent campaign for Governor conservative men had no opportunity to voice their wishes as to railroad regulation. Cunningham said he would go Conner one better, In his war upon the railroads. There was no way to register A formal vote against the de- structlve or vicious Legislation. The great majority of the people only want ed proper regulation for public service corporations, The politicians not looking at things as they are. seized upon the vote for Conner as a direc- ton from the people to enter upon a career of destructive legislation, and thought 1t would be more popular, if accompanied by inflammatory denun- citation of any law or authority which
 Don't politicians know that nearly every enterprise in this country ts car- ried on by corporattonsf All our fac- tories. mining and industrial enter enterprises, are carried on by corpor- ations Even dry goods and grocery stores are frequently incorporated. Many of our churches, and even the These corporations carry on the busi- ness of the country, and employ Q large portion of the population. When vengeful or unjust war is made upon any kind of corporation. 1t is war upon the best interest of the people where. they do their work and is a stab at the best interest of the men who work for them.
 But the politicians have gone even further. They have tried to persuade laws of the United States are an in- iquity. They have how1ed, when they know better, that otates rights and local authority are destroyed. if a suit a In. A. Tyv.4k Ctn4 where the Constitution and laws say it may be brought, If that court exe- eutes the laws They have sought to 1ncite resistance to that courts or ders, and to shield themselves from the consequences of open resistance, by trying to get 1t effected by illegal or. ders from other courts. Refiecting peo- pie in our own State, and throughout the United States were both amazed and indignant. They could not under stand the notions of a people who could be worked into q frenzy. because a suit was lawfully brought in a court where the Constitution of the United States gives man the right to go, to protect property right. What harm this lawless agitation has done. any one who thinks and looks around him can easily see and learn. Not the least of It's consequences, is the breeding of spirit of disrespect for all law, and a general upsetting of confidence
 Whether the railroad rates are re. munerative depends upon the taking of an account of stock, and until that Is done, nobody can know what the facts are. These agitators, however, roam around the country saying the court shall not take this Inventory, and pass upon the rights of the parties, and ad- wise their poor dupes to defy the au- thority of the United States. Has a man patriotism who does that? Has be any regard for the welfare of his fellow man? Does he care a snap for the people? These politicians are sad ly mistaken in their reckoning. AL ready indignant outbursts of men who work on the railroads are rising in the land denouncing their cowardly policy of beating railroads into sub mission by treating their innocent em- ployee as criminals. The men who have been injured by the stopping of enterprises, calling in of loans, and the distrust which has been created at home and abroad. have long mem ories. The agitators who are respon- sible for this state of affairs will not hear the last of 1t for years to come The man who expects to have the con- fidence and support of the people here- after. must stand for reason, law. or- der and common sense. Truth