The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-07-25
SOUTHERN COMMENTS ON
RAILROAD RATES AND THE COURTS

What Virginia must dc, II she acts wise
~, Is to follow. peacetole methods. and
prosecute her claims in the courts to the
court OF last resort To the verdict reached
there we must submit and will submit.
whether 1t Is palatable or not I'VE believe
7 hat court Will treat the State with the,
ed Will be one, the Justice OF which we cannotE
question The course of North Cardinal
spells t.ets revolution and i Is sound policy to
revolution.-Staunton Dispatch. |
II ANYBODY believes we are about to have
civil war between the. State and Federal
authorities over the railway rate cases theyI
are nightly mistaken. After the dema-
gogues and peanut politicians have sotten|
through With their Wild shriekings the
people Will nnd that there has been made
great fuss about Observation-Disclosures IN.
c. Messenger.
The state OF North Carolina may be
dity OF it's rate act, but there appears 10
be wonderful lot OF unanimity among tho
some Of these papers has no doubt been q
surprise to the. Southern. The fight is In
terestins outsideNof the State also, and the
newspap ers as general thing are lining
up with the State on the ground of States
rights: OF course.-Greensboro N. CD
Record.
THE public mind has by this time lost
sight OF the fact that a. two and one-quarter
cent rate is at stake The notification OF
one statute Of the Commonwealth by a.
Federal circuit court means power to nudity
which no State will stand We believe now,
as we believed when the act was passed, &C.
cepting the sworn testimony OF the railroad
officials that two and one-quarter cen. IS
connscatory, but the contesting railroads
have exercised poor augment II they ever
ignoring the state courts"-salisbury n.
! CO Post.
In simple terms. the decision Of Jud ge
at Ashevle was that the penalty clause
OF the rate law passed by the North Caro-
lima legislature is unconstitutional, in tina,
could be wrecked and the investments OF
stockholders ruined. and that the snte had
no legal right to proceed under the new Law
was In the hands Of the Federal court. Thu
! matter now goes to the Supreme Court OF
I appeal by mutual arrangement, the dis
| be ended. II has been the most stirring in
cldent in the judicial circles of the Stat,
/ since reconstruction days, but happily coo
played by those on each side OF the case
/ The main difficulty that OF getting the
matter before the Supreme Court. appf<r
: to have been overcome at last, and the Stat
: lis to be Observation-Disclosures IN. c..
; Evening Chronicle.
4 The best re medy that the situation afford
: is found in frank and full acceptance b.
! the railroads of all laws" because In tina
way alone can the prevailing anti-railroa
sentiment be modified and modified. r
pursue the opposite course is but to increas
and aggravate existing public sentiment
The railroads In the West what's tn
n matter. and they are dealing with difficult
and trying sentiment in practical and ser
q sbe manner. The probability is the raj
! roads Of the East and South will get the
= eyes open to plain facts after while, an
. then the ratio problem Will be gradual
8 worked out In buslness-like rnannI. Til
9 final outcome would then be acceptable to a
q concerned, including the rallroads.-Bii
mingham Age-Herald.