The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-10-25
PRAISE FOR THE SOUTH
Comes from Justice Gaynor in Address al
Jamestown Roosevelt is
Also Commended

Brooklyn Day at the jamestown ex-
position Tuesday was favored with per-
feet weather The exercises we're
held in the drawing room Of the New
York building, where an grafton was
delivered by Justice William J. Gay
nor, who said, in part:
We are on the soil Of the south,
where government is pure, where
statesmanship is high, where private
greed and corruption are not and never
were uppermost, where politics ant
government have never been debauch-
ed by the use OF money and the greed
OF private interest Nowhere is the
great American spirit stronger and
more patriotic than here in the new
south. The new problems before the
country it is meeting in that high
spirit, and with that high aim, which
alone in government as in religion,
in science, and in all that goes to
human advancement, can achieve good
results, however slowly and gradually
Judge Gaynor spoke Of the commerce
Of the country, typified in the exposi-
ton, and how it has been shackled
and conferred in monopolies by favorit-
ism Ia freight rates, and said:
Eve cannot too often think of this
thing. Our commerce should be abso-
lutely free. Competition in it must be
free, and not destroyed by the aid of
privilege or favoritism. There is no
other way to prevent monopolies, and
no greater curse can come to a coun-
try than monopolies. That our rail
ways, which are and were from the
beginning by law-by the very law
of their being-our public highways,
should be used to create and sustain
monopolies, is the greatest crime Of
cur day and generation. l need not
say to you that if / can get my oil,
or my sugar, or my tobacco, or my
wheat, or my wire fence, or any com.
modify, carried over the highways OF
the country at one-quarter or one
third the freight which you have to
pay, / can thereby undersell you and
all competitors that much in the mar
ket and ruin you; and establish mon
opoly in myself. And that is what
has been done for many years all over
the country and is being done now
Some think that because a penal law
was passed against it that it was stop
ped, They did not know the immeas-
ureable distance between the passing
OF some laws and their observance.
Judge Gaynor praised President
Roosevelt for his efforts to stop the
rebate evil, and said:
I'm my part of the country, which
is under the caves of Wall street, and
partly debased and dabauched by the
gambling OF that place, there are many,
some wickedly and falsely, and some
stupidity, as mere parrots, denouncing
President Roosevelt for bending the
energies of government to stop this
great evil. They call his couse "a
general attack on corporations and on
business. Yes, this effort to make
the railroad companies obey the law
and charge the same rate to every
one is called an attack on corporations
ano on business. 1t is pitiful to sea
some stockholders join in this false
cry. Cannot even the stupidest stock.
holder see that if the rebates being
given to favorite shippers, and by them
divided up with railroad magnates and
officials were paid into the treasures
of the railroads, the amount thus re-.
received would be declared out in div
idends, and that dividends would
thereby be largely increased? 1t used
to be saying that a fool was born
every minute, and fear it holds
good yet Every one should support
the president and the government in
eradicating this great evil. And we
must see to it that a successor to
President Roosevelt is elected who
will continue the work with his una
bated energy and purpose"
FOURTEEN YEARS AGE LIMIT.