The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-03
Letters to The Editer
Something for Business Men to ThinI< About. /

Something for Business Men to rhink About.
 Editor Advertiser:
 hide their faces in shame for having put Into office such men as Conner and Nesoittg These two business men who in nav Desn honored by exalted offices sHorts to throttle the railroads of Aia psma through Legislature domi- n.ated by the Governor, are now pos. prosecutors in case before the Inter state Conmere Commission pending in Atlanta, Ga.
 roa5s They ola know ss ry very yell that the rail, legal rate of interest on the real val ue or their properties, but still for selfish purposes they want to reduce railroad earnings still further. They Whieh they are respectively engaged, yield net profits. of four or five times as great per cent as do any railroad properties in this country.
 Gov. Conner knows that he is earn Ing an immense profit on his various cotton pills, Notwithstanding the fav- oraoie Child Labor laws which he has succeedsd h bringing about.
 MT. Nespitt knows that he Is earn ing and immense per cent. of profit on the business in which he Is en- gagged as warehouseman. etc, in sbippsrgs cam sun. o because these two
 
 it to themselves by a reduction of freight rates, they are ignoring the demands of the public that the rail- enable them to improve their equip ment and gender better service
 Isn't 1t all great big piece of dem asEaagy q a am and t play to the galleries? Isn't bama, through her high State officials should be put in this attitude?
 This whole freight rate proposition ought to. bring blush of shame to every patriotic Alabamian and cause him to long for the days when states men hlled our, offices.
 or eight thousand dollars of the fifty thousand dollars of the peoples mon ey. appropriated under the direction of for printing the. records of all the rate cases on appeal from Judge Jones Court to the Circuit Court of Appeals at New Orleans. Every lawyer and every layman knows that it was noth- ing but extravaganza and an attempt to play to the. galleries and make a big noise that prompted Gov. Conner and his hired attorneys, to print the records in all these rate cases instead of printing the record in only one.
 Surely all these attorneys could hope for would be to get the law set- tied, and surely the principles of law applica ble in one case are applicable in all, still 1t sounds bigger to take up five or six cases instead Of taking up only one. and Conner will have bet ter excuse for paying the attorneys big fee for making briefs and argu- ing the several cases instead of con fining their labors to one case.
 Business men who are not aetuated by selfish or political motives do not do business that way.
 1t is high time that the business men of this State were taking an act i've hand in politics.
 It is the duty of the business men or the State to enlighten those with whom they come in contact upon the demagogy abroad in the land. It it their duty to tell ths plain people that the politician who seeks to des- troy railroad properties in order to get into office is almost as dangerous to the community as an anarchist. ..
 It has already been debonstrated to the vast majority of consumers in Alabama that reduction in treighS rates, as a general proposition, is or no benefit to them; that while it crip- ples the railroads and renders. them unable to properly perform their du. ties to the public, no one is benefited except the large wholesale men. started against the railroads, the dema- sarted against the railroads, the dena- gogues proclaimed from every stump and every hill top that reduction or in the prices Of the necessities ot lire to the farmers and other consumers.
 The untruthfulness, the deception or these promises has been demonstrates to the people. and 1t Is hoped that they will hesitate long before again need ing the utterances ot sueh otpce seek CTS Day Laborer