The semi-weekly messenger., 1908-01-21
SEN. HOLT ON EXTRA SESSION

He Is opposed to Hurrsitiy the
Kailroad Question Thr ,ush
Ine Greensboro Telegram has had
an interview with Prof. J. Alien Holt
on the extra session:
Some OF the papers are saying that
the legislature ought to meet and rati-
fy the governors compromise, adjourn
and go home by Saturday night Much
as L should personally like TO act and
get away TO my business again, do
not subscribe to any such views. The
legislature is supposed to be composed
of men who do their own thinking
and those who now recommend hasty
aftlon would be the first 10 criucise
any mistakes made in consequence of
It II nothing is taken up but railroad
makers. do not believe such deliber-
ate bodies could properly and wisely
Pct upon the matter proposed and ad-
Hourn within less than ten days or two
weeks. 1t has taken the governor and
fe roads four months to consider and
afree upon the compromise Unless
! tf legislature wishes to initiate school
! oois trading pocket knives sight un-
seq, the members must take UP the
fater with the deliberation consist
eht with its dignity and far reaching
t, inipTtance of the question involved
Continuing Senator Holt, said: Il
cohsiter the state amply able TO pay
ah' aNd all bills necessary to defend
me pNnciples of popular government
ana tosustain it's dignity If II g rD-
aOie to\do so, for one 7 =hall return
| rome Without drawing ny pay The
ieglsiatute is called together to con-
sloef the\proDosition placed before it,
no. necessarily to ratify IL and accept
| money Tor the perdiem might prove
yer" embarrassing, especially as a con-
oltlon 70 Tn, ratification as appears on
it's face"
| Auy iegsAtOr that goes lack to
ttafelgh 1eelltA that he has done the
| railroads wong, or has been unjust
| 10 theh, mls'uAceiveS both the atti-
tude OF the goT fnor and of President
! F1nley as n3stand their position.
certainly L shaV go back in no such
! spirit. AS I UNI stand it no one has
/ SO Tar SHOWN the IA cent rate to be
unjust or confisc bry. Judge Pritch-
( ard did not at frS SO declare it. Later
| in the process of E litigation. amar-
emily for strategic easons, he did de-
clare the law uncov vttutional. but the
J hearing of Standing g%Master Moutgom-
cry still going on inv way is for that
purpose and he has bot yet reported.
In order 10 stop all lis litigation and
| &c restore peace, NOV to correct a
wrong, perhaps in viE Of recent fl
nancial disturbances tAavoid a hard
J ship common to every f1e of business
| which may be somewhA tampered by
! this slight change in TIL aw, we are
called together Nal man who
has done another man a wrong,
ought to hesitate al moment
| to correct it, though nd might feel
: humiliated in doing SC nu I submit
that We are not conf ontel With this
proposition and every effat whether
it comes from republican ordelnocrat-
ic papers (and both partiesAvoted for
the law with pracaical utanimity)
makes the compromise all thanore diff
ficult'
"At any rate | am not in sGyor of
pulling down the walls and leNng in
this wooden horse without a Through
examination of what is inside VI am
not in favor Of pulling down thdEalls
at ALL
| The horse must not be so largAhat
it will not go through the gates oNhs
state sovereignty walls. Il re
must not only be an apparent, bN Na
real submission on the part of
roads to the right Of the state to re8
late and fix intra-state rates The rd8
fight last winter was one for state col
troll and if the people would turn bach
and read the state democratic platform
they will see the principles for which
the people were fighting That princi
pie was won by the legislature, sus
tanned by the state supreme court
it is before the United States Supreme
court.
There will be no secession from i
when the legislature meets withou
/ stultificatiC.l. ."-High FONT Enterprise
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