New-York tribune., 1908-12-08
INDUSTRIES AND RAILROADS.

panied by corresponding increase IN southern
| transportation capacity.
INDUSTRIES AND RAILROADS.
| Industrial development of any section. Mr..
Finley said, must necessarily 60 hand in hand
with railroad development, and without the lat
ter the South would have found it impossible to
advance as far 1t has since the Civil War
Speaking of the railroad facilities of the South
and it's need for greater. more comprehensive
transportation development. Mr.. Finley said:
The Southern states are not now so well supplied
and popuIation as are SOME other sections of the
country. 1t is the duty Of those VINO are engaged
vide adequate facilities. far it is within their
Ss G d9 so %ho Ig5 n G e SnS
pose upon them If they are sustained by healthy
and constructive public opinion.
The railway. d corporation, has no voice in
the laws for its regulation Its physical property
extend5g in part thT99gh sP9rsey SeteS t6e
most defenseless property that exists In the FeTy
nV Wien 95 .'S in the Darkness Of the night watches
in times Of stress and peril and in the enactment
of public opinion stands guard over its rights and
railways Gf the South & are its hghway5 y5 to to
the markets of the world Iney are esSead % II
community. Without them its development would
coast and to localities reached by navigable
streams. Its agricultural industgia! ana an G0IeT b
railways able to carry constantly increasing vol
VEINS Tf3 "a and arteries Of the body polite ana the in
66 in Of te SRF a6y sSffSn eoe6t III ns to perform heir
function Of transportation is identical with the
operation of his crculatory system.
WISE PUBLIC SERVICE LEGISLATION
NEEDED.
Mr.. Finley emphasized the necessity OF wise
public service legislation. Railroads he said
should be subjected to such regulations as will
safeguard the interests Of the public, but ne
emphatically added there should be special gov
ernment tribunals for the adjustment OF con-
troversies which may arise from their dealings
with the public. Dealing with this question, ne
said
The nature of the business of transportation is
such however that If it Is to be subjected to gov
must be Accomplished through the enactment OF
general laws to he applied to specic cases as sReg
for specific service is exorbitant OF unreasonable
2 v ifG dn9 Charge that may be just and
p aasonoPie g &c for one service in a specific locality
may be either unree sonably high or Gn+eason&3y so
service in a different locality. The deterlrna-
a6ness a9a Of rates 81 or aeed calls
for the exercise of the judicial function OF apply
ing general rules of law to specific facts
In ending, Mr Finley paid some pretty COM
pliments to the "Old North State" and predicted
for it a glorious and prosperous future.
President Finley was one of the earlier speak
ers. His references to the great development Of
the South during the last twenty-five years and
to the even greater development TO be expected
within the next quarter of a century were ap-
plauded. But the greatest applause greeted his
pointing out the necessity of wise public service
legislation and his belief in the utility of special
tribunals for the adjustment Of possible con-
troversies between roads and the public.
J. y Joyner. State Superintendent of Public
instruction of North Carolina, was the next
speaker His subject The Public School
and the Future" Mr.. Joyner traced the history
of public school education IN North Carolina
from the time Immediately preceding the Civil
War to the present day. He pointed out that
the state had ever appreciated the value Of ed
ucating its children; that even in its darkest
DAYS. during the Civil War and the reconstruc-
ton period it had never impaired its educa-
tonaI fund
Bringing the Immigrant to the South" was the
text of the speech delivered by Hugh MacRae,
who has been one of the leaders Of the move
ment for immigrant labor Mr. MacRae said
that It would, at present at least, be impossible
to bring immigrants into the South as laborers
in the strict sense OF the word. since it would
he r1lnous to raise the scale of wages sufficient
w 20 induce them TO leave places where higher
wages prevailed. II at present feasible,
however, he said, TO bring in an Immigrant agri-
cultural population to take the places OF those
who will be taken from the farms. This he
thought was the logical way to increase the
Souttl's wealth producing pOpuldtIOil anu UI'A-
mately TO avoid the labor crisis which other-
wise he said, the South must endure
James H Diard president Of the Jeanes
( board spoke of The Negro and His Training"
He said that the fact must be faced that the
negro is the great labor factor in the South. and
that if was best for the white men of the South
that he be industrious and thrifty That the
negro is ready and pathetically eager. to
grasp every opportunity afforded him, Mr. Dill
/ al 5O1yh+ TJa ed hat
nuhlic money which is being spent in negro edu-
cation be more wisely used than 1t is at present;
| that greater care be exercised in the selection
| Of public school teachers and public school
! courses.
J1nius Parker was the speaker who imnne-
| diateIv preceded Mr.. Taft. He said that ne
boped expediency would never take the place Of
| conviction with Southerners He told Of read
| ine many political speeches made by North
| Carolinians during the last campaign. and that
some of those made by the Democratic candi
dates compared favorably with Webster's reply
| TO Haynes.
After his speech Mr.. Taft held a reception in
a corridor leading from the banquet room. With
| Nr Page on one side and Mr. Primrose the
| other to introduce the members and guests of
! the society the latter filed by, shaking hands
| with the President-elect. Many Of them he
knew without introduction. A final cheer for
| Mr. Taft ended the imprOmptu reception and
| brought to an end one Of the greatest dinners
| the North Carolina Society has ever held.
At the table with MI Taft besides those who
| spoke were Dr. Lyman Abbott. editor Of THE
| Outlook; Clark Howell editor of THE Atlanta
Constitution; John NJ Glenn. Robert c. Ogden,