The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-10-15
A. Occasionally I do.
n AoM 1oftan7

Q. How often7
A. I can't tell. I have occasion to
travel some In, my business.
Q. How long have you been given q
pass over the Southern?
A. I have had that eve since the
Ashboro road was built.
@. How long 10 that2
A. I don't recoIlect the year. . think
Il 10 some dozen or more years.
Q. Do you know why the Southern
Railway Company gives you q pass be-
cause Of your dictatorship in the road
to ASHFORD?
A. u 10 customary to give directors
passes, believe.
@. DO you understand that the
Southern Railway extends that same
privilege to others az well Al to your.
self?
A. Il is a custom, suppose, Of the
Q. Do you know why they made that
custom? ~,
A. No, except that it is just the Gus
tom OF the road. .
o. Did you ever know q mar who
held q dictatorship in q sraall road and
held = pass over the Southern Rail-
way, 40 you have, that was not friendly
60 the Southern Railway?
A. Well, I suppose they are likely TO
be friendly. IL they are directors In.
the road they are very likely to be
friendly. a
@. Don't you think the season they
give passes iS TO get friends scattered
around over the country
A. Possibly 50. go
20. You know as q fact that men lose
their passes by showing an unfriendly
spirit to railroads.When they are d.
rectors OF these small roads, don't you?
A.. 4 suppose they might. 1l5
Mr.. Cox, as q candidate for Gov
ernor, says in his address to the people /:
81 am strongly opposed to rebates or
any sort of discrimination, and, speak
ing for myself, have eve been able to
understand why the railroads should
give Virginia cities better rates than
they give North Carolina cities. This
question should receive the continued
and urgent attention Of our people until
1t is corrected"
he had splendid opportunity to
point out these abuses when he was
J asked, before the Senate committee,
whether there was any complaint in
North Carolina about rates, and In
stead of doing il he said there was
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tory, and he preferred to deal with the
/ rather than TO deal with a commits
sion.- This was the position OF the
railroad companies also. He was sat.
isfed with the treatment that he had
received, and therefore It appeared to
him that there was little complaint,
I How many other business men In this
/ state agree with Mr.. Cox that rates
are satisfactory. and there is but little
complaint
MI. Cox, I'm his public address, lays
| great stress the fact that he has
received no rebates. He, says:
cit is due me that i should state
4poSftiHely / have never asked for Oh
received a rebate from any railroad
company" S 90 Esse N
Why should he receive a rebate, wher
he is given rates on the raw materia
that is shipped to shuttle block facto
Il Eies which he owns or in which he i
interested, and satisfactory rates Oh
the manufactured product ON fron
these, factories to points where he sell
this product?
It does not meet the case to say thes
rates apply to all who have such fac
} tories at these points, and to all VIII,
ship from these particular pOfntsgt
T other particular points where his prod
| uct is sold. for there are no other fac
y tories In eempetition with Mr. Cox
business, and If one were started a
one OF these points 1t is probable tina
the rates would go up at that point an
: Mr.. Cox would supply the demand iron
other factories where the rates wer
cheaper.
. In his public address he says:
And In this connection I beg to stat
emphatically that 1 have not aXdolla
invested In any sort of combine OF trus
or in any line of business that any ma
can fairly claim savors of a trust"
Whether Mr.. Cox owns a trust de
Ponds on his definition Of what is
: trust.
1t has been but a few years since th
Republicans declared that there wer
no trusts. 1t would be interesting t
; know Mr.. Cox's definition of a trust.
1t has been publicly charged 70
: years that Mr.. Cox manufacture
practically all OF the shuttle block
made in this country, and if this b
true, of course there is no other MAJ