The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-06-03
MEMORIAL DAY At DEER PARK.
Was Celebrated at that Town on
Last Saturday. Nay 29th.

village were OF an interesting character.
DR.. c. w. Hudson, Baptist Minister.
delivered an Grafton at the cemetery
and an address filled with matters of
interest in the village.
The Chairman Mr.. George W. Haul
enbeek, spoke as follows:
Our meeting here to day is to hon.
or and perpetuate the memory of our
illustrious dead. War is indeed an
awful thing, and it is gratifying to OBJ
serve that efforts are being made
throughout the civilized world, to Danish
it altogether, by resorting, in all cases
of disputes between nations, to settle
ment by arbitration.
Il had the honor to serve in the
Civil War in the 18th New Jersey
Volunteers, and only few days since,
down in old Virginia, another New
jersey regiment erected a monument
to its heroic dead, and every possible
assistance and attention was shown to
the visitors from the North, by a COM
mittee of Confederate veterans. What
more can we desire by way of reconcil-
liatiOn than to note this beautiful trib-
ute of sincerity and good feeling. Ours
is inded reunited country. and our
lesson to day is to enlarge our devotion
to the land in which we live for which
the Union soldiers gave so much.
Zone of the interesting events of
the War of the Rebellion was the trans
pOrtation of two army corps of the
Army of the Potomac to the Army of
the Cumberland. Secretary of War
Stanton placed the matter in the hands
of the late John w Garrett, then
President of the Baltimore and Ohio,
and he accomplished the great feat
without single accident. Seven states
were traversed and the journey con-
sumed as many days.
Let US consider for a moment the
many ways in which the farmer is bene-
fitted by the railroad; how his land is
made more valuable by the proximity
of the iron horse, and the farmer
should be in accord with that which
does so much to his advantage and
profit.
''Over fvehundred million dollarshave
been invested in railroads, and to make
war upon them is indeed short sighted.
Ever since the late financial depression,
and even before it, many members of
Congress have shown a desire to frame
and urge the passage of bills that have
been aimed at railroads; bills that were
not drawn to advance and help the
great arteries Of the country, but rather
intended to pull down and destroy. If
you negotiate for the purchase of a
farm, you do not at once PROFOUND the
inquiry as to its area, but you do ask
how near it is to railroad. Farm
lands adjacent to the B. & 0. are much
more valuable than land remote from
its various lines, so that the influence
of the farmer should be exerted upon
his member of the Legislature to urge
him to desist in the preparation and
passage of bills that may be properly
classed as restrictive legislation.
mot only in Congress do we find this
spirit Of repugnance to corporations,
but in State legislative bodies, and we
can do much to inaugurate a better
condition of things by suggesting to
our delegates who will take their seats
in our own Legislature in January next
that it is nowise to continue the policy
of presenting and advocating measures
hostile to the railroads. Legislation
should be of class and character to
build up and not to pull down.
The railroads of the country have
been the subject of attacks for years,
and particularly during the past four
years, on the question of freight rates.
The average legislator seems to regard
rate making as an arbitrary fixing of
charges, for the sole benefit of the
roads, and for favored shippers, where
as, the subject of rate making is really a
science, just as exact as any of the
sciences. Rate making is regulated by
conditions, among which are competi-
ton, character of freight, cost of hand
ling and the nature of the country. All
these things must be taken into consid-
Grafton, and this is something that the
legislator in his effort to compel the
railroads to do impossible things, does
not seem to grasp.
The railroad is the great civilizer.
1t is corporation, but corporations af-
ter all are really only a number of men
working through legal entity, a real
substance, under laws which the people
themselves have enacted.
''All that corporations ask is to be
accorded the same privileges which
each individual asks, subject, of course,
to the laws of the state and of the
country"
Miss Sada Laugnlin presided at the
organ and the choir of Deer Park young
ladies received much applause for sing
ing.
William D. Hoye, who serverd in the