The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1909-09-24


him, the grease on his fingers
and tastel 1T on his lips. and
then said, "Can is be possible
| eat that possum while / was
asleep. 1t looks like | must 'er
done it. Then feeling of his
stomach he said, "But fo de Lod
that possum had less effect on
my constitution than any l ever
did eat"
Now COL, you tell us what
you are doing for Mississippi in
improving insurance conditions
and as you say so it must be so.
But those who buy insurance in
the state do say the imp ove-
ment yau are making is having
less effect on their constitution
than any they ever experienced.
Another quotation from your
Illuminating contribution.
In speaking of the separation
movement which you correctly
note as precipitating this litiga-
ton, you say, lit is not my pur-
pose to discuss h e right or
wrong of this proceeding as I
never had anything to do with
it, and care nothing about it.. !"
Why COL, you shock your friends
when you say you care nothing
about the right or wrong of what
is going on in your state, especi-
ally in the business in which you
are engaged, and which you are
doing so much to improve.
Again you say "The bill charges
agreements and combinations to
fix and maintain rates, | do not
know or care what other have
done but the charge so far as it
relates to me, to the Merchants
Union Insurance Company in my
office, is absolutely groundless
and without a shadow of foun-
dation in fact" Now here it is
again, Don't that jar you" !"
and will it not jar your friends
all over the state? l am sure it
will, those who used to know you
up in this country to hear you
say, when you know it is a viola
ton of the law of the st a tie,
which yon have honored and
which has SC often honored you
to combine a n d agree to fix
rates, that you don't know or
care what others have done about
violating the laws? Is it possible
one of our oldest and most re-
spected citizens and the Speaker
of the House of Representatives
don't care if our laws are being
violated? Oh, Col. take that
back, you certainly don't mean
it. would from my knowledge
of you have, denied it if some
one else had said it. | would
have supposed you belonged to
the Law and Order League, and
was engaged with that noble
band in at least trying to have
the law enforced and obeyed by
others; but you tell us you don't
know nor care whether the very
business you are doing so much
to benefit is being by others con-
Quoted lawfully or unlawfnlly.
/ see you and | have different
ideas of what constitutes patriot
ism. | do not feel so bad since |
come to think of your position,
that you think me unpatriotic.
But promised to give you my
reasons for thinking you ere
guilty of the charges made
against you in the bill, and in
Justice to YOU / will say probably
you do not think you are guilty.
Let me ask you for a little more
illumination: Some two AMI one
half years ago or about Feb. 1907
did not the Globe & Rutgers
Insurance Company, a so called
independence Company, insure
the Wagner Building in your.
city for less than the rate made
by the Mississippi Inspection and
Advisory Rating Company,
promulgated as a proper rating
and did you not write to lie Blanc
& Railey, general agents of that
Company and ask them what
rate they issued the policy on