The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-04
SHERIFF SPIRITS
PRISONER AWAY

Ashdown. Ark, April S.-After walking
p miles through the woods with DOCK NC
Claim the negro who last night probably
fatally stabbed Ernest Hale white man,
Sheriff H. G. Sanderson of Little River
successfully eluded pursuing party thal
sought to lynch McClain. Early this
morning he lodged his prisoner in jail, the
xvherea bouts of which he has refused to
disclose.
When the assault became known mob
quickly formed and plans were made TO
storm the jail and lynch the white man.
assailant. The news reached the officers
and Sheriff Sanderson hurried the negro
through the outskirts of the town and
into the woods getting out of sight just
five minutes before the lynching party ar
rived at the jail.
don't believe in the sympathetic strike
neither do 1; because it is blind move
ment that never accomplishes anything.
You do believe in organization and
standing together, and so do |. You
have reached the conclusion that every
thing that does injustice to the rail-
roads that employ you does injustice to
you. I am not defending the railroads.
and / believe it has-when the system
of rebates was so general that they
were all law breakers. 1t was sad
condition. But, I believe that that time
has passed, and that the railroads of
this country, as a general thing, are
trying to obey the law and to get laws
which they can reasonably obey.
Now, l am trying to get through
that is, 1 have followed my constitu-
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Congress that the bill be put through
1t is not right for me to say that / am
trying to get it through bill amend
ing the interstate commerce law; and
one of the objections to my bill is that
l consulted six railroad presidents be-
fore I made my recommendation.
IT consulted shippers; I consulted the
Interstate Commerce commission; con-
suited everybody that had an interest,
and then II occurred to me that possibly
the railroad presidents knew some
thing about Interstate commerce, and
so l consulted them, and that to some
people damns the bill
Now, gentlemen, If there is one thing
that 1 hate. 1t Is a sham, 1t is hypoc-
risy; 1t Is fraud in representing vir-
tue when IT does not exist. l believe in
being fair to all and I am not afraid
to consult railroad proprietors in de-
termining whether a law ought to be
put on the books. They know about the
railroad business. / am not bound to
follow what they recommend, but am
bound to give them a hearing. One of
the things that is going to end little
of the denagogy about the railroad is
to have the railroad men understand
that in order to promote the public
good and their good, 1t Is right to do
Justice to railroads. And it does NOT
help a community at all to compel rail-
roads to do business at loss. And 1t
does not help the employees of that rail-
road, either.
II hope l have mind judicial enough
to occupy a position equal between the
railroads and the men who serve them,
but l am in favor of giving everybody
a hearing and then II the arguments in
favor of the railroads appeal TO my
sense Of justice, 1 yield to it. Why, one
of the reasons for fighting my bill-if |
may call 1t so, with Difference to those
who objects that the railroads are OF
there fighting the bill. If the railroads
do not fight the bill. then you can be
sure 1t must be corrupt and rotten.
Now, gentlemen, that may have been so
in times past. but the railroad authori-
ties have learned lot within the last
ten years, and they know that 1t does
not help their interests to fight bill
that Is just.