Arizona republican., 1912-04-23
Says All Carriers Desire Is Fair Treatment in the Matter of Rate
 Laws.
SAYS FEW THINGS
 ABOUT POLITICS
Thinks President Taft Is Certain of denomination and Also a Re
 election.

w. J. Black, passenger traffic man ager for the Santa Fe system, with headquarters in Chicago, is in the city attending the hearing before the corporation commission. In conver- sation with d Republican representa- tive at the Adams hotel yesterday ev- ening. Mr Black talked entertain ingly of railroad affairs, business. poli- tics and the relations of his road to the new state.
 "I haven't seen thing to make me believe our relations with the corpo i ration commission will be other than | pleasant" he said The commission 1 CTS have shown disposition to be eminently fair and they may be as sured We will show the same spirit. And I want to say right here that ! that is the biggest card Arizona can 1 play. If those in charge of the states affairs show a disposition to be just | in their treatment of outside capital. i outside capital will come here. This l is new state and the opportunities l for investment are unlimited. So. from 1 a merely selfish standpoint if from no other. it seems to me there should ! be q disposition to give outside busi- ness men chance. It is a mistake i to suppose these men are looking for l favors. for they are not. They are merely looking for an even break
 the kind of a chance they get in other places And we all know that whenever man who has money to 1 invest-no matter whether it be q LsaTT1 know that such man is not going to | invest in a place where the people are 1 hostile The truth is there are too many opportunities for investment in this country for men with money tC take any chances.
 | Our statistician. AIr Peabody. has given q large number of facts to the corporation commission and of course these facts will be taken into consid-
 eration when the rate adjustment ana other related matters come up. You are probably aware that while rail-
 roads in general have increased their earnings within the past several
 months their expenses have also in creased and at much more rapid
 rate have no doubt this fact will
 be taken into consideration by the
 commission
 Now, the truth is a railroad does
 not hoard it's money. It doesn't have
 a big surplus. The money not paid
 out in dividends to it's stockholders is
 continually going back to the people. It goes back to pay for improvements
 the roads are compelled to make.
 Constantly there are more tracks to ! I,1 f.,91 tl,I,, I,. in. rolling stock to be purchased, sta
 tiOns to be erected and the multi | tude of improvements that go with the , maintenance of first class line"
 Switching to politics. MT Black
 said:
 That was funny thing that hap lpened in my state of Illinois: but
 after all it is not difficult to explain The opponents of MT. Taft succeed
 ed in making the people believe he was hitched up with the Lorimer , crowd. Nothing could be more un-
 just for there is not a word of truth
 in the assertiOn but it did the work
 and the primary went against him
 Tn Pennsylvania the truth is there
 was not more than 50 per cent of the
 republican vote cast; and in that state
 the opposition to Taft got the so- I cialist vote and the vote of the dissat- isfied coal miners.
 But in my judgment the renom-
 ination of President Taft is a prac-
 tical certainty. There is no particular n reason why the railroad interests ant
 other interests should want him nom
 mated, but l am certain he will be
 1 There is one thipp that n1USt be Sa iC r 1 of him always, he is perfectly hon r est He took the laws as he founC n them and has enforced them to th' q letter
 MT. Taft's four years in office hay $ been peculiarly difficult. The repub :. lican convention forced upon him tn n revision of the tariff and that is al = ways d risky thing for q man to un h dertake. I mean it is risky from e political standpoint. But it was in tn l. platform and the president carried ou n the platform as q matter of principle e | feel certain Mr Tafts succeedin l. four years will be eminently success n full He will have a freer hand tha U, he has had and I am sure he will g le straight ahead and carry out the grea rel work he has begun"
 lg Speaking of the democratic situa If ton Mr. Black said that west of tn q. Mississippi pretty nearly all the demo s crats are for Clark. and he feels ceT to tain Clark will be the nominee "Th ;h country simply will not stand for st man like Wilson. he said. He shoul TO go back to the business of teachin
 fschool."