The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-31
.cOMER TERR|F|C|N
 HIS NEW ATTACKS
 ON OLD. ENEMIES
dcontinuea From rage Eight,


 only through the press, but also issued 10000 copies in pamphlet form and sent them through the regular mail to the citizens of the state. 1 suggest that MT. George w. Jones should also have pub lished the duplicates of the checks that the Louisville and Nashville road Is said to have sent Judge Jones' son, so as to complete the information necessary to thoroughly inform the public how the Louisville and Nashville suborns control of these matters.
 The Chief Almoner
 MT. George. w. Jo-es now holds the position of chief almoner in distributing the political benevolence of the Louisville and Nashville railroad, and I suppose is named as the future boss of the state In the name of the people of Alabama I protest with MT. Smith that he don't do this It was bad enough to have had Colonel Faulkner otherwise a splendid citizen, Confederate veteran, and man of splendid capacity But don't attempt to fix Alabama with Mir George W. Jones, the man who paces around our conventions and capitol during sessions, carrying a little crooked stick He used | to meet delegates and members in hacks | and take them to Dave Fleming's for winnings and dinings, and he used to be the pass gver. Let us at least have a man for boss we would be proud of. And Mir. Smith, in our coming election, don't practice debauchery and libel. Let it be a clean campaign. If the people will again allow you to take charge of our statehouse, do 1t in a decent manner. Let us not have any more Goebel and Carmack incidents.
 Earnings and Rates
 l ba, ta ,.ft I a,,ic vile and Nashville earnings, will again commend the study of the Wall Street Journals report to the judge and his masters. This shows such earnings under the state rates. rates which you declared l confiscatory and destructive, that after paying all it's fixed charges, after paying | it's dividends, it had s5ooo,0o0 per annum left over for such purposes as it may | deem proper But you will say this was from Interstate freight. l will call your attention to the fact that all of you said that there was no rule for dividing intra from interstate freight that it never had been done, and could not be done, that there was no species of bookkeeping which could reach it except by guess and that when the railroads taught you ito guess on these amounts they made II not large but small, made it like their 1 other evidence, to fit the necessities oi  to the further fact that the Louisville and | Nashville and Central have both made l the Ala abama policy of intrastate freight carriage to be the least rather than the most, and that this policy which you are backing them to maintain will con tinue to make the intrastate business of Alabama less and less all the time. The Interstate Policy
 1 "The Louisville and Nashville policy Is | to let the wholesalers in other states, fin Nashville, Louisville, St. Louis, Chicago Cincinnati, do the commercial business in Alabama. Mir Smith even goes so far as to excite prejudice against the Ala tama jobber when he knows that the for eign jobber can use in an interstate way l the local rate that he gives Alabama and that he is simply putting the Ala | bana business man on parity with the | foreign business man. His Iago state ments to the people of Alabama are in tended to blind their judgment by melting prejudice. His statement that the job CTS will take the decreased rate and oncave them he knows to be in the last degree demagogical and false,
 How Intrastate Business Is Decreased | Last year Alabama made 1,600.0oO bales | Of cotton, nearly every bale shipped as
 interstate traffic. The policy of the roads is to fix the intrastate rates SC high that they can ship cotton out of the state cheaper than within the state. The | Alabama saw mills and all the other pro ducing industries are exactly in the same shape. In other words the inter and in- l trastate freight rates of Alabama are go arranged that no matter how much | the products of every industry in the state increases, it is the interstate ship ment and not the intrastate which car ries the increase. On this policy, the maintenance of which you indorsed. and so far as you could made lasting, Judge Thorington says intrastate business will never show a fair return to the rail roads, and MT. Gunter says will never show a return at all.
 Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois were not fet. 1 tered wit hthe everlasting chains oi Smythe against Aymes. By what pos sble hallucination the Louisville and i Nashville railroad with this Wall street exhibit could persuade you that Alabama was not entitled to any share in this l great prosperity, is more than can un- derstand.
 How to Find the Truth
 The correct way to develop the truth in the states contention, is for the in- feror judge and his masters to com ] raence at Mobile and see what the Louis- yilel and Nashville policy has done there. Where are the great cotton shipments from Alabama that belong at Mobile? Check the ports at Pensacola and Savan- nah and find out. Then read the Mobile Registers statement of how the Texas commission used the franchises of Texas t. build Texas.
 ls, The True State Policy
 Tt has made the port at Galveston the second largest export city in America. Read the story of Georgia and Texas towns and cities, their immense growth. tleir busy teeming people. the expansion of every interest. the up-buildng of ev- cry property. The venerable high minded patriotic Culberson put forth fhe true philosophical state creed. that Texas franchises must be used to build Texas. Then hear the words of Federal Judge Speer at Mt. Airy, Ga. in a lecture to the Louisville and Nashville attorneys: ! You tried to hurt Savannah by discrim- irating rates and I would not let you Then go to Atlanta, Ga, and take the rates of freight on the no articles of common production. consumption and use l as charged by the Louisville and Nash Vile from Atlanta to Chattanooga, Att lanta to Augusta, Atlanta to West Point. | and the Central from Atlanta to Macon, and all through Georgia Take the pas tenger charge, and then call up the