Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-05-29

they have no Niagara. Put that wa
ter up 15O feet. and let the spilIway
pass Overland letGreenRiver pass over
and see that water fall and hear ii
playing its music. Somebody saidGreen
River did anything but play its
music. Compare the note 1t is now
playing with the note it will play with
that artificial Niagara going. Some
thing to see? They say that railroad
Is all mockery, and there will be mo-
body % carry. / want to tell you that
could have been said to the people
when the railroad got to Brevard and
they started first to build the automo-
bile road to Toxaway. What was there?
Nobody lived there. Many said the
thing to do was to build that railroad
from Brevard 18 or 20 miles, and we
will go and build a lake. What is it
that keeps up the Pennsylvania road
from Brevard? See the argument
Judge Merriman made. Couldn't the
same argument have been made there?
What has Texaway done for the peo-
pie, the mountaineers there? They
have spent thousands and hundred Of
thousands of dollars. 1t is no picture,
you car see it.
If they are not going to build that
dam, why are they taking so much
time and buying so much land there.
They say there is nothing for a rail-
road to carry. Make a Niagara up here,
Put in this magnificent lake. that vast
body of land will go to building and
carrying passengers. Wouldn't you
like to have atlittle stock in that rail-
road? What have you got to do with
whether it will pay or not. They are
appealing to the country to take care
of Oates. / appeal to you to take
care of yourselves. Are you going to
say to capital, You can not come in"
to the country, sYou can not grow"
to these men, "You can not come in
because we don't want you" We
rather be. the head of a big thing than
the tail of a little thing.
Why is it we have struggled and
toiled and worked night and day to get
this country to build up and the first
opportunity We have gotten for Hen
~dersonville and Henderson county to
get the best investment that was ever
made, over a million and a half dollars
going into a plant that will bring mill
lions of dollars and people to u coun-
try? What has that got to do with
the case? Nothing in the world ex-
cept in reply to the arguments they
are making to you, to leave Bob Oates
with the freeze out, with his monopoly,
to try to sell out if he can to great
big capital in Spartanburg. Suppose
he sold out and turned us over to the
unkind mercy of the Spartanburg
people. He went to Salisbury and
traded with Jerome. Jerome was the
agent and dealer of people in Pitts
burg. You ~Spartanburg people, we
don't want you. We know you. We
want strangers whom we don't know.
Suppose Oates sold out to the Pitts
burg people, the Kuhns? Who are
they? They are lining up with an
other monopoly in Spartanburg. They
don't want Alex White, John Law, VIM
Law, and those other people in Spar
tanburg to develop this power, be-
cause they would have competition,
and Mr.. Knox and his men will have to
reduce the price on this which they
are now extorting out of the people or
go out of business.
Where is any competition here?
Right back behind Robert Oates, push
ing and pressing and helping is this
other monopoly at ~Spartanburg. We
have got a monopoly at one end and
another at the other end. l am mo-
c~ensuring any nan that has a good
monopoly. We are all opposed to mo-
nopolies. What is this? Here we
have got a little monopoly, they say
not worth much. Worth enough to
buy us every me-. Poor Bob Oates!
Trying to. get a verdict of sympathy
for Bob Oates. He can take care OF
himself.
Bob Oates was a drummer and de-
veloped into a hydraulic engineer, and
has developed into a lawyer and is
senior counsel in his own case. Bob
was here and telling his lawyers. He
is the best lawyer in the whole lay
out. He is the first laymen / ever saw
to address the court. | want to say
whether a lawyer or. not he is the
smartest man that has been in the
court house since this started.
They do say Bob can figure a man
out of his right eye,-the out out
fgurnigest man that rel was when
he gets to dealing with watts.
Let's look at this matter from a
homemade standpoint. Don't you do
Bob Oates any injury because you are
going to get a great big advantage,
but don't do yourself and your country
injury in order to hurry to the call
of sympathy. Try this fairly. You
not remember all the evidence.
You could not all get together and
write out this evidence. I don't ex-
pect o to. An ordinary jury,5and
/ suppos that is about what you are,
such as we get. / would not say
you are superior to any jury l ever
talked to: / certainly would not say
you are inferior to any,-I believe you
are a splendid average. I am. going
to address you on this line. What can
the jury do? You can not remember
the evidence and don't need to remem-
Der the evidence which does not make
impression. You can decide this
case according to your impressions
made upon your mind and fixed on
zo,,r hoorfs nv fhe evidence Which you