The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-01-14

put on ticket collectors For what?
Gentlemen, it is the merest subterfuge
Here is railroad company that says
20 you, Here is our conductor; put
YOUR wife on this train with your chill
dren, or, if you please, put your It, Or
lS-year-old daughter on this train;
she is safe in the hands of Our con-
ductor; he will take care of her; he
will protect her." and yet, in the same
breath, that railroad company says to
you, Pay your fare or give your ticket
to a collector; we can't trust our con-
ductor." Mind you. gentlemen-can't
trust the conductor with their money,
and yet saying to you, Trust your wife
and your children, or your daughter or
your sister, with him; trust that which
is dearer than all things else On this
earth to you with this man"-When
the railroad can't trust him with its
money. If the railroad can't trust him
with their money, what right have
they to ask you to trust him with the
safety Of your family?
I hold in my hand a book costing
s., good for two hundred and fifty
miles over the Piedmont Traction COM
pany, in the upper part of this State.
This mile;,ge is taken up on the train;
upon it baggage is checked, and it can
be used by any member of the holders
family, or by any person who has it
when he gets on the train. Now, if
we are going to have mileage books,
which do not favor, then let US have
mileage book such as the one I have
referred you to. If the interurban can
have it, there is surely no reason why
the railroads can not have it.
But, gentlemen, give your people a
flat two-cents rate; and those of you
who favor it, when the bill is called up,
if the author of the bill, who has it in
charge, gets UP and says, pass it
oVer,' you get up and ask why. 1t is
usually considered courtesy to allow
| the author of the bill to handle it, and
when he rises in his seat and says,
Mr.. President" or 'Mr. Speaker, pass
this bill over" it is cutomary for 9TH
ers to say nothing. But l warn you to
watch and see that when these bills
are reached in their regular places on
the calendars, no matter who requests
it, they are not put off until the last
days of the session and then crowded
out. But let some of your number ia
vorable to them get up and force the
fight; for not always are authors Of
bills their best friends.
Capital and Labor.
Labor and capital have been work
ing most harmoniously and pleasantly
together.
1 was called upon to take action
with regard to a strike that was going
on in Augusta, Georgia, which some
people thought would be brought into
this State because the corporation was
operating cars in the county of Aiken
| took the matter up with some close
and valued personal friends in the
Horse Creek Valley" who kept me Il
close touch with the situation. I was
asked to order out the militia This
fatty declined to do, and advised the
railway men to put their cars in their
sheds, and not run them from Georgia
into South Carolina. The situation be-
came tense. Letters and kilograms,
and sometimes personal conferences,
were brought to bear; BIT stood firm
in my position, did not order out the
militia, and pleaded with my friends
and am glad to say that I have many
true ones in the Horse Creek Valley
not to violate any of the laws of the
State, but to stand, in an orderly man
ner, to what they believed were their
rights. Arbitration was had; peace was
restored; all is we'll I would not have
had repetition in South Car r)l'na Of
the Augusta soldiers shooting down in
nocent men for all the railroads in
the American Union.
Another strike in the city of Colum-
bia came on. l asked the newspaper
reporters to say to the head OF the
corporation that 1 had heard the cor
| poration was going to bring strike
breakers into the city, and politely but
firmly requested that such course be
not taken. I am glad to say it was not
done. I had a conference with some
of my friends-the conductors and