The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-11


increased appropriation to Au-
pufn ........................... $4,000. 90
increased appropriation to
Montevallo ....................... 51OoO.o0
increased appropriation TO Nor
NAL schools .................... $4,000
| increased appropriation to agri-
cultural schools ................. 1900 90
Appropriations to county high
SCHOOLS Observation-Disclosures. 1875. 500 o.
Appropriations to public schools 2,S93, s93.52
$5,754,525.O7
To this add fixed investment
Oh M'49oVoo.V ...,................ l ,496, 60
S7,251 525 cs
The difference between these amounts
and the $500, 100000 increased expenditures
vent In the attempt toAsecure greater eff
clehcy in the departments. the largest part
OF which went to the judiciary, medical
ana agricultural departments and to the
railroad commission.
False Reports Corrected
Inc report is pot correct that the legis-
lature of 1907-10 exempted cotton mills
from taxation; created a horde of offices
ana made useless expenditures Neither
| dld 1t entail heavy debts ON the succeed
| ihs legislature, or administration: neither
| ana It leave unpaid warrants A reporn
from the joint house and senate commit
tee OF the succeeding legislature male
March IA, 1911, showed a large sum of
money on hand the records show that if
was not necessary to borrow any money
until after the end of the fiscal wear s,1c-
2eeding my administration.
III the laws enacted in 1g07-1O We're
wrong-if the appropriations We're useless
or excessive, the succeeding legislature
nad abundant opportunity to correct both
ana 1t S not becoming in anyone. posing
nf hn
| ton, to condemn the laws and appropria-
uons made by the legislature of 19O7-10.
lne legislature of 1907-10 used ST 500. 600
IN excess of the previous administration.
used 1t in the upbuilding of every depart
ment of the state and the lions share as
| Il should have done. went to the schools
and old soldiers.
The above outline shows where either
| IN fixed or continued appropriations, the
amounts were invested, and l challenge
anyone to show that the state and citi-
. zens We're not greatly benefited and re-
spectfully ask which office and which ap-
preparation will be repealed?
The Great CORPORATION Fund
IN 1914 the Louisville and Nashville rail-
road used in Alabama elections $142, 3S5 25
to debauch the voters In the endeavor to
elect its candidate president of the rail-
"oad commission. What did the Louis
Vile and Nashville railroad want with
he Alabama railroad commission?
In the year l913 the same railroad COM
7any is endeavoring to elect its candi-
late governor. What does the Louisville
md Nashville Railroad company want
With the governor of Alabama?
The Louisville and Nashville railroad is
1ow seeking control of the Alabama legis-
lature, house and senate. What does it
want with the Alabama legislature?
The Louisville and Nashville in the past
has sought to control every function of
our state government, whether admins
-rative, legislative or judicial; has sought
hrough these sources the trusteeship OF
the state to develop its properties, un-
ontrolled or unreguated, free from COM
petition, according to its own methods
nd with it's own charges.
An Era That is Past
President Wilson, in his New York
peech, said that this kind OF trustee
hip and property development no longer
ppeals to the people, and MIR. Under
| "ood, in his Birmingham speech, said that
| his kind of business created a monopoly,
nd that in our government monopoies of
/ whatever nature must be controlled or
! egulated.
! Treat All Alike
! IF the charges OF the Louisville and
| Nashville, the Central and the Western,
9th as 10 passenger and freight rates,
/ re not resulateu, tnen the TeslrlcuOnS on
/ he rates of the seven railroads of the
] tate which have been observing the law
| r six years should be removed and all
| cir original high charges restored. This
common justice, as our laws should
AIRY alike for every property and every
nterest of the state.
Tn plain terms, if the state is to be
ossed and controlled by the railroads
/ should be by all of them and not by
ne of them.
What Statute Rates Saved the People
The Louisville and Nashville railroad
al the state rates, passenger and freight,
effect for three years. Their own testi-
sony shows that the difference between
leir rates, passenger and freight. and
ne state rates, passenger and freight,
as about 100000 per year-or 100000
,r three years.
Their own statement made in the Wall
rect Journal. published July IA. 1912.
hows that In 1910, the first year the
ouisville and Nashville had in the Ala
anna freight and passenger rates, they
armed 17.35 per cent: In 1911. 1426 per cent;
4 1912, 1904 per cent, and this on par
aue OF stocks, which had been watered
ouble, and this In addition to the i'm
nense sums spent with the press with
he courts and lawyers and in other de-
lauchings of the people which had been
harged to its expense.
This ST. 10000 was saved to the Ala
anna patrons of the Louisville and Nash
lille railroad on passenger and freight
ates.
| estimate that this railroad system is
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