The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-02-10
IT'S NOT BLIND FURY"

The brief Of Attorney General Pollard, OF VII
-, 6led before the Interstate Commerce Com
mission. in the matter Of freight rate feooc'loh
for North Carolina. and printed III a recent issue
Of the T;mesDispatch, reads like an argument 70
2 Jury when the evidence is shy and lnVecoFe
is the last resource.
It is essentially incorporate, inJudlcious ana
unkind. Paliation has been offered by the sus-
pestion that the Attorney General has Deen VIZ
ginia's legal adviser but a few days, that ne -
Young and inexperienced. A klndheafted oIa0e
like North Carolina will make that excuse if
him anyway.
Mr.. Pollard declares with some lufldfesS 'lia.
pthe carriers have never conceded the business OF
the claims of North Carolina, but say they are
giving I'D two million dollars as a sacrifice to
obtain peace in North Carolina" and that 70
fail to carry out the agreement will subject the
carriers in North Carolina to the passion, prela-
dice, and blind fury of the people OF North
Carolina"
This is of the stump speech, stunpy. Already
the gentlemen in railroad circles who can speak
with something of fnality, have begun to repu'
date such sentiments and have denied Mr.. Pol
1ard's right to speak for them. At the recent
hearing in Raleigh when the FIVE big systems
that operate in North Carolina, developed their
evidence. no attorney or witness made any such
utterance. A few nights before this hearing, tor
mer Governor Montague, now Congressman and
Mr.. Thomas B. McAdams, cashier OF the Mer-
chants National Bank, of Richmond, disclairned
any knowledge of North Cardinals pain that
+ Virginia had taken such an unbrotherly and sell
| fish stand against North Cardinals relief from
oppressive discrimination.
North Carolina is aiding Virginia in that
States desire to land one of the Federal banks.
In Raleigh Judge R. w. Winston made a pas
sionate appeal to Virginia's sense of fairness, such
an address that Mr.. McAdans openly declared
called for investigation on his own part, and he
declared that he would investigate. True, he
stood pretty we'll alone. but he was moved by the
States feeling and ne regarded North Cardinals
attitude toward Virginia in the Regional reserve
bank, broad and forgiving.
North Carolnians have had some passion" in
this matter, the passion that every man must
have who sees his people hampeTed in their COM
merce by traffic conditions that no man can de
fend. Having submitted to them almost uncon-
plainingly for a dozen years, it has not been nee
essary to be showing prejudice" North Caro-
lima KNOWS. She has felt the conditions and
in more recent years Virginians have without re
serve advanced their superior rates as a reason
for trading with jobbers in that State rather thar
North Carolina. Under these odious conditions
not only admitted by Virginians. but used 10
advertising purposes, the States conduct ha.
beer marked by fury" Of no kind and especial,
by no blind fury" Verify, Attorney Genera
Pollard has lost his head-for ali North Carolin;
is seeking is simple justice and that the psopl
of this State are determined to have. And the
have determined calmly and dispassio,2ate iv :
have Justice.