The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-01-20
MORAN PLEASED
WITH ARTICLES
IN The CITIZEN
LETTER RECEIVED REFERS
TO MATTER TAKEN UP REL
ALIVE TO REQUEST TO RE-
BUILD RAILROAD

p. Moran. who heads several
committees in Cuba which have
been, and still are. se in max
ing efforts tc haN L. :. court
instruct the receive o. the Flor
ida East Coast Railway to re-
build the destroyed portion OF
the road, appreciates The Citi-
zen's producing the copy OF his
letter to the court in the issue OF
January l, and the editorial on
the subject. appearing on January
3. His letter follows:
"A copy Of your issue o. Jan.
1st, and 3 has reached my desk.
find therein a very able editorial
in reference to the remOnstrance.
to Judge Of U. s. Court, sent by
me. in which you call attention TO
the ties binding our sister Repub-
lies. Your appraisal of the letter
which you reproduced is very kind
in the nice things you indicate. I
shall be very happy indeed. il the
court viii give ear TO my feeble
effort to plead FOR the common
interest.
when | told your committee
that / was interested in the cause
which means so much to you. it
was with sincere feeling. because
we who have seen the influence in
our business at the time your port
was alive with activity. know that
our interest is mutual and vitality
linked together. So. true to nay
promise to be helpful, sent the
copy of my letter to your COM
mittee to show that we here were
living mp to the call for any help
we might be, in bringing favor
able action upon the most i'm
portant decision to be rendered
soon. Your coming into possess
sion or copy OF said letter may
be the very means to arouse more
interest and thus bring more in
fluence to bear, than the original
call to your Honorable Court for
a just hearing of the Common
People VS.. Corporation Petition
for annullment Of their franchise.
If this public presentation will
serve the purpose, | thank you,
and if we fall to receive the re-
quested favor o. maintaining the
franchise, | still owe you con-
sideratiOn For helping further my
plea. So in either case. you re-
ceive my gratitude for lending the
good offices of the public press.
1T would seem to ne that the
pressure Of the point. that the
temporary slump is no justilica-
ton to abandon the link. and thus
lose the present investment, when
the re-establishment OF nor
malcy' will bring greater profits
to the X. r. and as in good
times soon wipe out the addi-
tional cost. The present selfish
ness Of Big Business in looking
upon profits as their aim. instead
Of looking to see how they could
give more value for the buyer, has
in my opinion caused the Fall in
1929 than any other one thing
II seems to me q nave taken
advantage of TIA present un-
toward burde :. which they pre-
cipitated upon their own heads,
and now turn politician 70 re-
ceive dole like any Of the help
less ones, who possibly need
help. In a democracy like yours
the office Of business l. to stay
away from politics. and demand
that the politician give his atten-
ton 70 doing what he is elected
to do namely: work FOR the COM
mon interest instead Of legislat-
ing special privilege to the high
er ups 20 the everlasting shame
and disgrace CT meddIing IN busi-
ness. II has been my understand
ing that the oath OF office is to
preserve. protect and defend the
constitution. so II viii not be
necessary for your supreme body
to make decisions against the
Of politicians.
wishing you the success which
your efforts and humanity's in
terest. deserve. I am still firmly
Of the opinion that your judge viii
render a just decision for your
people. and ours. incidentally"