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- 4 r 11 A BUSINESS Be Sure 1 You are right by first writing an advertisement netting forth the bargains? you of fer, and insert it in th e GOLD LEAF. Thug prepared for bus iness, you can If Til Wilt ADVERTISES Til T IS Worth Having tfjriii Advertising I V 1. ICY IIAV IN THE YEAR. JTo ' reach the people of Hen derson and sur rounding coun try, let them know the induce ment yoa hold out to get their trade by a well displayed adver tisement in 18 THE FCSIMTIM or SUCCESS ' IX mv siieivree Then Go Ahead. Q p mi nuiEa, Til (OLD LEAF. HI TKAD S. MANNING, Pabilsber. " Oaeouna!, Oaboliita, Heaven's BLEssnras Attend Her." SDBSCBIFTI01 $tW Cta. VOL. XXVI. HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1907. NO. 32. 'I ho Story of a Medicine. j i.'.'i "Golden Medical Discovery--!:u'u''-.-t-d cy one of Its most impo rt valuable ingredients Golden ;.;. f'rty years ago, Dr. Pierce dis ..,: thut lie could, by the use of pure, , n-l plycerine, aided by a cer-tUi'v-t'- of constantly maintained ami with the aid of apparatus and dcsiRin-d for that purpose, ex i our most valuable native me , u riots their curative properties Wil li." OA'' tr h tali ;'' tra (!.''.'" ;. t-tt'-r than Ijy trie uso of alcohol, . -i.-r;illy employed. Ho the now world ,,.,,1 -liolden Medical Discovery," for !,,. n.r" f weak stomach, Indigestion, or dv' -i.-ia. tor pid liver, or biliousness and k'iMjr"! siftrangemcnts was first made, as It i--.cr ine has bHen, without a. particle of ai.-'hol i its makVup. - y,. A glaiK :teJfuU list of its ingredient-, printed on iTVerv bottle-wrapper,' will -ur.v that it Is njade from the most va!u;iM- medicinal roosMound growing in our American iorests.j ah inese in gr.l it' li!iV H?ce. e,)vel the strongestJSfc :iejfcaaing medicaT ex-mvri,f-ru Mii (VffVrftJl .TTrTIi'-ni from tji i77t. f7. r.-F,lT filid w U'.'-.f fi-nirnmcnfl thnm m'tdo , ,r wh., r'- '"nnf"1f1 T.nfm n t oyf rY. I' ''?. f".r " I Ben spa for whfc i - Mi-iiftl Liscoverv" isadviseaT TTTiiTiuolTof these endorsements La ( ui;jiiiii ry i;r. K. v. I'lorce, of ! u i. Y., and will Ikj mailed free to nsklnif same bv iostal card, or r :,.!' i -s.s;d to the l)octor as above, n: tlii-- endorsements, copied from i.uni medical books of all the differ ti N of practice, it will be found til-- imrredients composing the "Uold M. Discovery" are advised not , ! i tin-cure of the alove mentioned but also for the cure of all ca i, !-. !,r"in liial and throat affections, ,i. ;i;iini-il with catarrhal discharges, r-.-h"--. sore throat, lingering, or .,;i-n.iigh5, and all those wasting . ti -ii which, if not promptly and !i!y tp-ati-d are liable to terminate wiMiinptiori. Take Dr. Pierce's Dis- r in time and persevere in its use ;! vmi cive it a fair trial and it is not i . tn disappoint. Too much must not . xii-, ti-(l of it. It will not perform l.h'i W m.r.t in it It i con- 'is. It will not cure consumption '.iiin-ii stages. No medicine will, i-ure the affections that lead up to i nipt ion, if taken in time. 10 c Bottle - - 2 Doses 25c. Bottle - - 8 Doses ASK YOUR DEALER FOR IT. Take This To Your DRUGGIST For Tria! Box and Booklet FREE HENRY PERRY. INSURANCE. a-:i ..n- Inn- ,.f both l.IFK AND FIRE "M I" A 1 i)S i viiresentt'd. 1'olicien issued Hi-i !.'- i 1 -i 1 to best advantage. Offi In Court House. Heart Strength Il.-art Sir. Tiptli. r.r Heart Weakness, means Nerve Mr.r.StY ,,r Norve Weakness nothing more. Fos-Jliitr'y-' '' ,!"'" 'ak heart in a hundred is. in it- ie t :.i.:y tli.M-nsed. It is almost always a n;.. !-n t;;;v httle n.-rve that really is all at fault, i n:t- -:.!-,. m.rv, the Cardiac, or Heart Nerve "??' "'-!. atid must have, more power, mora tt.'iiitv. i:-,,r,. f-nntrollinjr. more governing r! V. :;hoi!t that the Heart must continue mi l ti. stomach and kidneys also have tt-Vfcit!!.. carolling nerves. Mi -li ar: '"ll'!ains why. as a medicine. Dr. li,"'1' V; -;"ra' ive has in the past done so much i t -m. a-i. ailing Hearts. Dr. Shoop first sought r " A "" ""' a;1 tllis rainful. palpitating. 6utIooat f''"1"1 " ;-;rs. Ir. snoop's Restorative this Jl'V-r i r' -t; i tion is alone directed to these ;' ataig nerve centers. It builds; '.?;r' ' : it I'll, rs real, genuine heart help. 5- ;i t..-.l 1 have strong Hearts, strong dt- . :i. !:: S:h,-;, these Lnerves ro-eatabllsh ' i. !. with Dr. SHoop's Restorative THOMAS BROS. A"Bilious Attack." Symptoms. Sour stomach, nasty taste in mouth, sick headache, sallow complex ion, the world your enemy. Cause. Constipation, inact ive liver, overflow of bile into the system. Relief. Treatment for two nigMs before retiring with axo TONIC PELLETS One a night, don't worry, sleep Well and Nature'll do the rest. uiro Treatment 25 Cta. rr 5aleat all Drug Stores. A. G. Daniel, Wholesale and Retail "ealer in . . jingles. Laths. Lum-ber- Brick. Sash. Doors Blinds. Full stock at 1 W- t 1j - ' ices. Opposite South era Grocery Company. Hederson.N. C. 4 President W. W. Finley Of the Southern Railway, Under Date of July 20th, Issues State ment to the Public Setting Forth Status of Rate Controvert Frnm ting - k -1 Iluihvay Company: The incidents of the last few days involving the arrest and trial of the agents of the Southern Railway Com-' pany selliug tickets in tiie State of ' North Carolina make it altogether proper that this Company should in- j form the public, with which it desires ' to be co-operative,of t lie exact status of the present controversy. It is well j known that at the la.st session of the legislature an act was passed, re quiring tickets to be sold for passen ger travel in the State at a rate not greater than two and a quarter cents per mile. This act was made to take effect the tirst day of July,ll)07. The duty of enforcing legislation in re gard to railroads is imposed by the statutes of North Carolina upon the North Carolina Corporation Com mission. The Southern Railway Company, upon an examination of the revenue derived by it from State travel, in the State of North Caro lina, found that to reduce its passen ger rate to two and a quarter cents per mile would so largely diminish this revenue as to make the enforce ment of this passenger rate equiva lent to a confiscation of its property. The Supreme Court of United States has decided that in cases of this kind it is competent tor the railroad com panies to file a suit in Federal Court making parties defendant such a body as the North Carolina Corpor ation Commission, and have a com prehensive inquiry made into the sit uation, anu determine in an orderly wuv whether or not such an act as the one now in question is violative oi the Constitution oi the united States as a deprivation of the prop erty of the railroad company with out compensation, and as denying to the railroad company equal protec tion of the laws. Such suits as these have been from time to time filed in a very large number of the States of the Union, and have heretofore pro gressed in an orderly way to a final determination. Some time prior to the first day of July, this Company hied such a suit in the United States Circuit Court, setting forth in detail 1 1 .1 ii . m . wnac wouiu ue tne enecc oi tne en forcement of the passenger rates upon its revenue. Due notice was given of a motion for an injunction pending the suit, and counsel selected by the State appeared before the United States Circuit Court. After a full hearing, and the presentation of proof by affidavits, the court enter ed an order directing that until final determination of the cause the Corn- panymight Continue to Charge for its passenger traffic what it had hereto- tore charged, m order, however, to see to it that in the event it should turn out that the two-and-a-quarter cent rate was a reasonable one, and in order that the public s louid be in no way harmed by the temporary suspension of this rate, the court was careful to provide that there should be attached to each ticket sold a coupon which would represent the difference between the amount " . I collected in connection with the sale of such ticket, and the amount calcu- lated at the two-and-a-quarter cents ner mile. It was further provided that the railroad eomoanv should irivfi it nonri wit i proni swuiritv to " . pay into court such an amount of monev as from time to time should be necessary to make secure these coupons, this uona was duiy given, The effect of this arrangement is that if it shall turn out in the final result that t he reduction to twoandaauar- ter cents per mile is reasonable and awtul. each one of the traveling mib- ic suffer no damage whatever. The coupons representing the diflereuce, as above explained, can be presented l j the court, and thev will be paid out of the fund as above provided, If would be difficult to conceive of an arrangement which would be fairer to the oublic than this. In or ler that the litigation might not be de- layed, the court appointed acomtais- sioner to take proof, requiring him to renort as ear v as the month of September. Thus, if the matter is a owed to take un order v ccTurse. there is no reason whv. within a verv few months, the whole matter can not be heard and determined by the! Circuit Court, the nublic beimr fullv represented in the litigation and also being fully guarded against any pe- 7 1. n I cuniary loss. It would seem to be nerfectlv tilain that if anv individual or corporation believed itself to be in ii.morpr nf n (ipnnvrtttnn nf its . ... I proper fv bv lesrislat ion. it should be allowed the privilege of having the vahditv of the legislation deter- mined in an orderly method, and it - . -. m m . t word 1 seem to lnerfeetlv fair to the public that a course of procedure s ion hi be taken which would, on the one hand, protect the rights of the person or corporation, and, on the other, amply protect the public, in the event that it should turn out that the legislation was valid. Suits similar to these have been proceeded with to final judgment, and are now pending in a large number of States in the Union. In these instances no efforts were made by the State au thorities to hamper or interfere with the orderly course or judicial proced ure. If ours is to be a government of law, then surely no litigant should I be deprived of a fair opportunity of goiug iuty iiw uuui to vu lutcvu uio pany is bound to protect its proper- ty, not only in the interest of its owners and creditors, but also m the the Kailroad s bide of the Ques-contraJdictiou in termg to gay of any tion Action Was Judicial and 'PF8?" or corportion that filing a n-JT u r l j "j suit in court, and asking for un or- urderly, He Contends. Jderly and judicial determination of ,,w,rr,fTI, i tlie very right of any matter, is it- SOL rilLU.N RAILWAY (JO., ) self a violation or defiance of law. If rF,?i TB iMOBST. Ji. an appeal to a court of justice is a - Washington. C.rJuly,20. J violation of law, then all our courts To the Public Served by the Southern should come to an end. interest of the whole public. It has a right and a duty to appeal to the i.int it vJ 11 - i f iui ji,o (jiulwuoh. xt is not in the right or interest of the people of i North Carolina that the ability of , the transportation ' companies to ' perform the public service and to en-; large and increase the means of serv-1 passengers and shippers shall be ; .A . . T II- ! -w . Respectfully, V. W. FINLEY, President. Piles get quick and certain relief from Or. Shoop's Magic Ointment. Its action is positive and certain. Itching, painful, protruding or blind piles disappear like magic by its use Large nickel-capped glass jars 50 cents. Sold by Thomas Bros. The Mecklenburg Hotel. Attention is called to the adver tisement of the famous Mecklenburg Hotel and mineral waters in this paper. If such a boon to afflicted lumanity as is found in Mecklenburg Lithia and Mecklenburg Chloride Calcium waters was remote from us perhaps their merit would be more fully recognized and appreciated. Rut they are near at hand, easy of access and do not cost a great deal to acquire and we are too prone to overlook their virtues. That is a peculiar phase of human nature but it is true nevertheless. Nothing is so goon as tnat winch comes trom a distance. But more and more is the fact impressing itself upon our people that while distance may lend en chantment to the view it has nothing to do with adding to or taking from the virtues of an article that pos sesses real merit, and Meckienuurg mineral waters are growing more in popular favor and public demand as thev are better known. And to make them still better known extra in ducements are being offered to health and pleasure seekers at the Mecklen burg Hotel and Sanitarium. Very low rates have been made as follows: First and second floors, without bath, iSl'i.UU to SlT.&U a week, ac cording to size of room and number of occupants, r irst and second floors, with baths, $ 17.50 to f 21.00, according to size of rooms and num ber of occupants. Third floor, with baths, $15.00 to $1T.50, according to size of room and number of occu pants. Third floor, without baths, 112.50 to 15.00, according to size of room and number of occupants Club House Annex, with baths, $12.50 to $15.00 a week. Barnett Hotel Annex, without baths, $10.00 to $12.00 a week. The Meeklenbunr Hotel is one of the finest health and pleasure resorts in the South. Cuisine and service unsurpassed. 'Regular as the Sun" Is an expreseion as old as the race. No rlniiht iho risincr nnit aettinp" nf the sun is thn mo8t regular performance in the universe, nnletia it i9 the action of the lirer and boweg when regulated with Dr. King's New Life Pills, gist. Guaranteed by Melville Dorsey, drug- 25c. Where Injustice is Done. Wilmington Messenger. The report has come to us of one or more instances in which persons , . t . . nave boarded trains in tins state since the time for the new passenger rate to go into effect and refused to pay for their passage more than the new rate. We do not wish to believe that the meu who do tnis are iuiiy . a e aware oi ine consequences oi umu- acts. We prefer to think tliat they had not realized that in reiusing to pay the regular price for the tickets wnicn tne coimuci-ors are iwuneu iu charge they were taking lust so mucu money out of the pockets of the con- ductors. Any conductor who through kindness refuses to put a man off his train because tne latter win not pay the three and a quarter cents a mne but accepts the two ana a quarter rate has to make up tne ainerence oi a cent a mile lor the distance travei- ed by the person refusing to pay the old rate. The man who refuses to pay does not make anything out of the railroad, out nesimpiy cuts uowu the salary of the conductor to that amount and we have got a mighty poor opinion of any man who will do such a thing, n e agree enureiy with the Kaleigh 1 imes in tne loiiow- inr it has to say on tnis suDiect: "We do not believe that self-re- specting citizens of INorth Carolina who have any regard for their fellow men will try to intimidate or other- i . wise persuade railroad conductors into accepting cash fares on the trains at the rate of two and a quar- ter cents per mile, when they know that the conductors themselves win . . Tee C have to make ud ine oinerence oi one cent a mile out of their own pockets. To take a mean advantage oi one oi its employes is a, very yuui . . I m r I- way to tne a corporation, we iuiuk, and we are confident that the maior- ity of the Anglo-Saxon, people of INorth Carolina win agree wiui us. The Limit of Life. The most eminent medical scientists are unanimous in the conclusion that the general ly accepted limitation of human life is many years below the attainment possible with the advanced knowledge of which the race is now possessed. The critical period, that de termines its duration, seems to be between 50 and 60; the proper eare of the body dur ing this decade cannot De too strongly urged; carelessness then being fatal to longev ity. Nature's best helper after 50 is Electric 13 4-Avxa 4ha siiAifSAf "fr gi" rnorliin0 tllfl t. I f ,a r.n,.. . . . Trofiw. drnejriat. 50c w J m por IndlSestiOti. 110001 RSmaA palpitation of the heart Dhrests what rou eat FOR 100 COUPONS FROM THE CIGARETTE OF QUALITY Coupons in Coupons also Redeemable for Valuable Presents Premium Dcpcirtme7it AMERICAN TOBACCO CO. JERSEY CITY, N. j. ST. LOUIS, MO. The, Latest Style Combination Featherweight Eyeglass and . . . Spectacle Combined . . . "CREELS only half as heavy on either the nose or ears as same weight in other styles, and is espec ially recommended for people with ten der skin. :-: :-: :-: E. E. HIGHT, Scientific Optician, Location: Opposite Dorsey's Store. Lock Box 383. HENDERSON, N. C. WE CALL SPECIAL ATTENTION TO OUR Prescription Department Guaranteeing to compound Fresh and Pure Drugs and Chemicals strictly in accord with the Physician's Prescription. REMEMBER OUR MOTTO: THE KERNER--MCNAIR. COMPANY, PHONE 112. PHARflACISTS, HENDERSON, N. C. From the Great Lakes Carolina. to North Charlotte Observer. In the Richmond Times-Dispatch we find a highly interesting story about the ultimate plans of Thomas 1 . Iiyan and associates with regard to their great South & Western Rail way (Seaboard Air Line system) en terprise. It appears that the Ryan syndicate, after connecting this splendidly built road with the Sea board Air Line in INorth Carolina, contemplates an extension from the present northern terminus in Russell county, Va., to the Ohio river, con necting there with the Detroit, Tole do & Ironton Railway, which the Rvan interests control.for a through route to the Great Lakes. Amilllion acre coal field in Russell and Dickin son counties, Virginia, has very re cently been purchased by the same powerful interests. It is intended to make -the Seaboard Air Line the greatest coal road in America and at the same time supply a short line between the Great Lakes and tide water. These extensive developments are expected to ward off any danger of a receivership for the Seaboard, whoseearnings have fallen oif so much in the past six months that receiver ship rumors have been persistent. AH of this is good news. Mr. Ryan and his associates have the means of putting through big plans without very much hindraice on account of tight money, and we trust that they will do so" in this instance. This whole section, Charlotte especially, may expect marked benefit. If Wil mington's 30-foot channel were only assured our satisfaction would be complete. Cures Eczema. Itching Humors, Pim ples and Carbuncles Costs Nothing to try. B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm) is a certain and sure cure for eczema, itching skin, hum ors, scabs, watery blisters, pimples, aching bones or joints, boils, carbuncles, pricking pain in the skin, old eating sores, ukM,et Botanic Blood Balm cures the worst and most deep seated cases by enriching, purify ing and vitalizing the blood, thereby giving a healthy blood supply to the skin. Heals every sore and gives the rich glow of health to the skin. Builds up the broken down body and makes the blood red and nourish ing. Especially advised for chronic, old cases that doctors, patent medicines and hot springs fail to cure. Druggists, f 1, with complete directions for home cure.. To prove B B. B. cures, sample sent free and prepaid by writing to Blood Balm Co., At lanta, Ga. Describe trouble, and free medi cal advice sent in sealed letter. For sal at Tarker'sTwo Drug Stoies Srui n Each Package! T CAN furnish them with all kinds of prescription lenses. In fact, everything in the Optical Line. 20 Wears Experience. In Medicine Quality is of First Importance. Winston-Salem Boy Who Business Gift. Has a Winston-Salem Union Republican. Master Eddie Shepherd who won a pony and cart for selling the largest number of Saturday Evening Posts some months ago, is again a winner and in lieu of a pony and cart Eddie is given the choice of a visit to the Jamestown Exposition, paying for an escort and allowing both $2 a day for meals while enroute and $15 a week for hotel expenses in James town, besides tickets to the Exposi tion. The publishers gave Eddie his choice between a trip to the Exposi tion and $100 in cash. Eddie has decided to accept the cash. Eddie is a hustler and no mistake. He has a business gift which, if properly train ed, will make him a very successful business man some day. I'll stop your pain free. To show you first before you spend a penny what my Pink Pain Tablets can do, I will mail you free, a trial package of them Dr. Shoop's Head ache Tablets. Neuralgia, Headache, Tooth ache, Period pains, etc., are due alone to blood congestion. Dr. Shoop's Headache Tablets simply kill pain by coaxing away the unnatural blood pressure. That is all. Address Dr. Shoop. Racine. Wis. Sold by Thomas Bros. Optimism and Work. Gastonia Gazette. ."What is the chief mission of a North Carolina newspaper?" was the question which the Raleigh Xews and Observer put to a large number of j the newspaper editors of the State last week". Many replies were received and a number of these were publish ed. Several of them were good but to our way of thinking Editor Frank lin of the Apex Journal hit the nail on the head when he made the an-, swer: "To preach a gospel optimism." To this he might have added the words "and of work," by way of mak ing his definition a little bit more comprehensive. Work breeds optim ism; idleness breeds pessimism. The man ho works steadily and earnest ly usually looks on the brighter side of life while the soreheads who sit around on goodsboxes and expend their time and energy in manufactur ing shavings and emitting gas from their months, constitute largely the band of pessimists who criticise the workers and would have one believe that the country is going to thedem nition bow-wows at a lightning speed. Every editor in North Caro lina should be an optimist and should preach optimism to his readers. FEARFUL LOSS OF LIFE IN TIME OF PEACE. Peace hath her victories no less than war, and it also hath its trag- jeJies more fearful than: war some i times. The casualties that have oc curred on our battleships in time oi peace have outnumbered the fatali ties aboard the floating fighters of soma nations in time of actual con flict with other powers. The explo- sioaon the battleship Georgia, by which ten men were killed, and fit I teen men terribly injured, recalls the ; .... ; record oi other catastrophes in our ! Navy. On January 18, 1903, a 1 charge of powder exploded in an . eight-inch gun on the Massachusetts, ; killing nine enlisted men. April 9, j 1903, a twelve-inch gun on the Iowa exploded during target practice, kill t ing three enlisted men and wounding four others. April 13, 1904, a terri ble accident occurred on the Missouri, ! when by a "flareback" an explosion i was caused which resulted in the , death of five officers and twenty-six enlisted men. April 13, 1905, an ex- i plosion in one of the six-inch turrets of the Kearsarge severely wounded i three men. The Staunton Spectator, which by the way is one of the most indepen dent papers of the State, says the railway authorities are bent on forc- iingapanic. The men who will delib ' erately do that are public enemies and should be dealt with as critm nals. Farmville (Va.) Herald. j What authority is there for saying i the railroads wish to force a panic? j Would not the railroads suffer from j the evil effects of a panic as well as other interests? Strikes us that they would and they'd be fools to do anything to hurt themselves. The injunction is the tiling, is the injunction! Great I will mail you free, to prove merit, sam ples of Dr. Shoop's Restorative,andmybook on either Dyspepsia, the Heart or the Kid neys. Troubles of the Stomach, Heart or Kidneys are merely symptoms of a deeper ailment. Don't make the common error of treating symptoms only. Symptom treat ment is treating the result of your ailment, and not the cause. Weak stomach nerves the inside nerves mean stomach weakness, always. And the heart, and kidneys as well, have their controlling or inside nerves. Weaken these nerves, and you inevitably have weak vital organs. Here 19 where Dr. Shoop's Restorative has made Its fame. No other remedy even claims to treat the "in side nerves." Also for bloating, biliousness, bad breath or complexion, use Dr. Shoop's Restorative. Write me today for sample and free book. Dr. Shoop, Racine, Wis. The Restorative is sold by Thomas Bros. court has not at this time rendered its decision. To sum all up: The State has in every instance obeyed all orders le gally made against it by the Federal court, but the railroads have refused wilfully to recognize a single order of judgment of the State court, treats it as nullit3', refuses to appeal from its judgments, though this is the or derly law, and tries to carry every case from it to the Federal tribunal. In the legal way the Corporation Commission and private persons will obey Judge Pritchard's decree that affects them, and try their cases be fore him, carrying the same, if ag grieved, before the highest court. The railroads will not, if they can help it, allow tle State courts, though having jurisdiction, to try them; they will not appeal if aggrieved, through the usual channels, first to the State and then to the United States Supreme court, but insist on only being tried by one tribunal, to-wit, the Federal courts. I ask all fair-minded people, wheth er it is the railroads or the State that are "trying to hamper or interfere with the orderly course of judicial procedure." I cannot agree with you or the railroad attorneys who said State's rights ended in 18G5. The State has rights and I dare to main tain them against the- encroach ments of a Federal court at the re quest of a railroad. The State will do nothing rash or revolutionary, but will maintain its dignity by using every lawful means to enforce its laws." In every way possible that is hon orable and in accord with State's rights, I am willing to meet the rail roads in trying to settle this unfor tunate complication. 1 told certain of their officials before they com menced this suit, that if they would wait and test this law and should find it too burdensome, I would con vene the legislature and ask that the wrongs be remedied. 1 have offered, if they would sell tickets under the law, to advise the stopping of all in dictments and hasten the trial of the suit affecting the subject matter, but they will do nothing, attempt no settlement, only insist on the State allowing them to ignore our laws and our courts, and be tried in a court of their own choosing, and then when we refuse say the State is hampering justice and denying their rights. Passenger travle for the last ten years has greatly increased, and yet the rates hare never been offered by the railroad's. The entire cost of operation cannot overcome increas ing in travel, at least it was only just to give the act of a sovereign States fair trial before the courts. I repeat, the State will commit no unlawful or unseemly act, but to the utmost of my ability I will sustain our courts acting legally in executing their pro cess against all offenders. Respectfully, TLB. GLENN, Governor. State's Side of the Case Got. Glenn Replies to-Sttfessst of Presided Foley tad Girts State's Side of the Rale Contro versy Says Railroads and Not the Stale Trybg to Hamper ssj Interfere With Orderly Cecrse of Judicial Procedure. Io reply to the circular address of President , Fintet of the Southern Kaiiway, published elsewhere. Gov. Gleun has issued the following state ment: . Raleigh. N. C. Julr. 22.1907. To the People of the State: Since Mr. Finley. president of the South ern Railway, has seen fit to publish 4.1. !1 1 . . iue rauroau siue oi tne umortuuate controversy now going on between the State and certain railroads, the Council of State and the State's at torneys deem it best that as gover nor I also give to the public the facts. in order that it may see whether it is the State or the railroads that are trying "to hamper or interfere with the orderly course of judicial pro cedure." The General Assembly at its last session upon the reports made by the various railroads to the Corpora tion Commission, based on their re ceipts and disbursements, passed an act regulating passenger rates, and fixed the maximum charge at 2 cents. The act was self-executing; nothing had to be done by the Cor poration Commission or the Attor ney General to give it force, but by the express wording of the statute it was to go into effect July 1st, 1907. Before that day arrived the Southern Railway and the stockholders of the Atlantic Coast Line applied to a Cir cuit court of the United States to en join the Corporation Commission and Attorney General from putting said rate into effect. This application on the part of the Southern Railway was based on entirely a different re port of earnings than the sworn one given to the Corporation Commis sion, its officers contending that a great mistake bad been made in the first report in that it made the intra state net earnings too large. . All those who have studied the question will see that if the act went into effect July 1st, 1907, without the intervention of the Corporation Commission, or Attorney General, then when Judge Pritchard enjoined th9 Commission and . the Attorney General he acquired jurisdiction over the persons and not the subject mat ter, ana his decree was a vain thing. He was powerless to enjoin the gov ernor, the judges and other State officers, because the Constitution of the United States forbids it. They will all agree that the State courts bad jurisdiction of the subject matter whether constitutional or unconsti tutional. The Corporation Commission ap peared before the Circuit court. Cer tain private persons bringingpenalty suits under the act were also cited to appear; the matter was argued and without finding that the act was unconstitutional by reason of being unsatisfactory, the court continued the injunction and ordered the taking of testimony to find out whether the rate was too low, and therefore amounted to a confiscation of rail road property. Did the State officials act "in an orderly manner" on the rendition of this decree, even though they deemed it erroneous? They ac quiesced, filed exceptions and pro ceeded to get ready to take testi mony. By letter and otherwise, I advised all private litigants that I could, to respect the order made by the court, and would not even em ploy the same attorneys io the in dictments that had been employed by the Corporation Commission. The rate law, as before stated, be ing self-acting, requiring nothing to be done by the Corporation Commis sion or Attorney General, became a law July 1st, and was every dav being violated by the railroads and their agents. Some of the judges, of their own motion, seeing the law thus openly violated, knowing that under the decision of both the State and Federal courts, the Circuit court could not enjoin or prevent the oper ation of this law by enjoining the Corporation Commission, proceeded to properly charge the grand jury, and have bills of indictment found against the railroads thus violating the criminal law of the State. Re member that "in an orderly course" all State officials who were restrained by the Circuit court obeyed its decree. Let us see in what an orderly man ner the railroads acted. We will take the indictments in Raleigh and Asheville. In Raleigh a bill was found against the ticket agent of the Southern Railway, and the South ern Railway when brought into court, both the agent and officials of the railroad refused to recognize the State court, would not plead, but stood mute, and the court itself bad to enter the plea of "not guilty." When its agent wasputintocustody. the railroad advised him to go to jail, which he did, until released from custody by the judge. They put on no evidence and after a verdict of guilty as to both defendants, they would not appeal, which was the "orderly course" but tried to get its acent to cro to iail. so a writ of habeas corpus could be obtained from the Federal court, and now threaten to enjoin the collection of the fine Imposed acrainst the railroad, not bv anneal, but through that conrt. 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