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-A f , MF1 TWO) (H1R A THE DEMOCRAT. The Advertiser's EAY0RF1E. RATES LOW. TiiK PK MOCK AT. 4 !: r, . ; i-i- E. E HILLIARD, Editor and PPtor WE MUST WORK FOU TIIK PEOPT.FS WKI.FAF.E. ulxrrlpllon HI fl pc- r rur. No. PJ SCOTLAND NECK. N- C-. THl'HSDA V. .IAN I A K V I':;. Isli VOL. VI. 1 PROFESSIONAL.' Aycock: a Daniels, C 0. Daniels, Gcldsboro, N. C. Wilson, N. C. Aycock & Daniels & Daniels, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Wilson, N. O. Any Business Entrusted to us will be Promptly Attended to. 4 4 lJ yy A. DUNN, ATTORNEY A T LAW, Scotland Neck, N, C, Practices wherever his services are required. feb13 11. K1TCIIIN, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Scotland Neck, N. C. ft- Office: Corner Main and Tenth Streets. 1 5 ly. JJAVID HELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Enfield, N. C. Practices m all the Courts of Halifax and adjoining counties and in the Su preme and Federal Courts. Claims col lected in all parts of the State. 3 8 ly. W.H.DAY, A. CZOIXI COFFER, R.RANSOM weldon. Henderson. wrldon. DAY, ZOLLICOFFER & RANSOM. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Weldon, N. C. 3 Sly. rjTMlOMAS N. HILL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Halifax, N. C, Practices in Halifax and adjoining counties, and the Federal and Supreme Courts. 3 S ly. ft. II. M. JOHNSON Office- Cor. Main and Tenth Streets, 10 11 ly. Scotland Neck, N. C. jr. v. o. Mcdowell. OFFICE Corner Main & 10th Sts., Next door to Futrell & Speed, Scotland Neck, N. C. VW Always at his office when not professionally engaged elsewhere, 9 26 tf. HAXALL MILLS, RICHMOND ,VA. BYRD-1SLAND PatentRollerFamily Flour, And all other grades of FLOUR. ALSO CORN-MEAL AND MILL FEED. r 17 ly. I VERY AND SAL' SI ABLES. r- ALWAYS READY For Hire GOOD TURN-OUTS at Cheap Kates. Passengers carried quickly to anj point on or off the railroad. Horses well fed and properly groomed by the day or by the month at reasonable charges. IsF Will always sell or trade. BRYAN & MORRISSETT, Main St., Scotland Neck, N. C. 1 31 6m. tamsasa mmm FOR YOUNG LADIES, Norfolk, Ya. Largest, Cheapest and Best School in Tidewater Ya. 250 students. 20 Teachers. Health record unsurpassed. ONLY $42.50 A QUARTER for Board and Tuition, 7 25 if. IB Haxall mm The Old naii H Story. NELLIE IJUXTON. Behind the dreary prison walls, 'Mid faces pale and wan, I saw a figure that was but The shadow of a man. His fiery eyes were sunken in, A face all gaunt and sear; He to my question made reply: '"Twas drink that brought me here." ,l,Tis but the same old tale," he said, "And many here can tell How they sacrificed their honor To the drink they loved so well. "I was honored, yes, and happy (Mine's a fctory often told) Till I tasted of the liquor That's so freely bought and Bold. "At first 'twas but the 'social glass,' And then but need I telll- Why trace a drunkard's downward course? 'Tis known, alas, too well! "My wife and children! Yes, they're dead; 1 lost them, Miss, through drinking, Bat now I'll stop; I'll talk no more, For talking sets me thinking." . I turned and left him standing there, His aged head bowed low; And thought h w many lips, could tell Just suck a tale of woe! Tlie Same Old 1V1. Sec that young man going into a gambling den. lie has heard of tbe d inger, but be thinks be can es cape where others fell, So he goes on into tbe web of the big spider, ee that fly sailing around t-o room and some one says: ''Beware of t ift spider's web." -'O,'' says the green fly, "there Is nothing dan gerous about that pretty looking thing. It really looks handsome and inviting. I've beard old fogies talk about its danger, but really I don't see it. I believe Til go iu " So he goes in, And the spider, hid away in a hole, comes out and wind? a silken thread around him and holds him in readiness to be eaten at his leisure. So young men hud the gambling saloons very nicely fitted up, brilliantly illuminated t and charming fellows in there to entertain them. But after all the whole thing is a man trap. Human spiders have woven the web, first to charm and deceive, then to fleece and destroy. " There is a way that seenieth right unto a man, but the end thereof is death." A change. How to Plaice Farming Pay. Economist. The rule to make farming pay is simple as the krule of three."' It is simply to produce as much to the thousand as will leave a margin of profit over expenses. Two barrels to tbe thousand c ..rn hills formerly left tbe farmer a margin of profit. But two barrels to tbe thousand corn hills will not do so now, with tbe large expenses and low price of corn. W hat is to be done? Simply this and nothing more. Let tbe same expanse of labor be expended to pro luce four barrels to the thou-, sand t orn bills and vou will have a margin of p-ofit. It is eash r to mi: g your land from two barrels io the thousand to four barrels than to raise it from a barrel to tbe thou sand to two barrels. The rule is simply to pu-. the manure thicker. If ou have no enough manure to put thicker reduce tt.e number of thousand- you put it on. That's all of it. f'ouMiimpiion I ii -ura bit-? Read the following: Mr. C. II. Morris, Newark, Ark. , says : "Was down with Abscess of Lungs, and friends and phsieians pronounced me an Incurable Consumptive lie gan taking Dr. King's New Discov ery lor Consumption, am now on my third bottle, and able to oversee the work on my farm. It is the finest medicine ever ma le.'' JcS36 Mid.Udwart, Decatur. Ohio, says: '-Had it not been for Dr. King's New Discovery for Consump tion I would have died of Lung Troubles. Was given up by doctors. Am now in best of health." Try it. Sample bottles free at E. T White head & Co. Drugstore. Persons advanced io years feel younger and stronger, as well as freer freer from the infirmities of age , by taking Dr. J. H. McLean's Sarsaparilla. For sal by E. T. Whitehead L Co. One of Dr. J. H. McLean's Little Liver and Kidney Fillets, taken at night before going to bed, will move the bowels; the effect will as onish jou. For sale by E. T. Whitehead & Uo. Subscribe to the DEMOCRAT. THE NEW SOUTH. BY HON. HENRY YV. GRADY. (New York Ledger.) A few years ago I told, in a speech, of a burial in Pickens couns tv, Georgia. The grave was dug through solid marble, but the mar ble head3tone came from Vermont. It was in a pine wilderness, but the pine coffin came from Cincinnati. An iron mountain overshadowed it, but tbe coffin nails and screws and the shovels came from Pittsburg. With hard woods and metals fbound ing, the corpse was hauled on a wagon from South Bend, Indiana. A bickory grove grew near by, but the pick and shovel handles came from New York. The cotton shirt on He dead man came from Cincinnati, the coat and breeches from Chicago, the shoes from Boston ; tbe folded hands were encased in white gloves from New York, and round the neck, that had worn all its living days the bouiage of lost opportunity, was twiated a cheap cravat from Phila delphia. Tuat country, so rich iu undeveloped resources, furnished nothing for the funeral except the corpse and the hole in the ground, and would probably have imported both of those if it could have done so. And as the poor fellow was lowered to his rest, on Coffin bands from Lowell , he carried nothing into the next world as a reminder of his home in this, save the halted blood in his veins, the chilled marrow in his nones, and the echo of the dull clods that fell on his coffin lid. There are dow rcore than $3,000, OOf) invested in marble quarries and machinery around that grave. Its pitiful loneliness is broken with the rumble of ponderous machines, and a strange tumult pervades the wild erness. Twenty miles away the largest marble-cutting works in the world puts to shame in a thousand shapes its modest headstone. Forty miles away four cctiin factories, with their exquisite work, tempt the world to die. The iron hills are gashed an J swarm with workmen. Forty cotton mills in a near radius weave infinite cloth, that neighboring shops make into countless shirts. There are shoe factories, nail factories, shovel and pick factories, and car riage factories, to supply the other wants. And that country can now get up as nice a faneral, native and home-made, as yon would wish to have. irtON BECOMING KING. . The industrial growth of the South in the past ten years has been with out precedent or parallel. It has been a great revolation, effected in peace. How, from poverty, such progress has been wrought can be told only in figures, Words can not compass it . Let U9 then to figures! We start with iron, which is the bag of all industrial progress. In 1880 the South made 212.000 tons of iron. In 1SS7 she made 845,000 tons thus quadrupling her output in seven ears. But this is small compared to the future. The South is now building, or has already finished since 1887, 32 iron furnaees w;th a capacit- of 3,400 tons per day, or over 000,000 tons a year. In 1800 her output will be about 1,800,000 tons, although it was but 212.000 tons in 1S30. Io 1889 the Birming ham district alone will produce more iron than the entire South produced in 1SS7. This growth is not remark able when we consider that iron can be made in the South from $1 to $3 a ton cheaper than in the North. Mr. R. P. Rothwell, editor of the Mining and Engineering Journal of Ne w York, saw pig iron made in the South at an actual cost of 7.39 a ton. to which he added, for "renewals at.d incidentals," $1, making the .ot $8.30 a ton. An English expert of the highest character says : "The South will not only control the iron maiket of the North, but of Eng land." Mr. Abram S, Hewitt, who hr.s just invented largely in Southern furnaces, said, referring to Alabama; "This will be a region of coke made iron on a grander fcale than has ever been witnessed on the habitable globe."' Mr. Lowthiau Bell, of England, after investigating for a year, re ported to the Iron and Steel Institute of England: "Tennessee. Georgia and Alabama will prove a match for any part of the world in iron-making. Iron can oe made there at little more than half the cost of the North Mr. Samuel Thomas,of the Leheigh Valley furnaces, has just finished at Birmingham the finest two furnaces id the world, and says iron cau be mrwlp mnrh f! prpr thprf than ill! the North. Tbe South is already naming the price for iron in tbe North. Had General Toomba said, when he was reported to have said "he would call the roll of his slave? at Bunker Hill," mstead, 4,he would bring iron from tbe slave State, through Pittsburg, aul undersell Pennsylvania at Bunker Hill,' he would have made quite as surprising aud a much more truthful remark. For just that thing has teen, done! The magnitude of the iron business in tbe South is shown in the opera tionsofthe Teuaes-.ee Coal and Iron Company. It has a capital of $10, 000,000. From lU five furnac?s, iu hlast in 1837, it turne I out more iron than the Tuornas Iron Company, of Pennsylvania with twelve fars naces." And it is now adding, or ha? since then aided, five more fur naces and steel works. It ships Its product to Canada, California, and every intervening State aul Terri tory. It is an axiom in bur new iron region that "An iron furnace is like godliness. Have that, an 1 all the rest shall be added unto you !" From this theory the "magic cities" of the South have spuug. Of the growth of these, let the story of Birmingham give proof. That city was founded in about '72. MARVELOUS GROWTH OF A SOUTHERN CITY. With $12,000 the Elyton Land Company , composed of about twelve Southern men , bought 5,0 JO acres of land, and laid off a ci:v. There were mountains of iron and o cres of coal adjoining ; and this was the basis for tbe city. When the first sale of lots occurred, the auctioneer got loet in the wilderness about dusk, and discovered by his own placards, which he accidentally stumbled over, that he was on the corner of Sixty fifih street and Fifth Ayenue. The $12,000 of paid-in capital was con verted into $200,000 of stock, mak-s ing 2,000 shares of $100 each. On this capital, $5,500,000 in cash dividends have been pai.'l. Every dollar invested was once wortu $4. 000 in open market , and every dol lar is now worth $25,000, and more than $5,000 in cash dividends have been paid on e&c'a dollar invested. In one year the taxable value of Jefferson county, in which Birming ham is located, rose $14,000,000. Land ha3 sold at $3,000 a front foot. A man worth $4, 000 started a home to cost $1,500. Before he had finish ed it he wa9 worth $500,000, enlarged his plans for his home, and paid $1S,000 for the hard-wood finish of its facings and staircases. Such a tremendous hive of industry as Bir mingham is can hardly be lound elsewbere iu America. It is notable that the projectors the men who have made fortunes in tbis city are Southern men, without an ex ception. The iron furnaces, better than building citie?, have opened the way to collateral industries. In 1870 the South mined but 3,193.100 tons of coal; in 180, 0,940,471 ton?. In 1887 she mined 14.020,000 tons. In 1850 her production of coke was 209,430 tons ; in 18S5 (the last fig ures I have in mind) COS, 105 tons. Not less , certainly, than this de velopment of coal and coke have the iron furnaces given stimulus to smaller iron industries. The cost of shipping so heavy a thing as iron to the North, to be made into gins, plows, stoves, and like heavy goods, and the cost of shipping them back, tempted capital into shops and fac tories. Mr. Perry, a large stove maker of Albany , N. Y., who lately established immense stove works in Tennessee, stated in print that he saved $20 a ton on freight by sup plying his Southern trade from Southern works. Many factories have found the freight-saying the fallesi percentage of profit they needed. Rolling mills were the first industries that followed the furnaces. Gins and cotton presses were close to these. Plows and cotton planters followed. Then came stoves, hollow ware, nails, piping, and sash luff. After these came bridge works, en- gine and boiler factories, chain works, car works, an 1 locomotive works. Excellent saws are now made in the South. Tbe logical movement of supplying the local market with goods made at home, of home-made iron, rather than paying these, heavy freights, gave the local factories such success that they rapidly extended their field. Atlanta now sends plows into Mexico, and ships agricultural implements to Central America. She is even com peting with tie North ! nearer market", and we hate nr.rovcs or. the Pan-American delegates cow travelling over the continent. TLey siau no i ecspe io laetr uomes w:ia out being told in indifferent Soanisd. that the South is their nearest and!"! industrial : m of the South i their best market. j nuilt n a k and or.: ! Tbe growth of tie iron industries j shaken? It U H th? In :t of V..e provoked other venture'. Iu AN j t:rce of supply t.f iron. cos', a: J lanta tbe best gold watches are now wt.d the great cUruct-ti of made , the flacst piano, double eon- Industrie ! cave razors and sewing machines.! In the next art :c!e. wt'.l be troatel In Birmingham pins, in Gainesville the agriculture of the South :u it matches. It is curious to note how j growth, ro less axazing it .: tin- the industries of the Sjuth have been built up, step by step, nd how the system has grown of its owe growth. A few years ago a firm in Atlanta began making paper bags. It sold these all over America, hav ing a branch depot in Chicago. It then added cloth bags. It then built a cotton factory to supply the cloth for its bags. Later it doubled the factory. And now it has just added a bleachery at a cost of $100,000 to prepare the cloth. A number of men established successful proprietary medicines In Atlanta. Two box factories followed and now a glass and bottle factory , with $00,000 capital, supplies them with bottles. Each item grows out of another. And so vast and varied are our re sources that the system is a miracle of success and expansion. The last census shows that Atlanta stands third in the list of Americau cities m the proportion of actual workers to entire population. Lawrence, Mass., is first; Lowell, Mass., second ; and Fall River , Mass.. and Atlanta, Ga. , tie at third place 1 UNPARALELLKI) development. Ilere is a wider instance of how one industry in the South has brought others into being: Cotton eecd on the oil plantation was burn ed, or dumped into rivers as worth less. It was after slavery waa abolished that som-3 one discovered the seed was a good fertilizer, and it was then covered into the worn cotton fields. Tuen it was found it made a good food for cattle and sheep. After awhile some one presas ed thirty-five gallons of oil out of a ton of seed, a:id sold the oil for thirty-five cents a gallon. He found that the seed, stripped of t he oil, wa better food and fertilizer than when it was so rich and heavy. ExpcrN ments with the oil developed that it could be relined up to $1 a gallon, at which figure it is sent to Italy and shipped hack as olive oil. The hulls, first used as fuel and their residue sold as potash, now prove to be ex cellent food fo: cattle. The refuse makes the best and cheapest soap stock. To treat this pregnant seed and adapt its riches, a vast and complicated system of factories was needed. Over one hundred and eighty immense cotton seed oil mills, costing $100,000 each, grind the seed, and over fifty refineries, costing half as much, clarify and improve it. An enormus system of acid chambers and fertilizer mills have followed, to work the cotton seed meal of the oil mills into fertilizers. In Georgia alone $1,826,000 has been invested in ten years ia fertilizer factories that work up mainly Carolina phos phates , Georgia cotton meal, and native iron pyrites for sulphur. Ten years ago Georgia imported ever ton of her fertilizers, usually high priced guanos. Last year 202,000 ton3 of fertilizers, worth $5,500,000, were sold in Georgia, and the Georgia factories produced 1C5.00J tons, worth over $4,000,000. Then there are soap factories to convert j the refuse of the oil mills into soap, i And now, near each mill, are im- j mense peo9, in which thousands of cattle are fa'tened on the hulls, j These, in turn, will lead to packing! factories, and increase the fertilizer ! factories. The oil output of the j cotton seed, fifteen years ago thrown j away, represents $60,000,000 a year, j and the value of the meal and hulls ; prise. It Seems to us that in ar.oth for fertilizing or fattening stock, is , Cr year the dividend should be $40,000,000 more. More than $40 j trebled, and in all probability it 000,000 is invested in pUnts for the j will. manufacture of its various prolacts. It was also decided by the Dircc Surely, God has led the people of the trs to add 3.00 j more spindles in South into this unexpected way of progress and prosperity. From 1S30 to 13?7 there was in vested in the South $20.000,000 in ! manufacturing. This put 225,000 mechanics to work that had hitherto ! been idle or at work elsewhere. As has been shown, each of t h e s e new industries is reason for another. The industrial system oftheSouts responds, grows, thrills with new life, and it 13 based on sure and certain foundations. For it is built at the field , by the mine, in the field from which come the cheapest and best and fullest supply of :otton, iron and wool ! 1 h" :n iu-'.r..-. ,f ;l. li!:il f: ::i W.c - urce m y t e Ian- 1 ht Ihi in titLO rfcsv be br m y tc t. .. i skr:.:icn. o.r. : : thtt in t:u.e n:sv be br kt n. Bat S storv told ab'.v Her I'irt 1'nlr ollior. Parsons (Kansa' Eebpse. Among many interesting incident connected with the closing of saloon in Kittanning, Pi., a leading mer chant tells the following : A woman came into hi store very timidly. She was evidently unac customed to trading . "What can I do for you? ' inquired the merchant. "1 want a pair of shoes for a littV girl." she answered. "What niKiibe:! ' "She is twelve years old." "But what number does fhe wear' T do not know' "But what number did you buy when you bought the last pair for her?v "Mie never had a pair In her life. You pee, sir, her father used to drink when we had saloons; but now they are closed he doesn't drink and this morning he sii 1 to me, 'Mother, I want you to go up town to-day and get Sissy a pair of tdioe, for she never had a pair in her thought, sir, if I told yo:i !if.'.' I how old she was you would know just what s;z2 to cive me." 'I ' rt-iit Hooks. In "Christ in the Camp; or , ' Religion in the Southern Armies," Dr. J. Wi.i. .Jones (the tight ing j chaplain) has done a grand weak in j bringing together in permanent and readable form the roc, id of the i great religious work which went on uinong the soldiery. Every family throughout the Southland should possess a copy. It gives the best j eat ion of his own per on-il amb t am . possible guarantee, if anv weiej Vou may stv th s is an m-uli to the needed, that the work of the same legislat uie, but it is not. It ;stbe author, on the "Meumml Volume! plain simple m;th and ouht not to of Jt tie I son Davis; or , The Voi ld'n I be e uis'.ru ;d ot herwise. I he leg h I . -Tribute to His Memory," will leave j'.uie never has been, and ro ver will nothing to be desired, It i- said that he is progressing rapidly with this work, and will toon have it ready for the press. Having the co-operation of Mrs. Davis, and access to abundant material of the most intense interest, the volume is sire to be one that will be eager 1 sought after. It will be brought out in handsome and durable form, and a price to bung it within the reach of even the poorest ; while there will be an expensive edition for those who will desire this great woik in the host dress that can be put up in it., It, will be sold only by fcuprciiption, and thus every family will have an opportunity to procure the work right at tl eir own homes. Any one desiring fuller particulars, ami agencies for the book, should write at once to the publishers, Messrs B, F. Johnson Co., lOOOMain street , Richmond, Ya. falislmrv 'ot(on Hill. At a meeting of the Directors of the Salisbury Cotton Mills, held last Friday, it was decided to declare a dividend of per cent., which was done at the annual meeting of the stockholders on Monday, Tbis is an excellent thowing for the first year, when it is taken into consideration that the hands were t:greea,' the machinery new and stiff, and all the extra expenses necessary to starting a new enter- j addition to tbe 3,000 which have just teen put in. Wnf' h,n in. In 15 ft ft Iter re flftptif of It :'!?. 1U l JJ' J , fo:t. S. C, wrote Dr. Sbahenocrger; "I regard your Antidote a specific for chills acd fever. It was u ed on the Charleston & Savannah R. I toad last summer and autumn i:i the most sickly repi jn, and under the most tring circumstances. (Jut of oue gang of negro operatives , fifty were stricken down with chills and fever, and every one recovered by the timely use of Shallenberger's Anti dote. Vou possess the greatest medicine in the world.' AN1 U. II.Ki A1 1'hMM1nsi!s No 7 1 :!: r ..?; m l l:inv !" !t;- I.-,;': -: v.) in iU ! .It- rl !f:tr to .)0 then; 11 ; i r '! ".' ! -!" th I: .e;! u- , - tin j r'tur ati f.r :.. t.i! if 'he :.-,.( ;,. 1 -hould nrx .i tli'rnvlx , a,; i;:;s th ; -.rlro.i 1 .in I f .e :$:rtt !- a.i.tu thf prople I h ? !:!' ! le :. i ! n b !ie no ; .id .r thrn ',!..' j will I'l::; h.itni 'rv Utnrru th Corporations ,l-:d !h piv plr w :!. .id ireVly to !hr Contesi' merit and j pru-jKntv of the whoI utaji-. i llv. rv re.iler of u . t;tr.es knows I ..... I " . i iiat mere is a:i un;i; .i!iiont! iM'op'o and .1 diss.it i sf.irt it :i tnw.ud tbe r.illM.i 1 v.. Whrthrr tb.s d; content a-iM-s from ai: nn'is'.ieo Irom tbeM' corporations towards tim proph or i.ot . t : the M !: n oa:' c i!hl(! 1 iri. Uj'HM' th -fc' i ng against the railroads h unjust, it ei-'s all t In' 'aiiie , I t! lailroad authorities ought to all m t li.i r porr to uict it . A ta.lroad onianxnn to sfan ! b. tl('ll tilt' pop', 1 tbe roads would satisfy the people ar d uoul I not damage the ioads n th-:r legitimate and homM hibiin'. lb. re is no pow r in the legi.l t are to vi ipple t h" roa 1 or cut their rates so as to pieent them Irom ideating a dividend on their cipital invi sted ; tint the legislat ure can not delegate to n eoni'iiis-Mo1; greater power than it h.n itself. If this is so, how e.l'i a eoniMtlssl.in htllt the loads in then 1hin?im . Th 1 diflerei.ce bet'.Se n the 'c'Ms latino and a -ornniisiin de.dmg with the ni.iiU is tin-: Th" legist latuie is an unwieldy !.! eomj o-. ed of more than a bundled Hind. each acting foi itself. T:,is body is also computed of uiembeis of two p -ditieal parties, many tune -,tri. nig for t he ma-terf oltlie state, regardless of the greatest good ! the greatest number. I.ach iiouii'.m r of thhs is swayed more or le-s bv loo ! issue and local Hurrounding s , forget t ing all miercst except that of Ins o vn localit v at.d tliegratili be composed saints. 1 h" of So, onions and Hi!' fa' I it le human beings like ot her men , moved with like passion , ino'ives ami n'rit: ments. Th.s body being large, eaeh patty ; and each individual attempts to, and often does, shift ie.p.,,-ihlllt i. s of shortcomings to the s!,oii! deri of j ot le-rs. j Then the legislature is incapable I of eoi reel nig the mi-fakes of the j corporations as they ane. .n' so ! with a commission, if would be j composed of one or three mendtcM j (o:.e br'.b r . who could hae only j so many minds a.s eompo-e it ; no? IllOle filial oli;atl speeial he,iitit H to look aft'T ; who could teC to It ! e ff : - anv re-ponsib.'ht i"s from Ie f o otle rs, and win cm! I and would 1 held repon-ib!e both by the p' op'c and the iatlioads loi any shoi t coinings , fraud, oi cimip' ion. '1 he only po?.ihie rr.otrc that could actuate nn honest nnn on thii commission toM be a df-ire fo do exact juts t ice ? o all parlb-s concern -d , r aidless of public fcent i men t. It is impossible io elect one hundred unbiased nvm from the two p''i'i"'t! parties in any one election. But from arnor.g t v: more than o v died en ! fifty th'iT-nnd whit'. t.-j'i m- n thr j D ; red I of the H'.ite , mrely one or j hone'.t men co'dd b. hc'aj ' : !. ! honrs', tr.ea who are not taaj ' with will vote for hone-it men for a position of advantages trust. 'Asides these a com i& i --ioa would look i to a:;y ir.div.duu! charge against the road?. It would investi gate etry alleged wror.g. I: could ascertain tho facts in ev.h case against the railroads an I publish the 173 same to the country, and public opinion wouM drive LotU the people ! and the roads to do each other ! justice ; A co;nrLis,i0n would do justice to j t,e court- and jurors of the btale. ! Nearly all the Judges cf the btate m t 1 1 are chargeu oy manj goco peojue with leaning towards tlie fuvrr of the railroads , and th uors are caargeu by many of the Judges arid railroads with prejudice asa:nst the ro.la , and this charge is not without foun dation. A commi? :on would soon eradicate all prejudice of every kind against tli3 railroads, and the rail roads would take pride in doing right in all things.
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