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fitraSc! flflocriiscr. NEWNAN, FRIDAY, JULY 16. their course when they come down j OWE DOLLAR A YEAR, Hon. Issues Hilary A. Herbe Statement. Hon. Hilary A. Herbert, who was one of the arbitrators in the recent conference to adjust the differences be tween the Georgia railroad and its white firemen, has issued the following statement,: “I see by the Montgomery Advertiser of July 1, which has just reached me that a bill has been introduced Georgia Legislature to require companies to lure whiti sistants to the enginec the railroad men as as- * being not to prevent railroads from employing ne gro firemen, hut as additional safe guards to public travel.’ “Partly because Chancellor Harrow and 1, who recently, as arbitrators of the question involved in this 1 ill, did not publish any opinion giving the rea sons why we found that the employ ment of negro firemen on the Georgia railroad did not endanger the traveling public, and still more because of the abiding interest I have in this matter, I ask you to publish this communica tion. “Let me premise by saying that my law firm are the local attorneys of the Seaboard Air Line railway in Washing ton City, getting as compensation not a salary, but fees for such business as comes to us there. These fees constitute an insignificant item in my practice, av eraging not over $700 per annum, and 1 should despise myself if I thought that this sum, or, indeed, any amount of money, could account in any degree for the deep and abiding convictions I have concerning the questions involved in the recent arbitration at Atlanta, and again in the bill now before the Geor gia Legislature. “I am an intense Southerner, proud of having fought alongside of Wright's glorious Georgia brigade under Lee. 1 have studied the negro question care fully for forty years, and have been, and am now. heart and soul with the people of Alabama, Georgia and other Southern States in their every struggle for the political supremacy of the white man. This supremacy, thank God, we have secured completely. In telligent public opinion at the North is, at this writing, so thoroughly with us that there is now no longer any danger of interference with us from Washing ton, either legislative or executive, so long as we do not, by harsh or unjust treatment of the negro, now at our mercy, alienate the sympathies of the majority section of our Union. “The completeness of our supremacy in the South over the negro is illustra ted by the fact that in the recent arbi tration at Atlanta the right of the ne gro to earn a living by working as lo comotive firemen was argued and decid ed when he was not present or repre sented by counsel. The majority of the board decided that the negro was eom- netent, and that his employment did not endanger the public safety, affixing as an additional condition that he should lie paid the same price as the white fireman. 1 was not fully satisfied with this condition when l signed the award. Every moment of reflection since has given me uneasiness about it. And 1 now wish to say that this communica tion is prompted only by a desire not to he misunderstood, and by the notice in the papers of this bill in the Georgia Legislature. In a brief discussion of the case that was before the board, having no papers at hand, 1 must rely entirely upon memory, hut if 1 err in any of my statements the record of all the evidence is accessible in the United States Circuit Court in Atlanta. “It appears that for years, on the Georgia railroad, many of the firemen were negroes ami in subordination to the engineers, who were invariably whites. Some time last spring repre sentatives from the North of the Broth erhood of Locomotive Firemen and En- ginemen appeared upon the scene. Then the trouble began: a strike came on; many rumors filled the air, and the excitement grew until representatives of the Federal Government went to Georgia and brought about an arbitra tion under the Erdman Act. “The main issue was whether the Georgia railroad should be permitted any longer to employ negro firemen. The only wav by which the brotherhood could get rid of the nergoes was to show that they were not competent; and the wonderful record of the Geor gia railroad was that, during a life time of seventy live years, only one passenger has ever been killed, and that casualty occurred on a mixed pas senger and freight train on a branch line. For thirty-eight (a majority) of these years, negroes had fired upon it, and yet, in the face of this record, the task of showing that these negroes could not lie trusted was boldly essayed. The strikers had with them, as wit nesses and promoters in the litigation, two officials of the Brotherhood of Lo comotive Firemen and Enginemen, one from Toronto, Canada, and the other from Chicago. These officials had with them many statistics and books from other railroads, which, in the opinion of the majority of the board, had little bearing on the rase, and which, if I re member correctly, were little, if any, dwelt on by counsel in argument. The strikers were represented by Mr. Dick son, of Peoria, Ill., national attorney of the brotherhood, who made a strong opinion speech, and their leading coun sel was Mr. Arnold, one of the fore most lawyers of the South. The railroad was represented by Mnj. .). B. Cam ming and Mr. Sanders McDaniel, Maj. Cumming making the only speeches, and 1 need not tell Georgians how high he ranks. The chief witnesses for the I strikers were twenty-five engineers, j mostly from the Georgia railroad, upon J which no traveler ever lost his life by the carelessness of a fireman. The tes timony of many of these witnesses was , the stereotyped answer that the aver- i age white man is superior to the aver- j age negro, w ieh, of course, all know. I Others testified more specifically that the white man made a better fireman ! than the negro; all admitted, however, | that some negroes were entirely com petent, and two of them admitted that thev had asked for particular negroes as firemen. Now, the testimony of each of these witnesses, all of them intelli gent, and I believe truthful, was main ly from the opinion formed from th few negro fi-. rnen who had been under every domestic service, him individually. No conciete facts | were given which, in my opinion, could \ selves to their proper spheres. riie.\ affect the question. Remembering here : have undoubtedly accomplished much that general conclusions drawn from 'good, but it is difficult to see how pub- individual instances are only considered | lie opinion at the South can^approve j valuable when derived from many I facts, and the more the better, let us look first at such evidence on the other : side as comes from the Georgia rail road alone. The witnesses were the general manager, the master mechanic j and other officials to whom reports were regularly made about the conduct and value, and particularly about the : defects, if any, of every fireman on the road. It was the duty of every engi neer examined, and of the many other | engineers who were not examined, as it has been for years of their predeces sors, to report especially upon any der eliction of duty of the firemen who were serving immediately under them. Each of these official witnesses was, therefore, through their reports, in. touch with all of the firemen on the road, and the experience of such offi cials, if truthfully related, was there fore of more value than was that of all the engineers who gave evidence, be cause each engineer was in touch only with such fireman as happened to be under him. What adds further value to the testimony of these officials is that the general manager and the directors of this carefully - managed railroad, from all their reports, have adhered for years to the policy of employing in part negro firemen. Self-interest prompts railroad corporations, as it does other persons. It experience had shown that negro firemen endangered the safety of the traveling public, the railroad company would have given them up. Everybody knows that ju ries award heavy damages when losses occur from the incornpetency of rail road employees. The case of the Geor gia railroad was established bv the ev- i lence from that corporation alone. But besides the evidence of the Georgia railroad officials, the hoard of arbitra tion had before it also the testimony of officials of six other Southern rail roads. All of them testified that ex perience extending back for years, em bracing, of course, careful observation for long periods of all their firemen, justified them in adopting and adhering to the policy of employing in part ne gro firemen. Never was a controvert ed fact more abundantly established by evidence than was the fact before the board of arbitration, that the ne gro, when properly selected, will per form well all the duties of a fireman. Some of the testimony was that ne groes were more efficient than whites, because they endure better the heat of the climate. It further appeared from the evidence that more negroes than at present would be taken on as firemen by some of the companies, were it not for a desire to train on each road a cer tain number of firemen for engineers. No one of the companies makes negroes engineers, wisely drawing the line here, just as the people of Georgia do when they elect to subordinate posi tions men whom they would not choose for Supreme Court Judges—the pfliti- co-economic question. If the negro is not competent to do the duties of fire man under the immediate supervision of a white engineer, what is he fit for? What are we to do with the 10,0u0,000 negroes in the South? The able coun sel of the firemen saw the necessity of some reply to this question, and, as I remember, he said they all should he sent to the fields Of course, Mr. Ar nold has as high a regard for the white farmer of the South, who works with his own hands, as 1 have; and I am sure that he did not see all that his po sition would imply. "Is the white farmer the only white man in the South with whom the ne gro is to be allowed to compete? These white farmers and their friends, when appealed to for sympathy with the labor unions who wish to drive the ne gro out of other occupations, should take notice of what all this means. For one, 1 should be glad if we never had a negro in America. He has been the cause of unspeakable strife and blood shed. Became; yet it was not his fault. He was brought here against his will, and he served faithfully, es pecially during the Civil War. During reconstruction days he played a sorry part. He was ignorant and credulous, and had men, playing on his hopes and fears, pitted him against us in a con test for social equality and political su premacy. The white man won out, of course, and now the pity of it all that those of the two races who grew up in the midst of that eoniflet became so bitter against each other that the young white man, with his superior in telligence, often finds it difficult to take a dispassionate view of the situs tion before him. Still, this is what hi ought to do. We of the South are ii full control, and the negr), with whom we must deal, is here with us to stay. "Thomas Jefferson was a wise main He favored emancipation, but thought it should be coupled with colonization of the negro abroad, because he feared a race war, as in San Domingo. Other early Southern statesmen thought like wise. Abraham Lincoln, the South now recognizes, was a wise and good man. When he felt obligated, as a military necessity, to issue his proclamation sympathizing with the South, and fear ing race trouble, he sounded, through his Secretary of State, Great Britain, France and the Netherlands, to know whether the United States could send freedmen to the British, the French or the Dutch West Indies. All these Gov ernments atnvered no. So did the Cen tral and South American republics. All this appears in Mr. Lincoln’s mes sage to Congress in Decemer. 1862. “The negro is to-dav with us; there is nowhere to send him, and no monev to transport 10,000,000 of them, even if we could find for them a home. Can we, then, satisfy the fears of Jefferson and Calhoun and Lincoln, and live peaceably with the negro all over the South, in the black counties and in the white counties, during the lung future that is before us and our posterity? Tne experience of the last ten years seems to show that we can, if only hereafter we continue, ns heretofore, to he just to the negro and allow him to work at callings for which he is fit ted and where he can get employment. If left to myself, l would strike out the condition attached to the award of the majority of the arbitrators in the Georgia railroad case. We will nor he doing justice to the negro if we allow one labor union to come down from the North and exclude him from rail road woik. Then others will come nrd exclude him successively from carpen tering and blacksmithing and saw-mill ing, mining, etc., until finally we shall have organizations interfering with We all approve labor unions when they confine theru- Tax Rale in Troup County. LaGrango Graphic. The County Commissioners held a meeting Monday and fixed the tax rate for Troup county at $7.50 per thousand, . - , . .1, iur iruup ld among us to stir up strife between the , instead of S10> ' Owing to an arrange races. The white man of the.South has i nothing to fear from competition with : the negro, we all know. The lie- j gro is not anywhere his equal. When idleness and crime are justly com plained of against the negro it is strange that thoughtful men should aid in a movement to deprive him of work he is fit for. This tends to take away from him all hope, all incentive to be- ome a useful citizen, instead of a bur den on the community This rapidly written communication has grown to some length, but, seeing that an effort was being made in the Georgia Assembly to reverse a decision which I recently aided in rendering, I have felt it my duty to give now some of the reasons that influenced that award. Hilary A. Herbert.” Senoia Notes. Senoia Enterprise-Gazette, 5-th inst. Master Arthur Ware and Miss Lila Finley are at home from the Pasteur I nstitute. Dr. and Mrs. W. D. Powder are spending ten days with friends and rel atives at their old home in Simpson- ville, S. C. Mr. Cotter S. Shell, who holds a good position in the bank at Doerun, is spending a couple of weeks with the family of his father, Mr. J. A. Z. Shell. Rev. Walter Carmical, of Thomaston, who recently had an attack of appendi citis. is spending a few days here with his parents, and is getting along nicely. Mrs. E. L. Merrill and daughter, Dora, wdll leave Saturday for Atlanta, where they will be joined by Mrs. P. H. Calhoun and grandson, and visit Mrs. Marion Letcher, at Washington, D. C. Rev. D. A. Brindle, who is well and favorably known to many people here, will pitch his tent near the Presbyte rian church and begin a two-weeks’ meeting about the loth of August. He will be assisted by Rev. Geo. Cuthrell, who also has many friends here. After sixteen years’ service as post” master at Senoia, Mrs. Alice C. Fall has turned over the affairs of the office to her successor, Mr. Hugh B. Sasser, and she will now take a much-needed rest. Mr. Sasser assumes this impor tant office with becoming dignity, and we feel sure he will make a good post master. He is clever, kind and accom modating, and his reputation as an hon est Christian gentleman is above re proach. Mr. Arthur O. Baggarly, who has been assistant postmaster for the past year, will continue to hold the place. He is a capable and accommo dating official, and his friends are glad to see him remain in the office. Messrs. Luke and 0. W. Ellison have secured a location directly in front of the A., B. & A. depot, and expect in the near future to establish an up-to- date variety works. The principal articles they will manufacture will be cotton planters and guano distributors. They expect to push the business in future, and our peop e stand ready to lend them every encouragement possi ble. Mr. C. F. Sasser has been very energetic in helping to secure this plant, as he always is in matters look ing to the good of our city. This is the first manufacturing plant for our town since the completion of the new railroad, and now that the start has been made we hope to see many move locate here. The freight rates to and from Senoia are lower in many instan ces than those enjoyed by any other town in this section. Prof. W. Howard Davis gave a song recital at the Brantly Institute audito rium Friday evening. Mrs. Davis was his accompanist. Mr. Davis has a true tenor voice of unusual sweet ness. All his notes are clear and dis tinct, and he sings with perfect expres sion. His programme included a choice selection from the classics, and every number was heartily enjoyed by the appreciative audience. Mr. Davis is an old Coweta boy, having been reared at Newnan. From early child hood he delighted his friends with song, and now in early manhood, after painstaking study of four years under Bischoff, at Washington, 1). C., the greatest voice teacher in America, and two years under Lamnerti, of Berlin, who has trained some of the finest singers of the present time, he has ful filled all the promises of his youth. It is but seldom we have the opporti - nity of hearing such an artist, and we ' are looking forward to his next visit with pleasurable anticipations. Excursion Fares via Central of Georgia Railway Company. To Albany, Ga., and return—Account District Grand Lodge No. 8, G. U. O. O. F., to he held August 10-13, HI09. Tickets on sale from points in Georgia. To Black Mountain, N. 0., and return — Account Montreat Chautauqua and Religious Assemblies, to he held July 15-August 31. 1909. To Los Angeles. Calif.. Portland, Ore.. Seattle, Wash., San Francisco, Calif., San Diego, Calif. —Account Alaska - Yukon - Pacific Exposition and various other special occasions. To Monteagle and Sewanee, Tenn., and return — Account Mission Week (Willets and Gilbert Lectures) to be held Julv 1-16, 1909; Monteagle Bible School, to he held July 17-29, 1909: Monteagle Sunday-school In stitute and Musical Festival, to he held Julv 30-August 15, 1909. Nashville, Tenn., and return—Ac count Peabody College Summer School for Teachers and Vanderbilt Biblical Institute, to be held June 9-August 4, 1909. To Nashville, Tenn., and return—Ac count Peabody College Summer School tor Teachers and Vander bilt Biblical Institute, to be held June 9-August 4, 191)9. Asheville, N. C., and return. -Ac count Dramatic Order Knights of Khorassan. biennial meeting, to be held July 12-20, 1909. To Ahens, Ga., and return.—Account summer school. University of Georgia, to be held June 26-Julv 17, 1909. To Knoxville, Tenn.. and return.-—Ae- eount Summer School of the South, to he held June 22-July 30, 1909. For full information in regard to rates, dates of sale, limits, schedules, ete., apply to nearest ticket agent. ment made to borrow money at a very cheap rate, the Commissioners have decided definitely on a tax rate. The equipment of the convict camps was ex pensive, and if the tax-payers had to pay it all this year the rate would have been $10 on the thousand. This is a very satisfactory arrangement, as the pros pect is that crops will be short, and they think it better for the county to pay (3 per cent, than for her citizens to pay 12 per cent., as many of them will have to borrow money to pay taxes. This arrangement gives the county five years in which to pay by degrees the extra I expense to which the county was put | by her convicts. The tax this year will j be practically the same as last year— I $12.50 on the thousand, State and county. I Railroad Commissioner Hillyer was I elected last year by the people on the | Atlanta platform of 1908. He voted the other day—crossing McLendon, Hill and Stevens—in favor of giving to the Atlanta jobbers special privileges— a thing that the platform on which he was elected declared against. Why did not Gov. Smith also suspend him for going against the platform on which he was elected? The platform he violated was of force. The platform McLendon violated (if he violated any) was not of force. But Judge Hillyer is a very able and conscientious gentleman and does not deserve removal. Neither did Mc Lendon.—Macon Telegraph. 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