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' Railroads owned by the , people. (Continued from Page 1.) and property of every description, real, personal and mixed, are but a trust fund for the political power, like the functions of a public office. The judicia-personage, the corporation, created by the sovereign power ex pressly for this sole purpose and for no other, is in the most strict, techni cal and qualified sense, but its trustee. This is the primary and sole legal, political motive for its creation. The incidental interest and profits of in dividuals are accidents, not in theory and practice. Every farthing of its tolls is first to be devoted to pay ing the public tax, and to the continu ance of the road, its ample equipment and regular operation as the inter ests of the community, not those of the shareholders, demand.” To tell these overlords of rails and road beds, that these patient creatures they have Ijeen jamming into decay ing and filthy cars; these docile hu man beings they have been hurling to death through rotten bridges; are their masters with rights superior to the lucre laden magnates of water logged stocks, is new talk that will require a readjustment of my attic furniture before I can find room to permanently stow it. It’s strange, but I like it. And to think that the words are quoted. Which means that they have been used before. Well, that proves how much my im mense lack of information has cost me. That such words as these were ever used, except in political party plat forms, was never dreamed of in my philosophy—Horatio. This decision puts the railroad question just where it ought to be. It is the most important decision ever handed down by a Florida court. It settles the transportation prob lem. And settles it right. It really makes no difference these days how you used to line up in poli tics —whether you were a Democrat or a Republican or a Populist, or any other old thing, if you get to thinking on x Üblic questions you will find your self agreeing, in the main, with all other people~who allow themselves to think freely and clearly and without regard to how some other persons are going to think about the way they think. Tom Johnson, millionaire and Democrat, .thinks about public ques tions. So does Bob LaFollette, poor man and Republican. And when you read the thoughts of Johnson and La Follette, they are very much alike on public questions. Cummings, governor of lowa, is a |rich man and a Republican; Tom Watson, writer down in Georgia, is comparatively a poor man and a Popu list; yet these two think alike, and this last pair think very much like the first pair. A Republican legislature in Nebras ka solemnly declared for the two-cent rate for railroad fare. Another Re publican resolution in a Republican legislature, this time in lowa, wants the election of United States senators by popular vote and the two-cent fare besides. The truth about the matter is that there is only one side to public ques tions these days, and every man who thinks about them gets on that side. This side is— That it’s about time for the people to assert their inherent power to rule, and wrest the control of this country from the trusts, corporations and .otther powers that prey. K « M How we all hate a quitter! He always stops just before we get a chance to bump him. BROWNLOW ON ANDREW JOHN SON. Washington, Feb. 23. —Over Moun tain Hill, near Greenville, Tenn., the last resting place of Andrew Johnson, a storm of oratory broke forth today, while the house committee of the whole was discussing the sundry civil bill. The place was made a national ceme tery long ago, and there is a para graph in the budget carrying $32,000 for a superintendent’s lodge, road ways, walks and closing walls. Mr. Gardner, of Michigan, moved that the paragraph be stricken out for the reason that only four Union soldiers are buried there. He said the appro priation really was an ingenious way of taking care of the grave of Andrew Johnson. Mr. Brownlow, of Tennessee, who represents the district once represent ed by Andrew Johnson, spoke earnest ly against the motion. He told the story of what East Tennessee had done for the Union army. “The con gressional district of which Green ville is the center,” said Mr. Brown low, “sent more men to battle for the Union than any other congressional district in the country and they were 100 miles ’within the Confederate lines.” Passing to a discussion of Johnson, Mr. Brownlow said amidst great ap plause, “In my opinion Johnson was the greatest patriot of the civil war.” Gardner’s motion was defeated in a vast chorus of “noes.” h * n SPOT COTTON MARKET. Atlanta, steady, 11c. New York, steady, 11 35-100 c. New Orleans, steady, 10 13-16 c. Liverpool, steady, 6 11-100 d. Galveston, steady, 11 3-16 c. Mobile, steady, 10 5-16 c. Savannah, steady, 10 5-Bc. Charleston, steady, 10 7-16 c. Wilmington, steady, 10 7-16 c. Norfolk, steady, 11 l-16c. Baltimore, nominal, 11 l-4c. Boston, steady, 11 35-100 c. Philadelphia, steady, 11 60-100 c. Houston, - steady, 11 l-Bc. Augusta, quiet, 11 l-2c. Memphis, quiet, 10 11-16 c. St. Louis, steady, 10 3-4 c. Cincinnati, nominal. Louisville, firm, 10 3-4 c. nun COMPARATIVE PORT RECEIPTS. 1903-4 1904-5 1905-6 1906-7 Galveston .. 1,520 11,066 6,032 13,212 New Orleans 4,201 10,551 2,812 8,164 Mobile 30 1,278 336 1,029 Savannah ... 705 2,253 1,681 1,692 Charleston. . 9 216 200 309 Wilmington . 137 560 198 234 Norfolk .... 350 1,102 1,393 682 New York 33 50 37 Boston 50 277 488 Philadelphia 21 45 148 Pacific ports 1,602 1,900 229 Total .... 8,625 n n n “Where do all the pins go?” de mands the Sierra (Cal.) Times. They go where most of the money goes— into the women’s clothes. FOR SALE Buff P. Rock, Barred P. Rock and S. C. W. Leghorn eggs at SI.OO for 15. A few White Leghorns at SI.OO, Cockerels at SI.OO. Five years and not a single complaint as to quality. Try me. G. W. USY, Thomson, Ga. Blanchards, S. C. W. Leghorns and Jeffries B. P. Rock Eggs, 15 for SI.OO, or 100 for $4.00. My strains won First, Second and Third prizes in all shows last fall. 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