| Show RABIES IN IN GEORGIA The state of Georgia is given hell to crazy fits A year ago its craze was as prohibition Now a a. gentleman gentleman gentle gentle- I 1 man from there says 81 he never saw so o much touch drunkenness drunken drunken- ness less in Atlanta as ns there is at present although all the x whisky ky there has hns to be he either cither imported or smuggled in from front the Georgia has hns another craze It seems to look upon railroads s as liS public enemies although we remember remember re Ie re- re member that two or three years cars before tho the great war titan Jefferson Davis made a speech in jn Atlanta and pre pre- j dieted i that it would be one OtiC of the Hie greatest of or south south- L ern cities because of railroads centering there which r 1 would give it a n commercial prestige which few other cr v points could ever 1 have well AVell the other da day Mr It went eat down clown t I I V there and looked over o the Georgia Central railroad r- r t At the thc same sable time he lie announced cd ea l his readiness to t. t jJ 1 In in n railway betterments in Georgia ia thereupon an all llew newspaper paper rises up to say i t 4 Ly H Jf If If Mr 11 nan thinks think the people of Georgia in intend intend in in- tend to lie He down at his bidding hidding and whether it is his lis purpose to work an infamous Chicago Alton deal dealon on the Central of Georgia property properly Mr 1 is s further told that he has lit in the 1 wrong spot if he lit relics relies upon upon effrontery effrontery- and slanderous charges to reer reverse reverse re re- re- re er verse e the state tate railway railway- policy Now the charge made when Mr Harriman acquired ac ac- lured the Chica Chicago o S Alton was that that railroad had lad a Ye very large arge surplus which he lie wanted to get hold of with which to buy huy more railroads but as to the Georgia Central which Mr r. proposes to tomake snake make worth the thc name it is making a a. deficit of annually Certainly Mr r. r does docs not want the railroad so that he lie can use the surplus because because be he- cause the surplus it seems under Georgia legislation is s that of an Irish dividend of large proportions annually an- an Notwithstanding that Georgia wants to hold her railroad policy secure she does docs not want improvements improve improve- ments site she does docs not want a live Jive man like Mr rr Harriman Harri- Harri man to t turn rn through the state half the tho commerce of the hc south It seems clear enough that Georgia is in inthe inthe the hc hands of freshmen who have no understanding of business and no ambition to have George made great by jy any efforts except those of her own people When Mr l Harriman came here he lie took up the Union Pacific and the old Central Pacific when thc they were practically wrecks Men ren were afraid to ride over them and m which when freight was shipped b by them those hose to whom the freight was consigned had not the remotest idea when it would be received He scent millions and millions of dollars to make the highway over the continent equal to the best roads in the flat fiat countries of the cast and he spent on one cutoff across Great Salt lake reducing the mileage considerably and changing the most outrageous grades to a level lew It is expected that within a year or so he will have ha the Union Pa Pacific double tracked ed ed edall all ill the way from Omaha to Ogden lie He seems to be the livest divest and ablest railroad man plan not only in this country but in the world and the attitude at- at I of or the Atlanta press toward him has nothing to equal it except the cry of the Frenchman who did not understand the English language ve very well when lie was in deep water and shouted I will drown nobody no- no jody body shall save me And the legend a alet is that they hethey let et him drown and the legend probably will be he of or Georgia that the whole generation of old mossbacks lad had to die before Georgia ever could have an Live ive ra railway s system stem |
