Show MAI ING CONDITIONAL In view Ip of present nt agitation in certain j quarters in for a n railroad commis I ron fon coupled Couple with the announcement that the Gould Gout system Blem Is about bout to spend several sev sc eral oral million dollars In thin state for fOl tho ho Improvement ment of Its Us road tim tho th following editorial from rom a recent Issue of the New NewYork NewYork ew York Times rimes la is of Interest The Time editorial I is headed d Mr lr Harriman In irs Georgia Is I as nl follows In his Deter after r dinner remarks at Au- Au gesta I Mr Harriman 11 said J If time the state stale will cene to tn be le antagonistic tlc to the rall- rall loads loads' Interests I will l spend pend o othe on the tho George Glori Cl Central Th The railway batters alt rs In and ani out O o of Georgia nui mn think that Mr harriman's In Insinuation that Georgia has hrus been antagonizing time the railways as signified I nothing more momo than the railway ma magnates magnate's I 1 restlessness under I hol lIo regulation Hut But any ammy such idea betrays lack of acquaintance ac ac- ar- ar f with wh what t Georgia had done The railways 9 were vere r turned O E over to tl the time tender ten tn der Jel mercies norcies of ot a ra railway II a commission appointed appointed ap tip- 1 pointed b by a governor SO W who 10 made mad his campaign cam cain upon a a. promise to reduce railway I rat rates until th their lr earnings did not exceed I 5 per pem cent which Governor Go Smith declared de do- I I d was WIS a han handsome ome return I To To carry out tills this policy he ho appointed as one commissioner a man maim whose factOr factory fac fac- ac- ac tOr tory taxed ta at earned In a It single year ear and whom tho legislature had disqualified because c of his membership membership member member- r- r ship In the stove sto trust which had raised prices after railways had reduced freights Another commissioner on an aim anIn In Investment in factory factor property of M in four Cour years c rs made mad These gentlemen gen gen- exercised d d dictatorial po powers wen 11 and nd the timo railways were vere forbidden n to tn appeal to toI I the courts as at tn to the Justice 0 of their edicts I Ten enns before beCore Georgia had hod been willIng willIng will will- Ing to make an any concession lon the railways asked to get them to build Into the state but ut tIme the times mica had changed so o that th time the I politicians thought It high highly popular f to lend a a. crusade 1 which It should be bC conceded conceded con con- ceded Justified Mr Ir Harriman's use ue of the word anta antagonism to describe It Singular as ns it ma may seem seeni the can candidate on this Issue carried HZ out of counties Complying with his mandate he dismissed s d from the office of railway commissioner the man whom tho the fickle I electorate chose to s succeed d him In the th governorship gO before his term was half over o Almost Imo l never vcr had bad a candidate been heen elected with such an arm approach to 10 ity In Georgia It was thought that the Incident was not so 0 much Incredible as Impossible Yet Vet Ibo 11 actual occurrence followed upon the tho declaration o of dividends dl of disaster which calmed the hottest ant an- an I t ts of ot th the railways s Engines be became tle- tle came cold old cars were wre sidetracked and arid the unions th the railway commission lon IOn unions th the railway commission lon IOn In protest n against rulings which made tho the petitioners idl idle I It Is not purposeless to recall this an ancient ancient An- An hl history tory of events almost a twelvemonth twelvemonth twelve twelve- month past pat Already these events Ints and the moral morl drawn drawn from them thor have havo been so 0 completely Cor forgotten that the sonic camo path patti Is IR heln being traced again The Tho governor Jo of ofT T Texas Teras as sent Int to tl tho the legislature I Just assembled assem bled bIer a n message ae which ml might ht have havo been written bv lw the ibm rejected d Hoke Hok Smith Two- Two cent fare fame bills bis are arc appearing In South Da Dakota Dakota Dakota Da- Da I kota mind el At Albany Ahan the 3 C cent lt fare ar are bill hill has hap her been Introduced n again although It I h has b ben sn rejected ted by by bytho the tho courts rind and h bv by experience The hope that G Georgias Georgia's experience had put an on end nd to state Imitations of f federal examples seems to tr have ha be been n based upon somewhat slender slen der foundations Yet It I Is possible that 1 Mr Harriman may ma ma succeed sneered where re logic failed II lie H. offers a a splendid bribe The south his has vet et t to experience what real ral I railway facilities are nr like ke Mr 11 Harriman I Is a n bogle man but hut can Ion hardly fear to tn suffer Ruffer from rom him what It has suffered suf sif IC from th the railway baler halters The th Io has 1 n noble future If I It wilt will wi but InvIe In- In Ite vIe Instead of ot repel capital |