The corporations who nullify our law and plunder our people keep paid corruptionists busy all the year round to defeat investigation and reform.
When the legislature meets, these professional corruptionists all flock to the Capitol. They remain throughout the session.
If any member seeks to vindicate the outraged Constitution, these lobbyists employ every weapon known to the armory of corruptionists to kill the measure.
The campaign fund with which the present Governor beat his competitor was furnished by the railroads.
The notorious Hamp McWorter, State lobbyist for the Southern Railroad, was tendered a place on the Supreme Bench by this Governor, who owed his election to railroad money.
The Railroad Commission has been reduced to a state bordering on imbecility. If they pass orders which the corporations dislike the orders are ignored. They no more control the railroads than the saddle on a horse controls the horse.
Three excellent gentlemen draw comfortable salaries for acting as commissioners; the railroad lawyers have something to play with; the corporations are sometimes annoyed by having to evade direct answers to troublesome questions, and by having to get a Federal Judge to discipline the Commission; but that is about all.
J. P. Morgan is the absolute king of the railroads of Georgia.
He makes the Governor, controls the Legislature, overrides the Commission and tramples the Constitution of the State under his feet.
The Georgia Outlaw made the Constitution for the good of the people; the Wall Street Outlaw violates it for the good of Wall Street plutocrats.