People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1897 — Having the State’s Property. [ARTICLE]

Having the State’s Property.

The state of North Carolina owns a very valuable railroad which the corporation politicians of that state have tried to swindle the state out of beforo the Populists got/ so powerful down there. The scheme was to get the state, through its corrupt officials, to make a contract with the Southern railway company to let that corporation have the use of the state’s road for ninety-nine years for a mere nominal rental, and the whole contract and deal was made without any competing bids and without regard for the state’s interest and the whole thing clinched tight five years before the existing contract expired. The Populists, and all other good citizens of the state, are after the scheme now, and will surely break it up and save the state its railroad.—Journal of the Knights' of Labor. Boston’s commissioner of institutions, E. C. Marshall, recommends legislation for some form of old-age pension.