The Georgia outlaw of whom I have been writing borrowed $25,000 from his Cotton Factors, and financed the convention until the Constitution was finished. On two occasions only was this Outlaw ever seen to weep in public—once when the Constitutional Convention of Georgia thanked him for his princely generosity, and once when he stood at the coffin of Alexander H. Stephens to deliver the memorial address. In the new Constitution of Georgia the Outlaw believed he had embodied three grand provisions: (1) He had made the looting of the treasury a difficult job. (2) He had established a system of public schools to educate at public expense the children of the poor as well as the rich. (3) He had put a curb on corporation tyranny; made it illegal for competitive lines of railways to combine, and had created a commission to regulate and control the transportation companies. This was the Georgia Outlaw’s proudest work. He exulted over it; he regarded it as his monument: he relied on it to benefit his people for generations to come. In this belief he lived out the remnant of his days, and in this belief he died. Where are now the competing railroads in Georgia? We have none. Mergers, leases, allied interests have swallowed them all. Monopoly rules from border to border. Constitutional provisions are dead letters. 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.