Smyrna times., 1867-10-02

To tie Peach G,ocers Of DcIownre and Noly
land contiguous to the Deldware II. II. uHd
Eastern Shore Il. Il.
The season for peaches is now about over for
this year. | now propose, while it is fresh III
our minds, that we hold peach growers con
vention, for Delaware and the Eastern Shore
of Maryland, at Dover, on the 10Th day OF Dc
tobe: at y NJ, and continue III session for one
or two days, or until satisfactory understand
ing is arrived at by us to secure our rights as
peach growers, hereafter
1t is we'll known that heretofore peach meet,
ings have been held in the spring and summer
just before the crop came in, and experience
has taught us, and particularly this year, our
lateness Of the meetings, that appointed com
mittees to wait on the President of the p W
& B. r. R., the Lessee of the Delaware r. r. &,
and also on the Camden Il AmbOy r. r., was
so late that these companies, particularly the
p w. & B. r. R., laughed in the face Of the
committee, and went on with their freight
schedule and contract for each shipper to sign
before they would take his peaches. The com
mittee were powerless to effect anything for
the peach growers. | being one of that hu
inflated committee, felt it my duty to advise
all peach growers who had suffered from the
tyranny of the Railroad Company, to meet in
| Convention at Dover, there deliberate on a
course of action to remedy our grievances, and
teach the Railroad Company that there is a
! power i'll Delaware strong enough to remedy
! Railroad grievances
$50 is high freight on a car load of peaches
! from Dover to New York. Now the charge i,
near three times that amount, and the tyrani-
cal imposition Of three dollars extra per day
for the use of the same car that they charge
three times as much freight for as they ought.
! L did not start to write a long piece although
the grievances we suffer under from the Les
sees of the Delaware Railroad, would require
volumes. | will leave it for the indignant
peach growers to denounce at the meeting, in
language benehttlng the enOrmity of the ty-
ranny practiced on us by the p. W. & B. Il. L.
Company The freight that this Company
alone will get out Of the peach growers for
about six weeks, will be about two hundred
thousand dollars. We have been clearly robb,
ed by this Company out of one half that sum
or one hundred thousand dollars Now thi,
one hundred thousand dollars will pay interest
at 6 per cent. on one million and six hundred
thousand dollars, and the peach business is in
its mere infancy, for it is a we'll established fact
that, this Peninsula must be the great peach
orchard to supply the great cities Of the North.
Then why place this great interest at the mer-
cy Of the Z. w. & b. Railroad and its casterly
controllers who laugh at your committee you
send to present your grievances. [ am salts
fed that further appeals to that Company un-
der its present management Is useless. The
only true remedy for our grievances, is to pas
a resolution stating to our Governor that an
extraordinary occasion has arisen in which We
request him to call the Legislature together tC
remedy the grievances a large number of the
people of Delaware labor under; and further
propose when that Legislature assemblies that
+ it issue State bonds and have them sold in the
market for money enough to buy out ajori
ty of the stock Of the Delaware Railroad, anC
as no doubt the p. W. & B. Railroad have
broken their contract or lease for the Delaware
Railroad, that the State take possession of i
at once, but if said contract has not been for
feited then sell said proposed bonds for mon J
sufficient to buy a controlling interest, and jus
as soon as the said lease expires take posses
sion and stock the road, and run it, and make
it what it was intended to be, truly Delaware
Railroad, to be managed by Delaware men
and not as at present an ad junct of a Yankee
monopoly who have no more feeling for Dcia-
ware or Delawareans, than they have for Hot
tentots. WOney money, is their policy, grind
grind, for the last tdrthing. Longer forbear
ance with this company ceases to be a virtue
therefore those that wish justice done to then
must prepare to act boldly and determinedly
and for the purpose of discussing our grievan
ces, and to unite on a course of action, pro
pose that we meet at Dover on the 10th day o.
October, at u NJ.
One Of the Committee appointed last Spring
at the Peach Conrentioh, Docer, Del.
September %, 1867.