The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-06-08
RAILROAD FREIGHTS.


this comment upon the freight question /:
"The merchants and business men along
the line of the Greenville and Columbia
railroad, especially in the upper counties,
are Justly incensed at the management of
the road in raising the freight tariff, and in
unjust and arbitrary discrimination in the
matter of freights. Anderson has entered
asolemn protest against this style of doing
things, and established a line of wagons
for the transportation of goods. 1t would
be we'll for the people to take this matter
to the courts and see if the charter of the
road is not legally forfeited. We would
like to see Charleston rich and prosper
Gus, but it is not exactly fair that the up
country with all of its interests should be
broken down and impoverished that
few railroad officials and cotton factors
might be built up"
The Columbia Register incidentally
refers to this question, in an article on
the Blue Ridge Railroad as follows:
"It is to us one of the things past find
ing out why Charleston and the South
Carolina management allow so much
wrangling to 90 on with their up-country
connections, and why they do not COM
pose these vital interests and make them
work together harmoniously and with
mutual profit. An
derson and Pendleton are about to estab-
lish wagon lines to point on the Air
Line Road, and drummers from Atlanta
sell goods all along the lines of our roads
as low down as Columbia and Camden.
These are not all the evidences that an
antagonism about freights, the ship
ment of cotton, &C., is springing up be-
tween our extreme points, our city by the
sea and our fine, productive and enter
prising up-country and Piedmont section.
The intelligence, business tact, capital,
enterprise and regard for the true welfare
of Charleston ought to putan end to these
unseemly disputes and discords, and draw
these outlying interests more closely to
her.
"There are circles, we know, and per-
haps rebates on cotton have something to
do with this straining to make it follow a
fixed, defined line of transportation
against what the shipper considers his
interest and right. Perhaps, again, the
South Carolina Railroad is watching and
waiting its opportunity to purchase the
Blue Ridge Railroad in the State, and
hence these varying whims, this interest
to-day and indifference tomorrow. But
we don't think railroad coquetry will pay
even in making bargain"
A. correspondent of the Charleston
Journal of Commerce, over the signature
of "a Receiver and Shipper of Goods for
Forty-Five Years." makes the annexed
comment upon an extract from the Able
Vile Medium which included some re-
marks of the Anderson hatelligencer !:
"You will please publish the enclosed,
taken from the Abbeville Medium of the
Goth inst, and let the citizens know who
killed the goose that laid the golden egg
in Charleston. The Charleston Steam
ship Companies will receipt for goods in
New York, to be conveyed over the South
Carolina Railroad and delivered three
hundred and twenty miles from Charles
ton into the State of Georgia, for thirty
three to forty per cent. cheaper than they
will deliver them to our own merchants
in Charleston and other points in the in
terror of the State. The South Carolina
Railroad Company will also charge an
agent for our wholesale houses extra
freight upon his samples if they happen
to weigh over what is allowed to passen-
gers, not seeming to know that the agent
IS working indirectly for the railroad, at
the same time that he is increasing the
sales of his house. With these facts be-
fore you, who is surprised that the bust
ness of Charleston has declined, and that
the business men of the interior are forced
to seek other markets to purchase their
supplies. All we ask of these monopolies
is fair play, and a free fight"