The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-05-10
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Mr. Orr presented: the Memorial OF tho,
Anderson Board of Trado in the Hd,,as az
Representatives on last Thursday, Gking.
for legialation upon tho subject. OF unjust
discriminations by railroads, and 1t ives re-
ferred to the Committee on Railroads, With
instructions. to report a bill 10 eauplssa
reights. We have so repeatedly expressed
our views upon this subject that it 10 eca-ce-
ly necessary for US to signify appreciation of
this measure. The present abominable sy-.
tenn OF edding to intermediate points 0 ausl-
Gent amount to pay fbr the low. rates
necessitated to points ct which there is COM
petition, has been practiccd BY the South
Carolina Road to such tymnnical extent
that the Legislature owes it to the people of
tho whole State to put an end to is as speedi-
ly as possible. This rosd, controlling as it
does the Grecnville and Columbis and tho
Blue Ridge Railroads, has by It's short sight
ed course injured many portions of the
State: and that too, az we believe, without
receiving commensurate reward for itself.
BY making freights high TO intermediate
POINTS and low to Grcenville, they have
driven large quantities of trade to that city
and points along the Air Line Railroad.
The greater portion Of goods sold In Green
vile and spartanburg arc carried over the
Air Line, which Is the direct and natural
shipping route ut those points to or from
the North or West, and the South Carolina
Road ought to haze foreseen that it could
not hope to carry the freights of points sit
uated like these. Hence 1t was clearly their
policy 70 give cheap rates to intermediate
points where they have tho entire carving
trade, and by building up large business
in these towns secure tho transportation OF
on equally large amount of freights. But
! instead Of thia they have waged war on In.
termediate towns by placing an enormously
high tariff upon all freights, thereby forcing
the trade from these pinces to Greenville
and Spartanburg where the Air Line sup-
plies the greater part of their freights. The
result Il that Greenville and Spartanbure
are being built up while: Anderson, Able.
Vile, Union and such points ere being In
jured. 81 ,,ts.
Another point of view, worthy of consid-
eraaon, is that trade Is driven away Eosn
Charleston to Atlanta and the North by
this contracted policy, for It n the smaller
towns in the State which have been the best
patrons Of our own ''city by the sea-" whiie
the merchants of Greehville and Spartan
burg generally buy further from home.
Hence, when trade is driven from these
smnller towns to points on the Air Line,
The business Of Charleston Is Of course In
jured to tina. extent. We do no. Believe we
make mis!ake in saying that the condues
OF the South Carolina Road has injured
Charleston and many other points in South
Carolina immensely. It is just one of those
cases where legislative interferenceis Is needed,
and we trust the timo has arrived when
Carolina has q General Assembly that 10
patriotic, and firm enough to apply the
remedy which has 90 long been needed to
protect oil sections Of our State from further
injury ct the hands OF en- unfeeling and
oppressive monopoly.