The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-05-03

I've AS VI OpIlAOu tunt VIC Ae5ioA1Vu3o heso
the clearest right to pass an act for the pur-
pose of preventing an unjust discrimination
in railway freights, whether as between in
dividuals or communities, and to enforce its
observance by appropriate penalties" and
it was recognized as perfectly well-settled
rule of the common law, in regard to Com
mon Carriers, that they shall not exercise
any unjust and injurious discrimination be-
tween individuals, in their rates of toll" or
between communities any more than be-
tween individuals.
Your Petitioners further show, that it has
become the practice of some Railroad Com
panies in this State, TO disregard utterly their
common law liabilities, and to discriminate
unjustly in favor of one community at the
expense of another-to charge rates unrea-
sonably high, and to act as if the only limit
imposed upon them was their own measure
of the peoples sufferance. In proof of these
facts, and as an illustration of the length to
which some of our Railroads have gone
others may not discriminate so widely-we
mention the discrimination in freights of
some classes of goods, &C., by the South
Carolina and Grsenville & Columbia Rail-
road Companies corporations chartered
under the laws of this State-namely, Mo-
LAssRs:
Freight by car load from Charleston
to Anjerson-250 miles............$ As 90
From Columbia to Anderson-126
miles....... LOU w
From Greenville to Anderson-A
" w
One of our merchants has just received q
hogshead of molasses from Wilmington, N.
c., upon which the freight from that point
to Columbia was $2.98, and from Columbia
to Anderson, $500. The freight from New
York, Philadelphia and Boston to Anderson
G. a., via Charleston and Columbia, are as
follows, per hundred pounds:
First class, $1.70; second class, 81 so; third
class, $l.30; fourth class, $1.10; fifth class,
90c.; sixth class, zoe.
From Columbia to Anderson, on the same
class of goods, the freights are-frst class,
&c., second class 75c., third class 70c, fourth
class &c., 5th class 55c., 9Th class 45c. From
Greenville to Anderson, only "a miles, on
same classes, the feights are 6Oc., Soc, 45c.,
Sc. and Soc From Louisville, KY, and
other points of similar distance, the freights
to Greenville, s. c., on the article of Bacon
is Sc. per hundred pounds, and from Green
vile to Anderson, only thirty:tour miles, the
freight on Bacon is 45c., and the same diff
ferences exist on various articles Of merchan-
disc which we might mention. We have
endeavored to procure list showing the
great discrimination of freights on all arti-
cles, in favor of Greenville from Columbia,
but have failed to do so. The rates of
freight from Columbia to all points on the
Greenville and Columbia Railroad is pub
lished by the company. and accessably
posted up in the Office of its different Sta
correct list is kept private and suppressed, as
we are informed, and to which point the
freights are greatly lower than to Anderson,
where the distance from Columbia is twenty
| miles greater. Bacon from Greenville to
Anderson is charged as third class, and from
Charleston only as sixth class.
Your Petitioners feel that no argument
can portray the grievance of the people OF
Anderson County more fully than is done
by this bare statement of the freight charges
| to which we are subjected. But the evil is
more far reaching than that: Our farmers
and merchants have been driven away from
| Charleston, the city of their choice, to At
lanta and other place in other States, be-
cause these Railroad Companies so discrimi-
nate in their freight charges that those out
side cities attract our trade. Charleston, our
own metropolis, is thus injured by the cor
porations of your own creation! Is there no
remedy for this? If so it is then true that
the creature is more powerful than the crea:
| tor and in q few years South Carolina will
| find that she has given life to monster that
will follow her, Cypress her, and finally de-
spoil her. But not so belieying-believing
| that ssit was never intended or expected that
these corporations should use their power
| to benefit particular individuals. or build up
particular localities, by arbitrary discrimi-
nations in their favor that must cause in
jury to other persons or places engaged in
rival pursuits, or occupying rlyal positions,
and the Supreme Court of the United States,
through her Chief Justice, having recently
| decided that State Legislature has night
! to regulate the charges on all publls business
carried on within her limits, we have come
to you for relief from this oppression.
We respectfully ask your Honorable BODY
to pass such laws as will prevent the several
railroads of this State, under severe penalties,
from making unreasonable charge, and from
so discriminating as to injure one Commu-
nifty for the benefit of another.
And your Petitioners, as in duty bound,
will ever pray, &c. n. :.
Trade, at meeting held at Anderson, 8. G.,
April 10, 1877. ,,,,, n,.
w. s. L1GoE, Secretary.
Resolved, That the foregoing Petition be
put into the hands of the members of the
General Assembly from this County, With
the request that they present it at the earliest ar lest
same be also put in the hands of all the
members from the other Counties Of this
State.
NOTICE TO DRUGGISTS AND SroREKEEPEEs
/ guarantee Shriner's Indian Vermifuge to
destroy and expel worms from the human
body, where they exist, if used according to
directions. You are authorized to sell it on
the above conditions. David E. Foutz, Pro-
! prietor, Baltimore, Md.