Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-08-06

which are, or ought TO be, controlled by them,
the same as the St Louis line Of steamers is
controlled by the merchants of st. Louis.
Now, my word for it, if they will only do
this they will find that the people who are
supporting them (that Is, the farmers of this
section of country are being more shamefully
treated IN the matter of freights than any
other people anywhere, and we think In re-
gard to them as they do about the business
men of St. Louis, that they have 1t In their
power to bring such a pressure to bear upon
the roads as will compel them to do us JUS
tlce, and that if they will not do so they
no longer care to retain our trade, and
therefore we will carry it elsewhere, to
New Orleans, for instance, to which point
we can splp our cotton for but little addition
al freight, and always get better price,
Now suppose we take this station on the
Mississippi and Tennessee railroad for the
purpose of looking into the matter a little;
the freight on bale of cotton from this point
to Memphis is one dollar and twenty five
cents; now the same road will take the same
cotton to New Orleans for one dollar per bale,
and also brings cotton from Grenada, seven
ty-hve miles further than this point, to Mem
phis for one dollar, as am informed, although
don { speak from my own knowledge as to
the latter statement. Now, If there is any
money for the road in carrying cotton to New
Orleans for one dollar per bale, and bringing
it from Grenada Tor one dollar, then surely
they can carry it from this point, which is
only twenty-five miles, for much less than
one dollar and twenty-five cents. Nor is this
all; -four Is forty cents per barrel, meal thir-
ty cents per barrel, and all other freight IN
proportion. Now, before the people were
blessed ~ with railroad, there were parties
who made business, and paying one at that,
OF hauling for the public with wagons to and
from Memphis. Now let US examine their
charges then, as compared with the charges
e Ii Il. l.,
railroads. They 1.-THE wagoDers) would go to
any farmhouse within ten miles of the town,
load his cotton on their wagons and deliver
it at the cotton-shed In Memphis for one dol
lar per bale, and bring his -four and meal and
put it in his house, all ready for use, for fifty
cents for -four and forty cents for meal. Now
we have to haul our cotton to the depot, pay
one dollar and twenty-five cents per bale
freight, pay twenty-five cents drayage on our
flour, twenty-five cents on our meal or other
goods, as the case may be, and pay the road
forty cents for -four, thirty cents for meal, and
so on through the list; and then have to
spend day In going to the depot for our lit
eral ready to exclalm, From all railroads,
good Lord, deliver u.s." But we,
like your city merchants, have deter
mined that we will no longer submit to
such injustice, but that, as In days of yore,
we will take our produce to market with our
wagons and teams. which we still have left;
but no thanks to the road, for it would
taken them into its capacious NAV if it had
only had the power, but we have them left,
and think that with the cooperation of the
merchants of our town we can make such an
effort toward remedying the evil as will be
felt, and that very sensibly, by the road, as
we are making arrangements for hauling for
others for less than 1t costs them by railroad ;
so that if the road, or the managers thereof,
persist in their high freight tariff, then we
are determined to do our own hauling, there
by saving our money, instead of paying it out
to give officers of the road high salaries for
comparatively little work. And we will per-
sist in our effort until we shall succeed in
some way in bringing freights down some
what upon par with other prices ruling In
this country. FARMER
HERNANDEZ, MISS, July 26, 1873.