The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-07-10
A CONVENIENT "MONOPOLY."
About the Southern Express Company
Its Work in the Western Epidemic OF
1878
From, the atlanta Blade.

A private correspondent asks us if we
do not think the Southern Express Com
pany needs as much stirring up" as the
Pullman Car Company, or any other mo-
nopoly, on the score of oppressive charges
for transportation, &c?
We are glad to record our answer to
the above, for while it is pleasure to US
to pitch into mean and oppressive mo-
nopolists, we do not desire the reputa.
ton of being indiscriminate editorial
bulldozers so to our friends inquiry, we
emphatically say-No, sir, are do not. The
Southern Express Company has to COM
pete with the United States mail service
on small packages, and with all the va
rious freight companies on the more
bulky parcels. And, again, the Express
Company inslrcs against and promptly
pays all losses; whereas, goods lost or
stolen in the mails are never made good
to the owner. Our experience as extern
sive shippers and patrons of the Southern
Express Company, entitle our opinions
to some weight in this matter, and our
honest conviction is that the South
ern Express Company is as honestly and
ably managed, and doing as good work
for the commercial interest of the coun-
try, as any organization in the United
States. What their profits may be, or
what salaries they may pay their em.
ployes, we do not care to know; but
this we do know: positions in the compa-
ny are sought for, and, when obtained,
are kept by as fine lot of men as can be
found in the country. And, when good
services have been rendered and msfor-
tune; accident, sickness or old age over
take servant, his treatment at the
hands of this company, as a rule, is an
honor to humanity, and crown of glory
in the eyes of all who love their race.
Comments of Memphis appeal.
The above, from the Atlanta Southern
Blade, will be endorsed by every mer-
chant and business man in the South
who values dispatch and safety in the
transmission of merchandise or money.
The Southern Express Company is an alb
solute necessity to American business
men. 1t is as much an evidence Of
growth in place that there is an Ex.
press Office as telegraph or postoffice.
When the facilities that are afforded
are taken into consideration, the fact
that small way stations, as we'll as large
cities, are promptly served by the Elk
press Company, and that the poorest a:
we'll as the richest have the best guaran'
tees of faithful service or reimbursement
in case of loss, without cavil or delay
few who are intelligent enough to appre
ciate will gainsay the fact that the South
ern Express Companyis worthy the conf
dence which the public have in it. Ea
ourselves, we cannot tTlii tscoliinr tSa Sae nspa ep,
ueio a. " " tSs io.o poration, which through
a aTSiGS .SoOa " tJiS}ul days carried to all th'
a.r;oI.on a.. cLop' toU%is is and cities of the South
1,;tSou..sS ssnu ley and without price, food
".n ",onor Shing and medicines. To say
,ho tho. -sSg work it lost more than the
",.ssSsscI year is putting it mildly
The Charleston Railroad sunk one hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars during
those dark days of horror. The South
ern Express Company running on all tht
roads of the stricken States, must hav,
lost even more. 1t kept all its employee!
under pay, ran its messengers every day
and maintained all the machinery usua
in the most prosperous days, and all t
succor and save the communities tina
were the helpless victims of a dreadful
plague. Wehave heard of soulless corpo
rations, but the Southern Express Com
pany is not one of them. We feel tina
we owe it a debt of gratitude, and do no
propose to pay by undermining and lev
elling it to the earth. 1t is, as we have
said, public necessity, as much so a
the postoffice department, and we hope i
will long continue an example of what
honest and properly conducted corpora
tions ought to be.