The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-11-04
Farm and Home.
AND USEFUL IMPORTATION.
Tennessee Cotton,


New Orleans Democrat: The Lou
isville & Nashville Railroad Compa-
ny Is large and powerful corpora
ton, and appreciating that fact, we
feel that it's ability for injuring or
aiding New Orleans is very great,
but we are at a loss to discover
why it should be inimical to the in
terests of this city, which is most
assuredly its proper and best sea
port.
Of course we understand that as
most of the capitalists and people
in the company are Louisville and
Northern and Western men, that
their natural inclination is in favor
of conserving the interests of their
own cities and sections. We un-
derstand, too, why there should be
tariff determinations made in favor
of Louisville and Nashville, out we
do not understand why the road
should discriminate against New
Orleans in favor Of Norfolk, Charles
ton and Savannah, as it unques-
tionably does, and apparently TO its
own detriment.
Railroad men as rule pre-.
fer long hauls and make every
effort to secure them, but the Louis
vile and Nashville presents the
seeming anomaly of a road that
gives the preference to short hauls.
The rate from Nashville to New
Orleans per bale is 1925, while from
Pulaski, which is only some seven
ty five miles south of Nashville. and
a point from which New Orleans
should receive large amounts of
cotton, the rate is 81 per bale
This is, of course, simply prohibit
tory, and forces every bale Of cot
ton from Southern Tennessee to
Nashville and thence to Norfolk or
Charleston, whereas if the Louis
vile and Nashville would make
rates to New Orleans from Pulaski,
and other important towns in Ten
nessee and North Alabama, such as
Franklin, Columbia, Decatur, and
Birmingham, against the Virginia
and Tennessee Air Line and other
eastern roads to Norfolk, Charles
ton, ETC., the cotton would inevita
bly, come to this market, where it
always commands a higher price,
say from one-half cent to one cent
per pound. What inducement there
can be for the road to deprive it
self of a long and profitable haul
from Pulaski and other towns to
New Orleans in order to haul it
fifty or one hundred miles to Nash
vile, it is quite impossible for us
understand. The roads running to
the eastern seaboard would seem
under this arrangement 30 reap all
the benefit, aud the Louisville and
Nashville to be resigning the whole
loaf in order 30 give them the lions
share of it. This may be very gen
erous and christian, but 1t is not
railroading, and what we desire
now to do is to direct the attention
of the Louisville and Nashville to
the matter, and ask its managers if
it would not be better for them to
abandon their narrow policy of
building up Nashville and Louis
vile at the expense Of New Orleans
and to the injury of the road itself.
We believe it would pay the road
to give to New Orleans the same
rate per ton per mile as it gives to
Nashville and Louisville, and to fix
rate from Nashville and interme-
date points 10 New Orleans that
would enable US to compete fairly
with Norfolk, Charleston and Sa-
vannah.
We cannot for the life of US see
why the road should hesitate about
being just to New Orleans, for this
is Enthusiastically its best outport,
and it seems to Us there should be
a community of interest between
the road and the city, instad of an
tagonism. -