The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-03-22

agent for the proposed road was ir
Columbia, and anSiously sought the new
charter while the railroad bill wa.
! pcuding, saying 10 several members that
| while he would rather the railroad law
/ should not pass, that his company would
tulid the road anyway, if we would give
! them the CHARTER. The charter was not
| passed until after the railroad Law had
passed our senate, and it, passage was
assured in the House The text of the
bill had been published, and it i. unrca.
sonablc to suPpo.e that Mr. Robinson
did not know What the bill vas or that
he was uniniOrmcd lis 10 It's chances Of
passage Then was the time for him to
have said that he did not want the char.
te: II the Commission bili passed Ca
the contrary, the agent for the Company,
who WAS an intelligent and wcll.inlormcd
ger.icnian, said distinctly that the, did
wait the charter, and he showed the
,cry greatest -Oiicltudc for It's passage.
1t passed just nbOu, the time tie Rail
rra! law passed II was six weeks or
two months later that Mr. Robinson
wrote his letter To the Legislature of
North Carolina, which frightened them
into defeating any railroad legislation.
10 solve this apparent change Of Mr..
ltOblns0ns resolution into dread Of the
SnI Ia
with the facts connected with the obtain.
ing Of his charter. II is more probable
that his nbanl nment Of the enterprise
was indefinite, as he said for the pur.
pose of being resumed IN soon ~ he
frightened the North Carolina LeyisIa.
ture out OF acting Il may be. also. tha,
his new charter has answered his r,lr.
pose without building his new road.
Mr.. Robinson aud his friends own a line
OF steamers and railroad from Baltimore
to Charlotte, y. E. They, Of course,
want to extend their traffic acrGs. South
Carolina into Georgia. They do no,
own line Of railroad across this State.
Hence, they must either build Il road or
make trade with some company having
road already built, Such contruc!
could be made either with the Whining
ton, Columbia and Augusta, or the
Charlotte, Columbia aud Augusta roads
and i: is not impossible that when Mr.
Robinson got his charter he said to them
either give me II trade by which | can
reach Georgia, or will build tho Pal.
mclto railroad, and that one or both ol
these lines traded with him, so as To
prevent the competition of two lines
We have heard that such things have
been done in the railroad world and il
may have been done in this instance, in
case Of which Mr. Robinson would o
course be ready to assign his change o
mind to the railroad Legislation. Fortu
natcly, however, people are now too vel
informed to be affected by such pretences
Everybody knows that Georgia ha.
practically had the present South Caro-
lima railroad law for several years, an
yet during this very time importan
railroads have been projected in thu
State, ns, for instance, the road iron
Atlanta to Birmingham, the road from
Lula through the Blue Ridge mountain
to Knoxville, aud other roads of loca
Importance. Thus, it cannot bo pre-
tended that Railroad Commissions driv,
oil railroad development. The verysvn
dicate which owns the lire from Lula I.
Knoxville ownu from Walhala to Knox
VILE, and yet when Georgia had tn
Commission law and South Carolina ha,
none, these capitalists preferred buidin,
through Georgia to South Carolina. w
do not think the declaration of Mr
Robinson anything more than subter
iuge. We believe the State has tn
right to regulate common carriers. 1t i
duty the State, which creates thes
corporations, owes to her citizens, an,
II she Is fortunate enough to secure til
services of prudent but efficient, me,
upon the Commission, any State whicl
tries !. will! GO greatly benefited a. III
result. The whole problem, in ou
Judgment, resolves itself into simpl
question of getting good men for tn
Commission. With them, great benefit
will be derived by the people, but will
bad or inefficient men, injury to n create
or less degree is sure to ensure. w
think South Carolina did righ. 20 enac
railroad law. If her Commission vii
properly execute the law, there will b
no occasion to regret its adoption.
The Greenvile Ners says that it pre-
dicted when the University Of Soutl
Carolina was established that it woul,
occasion the death of the denominations
colleges in this State, and points to tn,
precarious condition of Adger College a
a. verification Of its prediction. Tn,
unfortunate condition of Adger Collcg,
does not arise from the competition o
other colleges, but from internal dissen
sions, which arc fast verifying the truth
of the scriptura adage that a house
divided against itselfcannot stand. Pre-
vious to these difficulties the College
Hourished, and we trust that ere long the
breach may be healed and this young
College restored to its just influence ant
usefulness among the educational insti