The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-11-24
Foz TIE CLsRios
President Clark on Raj lroed Super
vision.


II that the freight transported will bear.
nd not to be eontented with reasonable com
,ensstion for the services rendered. Many
Illustrations might be given, but fer The
present one viii suffice For transporting
car load OF 20 000 pounds from Memphis
o Holly Spring., distance OF forty i've
niles, The charge OF the Kansas City Rail-
'oad i $i4. For hauling the same car
Dad from Holly Springs 10 Waterford, nine
miles. the charge OF President Ciark's road
Is hlfg six dollars. Nov this charge by
President Clark's road, If just, would au
Ihor;zs the ( snsss City road TO charge
S 50 for the distance between Memphis /
and Holly 5 rings IL just i've times as /
great as between Holly Springs and Water
lord.
President Clark says Of the Mississippi |
Railroad Supervision law, that
The stIiet enforcement OF the law wi l
lend . h diScour.g emeEt cfmanufacs Ures /
in he state"
This proposition is somewhat a hobby
with railroad officials il Is no lev tang
for them 10 dwell upon it, with variations,
and even prsclic 1 illustrations, 20 called,
by them. Now what are the facts
There are 70 many railroads passing
through The State that no one can be e@-
pected to engage in any msnufac,u turing en-
t,rprise within It's limits. except upon the
iine OF tome one OF them and fnr the Ell
enlargement 81 all such enterprises the
supervision law OF The Safe makes p-ovir
ION by anlh0r.ziag determinations Ia lhel'
favor, at the dIsSrs ton q the ktit
road Commits ion. Aud recogn zing the
wisdom OF lie provision, the Commission
1t the outset properly adopted AMI Pub
Ii,hed this rule:
RULE5 5. The rates specified for ores, sand
G ay, rough stone. ammon brick, bone,
lumber shingles. lathes, stives, mpfy bar
r.ls, wood aud coat, corn ana o. or cer' al,
frult an Y gstabl : ln-el o line OF rvau
in this STATE, aud sh pped T. marker; aud
ert,tize 5, stfaw, sht cis, hay, old tan,
bA k, turpen ine, ltsn, tar hon ehold
2oods, aud artiekes manufactured on or nedf
The line 81 road N hlS .State, aad for matei ,di
used an saeh manufacture are maximum
rats ; but the roals are let free 10 reduce
htBI at discretion; and all sacia RATS are e
empted from the operGti0a u hu l.
The rule No. !, from which The railroads,
IN The particulars named, are ext mpted, /
the one prohibiting di>crIulnallou 1hur
il Is 81 en-, that the raiirosd- are authorized
aud invited, 10y their iIberaiIiy, 10 eneCur-
age manuiac cries IN The Safe 10 their
ht arts content. the railroad supervision
law - the contrary Notwithstanding. lu-
deed the policy Il DETERMINATIONS by raIl-
roads IN favor Of manufacturing enter
prises, may we'll he adopted, as a means OF
advancing their oNu interest, Since Then
tendency i. TO make business for them.
la this connection should be noticed the
4th rule OF the Railroad Commission,
which is as follows:
RULE T. None fine rules and regula ions
| esia ilsAed by the Commission shall ne -
construed IS 10 prevent any RlIirOad ON
pany from transporting 'ghtaud perzons
| free OF charge or az reduced rates, Tor any
| re ieious cAaritaole o. benevolent purpose,
" Tor any Industrial exposition, FAR or
| assoti 4tion OF cubic nature or Tor trlas-
| porting Imm grants into ttls Stste, or per-
I sous prospecting With view oi loc-InS or
! bring Hg imBi grants Into tA4s St4ts. or iOr
/ pleasure excursions
Thia view Of the subiec. is fully appre-
ciated by President Clark, as will De seen
| by his .enth axiom OF proposition n hich
contains this explicit language
I'VE claim that self-inierest alone en- the
! rart ol railroads, it no other motive actult Z
! their management, would lead them 10
| foster sud develop tie resources Of the
| Siaie, IL order t. give their reads increases
| business"
As to the roads in The State that have
! become bankrupt, and been sold or gone
| into the hands OF receiver, President
! Clark seems 10 have overlooked a fact
which contributed greatly to these results.
! These roads, or all but one OF Them, A. /
| recclleo:, were built before The war; and
| that gigantic ana pcotraeted struggle was
The cause not .nly OF The bankruptcy Of
| The railroad corporations, but OF many
Other business corporations, and even CT
individual bankruptcies 10 an unparalleled
extent. 1t il certain that no other sil gle
cause known to he history OF this Country,
ever did occasion SO great destruction oi
property interests, and Individual fortunes.
| Had there been no war, the ante btllum
railroads Of the State would mauiiestly
| have been in a very different coDditi. II
rom that III which they were leit by the
| war.
Nor can we agree with President Clark
that the legislation OF 1854, referring 0i
| C ,urse 10 the Railroad Supervision bill
has contributed greatly to prev ent The
| building OF further railroads, and thus az
| he saws delayed the development OF the
resources Of the State. Had he informed
| himself fully OH the suti c il Is not prob
made this statement. Now is il not true
| that more miles OF railroad have been
| built. or begun and ale now being buiit,
| since the enactment If he railroad super
| vision law, than ever before witiia the
same period ii time? President Ozark
own road has certainly been busy In con-
-truc,ing branches and feeders. Within
this time the road froGl Men phis to Biz
mingham has had sky odd mil OF It's l,ne
| c mp.eted. and fifteen or twenty miles
more graded and now approaching COM
/ pleliop. The Natchez, Jack. and Col.
| umbu- Road, before the recent Supreme
| Federal Court decision, was made, had
made lis arrangements TO extend Its line
| from Jackson TO Columbus. The Ship
| Island aud Gull road, too, has been ex-
tended from Ripley 10 within Feyen Or
| eight miles OF New Albany and still has a
large force prosecuting the work with Il
! view TO the speedy completion Of the entire
| lire. As we now recolIect, the most Of the
MISS ippi Valley road, running through
the entire length OF the State, has been
| built since the supervision act became a
| law. Now, then, ask. was there ever a
period Of greater activity in building rail
roads in The State, than during the last = o
years? Indeed il Gov. Lowry is an author
| iiy on the subject, more mileage OF rail
roads have been built during that time, 10
Mississippi, than ia decade before" Til
statement was made by GOV. Lowry in ?
public speech at Vicksourg ouly : few
days since.
There are some other statements made
| by President Clark in Ais recent railroad
supervision manifesto, which | may here
alter notice, and especially is it, think,
meet. that his hippaut imFgtalion Of dem.
| agogHism and Communism agains; all VINO
differ with him on this subject, should be
me. aad refuted
SUPERYEsIoNIST.