The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-18
DIRECT TRADE-NO. Is.
TIE MOVEMENT SCORES ITS FIRST
VICTORY.

A Powerful Letter From High
Source Upon the Duty Of the Rail
roads. -.,...
The first victory of the direct trade move
ment has been scored by plucky Brunswick
in establishing line Of freight steamers,
with limited passenger accommodations,
between Brunswick and Liverpool and
Bremen, for which those enterprising gen.
tlemen. Mayor I. W. Lamb, Col. C. P.
Goodyear and Mr.. Carpenter have been
working ..... .....
This is the beginning of a grand end.
This effort for direct trade is inspiring
spontaneous and universal Endorsement,
suggestion and good wishes from every
quarter.
Letters are pouring upon Col Stovall and
myself from statesmen, capitalists, rail-
readers, merchants, farmer, manufact-
urers aud all other classes, emphasizing
the need of it, urging its prosecution,
making suggestions, extending co-opera-
ton, proffering sympathy, recounting its
benefits, and wishing its success.
The testimony TO its hold upon the public
mind as an agency OF coed is simply over
whelming No movement since the war has
had such a backing of public sentiment, and
SO easy prospect of achievement
The responsibility for securing the COM
plete direct trade and making it permanent
now rests upon the railroads from the Geor-
gia ports on the Atlantic 20 the great west,
which have only to unite in giving to the
English steamship companies, eager and
ready to putson the best lines OF fine steam
ers, the freight that they can control to
make the lines pay, to increase their own
business and benefit the whole south and
west.
Bearing and throwing strong light upon
the vital agency of the railways in this
great matter quote some lucid and meaty
extracts from powerful letter from Mr..
]. W. Carpenter, a sagacious aad enterpris-
ing capitalist who has been and is now con-
nected with large and important projects
and railroads in the south.
SAYS this wise and practical business man:
"You are pressing line of thought and
| action, the result of which will put untold
millions in the treasury stores OF the south.
Every man, woman and child in this beau
tiful country should lend to you and
your associates all the material aid
possible, and the voice of every citiz5n
should be raised in encouragement Of the
efforts you are making. Nothing can pos
sibly be done that will show as quick and
good results as the success Of the great
movement you lave in hand.
There is no reason why the merchant,
the manufacturer and the farmer Of the
south should pay tribute to New York in
the importation or expectation of her goods.
The one great drawback to-day to more
rapid development is the excessive freight
rates of the railroads. But when this Is
mentioned one is met with the reply: Look
at the present status of our railroads. with
all of their excessive charges They are in
deplorable condition.
THAT is exactly true. Inc management
of the various roads do not seem to compre-
bend the difficulties under which they are
laboring. 1t is right here, | am interest I'D
in North Georgiasin the development of
marble interests. The rate of freight from
Tate station To New York is 43 cents per 100
pounds by rail, to Philadelphia 80 cents, to
Baltimore 81 cents, TO Boston 81 cents.
These rates are practically prohibition
Where to-day 100 cars of the product of
that industry are shipped to these points, a
rate by the roads that was in reason would
carry out from these marble fields tens of
thousands of cArosds of that product, as
he railroads do to-day from the state of
Vermont
1T is short-sightedness on the part of the
railroads not to see this. They owe it TO
themselves They owe it TO this great ich
country, rich in undeveloped mineral, in
timber, in grain, In cotton, in everything,
to do every thiugfn their power TO foster
and aid the success Of every enterprise that
prises lies their success.
"Lo " rates encourage investments; invest
ments make business; business makes top-
mage for the railroads; and where to-day a
road may be hauling twenty-five cars OF the
output of some mapufactory at an exorbi-
taDt rate, by proper reduction of that
rate they could put the manufacturer of
that article in position to go into the market
and compete aud thus secure t. themselves
the hauling of 500 cars instead of twenty
| five.
Fl have spoken of this because l feel that
a great many men connected with railroad
| management do not so fully appreciate the
magnitude of the Importance in the develop
ment of such a movement as you have on
hand az this time. They could, with per-
| feet security, guarantee to any line of
steamers such reduction of freight rates as
that line Of ships might dictate, and then By
reason OF increased business make great
deal more than by their present policy"
| Mr.. Carpenter is a successful capitalist,
who is now deeply interested in new rail-
way .from Brunswick through LaGrange
and Sheffield TO the west, for which Col j &.
II. Fannin, now of Atlanta, obtained a
charter from the Legislature when he was q
representative from Troup county.
But the vast benefaction is started in a
modest way. Let all interests work to
make 1t successful and perfect and multiply
it, /. w. AVERY.
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