Evening star., 1896-10-30
SOUTHERN RAILWAY,
Commercial Travellers Ask for Bette
Rates.

commercial 1GyyeAcT0 ASK 1Of Better
Rates.
The officials Of the Southern Railway
Company have awakened to the fact that
1t does not always take a rival railway sys-
tenn to get 1t involved in q war.
This time the trouble is with that section
OF the great army of commercial travellers
belonging to the National Travellers Protec-
tive Association who are located south Of
the Potomac and east Of the Rio Grande
rivers, and who want railroad fares reduced
not only for those who can afford to pur-
chase 1.OO0-mile and 2.OOO-mile books. but
also to those whose travel Is limited usual
iy to short distances and perhaps but few
times during the year.
1t is also. 1t is stated. the desire and in
tention of the promoters Of the movement
to. II possible, get the Southern to reduce
Its freight tariffs between Baltimore, Wash
fngton and Norfolk and non-competitive
points, as well as between the places where
the system enters into competition with
other HneS
Under the superintendent of Mr. E. E.
smith OF the national railroad committee
OF 1he Travellers Protective Association the
states of Virginia, North Carolina. South
Carolina Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mis-
slsslppi. Louisiana, Texas Tennessee and
kentucky have been flooded with pamphlets
uesisned to work up a sentiment which will
eventually induce the Southern Railway
company to grant the favors named, and
among others Interchangeable mileage books
such as are in vogue in the north, but
whose use have not yet reached the south.
The salient points of the pamphlet outside
CT large number of statistics introduced
are follows:
The Travellers Protective Association of
America Is an organization of business men
Tor the purpose of rendering more cordial
the relatlons between firms and their
agents. OF promoting the interests of domes-
VIC ana foreign commerce, and of providing
protection IN case of injury or death for the
relatives OF those men daily travelling in
every section of our country
The officers of the various southern di-
visions and local posts desire to call your
attention to some matters of profound in
terest to every citizen in the south-it mat
tiers not what his occupation.
IN order that our purpose may neither be
misrepresented nor misunderstood, 1t may
be proper for us to say that we are plain
business men, and that we are citizens of
the South, and that we believe that we are
actuated by desire for just and consider
ate treatment only, by loyalty to the spirit
OF the southern progress, and by a pa
triotfsm that would promote alike the pros
perlty of all sections of the country.
we are the friends of the laboring man.
or the farmer, the fruit grower the retail
merchant, and seek the good of these as
M wen as OF the travelling man, the jobber
and the manufacturer. What benefits one
Will benefit all; what hinders the success
OF one affects the prosperity of all Nor
could We consistently be the enemies of
corporations or of organized capital, as has
been sometimes represented These are
necessary to carrying forward great enter
prlSes and those in charge of them shall
nave our most loyal support in all meas
ures consistent with the public good"
Inc pamphlet Is signed by the officers of
the divisions of the Travellers Protective
Association in all the southern states above
named