The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-08-20

ne does not make the railroads pay its
customers demuSrage when they prom
ised to ship you carload Of goods on
certain date, and it is two weeks OF
more after that time before yon ,get
them. SIT is poor rule that Won I
work both ways.
Let me show you how unjust the
rates are-how we are robbed within
the borders of South Carolina a
carload Of hsy. shipped from Angus
to. Ga., to Orangeburg, 3. c., costs
va freight, and che same carload Of
nay ehipped from jackson, S c., u
smaller s.stion in the State, and. near
er TO OraDgeburg, the freight is $50.
ho6ine, 3. T., to Orangeburg, s. c.,
is ffty.fve miles, and the freight
charged citizen Of Oraugebu.g on o
carload Of hay from Robins to Orange.
burg was $l4.08. Jackson, s. c.,
to Orangeburg, 8. c., is SO miles, and
the freight on similar carload Of hay
from Ja0ksouto Orangeburg was $20i
SO you see, jackson, s. C., is only
thirteen miles further froEa Orange.
burg than Robins. 8. c., yet the rail-
roads charge you sl5. 80 for hauling it
only thirteen miles further.
It is eight times as far from Allan
to, Ga, to Monck's Corner as it is
from Charleston to the same point.
Yet the freight rate from Atlanta and
Charleston to Monck' Corner is about
the same.
Augusta, Ca, merchants can sell
goods cheaper in Winnsboro by 3 per
per cent than Columbia merchants can,
although Augusta is eighty miles fur
ther distant on the same line.
The freight charges on a barrel Of
Hour from Columbia, the railroad hub
of the State. to Greenville, 1870 miles
distant, 10 Al cents. .Greenville can
buy -four in Cincinnati, Ohio, 800
miles distant. and have it shipped for
68 cents. The railroads Gerry the
-four over 600 miles for only II cents,
when it travels through other States.
The rate from the same point, Cincin-
natl, to Sumter, smaller place than
.Greenville, is 68 cents, though Sum-
ter is the nearer.
II costs75 per cent more to haul a
hundred pounds of fruit from Edge
field County to the capital OF the
State than it costs to ship the same
package fron. Columbia 70 Baltimore,
seven times the distance. n,
Right here I wish to say q word as
to my friend Caughman, who is run
ming on what is known as the "Jim
Crow car" bill. This bill was intro
duced into the South Carolina Legis-
lature four years before Mr.. Caugh-
man ever became member of that
body; and if he did help to pass it, he
did no more than bis duty, and should
have no more credit for it than the
other 163 members Of that honorable
body WHO worked shoulder to Shoulder
with him to aid it's passage. am
glad we have il. 1t is good law, and
had been member Of the Legisla-
ture at that time I would have done all
in my power to have had it passed,
and any good citizen Of the State, who
had the welfare of the good women OF
the State of South Carolina at heart
would have done the same thing.
South Carolina manufacturers now
consume 40 per cent more cotton than
is used in the State, but they can't
use their own cotton, because the
freight rates are teo high, and they
are compelled to 60 out to Mississippi
to get cotton to spin; and the South
Carolina farmers they can't sell to the
factories of their own State, because
they can't ship it to them without
paying half again as much freight as
they would to ship it to Norfolk, ys.,
and Savannah, Ca, and Wilmington.
n. G: And all of the wharves in old
Charleston are rotted down because
the railroads have passed upon her the
ban Of high rates. There is not
farmer in South Carolina who lives
more than fifty miles from Charleston,
who can chip his cotton to Charleston
any cheaper than to Savannah, Ca,
Wilmington, N. c., or Norfolk, Va.
Why is it? Because the interests Of
the citizens Of the State have not
been protected. The railroads have
perpetrated these outrages upon our
State under the very sanction OF my
friend Mr.. W;lbourn, who has been
there for eight years, and who has had
the opportunity 90 adjust these
wrongs. Yet for eight years they
have existed, and now he trics to jus.
tify himself before you and asks you
to elec. him for the :hird term.
There is keen popular distrust to
figures as arguments, for it has been
shown often that, with proper train.
ing they can be put through evolu-
tions that are really acrobatic. Ad-
vooates Of trusts can show to many
places Of decimals that any increase
in the wages paid to workmen would
be prohibitive Of dividends, and that
even the present rates are an exces.
sive burden upon these great corpora
tions. Give any Of these high officials
in railroad circles pencil and paper
and ho will produce forthwith an argu-
ment for lower wages and longer
hours that will be overwhelming, until
one supplies the common knowledge
Of arbitrary freight rates and inflated
capital stock. We do not want to op.
press the railroads, but We do
not want them TO charge the peo-
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