The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-06
RATE REGULATION
BY Government
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III UuELlllvltlLIi
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nominated for President OF the United
States. The government has been sub
| stantially. and for all practical Durposes,
government. by the North and West.
Rate regulation by the government then
means s that be the prize at wh,e the
cts, shall be. fixed by the North and
West through a commission. of whose
members, the North and West will have
| q very large majority. to be appointed
| from time to time by the President OF
| the United States.
tory what might be the effect of placing
hneh a oyh and the w hsnas of our rulers
One OF the chief causes Of our war
| Jefferson. In the immortal declaration OF
| our grievances was
Cutting of our trade with all parts
means of her Navigation Laws She had
the power, and she used it for her own
| benefit.
| After we achieved our independence.
wage the war Of. 1872. because Great
Britain again invaded our rights of trade
and transportation on the ocean, and un-
| dertook to enforce her laws for their re-
| guIation 1t was a question of dol
lars and cents as we'll as of Sailors
The Northern people, who took a very
/ practical dollars and cents view of
government government, at a very early period IN
Increase their wealth and powe, by W.
Ing the government, to make laws for
| the regulation of commerce in their III
| terest.
The South was peculiarly agricnltu-
raj country. We manufactured almost
nothing: but bought our goods abroad.
| The North, seeing what q splendid mark
| ct we furnished for manufactured goods.
went into the business of manufacturing
ana the Bassage Of tariff awE
buy goods from 1t, at very high prices
| thus paying an enormous annual tribute
to the Northern people.
The North farther made use of the gov
eminent, to enrich Its section, by obtain
ing appropriations for the erection OF
| magnificent public buildings, in its numer-
Gus cities; for improving it's rivers and
harbors and by other devices.
These things and the agitation against
slavery, brought on the frightful war be-
tween the States.
The war being ended, In order that
our white people might be forever debar-
red from exercising any influence in the
government. Congress endeavored, by re-
construction acts, to subject us to the
hideous and destructive rule of our former
| slaves.
Pursuing the old policy of using the
government for their pecuniary benefit.
ed laws to be passed. pensioning their
army. to the amount which requires the
| South to pay more than SS000o.0 l0--thirty
millions of dollars annually for the sup
port of Northern and Western people
They procured the passage of laws, to
give to Northern and Western people.
millions upon millions of acres of the
public lands. for the construction of rail-
roads, to carry Western produce TO North
ern ports.
In every was possible, they have used the
government, to enrich themselves at our
expense. They have recently devised a
new method of depicting the Treasury for
their benefit. The rural mail delivery is
nually into the North and West, against
few hundreds of thousands expended In
| the South.
have made this brief summary of facts
to show that the North and West. from
an early period of our history have sys-
tematically made use of the government
! to enrich themselves. regardless of our
| interests. / use them to show, Illustrate
and to emphasize the great danger which
turks In the insdious proposition, to place
the regulation of our commerce In the
hands of the government; that Is to say,
in the hands OF the North and West, who
| control the government.
The proposition to place the making OF
rates, that is. the fixing of prices for our
! goods in competitive markets. In the con-
troll of the North and West, comes before
us In the guise of n patriotic effort to pro-
| tect the people against the impositions
and exactions of the railroad companies.
| That is not the real object. The true pur-
| pose cannot be avowed. The talk OF pro-
| tecting the people against the railroads is
! an attractive veneering, put on to popl-
| larize the movement. The real question
| Is not so much between the people and
! the railroads, as 1t is between the ports
and cities. and to divert them to the ports
| and cities of the North The North and
| West have taken alarm at the rapid
strides which the south has been making
in manufactures and commerce.. The
great and important design, which under
lies the rate proposition, Is to control
the trade and commerce., which now flow
In an ever-rising tide to Southern ports
and cities of the North and West
The South is a Rival to the North
The Northern States have been engag-
ed in manufacturing for at least one
hundred years. They have built up vast
Industries, and acquired by long custom.
control of the great markets of this coun-
try, and of the markets for American
goods in other countries.
To illustrate and explain the situation
let us take the iron business. Until about
twenty-five years ago, New England had
numerous furnaces making pig IRON,
which was consumed in her prosperous
foundries and factories.
1t is only within the last thirty years
that the South has to any extent en-
gagged in manufactures. AT first. it un-
dertook to supply it's own immediate
wants and local markets.
Little by little. It's business expanded
and prospered until about twenty-five
years ago. the cities of Birmingham and
Admission came into notice us pig iron pro-
ducers of great prominence.
The Richmond and Danvlle the Geor-
trio tCentral. the / Louisville and Nashville
extended their railroads to these cities.
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