The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-17

and South, q periodical! aeToteu 10 the
Interests Of the southern states,
writes the Mon, Eomery Advertiser,
upon the suaiec5 of stopping freight
trans OF Sunday - follows:
Editor The ASiyer,iseS:
Possibly i brie; tApianation may
wisely preface jh.s Intrusion.
Since 1900 have Been actively en-
gagged il attempting ~ aid, in nay
small way, in the upbCiid:2g Of the
certra: South. beginning first IN Bald
win county, and continuing during a..
this period in preparing reading ma
/ ter for dissemination North OF tire
Ohio FLYER, in which is set fCrtE faces
about this country as 10 sells, crops,
seasons. fruits, grazing, roads, etc,
and in short ali which viii be Of inter
est to those who conLemp iate remcv-
ing their homes TO . miider climate
and under softer skies. During this
period many million copies - MY
Dublication-North and ScjISI-,laTe
Jeen circulated mainly through the
immigration and industrial depart
rlent of the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad. which takes from me odch
month the larger part Of nlE CdiI9:,-
7 aim thus, while not connected with
he road as an emnIoye, Indirectly IA
touch with its officials ana actively
and intimately related 70 its divers
efforts to serve the great section
touched by it's rails. 1t IS IN the
sense of a participant in the upiift
which now so sensibly peryadeS the
region between the Ohio river and
; the shores of the Mexican Gulf that
/ wish 10 voice a vigorous protest
against the attempt now being made
in the legislature of Alabama to Grip
pie all this work and nullify all this
costly effort, in stopping freight SER
vice on Sunday
Much in the same spirit that actua-
ted those early prOgenitOrs Of ours,
who undertook to stop progress By de-
stroying Stephenson's steam engines
because they inteTfered with stage
coaches and who wrecked the earlier
cotton looms because they interfered
| with hand-IoOms. these modern block
aders ignore the rights of the widely
Z
! ern Kings Highway.
This madievial essay is being done
| in the name of religion and behind
! the Master who said, The Sabbath
was made for man; not man for the
Sabbath
Permit me to outline the situation
as it appeals to me.
/ hn xr-idn
down where the Gulf waves lap the
shores of the Mississippi sound eoun-
try, a determined effort has been
urged for the past half dozen years
by the department named of the
Louisville and Nashville, to develop
and encourage truck farming, and
fruit and vegetable growing. Note
how the proposed regulation will af-
feet those who have cast their for
tunes at Bay st. Louis, at Long Beach,
at Ocean Springs, Biloxi and Scranton,
and along the bay shore between the
latter and Mobile; who have planted
our peaches and strawberries and are
4 growing lettuce, peas, beans, early po-
tatoes and radishes at Bay Minette,
Roberts, Foleyville, Atmore, Canoe,
Brewton. Garland, Owasso, Ever
green. Marble, Castleberry, Boiling
L and Greenville in Alabama. In estab-
fishing these promising industries it
has been the policy of the road to
contribute the aid of a competent
staff of experienced agricultural
agents who go about and act as mis-
sionaries. instructing the farmers iB
the details of these varied efforts, and
assisting in organizing local asocia-
tions. which, because of unity of &C
! ton. provide carload shipments of
/ these perishable products to remote
northern markets-LOuiSville, Cincin-
natl. St. Louis. Evansville, Chicago,
\ Columbus. O., Cleveland, Toledo, De-
trOit, Pittsburg Buffalo and even as
far as Philadelphia, New York and
Boston. Shipping thus, by fast freight
( and in full carload lots, these fragile,
but most appetizing edibles find their
way TO a multitude of northern tables
at a period when a keen appetite has
I been engendered by long and severe
winter. High prices are thus OBJ
tanned. as much as $40 having been
realized from single acre of the
/ strawberry crop in CastIeberry, Ala,
in one season.
See what viii chance should this
ancient regime be established.
Every acre thus carefully and eX-
I pensiveIy prepared. would become as
worthless as an equal amount of clear
4 sky. All the long years devoted 10
this work. and all the money expended
I will have been absolutely and entirely
wasted. Every fertile spot now blush
ing green with the early peach buds
and showing the early strawberry
leaves. shortly 10 be followed by the
deep purple of the peach blooms and
Wide-eyed blossoms of the strawbeT-
ries. again 10 be succeeded by
myriads of crates of luscious peaches
and most delicious berries, may as
well be ploughed up and returned to
the uncultiyated condition in which
they lay less than a decade since.
Nor does the gross injustice end
here The modern railroad is the d.
rect and logical successor of the an
cient Kings Highway: il is not Gre
ated for the stockholders nor yet for
fhe, r,rTr rha To