The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-11-19
SOMETHING MORE ABOUT
FREIGHT RATES
o the Editor Ocala Banner:

=
llished in your Daily of the 9th, and
your reply to the same.
On reading the first item, decided
to reply and give some figures from
the rate books as published, as they
are public property, and l felt sure
someone was in error and the Item
misleading. l have now taken the
pains to go to the A. c. L. freight Of
fee and lok up the classification and
rate on the commodity in question.
The southern classification governs
the rate applicable, and l find that
canned goods, such as condemned
milk, fish, Gncluding shell fish, veg
etables. fruits, soups and brOths, pork
and beans, canned meats with vegeta-
bles, packed in tins and shipped in
less than carload lots, or in small
Quantities are in third class. Balti-
more TO Jacksonville by steamer, A
cents: rail. Jacksonville to Ocala, 80
cents; total. 81 cents per hundred
pounds. If shipped in lots of % cases
1.-The rate to Jacksonville is 20 cents,
and to Ocala, by rail, so cents; total,
20 cents per hundred pounds. But If
shipped in carload lots Csuch as job
! bers would handle)-30,000 pounds,
minimum-the rate to Jacksonville is
20 cents, and to Ocala 80 cents; total
Baltimore to Ocala, So cents per hun
dred pounds.
These figures are taken from the
published tariff book, BEST Way to
Ship" No. Il. supplement 81, page "a.
You will find the rate applicable to
this commodity to Jacksonville; add
to these figures the rate found at page
No. >, item 81. Florida basis book No.
l. Jacksonville to Ocala, third class,
less carload, 50 cents; and fifth class,
carload, 50 cents per hundred pounds.
Now, as q business proposition,
d"n'' say whar Mr.. Jones says Eli.
Sui told him that NJ. WEol...ai
Dealer says the freight rate is prohib-
Iitory-yOu can't do a wholesale or
jobbing business in Ocala. Go to the
books, which are open TO the public,
and get the figures, compile by a
commission appointed and authorized
under the laws of our country TO
make rates for all places according TO
location, and all people alike.
You know that Jacksonville and
Tampa are very peculiarly situated
Jacksonville on The east on the Allan
tic and Tampa on the vesg on the
gulf-but not unlike many other sea
port cities. There arc scIue folks
who want the earth, but Jacksonville !
and Tampa only want all Florida east
and south of the Chattahoochee river, |
even the capital, except the Ever
glades. and yet they are unwilling that
our late governor, y. B. Broward, |
should have them, so you see how
close they figure. They, naturally
enough, do not want jobbers and
wholesalers in the interior. OF course |
not-they would interfere with their
business-hence they cry such busi-
ness cannot be done in the interior. |
The transportation rates are prohibi- |
tory; that no jobber or wholesaler can
do business in the interior of Florida
and live, and yet they preach tlat
prohibition will not prohibit
All, me. such inconsistencies. It
reminds me of the story of the old
parson, who was a good old soul Cget-
ting his support from the wholesale
dealer, perhaps) who was afraid TO
preach pure gospel religion, but must
preach to satisfy the world, for fear
of wounding the feelings of some OF
the large contributors to his fat sal
airy, said to a brother one day that
he was in a dilemma for a subject for
the next Sundays sermon; that his
crop was exhausted. WhereupOn his
good brOthehr suggested that he
preach about the Jews. for there was
not one in so miles of him. These sea
! port wholesale merchants do a lot of
| talking (from the lips only, perhaps),
to discourage any attempt at a jobbing
business in Ocala or any other inte-
riOr town; that transportation rates
: are too excessive, prohibitory, and
that in this prohibition does prohibit
a great big bugaboo. An organized
corporation known as a soulless rail
road making a tariff on transportation
/ from the seaport to the interior towns
of our fair Florida, that does prohibit
the jObber or wholesaler from opening
a place of business in the country,
but such bushes must be done only
in the seaport towns.
Well, we have shown the figures,
which are open to inspection, and
shipment of the commodity named