Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-04-05
GEoRGIA,S RoBBER TARIFF.

1t is rather an ironcal circumstance that
protective tariff sadded upon by Cannonm there exists
in Georgia today protective taft costly and oppressive
than any the Republican party devised.
From end of the nation the other people awaken
the truth that the PayneA drich tariff unjust
the blight commercial growth The hour has
of Georgia should awaken the truth that
they toerang their midst tariff which the cost
of living for household the state and which rOb
merchants of millions of dollars each year.
For difference either principle results be-
Republican high tariff affects the large and
port they affect business of Georgia
Tariff port rates-they me and the thing.
people of the United States for the the people of
Georgia pay for the other National Democracy striving to free
from the one Democracy Georgia free from the
oherf
Protective levied by the federal
private monopos paid by the
public large The high freight charged by the rail
roads from the ports of Georgia eOrga interior cities
the roads, permitted by the existing political regime
in interest of railway combinations and paid by the public of
this state.
The purpose of the stie competition
high purpose railroads from
Georgias ports to Georgas se competition
maintain high prices transportation which inevitably
high prices for the things the consumer must buy
Consider an example,
Georgia has two ports along Atlantic coast
Savannah and Brunswick Under natural
state should profit by Goods hauled much
cheapy by than by rail 1t costs much less to bring
cargo sugar Savannah by steamboat than by freight train
merchant living entitled the benefit of this
merchant living fifty hundred miles
from Savannah entitled to his proporonate share Of the
benefit He could to have goods shipped to his
cheapy the Savannah merchant who lives ut
the port Nor does he expect or demand any such thing But
he demand and he entitled to the water rate from New
plus reasonable normal charge from the rail-
roads for bringing his goods from the port his city In the ne
rior
just point that the railroads begin to levy
their protective tariff They in substance to the merchant
eff you ship your goods from the coast by short and cheap
instead of by the long and expensive rail route then in
hauling goods from Savannah Brunswick to the interior
city, shall charge for this particular haul rate high
enough make the of the water route and the rail route
equal
precisely protective tariff lays
duty imports of meat and by deprvng the of all
the natural benefits of competition leaves him prey the exob
tant prices of the beef trust
every shipment of every commodity brought
nah Brunswick interior Georgia the railroads lay
duty protect other railroads all the from the east and
from the the south and the individual of this
state who has to pay that duty.
Consider, for instance the charged special iron
commodities The railroad charges twenyhre cents hundred
axes from Savannah Atlanta
Yet will that from Atlanta Savannah for hr
hundred pounds Why this absurd discrepancy The
hundred pounds which the Central of Georgia lev
les the merchant and the order
between the railroad the 1t charges not for the
cost and value of the service renders but for the protection Of
the railway combination.
The merchants thoroughly njus
e the damage of such because they feel its effects
day The people whole will become equally aroused
whenever they realize that they suffering equal injury with the
merchants For long time the people OF New England did not
realize that the Republican tariff really harmng their bus
taking money of their pockets But few weeks
when the duties Canadian imports and exports threatened tn
the of that section they to their
and the Fourteenth district of Massachusetts, Democrat
elected to congress on this very issue.
The people of Georgia are likewise awakening.
We have been of the cost of Republican tariff and
have fought it. The fact that this railway
three four times much does the Paynedrch
tariff
In recent article Saturday Evening Post Mr. Clifford
striking evidence the comparative cost the
American people of the tariff and OF transportation rates In
the of tariff which
was paid by the average family amounted TO eighteen dollars In
the the transportation charges paid by the