The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-10-31

l La, 20 Richmond. Va. via 0reens
! boro. -. c. . distance OF liz miles
further. In only &c. Per gallon
| Fertilizer shipped from Norfolk.
Va. 10 North Carolina. ID 30 per cent
: higher than . carload shipped from
/ Norfolk to points in Virginia. the
same distance. thus costing the farm
ers Ia the State over 1000. 900 an
nually In excessive freight rates more !
than the Virginia farmer pays on the
same quantity.
A carload OF plow points from
Louisville. KY, via Statesyilie. y. C..
TO Lynchburg. Va. is lie per 100:
this car stopped at Statesvilie. ~ c..
is SAC. per 100. The same car stop !
ped at Hickory. 35 miles west OF
Statesville. Ia 12c. higher than at
Statesville.
A shoe manufacturer in Winston.
who has been operating six or seven
/ years. has closed his plant on account
of his exorbitant freight rates. He
states that during the time he has
been In operation he has paid in the
way of excessive freight rates more
than he would have paid IL he had
transacted business in Lynchburg,
$4,000. Consequently. he is NOV
ing his plant out OF the city.
Thus we see why Lynchburg to-day
has seventy-fve thousand people and
dozens of prosperous manufacturing
plants and thousands OF prosperous
laboring men employed therein. when
, Charlotte, Winston, Greensboro, Dur
nam, and Raleigh could be equally as
large in population, equally as active
? in industrious enterprises, and equal
: ly happy in it's large growing popula
ton of laboring men. In hsort, to-
5 day Charlotte, Winston, Salisbury,
l Lexington, Greensboro, Durham, Ra-
leigh, Wilson, Rocky Mount, Whining
ton, and indeed every town in the
State, could just as we'll be doubled
in population, industry and wealth,
r and would be If they had rates the
4 same as the other towns mentioned
above in other States have.
This explains why it is that the
railroads of this State are collecting
: % per cent, or $1,000 annually, on
the same kind and quantity of freight
y as compared with the amount being
: collected by the same railroads in our
i sister States and sister towns in 9TH
t er States Notwithstanding this uni
r versal knowledge of this condition,
= our Senators opposed the only propo-
e sitcn that has ever been before Con-
i gress looking to relief from this I'M
s just discrimination through national
f legislation and the fundamentally of
: the Interstate Commerce Commission
r At the same time, it is we'll known
;. that our Democratic Senators and
-, Congressman have never exerted any
o honest effort to have our State Cor
Il poration Commission to perform it's
: part in stopping these abuses, but
y have encouraged them to permit this
n robbery to go on.
l. In this connection, and illustrating
e what the State Corporation Commits
n sion alone could do to remedy this
y notorious and scandalous robbery, we
l. mention the following additional fact
n that has occurred and is occurring
y within the boundaries of our State
and is entirely within the jurisdiction
Is of our State government. A sufferer
e from Winston gives this fact that the
10 railroad companies charged the farm
@ er SIG for transferring a carload of
It ingredients for fertilizer from the de-
q pot in Winston-Salem to Spaeh's Sid
d ing, on south side of depot, a distance
y of two miles, after the freight has
been paid on this car from Whining
% ton to Winston. This is one instance
:. of thousands of how our railroads
4, are permitting the Democratic ma
,r chine to deal with the people of the
State within it's borders, which is ex-
g. clusively under the control Of the
u State Legislature and the State Cor
ar poration Commission.
er We are told that the railroad cor
panies in this State have not mate
D. rally changed their rates in the
Of State for thirty-fve years, notwith-