The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-09-30
CONSUMERS FIGHT
PURE AND SIMPLE
He Will Be the Chief Beneficiary
of Lower Rates
FOR HE PAYS THE FREIGHT
Item Of Freight Charges Is A.
ways Added To the Cost Of
All Goods Before the Resale
Price Is Made.
nv r. II.

ilOC 10 NiNAS'
BY Z. b. BLALOCK.
The old theory that Jones pays tho
freight" has been exploded.
Every intelligent man should know
that the item Of freight charges is al
ways added to the cost Of all goods
before the resale price is made.
Therefore this great question ot
lust freight rates for North Carolina
pie.
He will be the chief beneficiary Of
lower rates, the retail dealer and the
iobber and the manufacturer IN a less
er degree.
Wadesooro is only sixteen miles
farther from Cincinnati territory than
Richmond and lightweight miles
nearer than Norfolk via the n.
& w. route. yet the carload rate
on galvanized roofing sheets is AZ l-2c
to Wadesboro as against Richmond
and Norfolk, zoe. The farmer who
covers his barn or gin house in An
son county pays about zoe. per
square more than the Virginia farm
er. II one merchant here should
| charge zoe. per square more for same
goods it would create a howl, but the
railroad levies this extra tribute and
it is paid without a murmur. The
consumer has worn this heavy yoke
until he has become SO accustomed to
it that he accepts his fate and says
nothing can be done to relieve him
The railroads haul fruit jars from
Muncie. Ind, to Richmond n Nor
folk, Va, for 21c. per hundred, they
charge SAC. per hundred to Wades-
bOro, q difference of about $1.0O per
gross, that every housewife in this
territory pays more h the house,
wife in Virginia.
Every hale Of hav thai cCrov RI this
town yields the railroad lie. each
more revenue than to Virginia cities.
A car of hay from St. Louis, Mo, to
Richmond, or Norfolk. o es right by
WadesborO for 18c. per hundred. to
stop this hay at Wadesboro the Sea-
board charges zoe. more per bale for
shorter haul by about 280 miles. A
Majestic Range from st Louis, costs
US $1.25 more to stop it at Wadesboro
than to haul it on to Norfolk or Rich
mond.
About &c. per gallon is the railroad
tax. in excess Of freight to Richmond
or ~Lynchburg from New Orleans, col
lected by the railroads for stopping
our sweet goods here instead of haul
ing 800 miles farther.
A carload Of 1our was received here
recently from Ohio by a local dealer
! with freight charges Of SO ITO per
{, hundred, the rate to Richmond is
80 A ~ OuAC VI zoe Der DGI-
: rel.
The Virginian pay freight on an
5 automobile $20.35, the Tarheel. in
! addition to all the State taxes on his
auto, pays the railroads an additional
; levy or special tax above the Virginia
: rate of $22.65 OF total of SAB. 90.
> Nor is this all. the Atlantic Coast
Line charges CSC. per hundred on
loaded shells and other hardware to
n Cheraw, a distance of 25 miles. The
charges 24c. to haul wall
r plaster to Chesterfield, a distance Of
: 81 miles. the same road hauls it all
the way from Norfolk. clear across
Nortn Carolina to Chesterfield, S. c.
500 miles or more for Csc.
the handicap she has
oeen laDorlng under for the past q
q years or more. in the way Of excessive
n freight rates, it is astonishing how
n1ucn progress has been b.
the railroads that traverse this state
: WIN a population already ex~ceedine
mat or Virginia, with her
,eSources, will outstrip Virgins
- IN less than a decade in larger cities
n ana more progress in every way
- IS hat the present Of
" Ter OF the railroads will save the Stat,
Two millions Of dollars. II this b
rue ana the proposition is accepted
q great victory has been won in par,
All n to our Governor. to gu
corporation Commission the Legisla
4 I've commission and the Just Freigh
IN RATE Association fer the fight the
o. have made.
"a but II two million dollars are goin
c. TO De saved annually, by the presen
he oHer OF compromises. would it not b
&c q Wise and profitable Investment 10
1y North Carolina to have a railroa
70 commiss'on. whose duties should b
10 look after railroad matters alon.
ny II Is the opinion OF the writer ths
O. THIS entire rate business will rot /
settled as it should be until the DO
ne at Wilmington is put on an equal bas
n with other South Atlantic go. ,p
he our intra-state rates lowered no -
'i- Wadesboro, n. c.. Sept. 80. 1919.