The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-12-29
It's Time TO Act!

way, under the same terms and cOndi-
uons az has heretofore existed. It a
so did the right thing when il pledge
it's support TO the Brunswick Board d
Trade in any investigation that tina
body may elect 70 make In the futur
on the question OF discrimination
against the port Of Brunswick by thi
Southern railway, the Atlantic CoasU
Line and the Mallory Line That Their
is, and has been. discrimination
against this port by the Southern an'
the Mallory line, there is little room
for doubt and the coming Of the Ma
con.Atlantic Navigation compan
sceems to have had the effect d
bringing these facts home to the pee
pie Of this city.
The plain truth about the lease quef
ton which has been agitating city
council for several weeks, is that the
! local Board of Trade brought its case
into the wrong court and hedged il
about subject with which it had
nothing to do The leasing of this
wharf property to the Southern rail
way is one thng-one entity in itself
and the discrimination complained
of against the port Of Brunswick and
against the Macon Atlantic Navigation
company is quite another. The one is
a subject purely within the provinceN
of the mayor and council Of the city
I'm which that tribunal had no iurisdic
ton and before which the matte
should never have been tried! SO ia
as the Macon.Atlantic Navigation com
pany is concerned, President Long and
his associates can rest assured tina
Brunswick wants the line to com'
here and that Brunswick is going
give it a fair deal and is going to Sc
to it that others do likewise!
The coming of this line to Brun
wick at this particular time has bee
the means of opening the eyes Of TN
people of this city TO a condition whic
exists in the port of Brunswick an
which. If permitted to continue, wi
forever keep her down, while other
are developed at her sacrifice.
Much that President Butts said
his admirable address before counc
the other evening on the subject
only too truc-~and no one knows thai
better than some of those who wer
present and heard il! This is not III
time for hypocrisy and for cant. AM
we may as well look this thing, an
those who are behind it, in the face q
once and speak out like men! If til
Southern railway overlooked any ON
that might have added to its Caus
in the way of attendance at the mee
ing Monday evening, we failed TO ON
serve the oversight and right there
where one of the things we do no
like in this whole matter comes up
Brunswick people ought to be to1
Brunswick people ought
not to close their eyes against pain
full truth and pretend not to see it,
Mind YOU. we favored releasing the
Mansfield street property to the
Southern; we see no other thing the
city could have done, without putting
Itself in the very attitude it is fighting
in others discriminating, At the
same time, we are not prepared to
Say ny any HidiiitNi VI iiNoA' '''''
there has been no discrimination by
these Ines against the port OF Bruins,
wick. for we believe there has been and
We believe they ought to be forced to
desist and that the time TO begin work
on that thing is now and the place
is the interstate commerce commits
sion and the congress of the United J
States and not before the city coun
eli of Brunswick. Ii is against the !,
laws of the land for railroads and i
steamship lines TO discriminate; and =
these are the tribunal undressing
such wrongs,
Is there an honest man in Bruins.
wick who win confess to us that
Brunswick has grown in the past ten
years as she should? And when he is
forced to reply NO VIII he SO step