French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-02


a rate-5asing port. The opening CT
these ports opens the Te-th il doaa
in connection with this railroad line
to the West that passes through the
entire length of the Tenth, AID makes
North Carolina one CT the gle.test
highways south OF New York, AID
establishes the greatest safety harbar
that can benpened up ali the way to
Wilmington and give her en- Inland
SAFETY harbor on which 4 southern
navy yard should De constructeaa
which is as much an issue Of the Tentin
for her outlet as it is Of the Whining
tc2, and Southport district. Is this
not an issue that the people are in
terested in and want?
Eleventh Issue: I have a little map,
(send to me for it) of North and South
America, showing what a mail line
from Wilmington and Southport means
to the people of the middle West, and
to North Carolina, and to the Tenth
in getting a rate-basing port, and an
outlet for her minerals. at an average
of $500 per ton lower rate for her
products to the world markets. Is.
| this not an issue for the Tenth? Do
not the people want their great nat
ural resources opened up and a mark
ct for them? (
! North Carolina pays nearly $780,
600, OOo the decade for the support of
the National Government. She has
not had back 2 per cent a decade until
within the last few years. North.
Carolina consume of good bought
from other states, $500, 100000 the de-
dcade in seven items, largely
sites of life. She paid an excessive
freight rate Of $50, 000,0 600 for the
privilege of buying these goods, A.
great deal has been said about the
So, 900, 900 concession in. freight rates
out of an average Of 15,000.0o0. IL
there are TEN men in the Tenth dis
trict that have received any precep-
table advantages from the reduction
II would like to hear-from them: The
. echoes of discrimination again is
sounding over the state. The eonces@.
sion was a dope to political ambition,
and a little rest for the railroad. There.
were no laws to force the railroads
to grant it.
My life has been spent at this kind
of work, and if I cannot make good
every word I have uttered, then Z
may be c~artooned as a fool, in con-
tending there are issues local, IN the
TENTH, state and National. But Z am.
sure the people are learning there are
issues for the Tenth. I asked Mr..
Crawford in 1899, to have Congress
send a committee to North Carolina to-
make the investigation for q bill to
give us a park and scenic highway in
the Tenth. He said the Government
would establish parks ON public lands.
but he did not believe they would buy
private lands for that purpose, and.
didn't introduce the bill. When Mr..
Moody wen in I made the same re-
quest of him, and he said he wasn't in
favor Of taxing the people to buy
play grounds.
fla committee from Congress could.
q carried from R~ntherfordton through
the Bat Gave section Hendersonvilre;,
Brevard, Highland, Franklin, Murphy
and back to Robbinsvile, : over the
crest of Mt. Sterling, and to Asheville.
and then down the Murphy railroad
through the center of the district. they
would unanimously report a bin to
Congress and work for it for the pur-
chase Of the crest of this mountain
cange, and the putting therein Of the
scenic highway, for it would not cost
as much as has been spent to irrigate
less than a million acres of land in
the West. Congressman from these
rocky barren sage brush states Of the
West won these appropriations, North
Carolina pays more annually than the
whole bunch of the SAUCE brush states
for the support of the National Gov
eminent annually with half of New
England thrown in. They were Great