Show RAILWAYS BROUGHT TO TERMS some time since the business men of this city or a large number dumber of them took issue with the railways centering here because of unjust discriminations in the matter of freight and the man ner in which the iron shod corporations were brought to terms was as rapid as an it has proved to be effectual the chamfer of commerce which engaged in the cause on behalf of the community at large as well as those immediately concerned took hold of the matter in a businesslike business like determined way with the result of bring ing about an arrangement the good results of which are everywhere apparent pis rent it accomplished its work W with ith neatness and dispatch A rail road company is not essentially worse on an general lines or more grasping than others but it has better opportunities port unities and being indulged and treated with a hands off policy by the people from whom it derives first support and then fortune it would be lose less than human or mure it if it did not become arrogant insolent and grasping jt it only needs an occasional application of law or a dose or so of mild retaliation to bring such much a company back to its senses on the double quick and this thin has been done in ia a great many places of late now that the people have found out that the question is in no longer one sided and that they can accomplish all that its in necessary when they try bradstreets reports a case base in which the board of trade of chattanooga tennessee took similar action to our chamber of commerce it brought a complaint before the interstate commerce commission against the aut tennessee virginia georgia railway c company and others alleging amoul other things that the rates on traffic from new york and other atlantic seaboard points to chattanooga were unreasonable in themselves and aad relatively as compared with rates on like property to memphis and nashville a A d that rates on such traffic were greater for the shorter distance to chattanooga than for the longer distance over the same line in the same direction to memphis and nashville the commission has rendered a decision in which it holds that the defendants are justified by the existence ot of water competition of controlling force in charging less on such traffic for the longer distance to memphis but that no su h competition exists for such traffic to nashville and that any greater charge caarl ge for the transportation por tation of like property from the sea ae board points for the shorter distance to chattanooga than for the longer traffic through chattanooga to nashville is jn an violation of the fourth section of the act to regulate commerce whereupon the defend defendants anks were ordered to desist from the discrimination complained of which undoubtedly they did without unnecessary delay before us are a number of printed reports of the commission in which the foregoing doctrine io in other words and having a somewhat different application together with the demand for reasonable transportation rates are upheld throughout one relates related to tha rates charged on the shipment of melons and is against a dozen or more southern railway companies another is on the subject of lower charges for longer hauls ano and a third relates to relative rates on finished and unfinished furniture the ruling be ing in favor of the complainant in each case thus showing the railways generally are disposed to live up to their privileges privilege sl until interfered with we can all get along with them hem very well when they are made to under stand that their position relative to the public is that of servant rather than of master |