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lNF FREIGHT BATES
rutnr The Commoner: While the
EM.n of government ownership of
?,Uf untry'f railway system is being
111 Ire wo should also consider
rth rates and Rearrange them so
fre o do away with the thousands of
f mms of discrimination in favor
Df U go commercial centers and
li financial interests, as against
SSller places and their financial In-
teA8lan Illustration, why should we
niA living in western North
gSuna be charged higher freight
for all goods we need, moving
K C pSSte of the state 'of
Florida are charged for the same
rlass of goods moving from the same
points of origin, and five or six hun
dred miles greater distance? As the
tariffs now stand the people of
Florida are able to receive these
same goods, moving over the same
rails past our North Carolina homes
for 20 per cent, or $2.00 per ton less
than we are compelled to pay.
Again, another and more marked
instance of this unjust discrimination
affecting thousands, is covering goods
moving from Memphis, Tenn., or the
St. Louis gateway to Richmond, Va.
All classes of these goods pass
through our North Carolina homes
to Richmond, and the freight heing
so much less to Richmond than it is
to our home towns in North Carolina,
we are forced to buy our goods in
Richmond, and pay the local freight
back to our North Carolina homes,
together with the Richmond dealer's
profit, and still get our goods cheaper
than if we paid the freight from the
Memphis or St. Louis gateway here.
These examples quoted are samples
of thousands of such cases, all of
which give the peoples of larger
cities and their commercial interests
an unjust, unfair and unreasonable
advantage over peoples living" at
intermediate points, who should not
he charged a greater rate of freight,
at least, than the peoples of- the
' larger and more distant city. I be
lieve that all tariff should Ire based
upon the TON MILEAGE BASIS, and
that every one should pay the same
rate on the same class of goods on
the mileage basis.
Our forefathers fought and died
to establish the principle of govern
ment that equal 'rights should be for
all, and special privileges to none.
Therefore, why should we, in the
purchase of the baked potato from
Michigan that we have upon our
breakfast table, not have an equal
chance with our Florida neighbor,
wno is now able to purchase the
same potato far cheaper than we?
The answer is, because our Florida
"lend has a much lower freight rate
on his potato, even though he lives
jjve hundred miles greater distance
irom Michigan than we of the west
ern North Carolina live. Signed:
. A NORTH CAROLINAN.
SEES PEACE IN IiEAGUE
From Washington Post, March 31.
Expressing the opinion that a
".ague of nations and a reduction of
Same,nts will give the" world a
ii?me Tthat wiu not e broken, Wi"l
w Je"nines Bryan addressed- a
. d 'ge aience at Liberty Hut yester
th v rnoon undei' lue auspices of
Taw , C' A and thQ BIy Sunday
b . Jt.n!d? Workers. The crowd was
"great that several thcUsarid people
Sin t0 gain entraice to the
aie7h? teachines of Nietzsche, who
wrppim? an insae asylum, have
Mr! Brla m,u"itude - m" said
that tPB . man wno oeneves
6 can t have permanent peace
because man in nn nnimni n,i
mals muBt fight is a true follower
of Nietzsche. It is time for the world
iu come DacK to uoa and to give up
the idea of a superman that will tako
the place of Jehovah.
DREAM THAT LURED KAISER
"Nietzsche's philosophy would con
vert the world Into a ferocious con
flict between beasts, each beast
trampling ruthlessly on anthing and
everything that stands in its way.
In his book, entitled 'Joyful Wis
dom,' Nietzsche ascribes to Napoleon
the very same dream of power
Europe under one sovereign and that
sovereign the master of the -world
the very dream that lured the kaiser
into a sea of blood from which he
emerged an exile seeking security
under a foreign flag. Nietzsche
names Darwin as one of the three
great men of hla conturv. hnf. lmnira
to him for doing so, roliovos him of
responsibility Tor tho doctrlno that
bears his namo by crediting Hogol
with an oarllor announcement of tho
theory.
"Whether tho treaty which we
await will bo tho beginning of an
uuuurmg peaco, or moroly prepa
ration' for anothor war, will depend
entirely 'upon tho spirit in which it
.is written.
"If it is animated by tho spirit of
tho Prince of Peaco there is bono: if
it is built upon tho philosophy of
Niotzsche, tho future Is a starless
night. I believe that tho spirit of
Christ will dominato tho poaco con
ference. On the day after tho world's
greatest Thanksgiving day for
never before since time began woro
as many hearts as woro happy on
November 11 on tho vory next day
Groat Britain's premier, Lloyd
George, mado a speech in whloh ho
soundod tho highest note that. had
boon struck up to that time.
NO RETURN TO OLD RIVALRIES
"Ho said thero must bo no return
to tho old 'national rivalries, ani
mosities and competitive armaments
but that wo should 'initiate tho reign
on oarth of the Prince ""of Peace
And President Wilson, reading tho
speech) cabled his congratulations
and his Indorsement of tho sentiment
oxprossod.
"With those two loadors in agree
ment as to the spirit that should
porvade that treaty, tlioro is prospaot
of a treaty that will, hag ton tho day
when 'swords shall be boaton Into
plowshares' and nations learn war no
more."
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