| From the Savannah Republican |
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| June 18, 1863 |
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| Vegetables and the Railroads |
| Mr. Editor: |
| The exorbitant price demanded
for vegetables by the extortioners in your city market, should certainly
attract the attention of the city authorities and the railroad companies
to the propriety and policy of encouraging gardeners and planters along
the lines of road leading to your city to send down supplies of
vegetables. Almost every garden in the country yields a surplus which,
if aggregated in your market, would greatly reduced prices, alleviate
much suffering, and save largely the consumption of the more substantial
articles of subsistence; but at the present rates of freight and express
carrying on the railroads very few vegetables will bear shipment, even
at the enormous prices commanded in your market. Would it not be well
for your authorities to appeal to the railroad and express companies to
reduce the rates of transportation on garden products? I am sure the
people of the country would supply the wants of the city people, if the
prohibition of high tariffs were removed; and in addition to the great
good that would thus be accomplished to the poor of the city, gardening
would be encouraged in the country, and your people would be relieved
from monopoly and extortion. |
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