The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-11-22
Jumpers
Good News for Business Men and Farmers

For several years, nothing could arouse the Ex-
press Companies Their eSorbant charges and their
the loteTs able and ready to to law have produced
wide. spread indignation. The pundering of choice
fruit has been shameful The catalogue of grevan-
Is long Public meetings. speeches resolutions,
harp new piper articles, and appeals to legislatures,
did not rut1e a feather Their earnings were enor-
nous. and their stock was at vast premium
About one y ara ago an opposition company was or
gan zed Only $40 O00 100 were required to buy them
IF, and things went on as befo, emo, they were
worse. The complaints this summer in New York /,
Ohio, and the whole West, were so grievous, and APP
parently far from hope of remedy, that thew ap,
preached despair. Farmers, frut-g overs and ship
per generally, were deprived OF mach OF that part of
their earnings which should have been their profits
The best informed and most comprehensive minds
Jaw that unless they were checked they would absorb
to themselves mucn OF the wealth Of the country A
full account Of the magnitude Of their operations, Of
the extent OF their powr and the expressions they in
fc'ed would astonsh
They have had full play. There no king, dcta-
tor, or law to repress them.
short time ago the Mercha1 ts Union Express
Company was organised, with the central idea of not
being bought out though that the best busn
going except not being bought out. At last the old
Companies were aroused rival was mount their
golden throne A"Secfet Circular" vas issued Their
agents were Instructed carry freight such
supposed would deprive the Company of bust
Mo limit was 6xed to the deductions that might
be made None should complain OF this. But when
they add they Will receive no freiEh from the Mer
chants Union nor ship to it, indeed do any bust
ness with it, whatever they getting ahead of the
times. 1t IS the same as to say they viii carry no
strawberries for John Smith, because they do not like
him For the same reason, q captain or Il conductor
might reject passenger. but they 60 further. On
routes here there is competition, old rates are TO
remain. They have been charged with beiLg IAOnop-
oies this secret circular has served the public by
proving it.
So far, the new company is prosperous, II is pay
ing all expenses, and yet its from 25 to 40
per cent les than the old Everywhere the PEG
ole see. and particularly those in the West, whose
transactions with the East immense, that in a
manner, their salvation depends on the contnu ance
Of this competition
1t is Object for them have goods carried for
nothing, or even It premium, for Il few months -
They do not choose to be bed for the purpose of
ing enslaved hereafter. N. Y Tribune.
In addition to the above the Auburn AdCertiSer e
Union has tie following:
1.-THE MERCHANTS UNION EXPRESS COMPANY has to
day in successful ope alton eight thousand miles
OF lines. 1t has more Offices than either Of the old
Express Companies and in few weeks will have
more offices established and greater number of mil
of lines in successful operation than both he United
Ststes and TIE american ErpTess Companies com
6ined
It's material is all new aud OF The best quality. 1t
has larger surplus fund to provide against
all possible ontin gences than either the United
States or American Express Companies. This SUI
plus is Invested in government bonds, dr awpg inter
est for the benefit OF its stockholders The sympathies
of the entire business public with it, It's business
is already immense Can any prudent, thoughtful
business man give any why its stock il not
ntrinscaly worth far than the stock OF either
OF the old companiesf"