Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1868-03-06
EXPRESS MONOPOLY.

The great. The ma.nanin,ous Merchant.
Union Express Company, which Was organiz
I'd som, time since, professeiy i'll the Interests
Vi ih> l.~opie. recent, sold out, for the sum Of
. few million dollars and enters into an
arrangement with the American Express
Company, an! enters more largely. both Of
them into process. to sw indie ho e.t people
on. Of their just dles, BE- asysten Of m re es-
hortitnnt CHI tryc. than ever before. For the
time tina. the NJ. Y. was running before ,ha,
Company entered into this swinlling process
OF high charges, under the guise Of .consoli
dation. those expressing goods &c, could do
>" At reasonable rates. Since the "consolda-
ton, however, the American and Merchants
rnion take about all the article is worth 10
bring it from Chicago or other points east to
ih. place. If such is to be the case there
viii be but very little work done in that line
AMI We hope that there will no. be one cent,
worth of expressing done nou. where there
Was thousands of dollars worth done before the
consolidation. For orr part we have done
quite a good deal in that line heretofore, bn
now We shall only do that which we canno
help doing, We think that will amount toabon'
hY~nty fire cents worth per year. We hea,
mos, Of orr business men talking about thu
same way. 1t is true thu. freighting under
the present system. u aboat as speedy way
Of getting goods from Chicago IS it would b
by OF teams, yet it is better to suffer delay
than to be robbed by systematic set Of swim
diers who are said to run an Express Gem
.lsny.
The question naturally comes up, is theyt
10 way to remedy this wholesale system o.
swindlingy Has not our State anything t
Fay about express and freight tariffs? II the
State has not, can not Congress regulate il
somewhat? We certainly think mat our Gen
eral Assembly Of this State have q right t.
interfere. II go, then we, and the people O.
Tama county, shall expect our Representative,
Wilson and Senator Chaplin to take hold o
tho matter and try some node 10 bring up til,
question, if they have not already done so-
We believe them 10 lie men who dare TO &C
we'll theiv part. II will do no harm at an,
rate for them to test the matter in SEINE wa,
or other, the people demand it, Not only d
the people Of Tama county demand it, bu
those Of the entire State.
While the Legislature Of this State is work
ing for the interests Of the people. it also be
comes necessary that H. ,s. J. ". Grimes
HARLAN, IOughridgc. v lis and the entir
delegation Of Iowa in Congress should Sc
what can be done by them 10 sllay this sw in
ding process being SO successfully carried oil
BY these companies. The people Of BRAY
Iowa demands this Of their Representative
ia behalf of their own State, and all the state
Of sAis Union demand that the Representative
Of the people shall do their whole duty m
stop, il possible, this wholesale robbing by
eyetematic mode. Il IN no less robbery tina
that practiced hy the Hifhwayman only tbs
i is perhaps done by the silence rather tina
the sanction Of Law, cad the high waymsn doe
il in violation Of la hescs 10 punished. Will
we consider AMI believe bsh systems to
rnbh.ry, tho perpetrators Of both shout
be lispssd equally by honest men.