, 1873-11-15
WORKINGS or THE RAILROAD LAW.

roHp CREEK, H., Nov. IL, 1879.
70 The Editor of The Chicago Tribune;
Sir: II wot hcreaboute, fool bitterly opposed
to the Railroad law which our legislative old honn
incubatcd lust wintor, it is because it has giyon
ua that proyocation which the universal law
recognizes AZ q just caugo for fights It has
picked tho pockets Of many Bureau County
mon, mud refuses to withdraw it's hand OIL dis
covery. THIS, its plundoring procllvity, at alt
points where eroBs-roada bofore afforded tho
people the benefit OF ozupoliton,-tranaporta
tion's only true salyation,-s distinctly md
amply shown by the Testimony before tho recent
Princeton sitting Of the first trunyirate OF Off
cia1 informors, otherwise known AZ Ruilroad
Commissioners.
It was III proof that We, the stock-tlealers of
this yiciuago, arc by this law compelled to pay
nearly 80 per cont more on every car Of catlla We
ahip from this place to Chicago than We did be-
foro July last And yet VIC are too near Chicago
to escape the lega extortion by shipping to sorno
othos market. But We would IL wa could !; aud
1t is certain that it il i3olle nt points farther
south which used to ship all stock to Chicago.
Won't your city help us 10 force thiu lamontablo
law into liquidation? We ,,god tn nay p21 .2G pcr
car; now it in 43l per car, And tile ineronse
of charges and determined diacontont arc about
tho sasno at tho noigllborlng places OF Iiukilwa
Duda. Sheffield, aud WYauot.
Aud hardly lees than bnlf the counties In tho
State arc as fayorah!y trayerhcd with competing
roads, With tho consequent low rates Whenever
competition is anbiect to yailroad'yolit!on. Bit,
now that thoro IL no competition allowed by this
law, ono Company might as well own all the
roads In tho State. Aud yet it Is this laws dis
ordinations ngainst fully one-half the people
within tho groat Gentrn OF tho Etato tlnt tho
Commissioners. it iH sail, hnye commenced OK
pending about 100000 III annually enforcing.
Tho Newspapers do no not seem to have put
on their editorial apectaclos loug enough to de-
tcct tho Interesting atom Of fAcl, that this law
hurts nj much al it helps; that Its gain to ono
community III lts robbery Of another. You
that evory man Is compelled to- pay
! kind Of cargo. Int does not this taste Of that
| unsuyory tasnagundi lately preached by Iieechor
aud other llcrotcs that tue Inv OF tho land ought
to Htop III and partially cquAllze essates among
| tho peoplo, by putting limit upon tho aecumu-
| ln,ion or Individual wealth. SO this nefRrious
| law takea from ono man his advantage Of loca-
ton at appoint OF competition, mud stributes 1t
among mcu of loss foresight, enterprise, Or good
luck, ut points with hnt siuglo irou tow-path to
| market. Eut is thcro moro juAtico in tho Inv
| thnt deprlycB mo OF my democratic right to aayo
$40 by shipping my cattle over tho li@o Of lowest
rates tl,an in ths |aw TINT should tax inc $50 to
| help pay freight ou tue cattle OF holno lnau
farther removed irota competing polnts? Thin
law makes mo pay him fur living III tho wilder
ness.
! Ii you love frae trade, Sir IAlpu:;E, help to re-
lIerp mo Of this da1anablo duty Ut $40 per car o!'
| shipments above what pad a'efole thia
legal robbery set In.
| Barton B. MopRlsoN.