Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-04-29
CHEAP FREIGHT.
Call for Q Meeting in Nav YOrk Clay 60 Cor.
slider tho Transports don Question.
Trov. NJ. " April 90.

Tnov, N. Y. April 20.
S. H. Smith, Kewanes, III.
DEAR SIR :-"Travel always fol-
lows freight. Freight always. seeks
the cheapest route. Merchants buy
where they can buy the cheapest"
These are self-evident truths. Our
present railway system is running
our couatry Iowa has to give four
bushels OF corn to get one TO the A /.
lantic seaboard ; Illinois has to give
three. The almighty dollar STOCK
used in the halls of our State AZ d
National Legislatures has passed
laws giving the most valuable of our
homestead lands into the hands of
soulless railway corporations, who,
under the false and damnable plea of
developing the resources of the
country" are robbing US of every
thing.
Our State Legislatures are packed
with railway officials who control
Legislation and shape it TO benefit
their own corporations. These cor
poratroas are com binations TO mon
opoiiEe freight charges and to die
tate to merchants. Shippers, consum
ers and producers what they shall
submit to. right or wrong, In proof
OF which the following quotation is
but one of many: THE road is de-
termined to make it SO terrible for
the public to fight it, right or wrong,
that they will stop it, thereby mean
irg that, no matter how just mans
claim is, the road will buy judge and
jury, and corrupt the whole system
of justice to carry out their nefarious
designs.
With view of seeking a remedy
f1r this state Of affairs, | earnestly
ask your aid and your Influence with
others, aud your personal attendancs
at meeting 30 be held in New YORK
City, soon as the necessary arrang, =
ments can be completed, for the pur-
pose Of forming an association Of
shippers, merchants, consumers and
producers of the United States for
the purpose of mutual protection
against railway extortiou, and devils
lug means and remedies for the flu
ture. The West is rapidly organic
ing associations of producers, and
the Hon. w. G. Flagg of Moro, ILL.,,
President of the Illinois State Farm.
ers' Association, writes me that they
will join the East in any move hav-
ing the same common end Pleas,
interest all your friends, and let Us
have such q meeting as will result in
good United action will win
Please let me know if can rely on
your aid Respectfully yours,
II. III. FERGUSON.
The Central Committee of the Hi
nois State Farmers Association have
appointed two delegates TO the pro,
posed convention, which will bt
held in New York City on the 9th
of May. and the Executive Commit
lee recommend that the Vice Pr, ST.
dent of the association take meas.
ures TO send one from each of Their
respective districts. IT we hope tC
receive the full benefit of che; |
transportations, we must endeav u
to mako this movement national :,
well as local, aud all the States d
the Northwest are strongly urged e
be fully represented in this the mos
important convention both TO con-
sumner and producer ever held in the
United States Let not only
farmer associations and oranges
send delegates. bnt all other bodies
having the same great object in view
viE.-cheap transportation and thC
public good.
S. NJ SMITH, Secretary