Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-21
Changers and Railroads.
LEtom tho Now York Tribune. ]

From the New York Tribune.l
The April number Of The North Aneri-
can Repieo contains an article by Charles
Francis Adams, ir., on the rise and prog
resS of the Granger Movement. 1t treats
this phenomenal phase of politics rs al
ready upon the decline, and assumes that
the time has already come to consider its
causes and effects, the lessons that may
be lcarued from it, and the good or evil
which il is to bring forth. The two hy
pothcses upon which the movement was
founded are stated and disposed of with
clearness and Justice. The first refers to
the general belief of the Western farmers
that the railroads were charging an eN-
orbitant price for the transmission OF
their produce to the seaboard. The pop
ular statement that it took four bushels OF
wheat to carry one to market was hastily
accepted as indicating inordinate greed
and dishonesty in the carrier and especial
hardship to the producer. The farmers
entirely disregarded the relation OF bulk
and distance to price, and seemed to for
get that il always cost more to carry u
load OF COrdWOOd across the state than
the wood was worth. If there were no
railroads corn could only be wagoned 100
miles before the expense OF transporta-
ton would equal its entire value. The
maligncd corporations which the Granger
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