The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-11-08
WHOLE NO. 20.

fixing uniform rate of freight and pas
senger charges by all the roads. Well,
what of that? They have done that q
score of times and the Tribune has never
uttered word of complaint. What is
its special grievance nowp Let the
Tribune state it.:
This tariff is to be high oner and under it
grain will be carried from the west to New
York lOc per 100 lbs. less thun flour or meal
naanuJ Jactured in the aDest The rate on -four will
be double the summer rate. Of the Injustice Of
this discrimination we have spoken in a former
article.
Ho! Ho! is it there you are! The
roads have united to crush you out for
the benefit Of eastern millers and you
howl with rage and pain. You begin to
see things as the farmers saw them; and
you begin to talk very much like the
ANTI-MONOPOLIsT. zone touch ct ma
ture makes the whole world kind" Lis
ten to the whine of the millers-:
The roads which form the various links i'm
these lines, which are now controlled by three
granted to about thirty companies, issued by
the legislatures of the nine states and the Do
minion Parliament of Canada.
Well, didn't we tell you all along that
such consultations were dangerous to
public liberty, and did you not reply
that we were demagogue yes. "a
pestiferous little demagogues."
The means tor their original construction
We're largely raised by private subscription.
This stock has, in the main, been swallowed up
at various times, and the original subscribers
have received no compensation for it.
Why that sounds as if 81 me granger
had written it-some despised '.clod-
hopping farmer" with hay-seed in his
hair. instead Of the genteel, refined,
platitudnous editor of the Tribune.
The west then felt relieved, as Mr.. Garrett,
when he had his line completed to Chicago,
assured the public that he would enter into no
combination with other rJads looking to high
or discriminating rates Of freight or pas
sage. He refused to assent to the Svrncuse
convention last spring and at once reduced the
| rates on his line. causing an open war with
| other lines which has ragged through most Of
the season. This has given the west low
| freight through the summer and there was a
general feeling Of security against future COM
| blnatiOns. But no sooner are the water chan
nels closed and the time arrived when such -
combination can be successfully formed, than.
Mr.. Garrett joins with his former opponents,
| and repudiates all his pledges, and becomes.
one OF the three to form the most Oppresire and
obnori0ns combination which has ever existed,
among rail, Dad managers. For the next six
months the people OF the west arc completely
in the porer If these three unscrupulons,. rob-
bling railroad combinations, 50 far as transport
ing their produce to the east is concerned.
| Inscriptions. robbing railroad COM
binations." That is good. That has
ring to it as if the "little pestiferous"
had himself written it. And vet how
the Tribune rejoiced on Wednesday last
when il thought we were defeated by
another '-unscrupulous robbing, railroad
combination" Tor little Office Of no pe-
cuniary value, and important only for the
opportunity for usefulness which it af-
| forded
How the CALLED jade winoes? And.
how the millers turn in their desperation.
to see if there is any remedy. Their or
gan says:
This appears to be the present situation. n
there no remedy? Various expedients have
been proposed, and some Of them tested, such
AZ state legislation fixing the tariff of railroads.
This has been attended with no good results,
but has rather aggravated the ill feeling al
ready existing between the corporations and
the people. Many are clamoring for the gov
ernment to open more water routes. connecting
the Mississippi with the lakes, the Ohio river
with the Chesapeake, and deepening the mouth
Of the Mississippi river. These ara all good
schemes, and deserving ofthe announcement
Of the government. II is upon the railroads
that we must depend for the rapid and perma-
nent means oftransporation between the east
and west. utilizing our water routes az valua-
bic auxiliaries during those periods Of the year
when they are available.
To Us it APPEARS that the only hope Of uni.
form cheap transportation is in railroad built
by the government, on the most direct and
practicable route from the seabosrd to the Mis-
sissippi, or perhapsto the Missouri river, with
such lateral branches as circumstances may
require. Let the road be double or uuad-
rupIe track If the business requires it, and
only used for the transportation OF freight The
main lane should be built from the most avail-
able port on the seaboard to = convenient con !.
nection with the Union Pacific, with IL
branches reashiDg to the ether eastern port
and to st. Louis, Chicago, Cincinnati, and.0theE
important commercial cenasn. WITH such I
freight railroad, controlled and economically
managed by the government, combinafiOnl
like the sne entered into BY Vanderbilt. Scoff
and Garrett would be iMpossible.
Now here's our hand, Mr.. Tribune.
The millers would not help the faymers.
but the farmers will be willing 70 helm
y the millers. Why can't we al work To-
: gether for some relic? Why can't W
push forward every honest effort to OF.
' tain relief.-legislation, canals, grand
) trunk road, etc? Why not agitate Tor I
( canal to Duluth this winter in the le9is.
/ lature and see what can be done Alone
t the farmers are helpless. They are spill
J into innumerable factions and warrin1
! and squabbling over dead issues; bui
? they are prepared TO follow any leaders
Q be they millers or merchants, lawyer
|, or doctors who will protect them from
such damnable and chrushing cOnspira,
cies as that which Vanderbilt, Scott and
; Garrett have Just formed. What ~
] Jou, Mr.. Tribune. arc you ready ~ =
| alliance with the farmers offensive ~
defensive against common enemieGe