The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-08-20

be deemed proper. There ought to
be q good turn out.
WHATLOW FREIGHT'N = RE.
The ExIOreIOns of Western
Railroads.
BY this time, everybody who
reads newspapers, knows that q
"war Of low freights and fsres," is
raging between the railroads from
Chicago and st. Louis to Kansas
City, Leavenworth, Atchison and
st. Joseph. 1t is confined to Glow
fares" from the Missouri river cities
to the east, and to Glow freights"
from Chicago and st. Louis to the
said Missouri river cities. And it
IL announced with q tremendous
flourish of triumph that these rail-
roads are "cutting" and "slashing"
and running at "ruinous rates" and
railroad men turn pale and tremble
at such "fearful undercuts." and
predict speedy bankruptcy for the
railroads that are pursuing such
"ruinous competition"
Well, now let us see what all this
"terrific slashing and smashing"
amounts to. Here is q telegram
NEW YORK, Aug. ID, l875.-The
new freight tariff, Al advance on
previous rates, goes into operation
this morning over the four trunk
lines, the New York Central, the
Erie, Penney lvania, and &. u Is. The
passenger rates were made uniform
six weeks ago. The freight agents
are not permitted to make contracts
for more than ten days. Under the
new arrangement the following are
the rates over these great trunk
lines: From New York and Boston
to Chicago, first class, so cents; sec
ond class, 40 cents; third class, 80
cents; fourth class, % cents 4; special
70 cents. To st. Louis, 67, %, 43,
36 and 80.
This advance Oh previous rates.
is, we take for granted, a sstisfIcIo.
ry tariff to the railroads which COM
bine upon it. The distance from
Boston to Chicago is l,Il5 miles,
and from New York about the
same, and will do for our basis of
comparison, without also calculat-
ing the exact distances to st. Louis.
From Chicago to Atchison is 526
miles. And the lawfully ruinous
low-cut freight rates" now in oper-
alton between those cities are as fol-
lows: LIST class, 81 cents; 2nd aud
3D. class, 80 cents 4th class, % cents !;
special, GRAIN, &c. 20 cents.
Here we have it: Boston to Chica-
20, LOO miles. 80, 40, 30, 25, and 20
cents per 100 lbs, new combined
advance rates. Chicago to Atchis-
on, 526 miles, 30, 30, % and 20 cts,
per 100 lbs, Glow cut war rates"
Now if the rates from Chicago to
Atchison were put upon the eastern
basis, they would be as follows:
Chicago to Atchison, 026 miles,
lst class, % cents; I'd class, 20 cents !;
81 class, 10 cents 4th class, II cents ;
special, 10 cents, or $50 per car.
On tho same basis, the rates from
St. Louis to EmpOris, or Emporia to
st. Louis, would be as follows:
St. Louis to Emporis, 400 miles,
lst class, 10 cents I'd class, 10 cents ;
ID class, ll1a cents; 4th class, 90
cents; specials, ~ cents, or SIS per
car,
The regular rates this season,
between Emporia and Saint Lou
is, are six times higher than the
foregoing, that is, six times higher
than the rates on the eastern roads
from the Atlantic coast to Chicago
and st. Louis, except on grain,
which is but four times higher. Ex-
actly why the people of the
west should be made to pay four
TO six times more for freight than
the people of the east, is something
we leave for the western railroads
to rise and explain. 1t will take an
unprecedently clear explanation to
convince US that it is anything but
extortion and robbery. And in re.
gard to the "frightful underwriting
going on between the railroads
from Chicago or st. Louis to the
Missouri river cities, and over which
suicidal slashing and smashing
such a howl is being raised by rail
road managers, the fact is that after
all their cutting and hubbuballo they
are even now charging twice al
much as the eastern railroads chArg,
as combined high rate, and wheI
the western roads get over theil
temporary quarrel aud return Il
their usual tariff they will charg,
four times more than the eastern
roads do. Don't let us hear an!
more about Glow cut rates." whel
when they are in reality higher thai
they ought to charge at any time o
under any circumstances, while thei
regular rates, to which they eXpec
to soon return, can be fifty charaC
terized as only highway robbery.
A telegram just received al
nounces that the "war" y is owe
and the regular rates resumed.
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