, 1876-01-02
BREAK THE POOL.

The main lines between this city and the
seaboard are fortunately at war with each
other for the greater pait of the time. When
ever they combine, it is at our expense. Chi
cago merchants are now being systematically
robbed By the pool which Messrs. WANDER
Bit, JEwErr, ScorT, and GARRETT have
formed. But discrimination is game that
two can play at. The four conspriators have
tried it against our mercantile community.
The latter should try it against them, and so
hoist the engineers with their own petard-
There is one line of communication with the
scaboarl open, which the pool can
not control Across Lake Michigan,
ut Grand Haven, the cars of the
Grand Trunk are waiting for freight. This
terminus cannot bo reached by reu from Chi
cago, under present arrangements, but it can
be by water. Our hazbor and river are open
now, and probably will be for some time to
come. When they are closed by ice, vessels
can still be sent from Milwaukee, whero the
season of navigation is always longer than
here On the other shore, the Grand Haven
ha1bor is said to be accessible the whole win
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unemployed at our wharves to-day. Up TO
the last day in winter, and on the first
day in spring, when schooner can
break through the ice, our merchants
should ship their seaboard freight in this way.
Navigation will be impossible only for about
ten weeks, at the outside. During that time
it might be better to store the grain and -four
Us far as possible, in order to teach the con-
spirators the folly Of their ways.
Until Thursday it WIS actually cheaper to
send -four to New York from Milwaukee, than
from Chicago. This was an outrage,-an at
tempt to steal from US. Now tile managers
pretend that they have ceased to discrimi-
nate. It is only pre:ense. They now charge
the sane rates from the two cities, or, in
other words, they carry through freight
from Milwaukee to Chicago for moth
ing. This is rs much discrimination
as the other practice. If they transport
freight FREQ for 81 miles, when the shipper
lives in Milwaukee, they are unjust unless
they carry it free 81 miles east Of Chicago
when the shipper lives here. The POOL, in
short, is conspiracy Of Inscriptions capi-
talists against Chicago As such it must be
regarded as such it must be broken.
We warn thequadr;laterd combination that
its conduct, if persisted in, will be of serious
injury to al rnilroad interests in the
West. It would take but little to make
the Grnnger attack upon the railroads
hotter than ever. If the great lines
try to plunder us in this way, IN
irresistible public opinion will force the
State to interfere with railway management
much more decisively than it has yet done.
We should be sorry to see this como to pass,
but the responsibility rests on the roads.
We will not be robbed. One Of the four
would-be--obbers playsa particularly wretched
part in the conspiracy. The Baltimore g.
Ohio Road has received many faVors from
Chicago. Everything that could be done for
it has been. 1t Was granted admittance to
the city, was Iberally advertised, had bust
ness thrown in its way. The gok its Presi-
dent is now playing is treaoherous as we'll Us
dishonest The remedy for the joint out
rnge, however, Is in the power Of our mer-
chants. They call, if they will, teach the
RAILWAY Kings that they can no longer play
at s1es-and-6evens with our commercial in
terests