The Columbus journal., 1879-06-11
THE IOWA POOL AND JAY GOULD.
Neither of Them does Business for
Nothing.


at this station, made a statement in
his communication in last week. s
JOURNAL, which needs fuller ex-
position than we had space for at
that time. In reply to him we as
sumed that what he said was entire
ly true, and then showed that it was
to our interest to have a competing
road.
Mr.. Meagher said that on through
grain to Chicago the U. p. gave the
Iowa pool 80 cts. out of 3S hun
dred.
Doubtless, Mr.. Meagher's books
show just these rates, and he HIM
self affects to believe that Gould is
compelled to "knuckle down" to the
Iowa pool, but he states the matter
very ingeniously. When witness
is sworn, the formula is that he shall
tell the truth, the schOle truth, and
nothing but the truth. Mr.. Meagher
tells the truth so far as he goes. His
books show rates OH grain from Co.
lumbus to Chicago SO cts. hundred
pounds I; from Columbus to Council
Bluffs 16; Columbus TO Omaha ii !;
Council Bluffs to Chicago 30. In
considering these figures (Which we
get from Mr.. Meagher himselD how
must they be Interpreted? We can
not leave out of the discussion the
fact that the bridge from Omaha to
Council Bluffs is part of the U. p.
road just the same as their bridge
spanning the Loupe west of US is a
part of their road, and over which
they have no more right to charge
extra mileage rates than they have
over the Loup bridge. Now, then,
how does the matter stand? Grain
rate to Chicago from this depot is SO
cts. From here to Council Bluffs is
l6 cts, leaving the Iowa pool % cts.
In making this deduction from the
figures, we have as good right to
assume that the U. Z. get l6 out of
the 3S, as Mr.. Meagher has TO assume
that the pool get 30 out of the 80.
According to Mr.. Meagher's way
of reckoning, Gould has been allow
ing the Iowa pool to make him a
cats paw, go-between, in rObbing
us Of s cts. o bushel to Council
Bluffs. We are satisfied that it is
the latter; that Gould gets divide
on all through freight passing out of
or into his care at Council Bluffs.
Doubtless he has been compelled to
put up with a much smaller
share of the pool rate than he would
like to have, and hence seeks TO
bring the Iowa roads to his terms
by threatening to go round them
altogether by completing the %
mile gap from Grand Island to
Hastings, and 60 over the st. Joe &
Denver, the Hannibal and the Wa
bash lines. On this route he can
carry all west of Grand Island and
all east Of Toledo, but the man who
believes that Gould don't receive a
good round sum for delivering
such an immense amount of freight
as he does to the Iowa pool lines, is
pretty callow, and James MeagheI
is not last years chicken by any
means.
The truth is, beyond doubt, that
Gould receives just the same out oi
the 3S as he does when shipped to
Council Bluffs, viz. 16 cts, but the
instructions to station agents make
it look otherwise.
When We get the A. & n. we
shall not be under the thumb of the
the U. P. or the Iowa pool either
but will have two grand competing
markets, Chicago and st. Louis
with eight competing roads from
the Missouri river.
Grain is now % cts. hundred
from Lincoln to Chicago, 600 miles
With the added miles this would bt
% cts. from Columbus as agains
80 by the U. P.
Vote for the A. & n.