Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-02-21
SOUND VIEWS.

The railroad freight question was
Up in the house day before yesterday
/ n which time 4 disgust ne amount Of
buncombc was permitted 10 escape
No man can sit calmly down and read
some of the remarks of the occasion
without wondering how it ! possible
under our form of government such
ignorant asses ever reach Il repicscH-
tatiyc position where they are en-
powered to speak for sensible men.
EX-Ciov. Anthony being called out
in lhc discussion made a short speech
which was one of sense. lie said it
was moi at first his intention to speak
at all. but when he had heard the
the culogy upon his coming by the
gentleman from Marion he was more
convinced that it would be better Ia
20 down to postcrity with that culo4y
than with the speech; but when he
heard at The morning session other
references TO the coming speech by The
gentleman from Smith, he felt that
unless he explained himself he NoIld
bc written down a. an ass. He meant
nothing personal in The matter, but
he felt for This reason and Others Ire
must speak. He believed railroads
were necessity and believed a public
purpose was accomplished in their
building. There was no question that
the people had power TO control them.
and IL IL in the power OF legislative
boiie, Ia make these investments un-
profitable and worthless. He be
heyeI the Simpson bill. 80 crude.
So startling in its provisions. -
absolutely scnseIcss that If adopted
il would not only be impractical. but
worthless. just al this time we in
Kansas are suffering from an excessive
supply of wheat. We have 10000. OC0
hushsls of wheat and nobody TO eat il
This side of Liverpool. and the produc-
or l. the under dog in the market. The
time Is coming when prices Will be eX-
brilliantly high. and no man will come
here and ak that the commissioners
shall double the price of hauling in or
der that the railroad companies may
share IN the properties. The first
section Of this bill shows that il /, not
aIHondatvry or healing. but that il i
revolutionary. If This legislature be
iicvcs the commissioners are corrupt.
let IL dismiss them. DO not come up
here aud pat iarni>h on their names |
by io@i~lating them out of existence.
HE second action assumes that We
know more of the classification of ar
ticlr- than dn the men who have de |
voted their lives Ia the problem. |
W hen men thoughtles>ly enter INTO a |
disturbance of cla-siii cation they had /
better make haste SLOWLY. This bill |
places a greater price upon the thing /
of iron than upon the /
iron itself What do YOU think al
that: The author of this bill stated |
tins WAS not a maximum rate bin.
Reading from sections three and six
teen, he proceeded 10 show that the
rates were iufeNible AT a certain point.
aud if enforced as suggested bv the bin
would be found not only !mpracticab,c
hnt actually injurious 10 the railroads
and the people along the lines Of rail-
roads lie objected to The fixing of
rates upon carload lots without fixing
rates upon smaller lots; because ii
would enable the large dealer. who
bays in carload lots to secure lower
rates than the merchant who buvs
small iois. Mr. Anthony read further
from the bill. and after pointing cut
many OF it, Inconsistencies. made a
strong appeal against il and in favor
IF tnc present commissioner system.
MIR. Anthony was. at the close OF hi,