St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1885-09-26
Ha1lroad Determination.
Times Democrat.

81. Ionis is growing fiercely about
railroad discrimination, and declares
that IFS trade is carried elsewhere by
the refusal of the railroads to show it
any proper recognition or fairness, and
nv their giving other cities and towns
more favorable freight rates. -.
New York, Chicago and Kansas City
are all favored by these lines, it says,
and even New Orleans, which has not
nsnally been the recipient of many ia
yors. is declared to have been given bet
ter terms than " the future great"
The St. Louis papers furnish q num-
her of specimens Of this discrimination.
Thus the rate on boots and shoes to
Southern Alabama is $158 from New
York, 81 So from st. Louis, the former
Mace being twice as far distant. Beau
mont, Tex, which is 700 miles nearer
the Missouri city gets its goods from
New York for 81 08, while from st.
Louis the freight is 81 %. Opel0usas,
La, pays IS IS on barrel OF whisky
from st. Louis and 50 35 from Clncln.
natl, although the latter town is 2OO
miles further distant.
From the southwestern portion or
Missouri correspondent writes to the
St. Louis Dispatch
/ am now and have been for four
7Santhwest Missouri and Southeast
Kansas). and well know that to meet
the nrices of Kansas City, Chicago and
New Orleans we have to give the rail
roads our-profits. The uniform differ
ence in the fourth class rate from vt.
Louis and Chicago to all points on the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas ana Lex
ington and st. Louis divisions OF the
Missouri Pacific is five cents per num-
dred pounds, while to many points on on
the same roads the rate from New Or
leans is less than from St. Louis, al
though the haul is three or four times
as long. You will see by the bills OF
lading inclosed that the car rate on
sugar from New Orleans to Corthage is
forty cents and the st. Louis rate is
forty -four cents, while the rates on less
than carload lots are fifty cents and tlt-
ty-one GEMS from the two points res
pectively. This rate holds good at Car
image and Joplin, Mo-, and at OsWe-
90, Run. At Fort Scott the New Or,
leans car rate is thirty eight cents, Sc
Louis forty cents; Lamar, Mo-, New
Orleans rate thirty-eight cents, st
Louis forty cents. The local rate, new
Orleans to Lamar and Fort Scott II
forty-fivr cents st. Louis the same.
It costs 40 cents to send sugars e
Springfield, Mo-, from st. Louis; 81
cents from New York, and from all tht
neighboring country the complaint
comes that St. Louis is Disseminated
against. u
big bridgen in this matter, for New Or
leans has been itself victim of thi
discrimination. The difficulty is to IN
derstand why city like st. Louis, con
trolling so many railroads, should b
their victim.
At the same time, while sympathiZini
with our neighbor up the river. we can
not but feel some pleasure in seeln'
New Orleans extend its trade into neV
territory, even if it be territory that ST
Louis claims for itself. We cannot Tor Tor
get the fact that it was through the rail
roads and their discrimination that st
Louis first succeed in wrestling from
New Orleans much of the trade in Ar
kansas, Texas and Louisiana that right
fully belonged to it.