Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-09-10
ALL BOSH
Kansas City Makes a Silly Soueai
Against the Frisco Road.

The Topeka correspondent OF the
Kansas City Journal says in that paper
of Tuesday:
They put up fence between Kansas
men and the towns on the Frisco road
with set of spikes and broken bot
ties on top to keep out any ono, ex-
cepting him who comes through the
Frisco gaze, and one who halls from
any other place than st. Louis gets a
permit to pass through. With the
shame that comes from such excessive
charges the agent of the Frisco, act
ing under instructions, charges up the
entire freight i'm one item, throwing a
portion of the blame on the Santa Fe,
concealing their own iniquitous work.
Without instructions no agent could
pursue this policy of charges. When
no overcharges are made this scheme
of charging is not done. The
railroad commissioners have deter
mined that the Frisco people shall re-
lease Their grip on this territory and
that all other cities shall have chance.
But in this they must receive the CO.
operation of the merchants on that
road, who, heretofore, have been only
to ready TO compromise aud leave the
commissioners with nothing to act
upon The evil, great as it is, is par
tally the fault of the men who submit
to this grinding process, privately find
fault and publicly say they have
nothing to complain of. The Frisco
seems to have found willing slaves in
the business men living on that road.
slaves who kiss the rod that smites
them, and then dutifully go to ST
Louis, purchase their goods and give
the Frisco a long haul.
If the above screed had eminated
from some country journal, whose ed
itor didn't know the difference be-
tween common and preferred stock oil
a first mortgage bond and right OF
way bond, ii might not have surprised
anybody. But coming from paper
of the metropolitan prctensions of thu
Journal. il amounts to little else than
gag.
The railroad commissioners of Kan
sas have nothing TO do with inter
state commerce or with railroad rate
from beyond the Kansas state line
But when the commissioners hav'
made up their minds to 1'fcrce th'
Frisco to loose its grip on southern
Kansas, and turn its attention to con
serving the interest of Kansas City
town il does not touch within
hundred miles. we hope they vii
notify the people. And when the,
take up the matter of transfer charges
for Interstate freight we want to cal
their attention to the transfer charge:
which Wichita is forced to pay rs be
tween the Santa Fc and the Southern
Kansas to reach points which want t.
do their trading in Wichita, transfe
charges, too, on freight thai originate
aud terminates within The state line
of Kansas.
The "slave" talk is the whine OF
whipped boy only. The extension OF
the St. Louis and San Francisco int
and through southern Kansas unde
the name of The St. kouis, WIGHT;
and Western was the result o
an effort of the people of tn
six counties through which it runs an
for their own benefit. Kansas Cit
was not thought of, or only as the to
gate at which we had been fleeced TO
years Kansas City, nor Gould Ina
any interest or any influence in
with the Frisco, nor will they have
Ii is a great trunk line reaching Wici
ita from St Louis direct and WASH
built in Kansas City's interest an
what's more will not be operated i
Kansas City's interest, and what
still more the railroad commissioner
of the state of Kansas won't attemT
TO have it operated in Kansas City
interest.