The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-10-10
Appeal TO The People.
Hon. T. r. Carskadon's letter.

Hon. i. II. CdrSkhu0n DeGter.
Continued from first page.
that in the interest Of orr own
homes, the happiness and prosper
ity of our loved ones, and the gen.
eral good, we may be able to lay
aside our partisan prejudices long
enough to give this matter the con-
sideration its great Importance de-
mands. And to show you that l am
not sounding the idle alarms of a
"crank" on monopoly, l will quote
able leaders Of the old parties in
reference to these grasping and
grinding combinations:
The Chicago Beet Monopoly.
WHAT ABLE SENATORS SAY OF IT.
In recent speeches in the United
States Senate, on the pleuro-P neu-
monia Bill, Senator Vest, Demo-
crat, of Missouri, and Senator
Plumb, Republican, Of Kansas,
both spoke IN scathing denuncia-
ton Of the combination of a few
great firms in Chicago, that vir-
tually control the prices of cat
tie for the whole covntry.
Senator Vest said:
sit is the most terrible tyranny ever exer-
cised There are five men or firms in the
city of Chicago which regulate the price of
cattle every day.
They meet every night and fix the price
for the next day. These men take the cattle
raisers property and confiscate it as if they
possessed the right to take it from his farm
without paying one cent Talk about trusts!
Talk about pools! The cattle pool of Chi
cago is the most infamous tyranny that ever
existed in the United States.
And know no remedy for it,"
Discussing the sans matter Sem
ator Plumb said
There is no trust or com bination, the
Standard Oil Trust, the Sugar Trust, the Cot
fee Trust or any other Trust that has so
powerful or so baleful an influence as this
combination. For years the price.of cattle
to the producers have been going down.
In the same time the price of meat to the
consumers has gene up and every single
dollar of the difference has gone into the
pockets of this combination. SO perfect is
their control that they know absol utely,
not only how many cattle are to arrive each
day in Chicago, but over what railroad lines
they are to come, where they have been
shipped from, their character and the men
who shipped them. When the cattle reach
Chicago the syndicate's representative is
sent to view them and put price upon
them: and that's the price they must be
sold at unless it is made lower"
Judge Black on Railroad Mo.
nOpOlies.
Judge Black, of Pennsylvania,
in his recent anti-monopoly speech,
declared that while nobody desired
to prevent railroads and other cor,
porations from receiving fair divi-
dends from honest investments, it
was true that freight charges on
through freights East and West
were twice as high as would be
necessary to pay big profits on the
absolute cost of road, equipments &c.
On this matter of excessive
charges, Judge Black says:
"Freights are now 35c per hundred from
New York to Chicago; and before the Hep
burn Committee in Albany it was proven
by experts that an enormous profit could be
made by charging zoe.
1t was computed before more than one
committee that sc on the corn crop of that
year would amount to gain of 100000
fifty three millions to the railroads. The
same allowance on the crop of last year
would amount to $75,OOO00O This was
gain on crop alone, certainly not one third
OF the business. Multiplying them by 8 we
have S223,000,000 in one year on an advance
OF &c only. But the charge is I5c above
what experts say would be just. Now,
multiply again by and we have the enor-
mus sum of
S676,OOO,OOO Ext0rted from the
People In One Year.
Farmers must submit to this highway rob.
berry, or else keep the product of their
helds to rot on the sir hands. Some of the
State Governments are now literally subju-
gated by these monopolies."
MONOPOLY HAS THE OLD PARTIES IN
HIS POCKETS.