Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-03-31

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adjusting grievances, whether nrs-s,,tss =, =.
the organization or individuals. y -
DlscusslHg the statement that ~. Ga.
re company had brought to this eitv th;rtv-
seven engineers and about FORTY frsros,, q
time when there seemed to ha No rsa3 =
their services, and the uneasin ~ crsetsd
among the engineers caused bv th;s i'm.
portat1on, and the suspicion it created. Judoe
Humphrey said, 81 think / car ami n
that: Vice President Smith informsd ,rano-
bers Of our board last winter that the com
pany had ordered large number of nav To-
comot1yss, and other rolling stock. as addi-
t1onal equipment for their road or roada:
| that during the last season, in oonsanrence
OF lack of motive power and rolling stock.
the company was unable to handle All its
through business; and that an additional one
hunoreo ana nifty or more locomotives would
necessarily require large addition to their
force OF engineers. And doubtless. the
company was anticipating this need for ad-
ditonal men, instead of waiting
until they actually required their services,
before employing them, as quite q large
number of additional engineers would be
needed 1t the company opened its Chicago
extension, which it was anticipated would
be opened by the 1st of April for freight
auQ passenger business"
The discussion of this subject brought out
the acknowledgements of Mr.. Hamilton, of
Topeka, that nearly all of these thirty seven
engineers were members of the Brother
hood.
Replying to the statement that the rela-
tons between tho Santa Fe and the c., B. 4
@. were very intimate and justified suspic-
ion of cooperation between them, Cover
nor Martin said: "It is undoubtedly true
kl~k xo~~v Il
the Santa Fe and the O.. B. d Q. were init
mate. The Santa Fe's lines terminated on
panys lines began there. < few months
ago, when went to Atchison every Satur-
day, found attached to the Santa Fe train
q c., B. & Q. sleeper which went through to
Chicago. It was taken off three or
four months ago. In my opinion the rela-
tons of the two companies have radically
changed during the past year, the building
of the Santa Fe's new Chicago line made it
competitor of the G. B. & O., road for
freight business to Chicago. Ever since tho
Santa Fe decided on building it's Chicago
line the relations between the two COM
panies, have in my opinion, been more or
less strained, and the feeling of jealousy
and hostility been steadily intensifying. The
Santa Fe, as soon as its Chicago line is
opened, will very naturally carry its through
Ire1gnI OVor 1tS own Ituo. MOI pound OF IL
will 60 to the @. B. & O., Co."
Referring to the statement that the stock
holders of the two companies were largely
the same persons, Governor Martin said
that he didn't know who were stockholders
in either the c., B. & Q. or the Santa Fe
road, with possibly dozen exceptions. It
seemed apparent to him, however, that if
the stockholders of the O., B. & @. owned a
majority of the stock of the Santa Fe, of
To- ~ kL1l Al
could, and would, have prevented the build
ing of the Santa. Fe's Chicago line. It
was probably true that there were some per
sons who owned stock in the tive companies
Probably 1t could be ascertained, upon in
vestigation that there were people of Bos-
ton, New York, or in some other eastern
cities, who owned stock in half dozen diff
ferent railroads. But he did not believe that
the facts apparent to the public justified the
Fe and the c.. B. d Q. roads were in large
degree, the same persons. Continuing the
general discussion of the indemnity of inter
ests between the two railroads, Governor
Martin said that they were
not only competitors now for business, b
from the Missouri river points to Chicago, I
but they were competitors for Colorado and |
road had direct line to Denver, as had also |
the Santa Fe and connection to the Pacific |
coast. It was direct competitor and rival |
for the business of q large section of the |
country with the Santa Fe road. All the |
facts known to the public, therefore, justifee |
the assertion that the two companies had no |
identity of interests. However, their rela-
lions may have been few years ago, those
relations had all been changed by the build
ine of new lines of the two Companies.
Discussing the same subject the governor
further said: Ought you not to consider
whether, in interrupt1ng the business and
commerce of the Santa Fe road, you are not
aiding rather than injuring the company
against which you have q real grievancei
The Santa Fe and the G., B. & @. roads, as l
have shown you, are competitors for the
@. has, as you will no doubt concede, man
aged in some way to man the most of its en-
gines, and very many of its trains, passen.
ger and freight are running regularly to-
lay. Now, without discussing the question
whether the engineers thus employed are
or incompetent, the fact remains
hat the trains on that railroad are gener-
ally running. Suppose you, by your quitting
work should succeed in preventing the SAINTS
70 from running it's trains. what is the con-
Suppose that, as is threatened,
he quitting of work on the Santa Fe should
Dc followed by q strike on the Missouri
Pacific and the Union Pacific railroads.
Both of these companies now have
ines to Denver and Rocky Mountain
points, and both are sharp competitors in
and other states and territories
or business. ST, therefore, you could bring
about q stoppage of the movement of train:
IN these three great Kansas railroads, you
would be doing the c., B. & Q. company the
greatest service that you could possibly rem
Ter it, because you would be throwing to it,
ines an absolute monopoly OF nearly all the
carrying trade of the west, and the most
,aluable part that any Of the railroads
rave. If you could continue to OBJ
Itruct the operations of the three
great Kansas railroads, or of single
'oad, for single month, the increased bust.
less, and the increased rates that the c., B.
md @. could get and would charge, would
'epay it for every single dollar of loss it had
sustained by reason of the strike and tho cut
ates it inaugurated during the railroad war
hat has been going on for some months.
It seems to me, therefore, that instead Of
'rippling the c., B. 81 Q. railroad or aiding
7our brothers on that road who have aban.