Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-04-11
Tns Great Issue.

1ho 0root Issue.
)oDl1odly The most interesting topic
1aasa IN this state, Il the question of
oontrSl Of it. railroads. Mr.. Andrew
Soegis, who champions the popular
- he's become IN object Of virulent
~ By The railroad interest but It is
~ likely that its attacks will do him
-; and certainly they can do the
nD none. Mr.. Carnegie has amassed
r. 9feat fortune in the manufacturing
1olneou In this state, and It may
o assumed that his relations with
4 - railroads have been harmoni-
&a lt may even be believed
! ~ his present attitude towards the
1onsylvania railroad is prompted by his
1llurs b secure heparticular considera-
- from Il to which he has been used.
8 ~ this does not affect the condition he
<pooss OF imposition by the railroads
H1|4on the trade Of the state. 1t will do
& " railroads no good to abuse Carnegie.
Ao0 need to address themselves to
DWsring his facts; and II they were able
IL - 20, we may be sure that they would
nse b guilty Of the weakness of Kissing
1hoir hirelings upon their accuser.
We do not care, and the people do not
ongs, what Mr.. Carnegie's motives are or
WAat bis conduct raay have been. We
know that 1t Is true, as he charges, that
~ railroads Of Pennsylvania charge
npre for carrying the goods Of Pennsyl-
vanian to and fro than they charge the
poople Of other states for the same
onount OF service and this is Q wrong
which we are bound to redress; and in
which we welcome the aid of any man,
/ without regard to his previous condition
- record. II is simply silly to assail
Carnegie with the expectation Of
escaping FROM the facts he tells Of.
He and his interests, Pittsburg and her
Interests, are the least of the sufferers in
Psnnsylvania by railroad determinations.
1t is the people Of Southern Pennsylvania
who are deprived OF railroad facilities,
! and the people Of Eastern Pennsylvania,
who have no proper competition In their
service, that are most injured by the policy
which takes all 1t can get. The farmers
q Pennsy ylvania, who work from dawn to
dark and find themselves worse Off at the
md Of the year than at the ginning can
ss charge their condition solely to the fact
that the railroads have brought into com.
Y petition with them the vast expanse OF
virgin soil In the far West, and refuse to
permit the Pennsylvania farmer to enjoy
The natural protection offered him by his
neArness to the seaboard market.
= Mr.. Carnegie complains that the Penn
aylvania coke, that is carried by Pittsburg
- Chicago, pays but so cents per ton for
The carriage to Pittsburg, while the coke
fcr Pittsburg people pays 20 cents. But
hat coke costs much more for
earriage to Chicago than 20 cents,
because 1t is carried 30 far; but
The cattle that are carried from the
far West to the seaports of the East cost
+ - more-aud we believe Mr.. Wherry says
that they cost even less.-for their carriage,
han do those that are taken to the sea.
bcard from the Cumberland valley of
Eennsylvania.
That 10 much grosser outrage upon
The Pennsylvania farmers than the one
pGpetrsted upon the Pittsburg manu-
facturers. And there are any number Of
samples to be cited Of this much more
exieyous oppression Of Eastern Pennsyl-
vania. Philadelphia consumers, for in
stance, pay for the carriage Of bitumin.
ous coal to them from their mountains,
two dollars and ten cents ton while
no same coal, carried to the same city for
shipment thence to other places, pays,
Or lately did pay, less than one dollar and
tn1 half per ton.