Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-03-19
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fVunsylvasIaS Islsstries.
- accusation made BY Andrew
1noie. bsfore The Franklin institute,
11nne ~ railroads Of Pennsylvania,
l pazlicuIariy the Pennsylvania rail-
oo1, wIll make great impression upon
1 - people oe the state and will help along
- day when Its Legislature shall re.
(eiro The citizens of the state to be placed
'ck ,1eaot upon an equality with the citizens
~ Other states In the matter OF charges
~ transportation.
What Mr.. Carnegie said was not news
- those citizens Of the state who have
Aeavy> freight charges TO pay ard who
!1nSo suffered from the discrimi-
1nGion made against them by the
eDilrcods that the state has created; and
&Aat have thus imposed upon them simply
6eeause they were permitted to have the
power to do 90. The injury to Pennsyl-
y yania business men by Pennsylvania rail-
road charges, has been related and de-
nounced time and again by the public
journals OF the state that are not under
\ railroad influences; the number Of which
s has however been comparatively few; and
he editor is impelled to attack 30 many
things and is 30 subject to the charge Of
partisan prejudice In his accusations,
that he Is apt 10 lose much OF
bic weight In assailipg real wrongs.
For this among other reasons the In.
dlctment made by Mr.. Carnegie comes to
the people with considerable freshness
and with great force, trite as It's theme;
and the fact that he is in friendly rela-
4 tions with the Pennsylvania railroad
company, whose course he biames, adds
great strength to his statement which
y u furthermore made In so candid spirit
and Is 20 well sustained by facts as to
intensity Its impression.
Mr.. Csrnegies interests are all in the
Western part of the state; and here he
naturally thinks that Its futures great
ct growth will be. But he sees how the
factories OF the East have been hampered
& By the discrimination Of the railr Dads,
which has worked In favor OF Mr.. Car
negie's Western interests, and now en-.
4 ables the Southern pig iron TO undersell
a she Pennsylvania product in Pennsyl-
yaniaS seeport. With raw materials in
Pennsylvania rs cheap as In Alabama,
B the stimulating Southern railroads. rates
and the smothering Pennsylvania rail.
road rates combine together TO enable the
Southern iron to be carried hundred OF
miles to the sea, to be reloaded in shiT
and unloaded In Philadelphia, and
sold ct less price than the
Z pig iron made in the Susque-
hanna, Lehigh and Schuylkill Valleys,
Z can be sold for at the same place. Was
there ever greater outrage perpetrated
upon community, by corporations 1t has
\ chartered, and who do their business
under the constant eye OF its Legisla.
turep
Our law makers sec the industries OF
Eastern Pennsylvania suffering, and they
should know the cause as well as Andrew
Carnegie; any business man will tell 1t tc
them. The interstate commerce acl
eompels equal rates TO be given to al
3 those who ship goods through the state
and the Pennsylvania railroad Is the mos,
punctilious of all the railroads In OBJ
serving this law. But, after the border
Is crossed, lay ceases and fairness stops
y 1t costs Lancaster very nearly as much a,
" It does Pittsburg to carry ton OF freigh
10 New York. There Is no pretence o
charging at rate per ton per mile. Al
that can be got is asked for. Bituminou
coal is carried to Philadelphia for expor
ut much lower rate than that charged
Tor carrying it to the Philadelphia or ever
the Harrisburg consumer.
Mr.. Carnegie points out heresult Th,
industries in the East have not ilourishet
equallSwith those in the West. The Penn
>JJNsliaSteel works moves to Baltimore 4
ees closer to the sea, where competition
y free. And the Pennsylvania railroa,
pays million Of its profit upon the loca
business, to keep up the Western roads
connecting with 1t, whose rates competi
tion has put at point below cost an,
from these profits also accumulates mil
lions OF surplus and pays millions of divi
deuds.
s 1t is well that our railroads shoult
prosper but not well that they shoult
prosper In this way. 1t is not we'll for then
or the people. Their customers interest
are theirs. They need to cultivate loca
industries as the hens that lay them COLDER
eggs. From the abundant prosperity o
the state that no railroad smothering tar
can extinguish, the great profit is drawn
that enables the Pennsylvania railroad II,
sustain its feeble Western extrem
ities. But 1t is short sighted
policy that leads to the Encouragement O
industries along its main road that woult
In their operation add to its business
The obvious policy for railroad com
peny Is to give the lowest possible rate
70 places that it alone serves, so as nc
only to keep the monopoly of their bust
ness but TO stimulate and increase 1t bu
there probably never was railroad tina
acted on this principle and no man will
now plant business in a locality serve,
BY but one railroad, unless he can make
tight contract with it as to the rates it will
charge him. Otherwise he Is certain
that his competitions, in places that hav