Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-01

until they are able to dictate to the carriers. II
Is unjust to the general public for the same
and powerful influence TO prevent the Southern
lines from taking a wrong position on this
question. This board, in conjunction with over
six hundred shippers in eight different states,
have taken occasion to commend to the inter :
state commerce commission the justice OF the
position heretofore occupied by the Southern
lines, and we hope they viii not depart from 1t,
as there would seem to be danger of their doing
by the action recently taken in regard to the
New Orleans classification;
DARWIN r. JAMES, Secretary.
The resolutions referred to were adopted by
the New York board of trade and transportation
June r. and read as to-wit;
Whereas, the steamship and railroad carriers
between New Orleans and New York gave notice
of the adoption June 10 of the trunk line So
called '.official classification upon the traffic
passing between these two cities, and since this
classification makes large differences in freight
rates for different quantities and is the classif
cation now in use upon the trunk lines between
the seaboard and Chicago and st. Louis, against
the unjust features of which this board began an
action before the Interstate commerce commits
sipn, which case is now under consideration by
that body, and
Whereas, New Orleans is the basing point for
fright rates throughout the states of Louisiana,
Mississippi and Alabama and to important
cities and towns IN other Southern states. to all
of which territory the Southern steamship and
railway classification applies. and as this
action of the New Orleans carriers introduces a
a foreign system into the Southern states where
for geographical and transportation reasons ali
the IrdInc S0OulQ De UNIFORM,
Resolved, that the boarFof trade and trans
poTtation protests againsts the further extension
of the unjust carload discrimination of the So
called t'official classification - pending the de-
cision of the interstate commerce commission,
and also protests against any introduction Of
these unjust features into the Southern states,
whose classification has heretofore been COM
paratively free from unjust determinations in
freight rates between one dealer and another on
account of quantity carried.
Resolved, that the board of trade and trans
DOrtatlOn reafflrmS its previous opinion that
differences in railroad tariffs between one citi-
zen and another on account of carload and less
profit on sales, are unwise as destroying fair
competition: unjust preventing buying and
selling IN all markets, and against both the in
terest of carriers and the policy upon which our
government was founded.
AMBROSE SNOW, President,
DARWIN R. JANIS, Secretary.
The object is plain The large COM
mercial centers are leauging together to
crush out the smaller. Let the inter-
state law be so amended as to COM
pei the railroads to carry less
than carloads at carload rates, and
at very small advance, and the job
bling business of Fort Worth, Waco, San
Antonio, Dallas and other interior points
in Texas and elsewhere will be killed.
Then the retail merchant at the whis-
Ting station can go to New Orleans and
Duy Ills quarter OF caFIOdu 1rOIn the
wholesaler of that city and have it hauled
to his store at the same rate as the Fort
Worth jobber who buys dozen carloads
at q time. And he will do it.
The fight is not between the small job
blng towns and the railroads, nor is it be-
tween the people and the railroads. 1t
is between the large commercial centers,
such as New York and New Orleans, and
the towns doing nothing but re-
tail business on the one side, and the
interior jobbing towns such as, Fort Worth
and Dallas, on the other. That, at
least, is the way the big jobbing towns
represent it. In reality the fight Is be-
between the big jobbers and everybody
else, for if the roads are compelled to
haal less than carload lots at the same
rate they haul carloads they will not re-
duce the higher rate to the level of the
lower, but will raise the lower to an
equality with the higher. In other words,
the plan of the large jobbing cities is to
crush out the small jobbing centers with
out benefiting the retail towns or the
consumers.