The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-01-15

reached US from Oskasis and West
| Union that tie wheat buyers on our
line at Nelson are paying above list.
Upon investigation I find that it is 50,
and following the matter up I learn
/ that your company Is the cause of the
disturbance. The elevator companies
1T the two paints above mentioned
threaten to meet your prices if this is
not stopped, which will affect our
Sank Centre and Northern branch, and
cause trouble with the 500 line and
Northern Pacific. must, therefore,
request that you reduce your prices
to the regular market prices, before
the trouble spreads. 7 have written
to other elevator companies at that
point to the same effect.
Yours truly,
p. p. SHELBY,
Gen. Traffic Mgr.
There are several points in this let ter
worthy of special notice. First, there
is list price that the farmer is to
receive. Second, this list price is lower
than the market will warrant. This
is seen from the fact that the Union
Nelson store gives a higher price, that
other elevators threaten to go above if
it is not stopped, and that the high
prices Will become general, and third
that the railroad fixes the price,
because to them is the complaint made
and they undertake to punish this vio-
Iation of orders.
That this is not an isolated case is
apparent from the following clipping
from the Melrose (Minn.) Sun:
e. w. Peabody, from the general
/ Il aflic Office of the Great Northern rail-
road company, has spent two days in
this village the past week laboring
/ hard to adjust the price of wheat at
this market and make the buyers con-
| form strictly to the listed price. He
! goes so far in this matter as to say
! that if the buyers at this place persist
| IA holding the price above the listed
rates they will not be able to secure
cars to carry their gram from their
elevators to market, that the railroad
company viii refuse to give them
| legitimate means of transportation.
| This transaction has created consider
able unnecessary connection in the
business circles of our village, which
makes a restless, unsettled period
which was never experienced at this
place before.
If any further proof is wanting, read
the following from the Farm, Stock
and Home, of Minneapolis:
4 List Maker Found.-A letter
written by a high official of q great
northwestern railroad system is now
in our possession, and is onr authority
for saying that Mr.. Frank II. Irons
at Minneapolis, sends out daily TO al
i the various elevator interests in the
northwest the price to be paid FOL
| wheat on that day.
The wheat grower Of the northwest
is evidently in the coils, How is II
with the stock grower? As we write
the daily papers are publishing the
findings of the federal grand jury a;
Chicago. From this we learn that ,
; number of shippers and one railroa,
were indicted, not for charging to,
much for freight, but too little, and
number of men connected with thu
Swift packing house were also indicte,
: for paying too little, the rebates from
one railroad alone received by tn
Swift firm amounting to $50, 900 in tn
last six months. In other words
D while tie freight charges to the publi
s are kept up to he highest notch, i
4 requires all the machinery of tn
I federal courts to keep tile roads from
+ giving TO certain favored partie
q rebates which in themselves are a for
q tune. This shuts out competition ant
g throws the cattle into a few grea
j maTkets and into the hands Of "a few
e firms, and enables them TO give tn
/ cattle grower just enough to keel
/ him growing cattle and cover ali tn
Q profits OF the business into the treasur,
5 Of a few men who, by the grace Of tia
I railroads, are enabled to monopoliz
s the business.
9 These are tho facts in the case, anS
r the farmer may as we'll face them, ans
n consider what he will do as 4 ire
/ American citizen for his own relief
t While Ee is looking at them. he ma.
as we'll consider this fact, that in tn
g state of Iowa last month the Railwa.
+ Employees club sent a letter 0 the can
, didates f0r the office of railroad com
s missioners aud also to some, we i
j not know how many, candidates 70
Z the legislative Offices, asking them {
5 pledge themselves to oppose any fun
e tier reduction ia freight and passenge
g rates and on their refusal, vote
s against them without regard to party
d Are not the coils tightening aroun
4 the farmers OF Iowa when "a scheme c
e this kind wus successsu!2 What wi
q they do about its Are Kansas
4 Nebraska or Mississippi any bettsr of
Are they as wsIlp Can they sell the
cattle in amy OF the great market
q through an agent who VIII charge les
e than ths eSorbitant eOmblnatio
"a pricesg
81 This 10, in an its branches, one Of q
D., largest questions they have ever face,
+ How viii they bring about the dreai
-s OF Shakespeare.
~, when distribution sazit relieve eSress
Ans each Kan shail h.ve enough
III yen want z, la made c-s,lsIf Ianl