The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-29
JUSTICE MUST BE DONE,
The Railroads Unreasonable Kicking.
From the Topeka Capital.
The following telegram lately ap-
peared in the Associated Press dis

FROM the Topeka Capital.
The following telegram lately ap-
peared in the Associated Press dis
patches:
CHICAGO. H., Jan. 2S.-The railroad COM
panies are beginning to regard Kansas with as
much anxiety and foreboding as they did
Iowa three years ago. The railway commits
sionerS OF the former state seem to be emula-
ting those of Iowa in making a record for
themselves at the expense of the transpOrta-
ton companies. Their latest order, directing
reduction as early as February of first-cass
rates from the Missouri river to interior Kan
sas Jobbing points is serious blow 10 lines in
tereSted in Kansas traffic. The average r.
ducUiOn has been from to cents per 100
pounds on fifth class, which * largely car
load freight, and will directly affect the fourth
class, which Is less than carload lots, and in
directly other classes. There Is also consider
able grUmblinC over the order 10 reduce the
live stock rate cents per 100 pounds to Hutch
inson and Wichita, Nan. as within a radius
of eighty-five miles. These DEGREES follow SO
closely upon the wholesale grocery decision of
January that western managers are begin
ming to wonder where the end Will be- some
gossip is heard in regard TO the edict in the
sugar case, in which the Kansas commission
erS oyerrulsd the decision of the interstate
commerce commission. The opinion is ex-
pressed that the lines, the revenues of which
are seriously affected, will decide 20 appeal To
the courts.
The telegram does our railway COM
missioners great injustice and was evil
IDENTIFY written by one either grossly
ignorant of the question, but more
probably with malicious intent. 1t will
not have tendency TO increase public
sympathy for the railway companies,
who have in the past been discriminat-
ing against the iobbing interests of in
terror Kansas, for the benefit of Kansas
City.
The true animus of the rate cutting by
the railroad commissioners can be
summed up as follows, and IS Certainly
not very complimentary 10 the transpOr-
tation companies who are ''grumbling'
The fifth class rate ordered in by the
commission is for the express purpose of
putting the interior Jobbing interests of
Kansas on fair competitive basis with
the Missouri river i0bber, IL does in no
wise effect the fourth or any other class
of rates, as suggested. and as matter
OF fact. the only way III which they can
be- effected would be by voluntary act
OF the railroad companies. tins. however.
VIII only again give rise 10 the discrimi-
nation which the commissioners are try
ing 10 remove bv a reduction Of the fifth
class. and would undoubtedly be fol-
lowed by a new complaint, and possibly
another reduction
\ short history Of the live stock rate
over which the '.grumbliug occurs, will
no doubt he e,lifying to those interested
IN the welfare Of Kansas
on March -. 1899. the railroad COM
misSi0ners ordered the companies 10 ex-
tend 10 Wichita. the same rate for a
radius OF sevenfy-fiSs miles as applied
Tor ike distance ont OF Kansas City.
This vas TO pa, the packing industries
o. Wichiia on au equal footing Niih
those At hansas City for the business ~
The natural territory tributary to W-ch-
ia and b. pTovs,ie l.usne market FOR
rapsdly increasing industry "a central
Kansas
The mrs tariffs ia effect we're bssad on
4 rate per huudre,i ysoaaiS. which were
made yoid by sarlT that sook effect
Oct :. i>s}l, and remained Ia force untai
Feb /, 1891. when the railroads ak,To-
gated II by the ISSUANCE u = nesg tar1a