The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-04
THE KANSAS AND TEXAS GOV.
ERNORS
\ Few Facts Yet to be Realized by the
Missouri River Robbers.

i'll concealed sheer oyer the proposition
that the governors of Kansas and Texas
propose to take some action, in connec-
ton with foreign powers, looking to the
Gulf as the seaboard entrepot for the
transmissouri. The Missouri river towns,
in connection with certain railway traffic
managers, have hoggsd, swindled,
robbed and crippled every interest
west of the chasing" @ line, out
the year OF jubilee IS at hand.
Recognizing the advantages of the Gulf
route, for Kansas, over the one across
the Alleghanies to the Atlantic, the Santa
Fe bought its line to the gulf. Just one
and only one, direct shipment was made
from New York to Wichita, via the
/ Mallory steamers, and the Santa Fe,
when al! the eastern roads, terminating
| in any possible way at the Missouri river,
| took twist on the basing line that wilt
ed the Santa Fe But the Rock Island
in addition to the Santa Fe, and the
Missouri Pacific, this week reaches gulf
connection. ard the occasion becomes
opportune for the authorities of Kansas
and Texas to bastir themselves in the IN
terests Of their states,
We will just here call the attention of
all the parties to the Missouri river ba5-
ing line fraud to the fact that a member
of the United States interstate commits
sion, after spending several days in
Wichita, has made report upon which
another suit has been Instituted in the
United States circuit court, which prom
ises, in giving Wichita and other in
terror towns their rights, to knock that
nefarious basing line combine into
kingdom come
For Kansas City's better information |
especially for those OF her jobbers |
who have been enabled to choke the |
life out of the interior jobber-we
will state that still another suit |
is being brought by Wichita
before the state commission.
In the official schedules of
rates embodied in the brief of Hon.
George L. Douglass which lies before
us. we find among other and numerous
outrages the following attested facts
which the editor of the Star might pom
der before making any more filings at
the governors of Kansas ard Texas, viz:
THE rate from Kansas City to Wichita
is $50 per cent higher per ton per mile
than the rate from Chicago to Kansas
City, and 200 per cent higher than the
rate from Chicago to Fort Scott or to
Girard or Columbus" This is bv the
car load lot on agricultural implements.
Take another haul. The rate from Fort
Scott-which town is recognized as
being on line with the Missouri river
stealing 'line-to Wichita is more than
100 per cent higher than from st. Louis
TO Fort Scott, more than $50 per cent
higher than the rate from Chicago to
Fort Scott and 800 per cent higher than
the rate from Chicago to Joplin and to
other towns along that line. :
The EAGLE, solely, alone, and unaided,
the war on the Missouri ..
river basing line. 1t was many months
before it received any help from interior
papers, the Hutchinson News excepted. !
out it has the satisfaction if not of I
victory Of at least a promised one. Three !,
cases are in court and two before COM
nissioners and decisions are inevitable.
Had Wichita jobbers, packers, millers
and her grain and live stock markets
been given the same rate per ton per
nile enjoyed by Kansas City and the S
other towns along the basing line. :,
Wichita would have lad a hundred i
thousand people today and all the pro-
iucers of southern Kansas would have |
been receiving Missouri prices. prac- 3
ically, at Wichita.
And finally, all sneers to the contrary
notwithstanding, if Wichita succeeds in
getting from the decisions in the cases
low pending before the courts and COM i
nissioners the relief prayed for, Wichita
viii not only gain all that has been
vrenched from her through that unholy /
Missouri river combine, but will make il |.
warm for Kansas City herself in the t
ace for commercial supremacy. =
DID YOU SEE 1T?
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