The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-01-06

By this comparison, # will be noticed IN It
the people OF kHnsNs pay on this item Eve
times the amount fur a like service as is pad
by the citizuns If adjoining stutes-
The case above refer ed to was brought by
the wholesale ErOcers dol nR business in yhe
Interior OF kansas, before the rIilrIud cJHI-
nhssiOuers, asking relief from the Ovsrcharg-
sund DETERMINATIONS Uu the goods shipped
into the state by them The facts and figures
produced al this trial sustained tn com ,iiilHt
and the rates comp HtuGd of were found
wholly indeI cusible 10y he railroad UOmpGn-
les and they agreed with the complaining
j0Bbers, as q eompF Umise, to reduce rue ruge
20 fifteen cents per hundred OH eastern Sugar
from the Misso = river "a interior points ia
kausas. and to make the same rates 10 inUs-
TiOr puints la Kansas as 10 the sal, SCUM itIVor
on sugar LrOm the vest coast Tue present
rate on sugar irum the west cUsssL L.. s,.lIIIa IL
twenty niue COnts per hundred uIDre thith 10
han as City, although the sugar is uGIied
directly tLr,luEn Sauna a. 'AIus4ss LiTy. sI'tu IA
kausl,s IN rcutsuJ and uousu.nsr ~ obliged o
pas tue rULe from san truiIGisCu 10 IuU otIs-
suuri river, P.Iis tue local rate bacA sthousn
1he sugar Il never Eaafeu 10 the Nilsson
hIveT, Uut Il IL stopped at u, IuIeriut point
In hsusHs. TaFiT she's Is were issu d Ia har-
mOuy with this compromise g,nd Luc rates
we're in elect for about thirty days, and ths
result WAS mat the prices Of IHuse products
embodied in this cOuprUiDIse we're lowered
ia the suite O1 HH-sus 10 TIA consumers 10
tho extent IF this re-. uctiou ia freight. The
enttre state was benefited By this slight r. nc
ton e. the ezt nt OF thousands Of doiil,rs
during the thirty haya.
who was it that ObI-cted 10 tho continue
ton OF these rHtesr II was mot the raj road
companies nor their directors tlfut complain
ed that the rates III quCs.i ion were tUu alld
/ rsduCeG she revenue AZ The rsLilrusgu cOmpsi-
/ ice, but tns complaint cams Irum anOIner
sOuTCe-IHHls4y the Missouri Xiv or interests.
. ImIul ditIeIy after this rate went Intu elect
mceLiHE 10 form suuie plan by which Jpe rails
J road companies could De Induced TO lepuGistIe
! their cOutrLCL and Withdraw even tue slis9t
/ concession They were MT satisfied thaJ tue
! people Of kHusss should Ds charged tyyO and
one hsif times as much far enc same sarvlvgz
! they received, out insisted Uhlsl Lup railroad
companies continue 10 charge hVe times as
/ mucn AS tEcy as. & paytug Tor similar services
The railroads Vi the stale OF tNauoJIs are 50
largely unaer the cunSrBl aud domination OF
Kansas Lity and the Interests Of tue N Issouri
River Towns, hat they were Induced 10 thus
| iepudiats tHeir contract Gud Withdraw the
! rates that wore given Ia this Compromise
although they were ,wo and one hall times as
high as theg Were charging Tor similar serv-
ice 10 tho citizens OF Missouri.
Il is u matter Of record that the New Orleans
lines, in view OF tho fact tnHt sugar was Us
fnE haulsd 70 tue Interior OF Iowa Tor thirty-
three cents per hundred, recognized the fuuI
| thLt interior Kansas pOinLs were eutiJled TO
a corresponding reduction ana put in a rate
iOf thirty i've cents per hundred Oh sugar from
| New Orisaus 20. 8liuterior Kansas towns, OF.
in other words, nve ceuts-abOys tue Aissauri
River rates. This relief 20 kansas also met
with the same tate, ~ tue same hEnss aud At
the diotntiOu Of the same Influences. viz: the
Missouri river. Tue Kansas lines refused 10
participate III this rate ans it vas forced Oui
Within thirty days This is evidence thuE tue
railroads. are so completely under the duuin'
alton OF Aansas aye influence thar they
cannot be relied upon 10 give the rsiIef re
CURED. IL is therefore clear % every lair
Illin0ed oitlEeH that an squitlbls and just
measure should be suacted-OBe that wOutJ
be lar 70 the people OF Kansas aud sninsuti5
just 10 the railroads..
The rates on grain asid Hour shipped out OF
the state are equally out Of proportion