Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-02-08

x Gross per ton average haul was. ..... 2 20
And total average with transit
nationalized in pool for the whole
United States, 81, IS per ton by the pos
tai system. In group IL so cents per
ton, or cents per hundred weight
produces their gross income from
freight service. Does any one who pays
a larger rate of freight in that territory
on his goods think he can step up to
the stock exchange or three card
monte freight lines and pick out the
jack?
''If the roads of the nation had been
pooled on freight service and had
made 6-cent postal rate, their gross
income would have exceeded the
amount gotten by s44 $500, O0O had the
same amount as was expended in solic-
iting freight and rebates been thrown
away. If postal rates ruled, the ship
per would buy his freight stamp as he
now buys his postal card: the user seek
ing the means instead of the reverse
Good railroad authority has stated that
freight and passenger wars cost the
roads 5000, 600, 600 a year.
ITO illustrate, Determinations: In
group VI, which comprises Illinois,
Wisconsin, Iowa, the northern PENN.
sula of Michigan, that part of Missouri
lying north and east of the Missouri
river and that part of North and South
Dakota lying north and east of the
Missouri river the average gross income
average haul was s1.4O per ton, or
cents per hundred weight. Corn rates
from west side this group, say-Council
Bluffs, Ia, to Chicago, are 19 cents per
100 pounds, or s3. so per ton, as against
an average gross charge on all tonnage
of the nation of 81. 13. 1t is safe to say
that the farmer and stock-raiser are
Disseminated against to the tune of 400
per cent, as the rate on other COM
modities will raise the average.
''In group VII, which comprises Ne
braska, Wyoming and that part of
North and South Dakota lying south
and west of the Missouri river, and Col
orado. lying north of line drawn east
and west just north of Denver, the av-
erage gross charge is 1927, or just
double the average gross charge for
like service over the nation.
''The frst-class freight rate from Chi
cago to Kearney is s1.35 per 100 pounds,
or S27 ton. Boots and shoes, hats and
caps, clothing and dry goods make liv-
ing expenses at &27 ton In fruitful
country when the average charge per
ton of the nation is S1.13. Fourth-class
goods, such as many kinds of groceries
in car lots (western classification, are
IS a ton from Omaha to Kearney, as
against S1.13 for the nation, and the
.I1,
are calamity howlers' because our SUBJ
sidized or hypnotized state officers are
venal enough to give us no redress. It
is simply patriotism and want of full
comprehension of the magnitude of our
commercial and industrial wrongs that
prevents nihilism from growing on our
prairies instead of the cereals that in
dustry and fertile fields produce to feed
the world.
Had kings possessed the wisdom
and justice of the combined peonle a
republic would never have existed
King John made fight against Magma
Charta, and had the people relented.
that nor the bill Of rights would not
have resulted, nor will a step toward
commercial rights result now if we re-
lent, and to your honora BILE body and
congress we look for no faltering. The
public is learning faster than are rail
way managers, and more schooling is
not amiss to either. Blind, bitter and
cunning opposition. step by step, to
efforts of equal treatment to the public
is made against any control of transit,
and Bull Run is close at hand for the
people, a Ficltsburg and March TO
the Sea- will follow
y
ut is an open secret that secret rates
exist-that transit agencies in rolling