Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-02-08
NO. 38

stock lines ana waterways permit dis
ordinations that law cannot prevent
any more than prohibitory laws can
prevent drinking or stealing-aud that
If permission to pool is given under ton
per mile rates, it will mean corporate
combination to exact with discriminate
ing facilities greater than now held
In Nebraska, public official life, ex-
ecutive and legislative, state and coun-
ty, is debased by passes This insidu-
Gus hberality (?) in transit permeates
the courts, the secret society leaders,
the Christian assembly leaders, and
every social and political division like
ly to shape selection of public officials
with distance eliminated and gen.
eral average charge on transit, it would
be Improbable to railways to transport
even pure t?) citizen without pay
ment Grant power to regulate (?)
agencies based on false principles, un-
der ton per mile rates, even as to as
honorable gentlemen as yourselves, in
volving principles of possible exactions
as now held, and time and tide of
changes in your commission will shape
its personal from Judge Cooley to
Judge Taney, and will make the nation
cry to God for Red sea to swallow up
the hatchery of railroad bacteria.
1T is ton per mile rates and competi-
tion that means Determinations that
force brain, skill and muscle to trade
and manufacturing centers, that when
corralled may the easier be forced to
pay homage to the court of combiua-
tion. where crowded surroundings help
vice and consequent misery to feed on
labors physical moral fiber Would it
have been desirable to bring about
moral peace in Heaven by allowing
Lucifer to usurp Gods prerogative,
which meant peace and Justice to all?
If it would, then listen to the siren
song of paid attorneys, after-dinner
speeches and the lobbyists for rail
roads, but in the name of consistency
abolish all semblance of restraint. that
their sensitive souls may not misjudge
us nor be worried with consciousness
of guilt in secret rate or rebate making.
The one central point of cooperative
railway management is to wiring a no
limit contingent amount from public
rates from that standpoint makes it
selfish business sense to call to its aid
any agency, angelic or diabolical, as
will bring at the managers sweet will
the speediest results, and both agencies
are oftentimes blended.
$50 long as ton per mile rates are
made and competition exists, so long
will stock-watering and tobbing exist,
which means gambling in birthrights
Transit should be permitted to pool,
and competition as to rates should no
more enter into our calculations than
should fighting and jealousy exist be-
tween members of one family. But SO
long as postal freight service is not
made us, no screw known to ingenuity
of the people should be turned back on
these agencies one thread, and every
impulse of patriotism and sense of JUS
tice should be invoked until, as must
eventually come, independencein COM
mercial intercourse becomes peer to our
present political independence.
The railway managers ask that they
be allowed to pool as protection to
themselves from themselves, but not
for purposes of granting equalities in
opportunities to all patrons and local
tiles. Postal rates will protect them
and make the contingencies of profit in
building rather than wrecking-in diff
fusion, not in concentration.
Through you to the public presto
the public sense of reason-to the rail-
way managers themselves, L appeal for
consideration of postal freight sys-
tenn.
syllabus: Continue aggressive in all
restrictive measures in order. TO effect
reciprocity treaties; stipulating their
surrender of power to discriminate and
oppress others (such as ton per mile
rates and classifications). Then pass
measures protecting them as against
themselves and against the noxious ele-
ments of our nation that have bred in
the fields of secret traffic rates, rebates,
passes, terminal rates and bribery So
describe boundaries of groups as now
laid out that no confusion or misunder-
standing, intentional or otherwise, can
result in tonnage, reports required, etc
Enact the maximum tariff rate for
any group to be that rate shown to be
its gross average rate made, as per your
fourth statistical report. Provided,
that single shipments shall be charged
at tariff rates subject to minimum
charge of 25 cents for the entire ship
ment Enact that inter-group rates
shall not exceed the maximum average
gross rates shown in your fourth stats
tica1 reports to have been realized on
the average tonnage of all the groups,
minimum charge of % cents for the
entire consignment in case tariff rate
for the weight consigned does not re-
suit in greater charge"