The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-04-28
THE N7GRl7A ROAST.

Col. Murdock's roast of Gov. LEVEL
ing in Sundays Eagle on the subjec,
of the Greenide railroad bill was WRIT,
ten more as a resident of Wichita thar
as republican editor.
The Greenlee bib should not and can
not be considered as a republican meas
ure, although it was unfortunately
introduced by republican; nos, how.
ever, as measure tending to meet the
reforms pledged or the relief demanded
by the republican party, but as a spe.
cies of special legislation for the
peculiar benefit Of the individuals
introducing and supporting the bill
and operating to the detriment of all
other localities and merchants in the
state.
We regret to admit that Mr.. Green.
lee, the father OF the bill and president
of the Hutchinson Wholesale Grocery
company, so far forgot the equitable
principles of his party IN his enthusi-
asm for his mercantile establishment
as to sacraace them to his personal
interests, and we equally regret that
so great . man as Speaker Douglass
allowed his love for Wichita to out
weigh his knowledge Of justice to all.
There were but two points IN the
Greenlee bill. The first provided for
what is termed commodity rate in
car loads" only of few articles of
staple heavy groceries. hardware and
drugs, and fixed maximum basis for
such rate.
No provisions were made for 10 wering
or regulating the rates on less than
car loads of these goods, nor did it
consider even incidentally the rates on
coal, lumber, salt, grain, 1.-Two stock or
any other article shipped in or out Of
the state.
Hon. John Seaton offered an amend
ment restricting the railroads from
making a greater difference than five
cents per hundred pounds between car
loads and smaller shipments of these
so-called commodities. so the retailer
and consumer could be equally bene-
fitted, but Speaker Douglass and Mr..
Greenles opposed it, and 1t was lost.
This opposition to so fair an amend
ment leaves no doubt that the bill was
intended to be solely In the interest of
the jobbers in Wichita, Hutchinson
and Salina, and that the author of it
was willing to sacrifice the entire state
for self.
The only point in the bill was pro-
vision that the orders of the railroad
commissioners, whether right or
wrong, whether procured by fair means
or foul, should be in force until set
aside "by court of complete jurisdlc-
tion," or in other words, the supreme
court.
1t is just such selfish attempts to use
the legislature for personal ends that
has lost the republican party much of
its prestige in Kansas, and in order to
regain influence. republicans thro ugh
out its length and breadth must think
and work more for the good of the
state at large and subdue personal
ambitions or make them secondary
Atchison Champion, (Republican).
AS the Champion shows in the abOye
article the Greenlee bill that the
republican papers are praising SO highly
was gotten up simply in the interest of
a few jobbers in Wichita, Hutchinson,
Salina and one OF two other points
and would have been an injury to the
consumers in this part of the state.
The present law is better than the
Greenlee bill, not only for the people,
but also for the merchants of the west.
ern towns.