The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-09
W'l}l}lgl! Eagle
NJ. NJ. MURDOCH, Editor.
ANOTHER SCOOP ON THE HOG
WALLOW.

another rebuff. The hogwash which
goes wallowing along the eastern end OF
Kansas, that in mirky swirls and shall
lows eddies around the Sni hills, may
contain the components of liquid suit
able for mixing with Missouri whisky
but as navigable fluid for the guidance
of traffic associations in finding equita-
BILE railway freight rates for interior
Kansas or elsewhere it is a sneaking
cheat, monstrous humbug.
For years has this miserable pretence
of nayigability been forced upon that
tawny tide of suds and sand at the
EXPENSE of all interior Kansas and the
west. Every conceivable commodity,
whether moving east or west, has been
dumped, constructively unloaded. at the
Missouri river and rerated on different
schedule, many products beng addition
aliy docked and robbed. To the end
that all Kansas should be held tributary
to their 'Basing Line outrage-Mls-
souri, river towns have Systematically
appealed to pregnant courts and sue
cessfully bodied cheap traffic men, I'M
blushingly and in the face of everything
that was honest, honorable OF fair.
As barrier between the markets OF
the world and the producers and con-
sumers of Kansas this miserable Missouri
river and it's indefensible Basing Line in
frigus has been more costly and bur-
thenscme than are the boundary lines
of nations to international traffic.
Through the institution of the suit,
which the supreme court of Kansas de-
cided on Saturday, the Missouri river
interests, upheld by Kansas City and st.
Joseph, have defrauded the jobbing
towns of interior Kansas for whole
wear, impairing their standing, en-
barrassing their business and threatening
their future in disastrous measure. 1t
was rate agreed upon by the railways
and the shippers of the towns in ques-
ton, and as a compromise it was salts
factory to all concerned except to "the
dog in the manger." If this dumping
line hog had succeeded in the case re-
ferred to they would have Immediately
enioined the Wichita live stock rate,
awarded by the commission, and the i'm
element and other rates that were only
secured after long and expensive fights.
But there is another decision coming,
md just as certainly as will tomorrow's
sun shine. The United States interstate
commission on the failure of the United
States court to knock out the Ubiquitous
transmissouri traffic trust, on the
pIeadings of United States Attorney
Ady, has directed the institution of
suit which is now pending, the decision
Of which will paralyze the Basing Line
combine. The interstate commission in
his suit practically demands to know
by what right or authority the Missouri
Pacific carries meats, grains and gro-
,eries between Omaha and St Louis for
about one-half what the same road
charges Wichita for the same kinds of
freight, the haul being on the line be-
tween st. Louis and Holden and
Kansas City, over the same line
of rails, with Omaha SO much
the greater distance from st. Louis than
Wichita. There can be no satisfactory
answer and the character of the decision
Is a foregone conclusion. When it comes
no cheap Missouri river court will be able
10 defeat it by postponement as did the
Atchison court in the interest of an I'M
known firm which the supreme court on
Saturday said was not a participant in
the rate therefore Prescriptions in is
prayer.
Every equitable rate enjoyed by the
interior cities of Kansas has been
secured through railway commissions
or the courts, over the heads of traffic
tools and in spite of the opposition of the
hog line, better known as the Missouri
river, a river Manageable for nothing and
useless except for enormous annual con-
Sressional appropriations.
The state of Kansas or that Missouri
river basing lie and line, one or the other.
must go down, and it won't be the state
of Kansas.
In the meanwhile the many jobbers
on the Missouri river who in the absence
of an undue advantage must go to the
the wall, will find Wichita splendidly
advantageous point for reaching the
trade of the southwest.
RICH OPPORTUNITIES IN WICHITA.
IF investors coald but realize it now is
the time to go cunning for rare bargains.
A rock bottom In values to all appearances
is here and an Advancement L. cart.in