The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-21
CLUB MUST NOW ACT

THERE Is IMPORTANT WORK FOR
TIE COMMERCIAL CLUB.
Kansas City is Working Hard to Rave the
Old Rate Re-Estabiished = One Cone-
pary Buys 400 Cars of Corn in Three
DAVIS. Paving an Advance of 8 Cents Per
Bushel or SIS Per Car, on Account OF
the Reduced Kates-Friseo and Missouri
Pacific Meet the Santa Fe and Rock
leland south Rate.
All the railroads centering in wichita
have met the cut rate OF cents per loo
made nv the Santa Fe and Rock Island
IN Galveston and the corn OF Sedgwick
bounty is now being shipped ara d gen
nral movement is being MADE OF the
great crop Of the county.
AS an instance of the actual penehl
10 Sedgwick county of the recent cut IN
yreieht rates it can be stated that since
s.s+ Thursday the Galveston export
,n,,nanv have purchased 400 cars OF
corn. paying IN advance therefore
rents per bushel, or SIS per car over
uvl,at they would have paid had not the
r,,- 7,Aen made. In other WORDS, the Cur
(which was first inaugurated py INC
)Erisco road. and subsequently met "
tha other roads and extenoeu 10 l1S
south as well as to st. Louis ana Ctlcdso
Nv the Santa Fe and Rock lslano' anu
ire southern rate promptly met Dy lue
,F,ssco and Missouri PACING mas
Rounded 10 the advantage OF tne iaIni
ers of Sedgwick county In Tour oHS
the modest sum OF $4,000. and the Gnu -
not yet as the great shlpnlHaN - '1'-
beginning.
other southern agents are coming I'd
wichita TO participate 10 the great move
,neT,t of fine crop and Within the present
mes< there VIII doubt essly be an actlte
,,,,,netitioz, for corn destined for the
Uout4,e-r market established AT Wchlta.
r-he corn market Broke YESTERDAY at
sba eextern markets which affected me
xrice sonew hat at Wichita, yet thLotislE
I'm. rh. day the 1narl8et was sustaned
t,erys and as nigh rs IL cents WIS pau
nur cern
Trhe great Sfarrger Beft By grain men
hu.ste7.iav WIS thar fi1s railroads wonfo
nd1ust their differences and fhe Old rape
would be again placed m JORGE n
strong move is being MAIDS ~ BRING
This re-aI1iustment about by Kansas
City grain men vino demand that the
Did de4atf,-deal5ng ruhe snail be enfofceu
(which viii fprrs the grain torthe brorSh1
to Kansas City before started n Inc
s-o1,tsn Tine Kansas City men have q
hold on all the railroads with the excep-'
ZION of the frisco, which is at tine dis
ADVANTAGES of not having any direct
southern connection with Galveston ana
wlifls this ro2d,pronptiy met the south
ern rate made by the Santa re anu
Rock Island. it gave the rate at a DIFF
advantage and tine move Is bef1lg nIaoel
10 incrsase the Burden upon the 'f'rsscnl
and Missouri Pacific by their southern
sconuections in moIses OF bringing 1nfe1ni
ITO terms
IRE ,ereat need Of Wichftas Com.
.uercaai cSub Ts NOW made evfGennt ana
there isaswork for them to do. If they
WIN take Hffe proper course they can
r,etain the present rates for "A time at
Eaast. end tine club should meet and
Thoroughly hscun1s ro1IversaI1t with the
rresent situzffun- Thef1soutivs COM
nutttAe can find some I1fteresffng and
vital question which sflonld be placed
before their railroad aonnrffttee wichita
can not affnrd 10 FtRnd still and let
Kansas City again put in tho OLD rate.
The members of the club are thoroughly
business men and without dDubf FI'es-
dent Cohn Will se.e that Wichita g inteE-
ests a1s fcorpughly protected and fitTf
the arch enemy OF every farmer, cry
ard rown IN Kansas dcss nUr mako a
,n5ve which VIII rob thu grain men OF
the great advantage which 70 NOW betnS
made by the present raauctton N tbs
rates
The present rz-fe rs moi a iOT rate Il
IS, in fact, idgb rate, but II Il 50 much
nearer a just rate that great benefit is
being derived. Let the club awake 10
Ats interest and Let the movement on the
railroads be brought from Wichita az
well as from the the mouth OF the Kaw-
INGALLS, ON KANSAS
A Flood of Brilliant EIoquence by John j.
Ingalls,.