Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1897-09-08
AS TO Low RATES
CONSUMER HAS NOT BEEN
BENEFITED TO ANY EXTENT.
The Roads Are Getting Restless and the
Frisco Is Said to Have Already Made
an ofrer to Certain Texas Jobbers--O other
News Items.

Frisco Is Said to Have Already Made
an Offer to Certain Texas Jobbers--Other
News Items.
Austin, Texas, September 4.-1f there
is anything in low freight rates for the
producer or the consumer, both should
be having picnic in Texas just now
owing to the decentralization in ocean
rates which has prevailed for some
time at Galveston. Railroad traffic
men assert. however, that the Texas
merchant and the New England cotton
spinner are the only people who have
been making any money out of the Gal
weston steamship rate war and chal-
lenge any one to show where the price
of groceries, dry goods, etc, has gone
down or the price Of cotton gone up In
consequence thereof. Further than
this, some of these same traffic men as
sert that the Lone Star line, which
started the rate war; came to Galveston
originally for the purpose of forcing it.
self into pool and expected with the
assistance of certain Galveston rail
lines to compel the forming of said
pool but that ats railroad allies weak
ened when the railroad commission
threatened to reduce Texas rates If the
interstate rates were cut to meet the re-
ducon in ocean rates and left it to take
care of itself as best it could. That 1t
has done so pretty we'll can not be de-
MED, and that the row it precipltated
has resulted in sending great deal of
Texas business to New York and New
England is fact, but whether the dis
turbance it has occasioned in north
bound rates will not unless stopped, re-
suit in injury to Galveston is open to
argument
A cut in southbound rates is unques-
tionably a big thing for Galveston and
New York if the rail lines from st.
Louis and Chicago can be prevented
from meeting it, but cut in north
bound rates is a good thing for New
York alone, as it means the making of
the export cotton rate through New Or
leans instead of through Galveston, and
it is because of this and nothing else
that such strenuous efforts have been
made in Galveston lately to bring about
peace between me warning steamship
INES COTTON VIII peglh 10 move lor eA-
port to Europe in few days and then
the fun effect of the abbreviated north
Dounu rate VIII pe lett sup urohcrs
will be confronted with an export rate
that will mean n big net loss for them
On every pale ol COTTON they nanoie anu
Iorce tnen 10 sp'is up SHOP uniess uhe
'aii iihes uiNiue oiieir rutes WIN 'nehi'
Whlch lhey WIZ not no lor lear Vi re-
uuction III salu rates ny the coiiiniis-
sion' ohuer 'aie clrcuins.ances o'aiNes-
ION Only sai'a'ioh yes III an ADVANCE
IN uhe norlrpo'hu rate' ana IT WIS pre-
uie'e.i neie Ses.eii"! eNei,'ns ny pio.
iiiilieiil 'raiiic liianaser tiut insiue Vi
zen u"ys 'he Maliory me "ouiu "u-
,"noe INC i"ee on Vo'ton iioin ""iees,
lon u NE" iorA 10 20 cents per loo
P0uhuS'
Anu there are reasons lor pelleVins
'na' .he sou.npounn Iales WIN sooh NC
eieVuteu iii"'erl"ny "iso' ai'nousn not
10 tne point DIT "nlch 'hey stoou wien
eie ""i os"n, " ~ '',i' tiiiie 'ne
Sou'niwes'ern mes nave hep' ou' vi
'ne nsn'' party oeo"use 'neS uiu no'
"an' rne i"''io'u oon'Ni'e.on ~ us
LUZ e1"s ra'es anu partly because
could attend TO on tbeir hands This
proin business viii soon he practically
dis nosed of however and then thew
fl, ID a.. ~, .. -
devote to the Texas situation and trou-
bic may ensue unless peace has been
declared by that time.