Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-10-21

to Chicago, than from Liverpool to
Chicago:
"The complaintants, who were rep
resented by John D. Herman, of New
York, as counsel, cited several instan-
ces of discrimination to prove their
charges. The railroad received 16
cents for transporting 100 pounds of
tin plate from Philadelphia to Chicago,
after bringing it from Liverpool, while
the rate on domestic tin plate from
Philadelphia to Chicago was 2s cents
After vessels had brought linen from
Dunfermline, Scotland, to Philadel-
phia, the railroads charge 46 cents for
carriage to Chicago, while the regular
rate of linen not brought direct from
Scotland was go cents.
From New Orleans to San Francisco
70 cents hundred pounds was charg-
ed on agricultural implements brought
from Liverpool, but if they are sent
from New Orleans to San Francisco as
domestic goods the rate is S1.14. If
shipped from New York the regular
rate was 81. 80, and from Chicago $1.10,
while from Liverpool to San Francisco
only so cents. The same rate was put
on groceries. while if the same grocer
les were sent from New Orleans the
rate was S3.7O.
Mark you that these are the rates
charged by each and all of the trunk
lines. There is neither difference nor
competition between them, the reason
being that by some agreement or
combination" through their traffic as
sociations they as completely eliminate
competition as if all the roads were
owned by one man. 1t is the perfec-
ton of pooling, and every member of
the Commerce Commission knows it.
Each man Of them knows down in his
very soul that all the roads are violat-
ing the law."-Congressional Record,
June II, 1890.
1 think, with moments considera-
ton, even railway king might see
such management will "create preju-
dice" much faster than anything that
Mr.. Brown can say; not against the
railroads, but against the unjust alien
management of them. Then, to make
the matter worse, and to render it per-
manent, the U. s. Supreme Court has
decided that such determinations
against American interests sis consti-
tutional" A case like those mention
ed by Mr.. Anderson has since been
submitted to the Inter State Commerce
Commission. That high authority de-
cided against the determinations and
pronounced them unlawful. The Cir.
cult court of New York and the New
York court of Appeals have also decided
against the unlawful, unjust and I'M
patriotic determinations against Amer
can interests, and in favor of aliens.
But, on final appeal to the Supreme
Court of the United States the concur
rent decision OF the Commerce Com
mission and the two New York courts
has been revised. See Tenth Report
Interstate Commission, p. p. 1881
Such rank injustice as that is the
great "creator of prejudice" among the
people, not only against the managing
corporations, but against the U. S.
court, also, as the alder aud abettor of
the corporations in robbing and op-
pressing the American people, in the
interest of aliens With a moments
thought any business man will at once
perceive that it is quite practicable for
a commodity to leave Liverpool, pay
heavy protective duty in the New York
custom-house, and then reach market
on the Pacific coast of America, either
to be sold there, or for shipment to
Asia, cheaper than it is for similar
American article to reach the same
Western market from any point in the
United States east of the Mississippi
river. 1t will be seen that the dis
elimination against American goods
on our own American railroads and in
favor OF British goods, may be so great
as to entirely neutralize the usual, or
even the unusual protective tariff du-
tiles.