The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-10-02
AS to RAILROAD RATES.
j. Farley of Dallas in Reply to Com
missioner Mayfield.
NO TIME NOR PATIENCE FOR PROOF
He DevOtcs Most of His ANSWER, Ia
Further Attack Upon the
Comm mission.


date Of September ~. and in other daily
papers, in an article In which he uses my
name and this is in answer.
HIS brief statement of what 'in cub
stance certain populist speakers Stated"
IS In my Judgment. totally unfair. | think
he has got up SHAM battle" has ere
ated a straw man. and in this article ham
mers him.
There is just as much fact in his Sub
stance" as he could not avoid, and was
necessary to look alike. He not only makes
rash, positive statements. but accuses his
ne4ghbors of rascally intentions.
II has not been charged that the COM
mission raised the 1888 rates, but that the
ROADS did so when they found that rail-
road commission was bound to come and
that the roads did this la order that the
commission might reduce these rates and
be able to tell the people 1t had reduced
and the roads would lose nothing. AS Mr..
Mayfield's rates and figures given for 1883.
1853 and 1895 clearly prove this statement,
thank him for II. See cur campaign book
on this matter page TO-
MIR. Mayfield shows an ignorance OF his
business as to interstate rates. which is
amazing in one who has been railroad COM
a railroad office knows better. Southwest
ern bureau tthe railroad association at St
Louis) joint freight tariff No. 2-F. now in
fierce and from which he must have taken
his statement that classes a, b, C are a
nttle lower 10 Galveston and Houston from
| interstate POINTS than to Texas common
points gives 3l5 commodity rates, mostly
carload rates from said interstate points
10 tfaiVeston and Houston, large
majority of which arc lower than 70
lTeXas common points and the
aiiterenoc in favor OF Galveston ami
houston on many commodities is very
great. Such ignoraRse OF the A, b. of
freight conditions is astonishing even In II
TeAas railroad commissioner. He is correct
as to very few shipments of merchandise,
wholly within the State, made to a dis
lance OF 1856 miles. He is right, and will
be as long as the commission makes rates
so nigh as at present.
AS to comparisons of rates made | leaye
them to public inspection except to El
faso; as to that, will ask him II he does
not know that the E Paso rates were
Knocked down by other roads getting in
there, and the necessity of meeting freight
rates from Chicago. St. Louis, Kansas
City, etc.
wGll leave my friend Shaw Of the Texas
Farmer to answer as to the newspaper
comments as 1t seems 10 be meant for
MIN In fact, believe he has already
done So AS he Is well known democrat.
his testimony will so further possibly, with
democrats than mine.
The old chestnut. Equal iustioe 70 all
. and special privileges TO none" Is here pa
: raied' 1t reminds one CT Mexican state
papers which always close with God and
liberty, etc, and it is generally under
stood that Mexicans know less of each
IMAM any people earth.
He says Wills Point can do johhlny
| business =. -
llallas Paris, sherman, Greenvlle and
such ether jobbing centers. This is true.
ana when Hutchins and Puttsboro Howe
and italy Workman, Leonard, Big SANDY
etc. want to do jobbing business. they
VIII lave the rates. too. l do not under
suand what he was trying to get off
AS to the charge that | and the Dallas
1obbers are and have been trying to get
the commission TO raise the rates to nearby
places and reduce them to far off places.
attention ia called that the commission
, made commodity tariffs effective August
10 last on agricultural implements and
saddlery, harness and saddery hardware,
= In which II raised the short line rates and
reduced the far rates; did the very thing
ne abuses me for asking, and Mr. Nav
held's name is signed TO the tariffs.
lie ought to be ashamed to force me 10
state this, as these tariffs helped our peo-
pie little. Ii looks like demagogy. Fur
ther, when we have told the commission
we I'D not object to its raising the nearby
rates, the railroads have always said
Confound you, you know you are safe
In that, as the wagons will hold us down
ana We can not put those rates up" 1t is
fact that | get notice from the COM
mission every few days Of short line rates
reduced on application OF some railroad
10 meet wagon competition"
AS TO rates asked by "the people and ex-
posed by .he commission the commission
did In making these tariffs effective Au-
gust 10, the very thing 1t abused me for in
said expose.
| give an exhibit Of two-line rates
Readers viii please compare. Many could
be given. making much worse showing, but
the traffic men will understand this:
F'irst-class freight In Texas, two roads,
eighty miles one road. 40 cents per 100
pounds sixty miles another reed, so cents
rer 100 pounds; l40 miles 20 cents psr 100
pounds add joint haul raae. cents per
100 pounds; Texas 1iO miles, IN cents per
| 100 rounds.
First-class in Georgia, two lines. eighty
miles one road, 10 cents; sixty miles an-
other road. 80 cents; fetal, ~ cents. less
10 per cent. cents; Georgia, li0 miles. %
| cents.
Texas l4O miles. one line. 10 cents,
Georgia, $40 miles, 81 cents.
| Texas, 1855 miles, one line IS cents.
Georgia. 50 miles one line, IS cents
Mr.. Mayfield also uses short line rates
controlled by wagon competition. This is
! extremely unfair and while VIII not be
! 80 discourteous as to Say | believe X was
Intended TO mlslead and deceive, will ask
! Nun II such is the fact.
! The misfortune Is that Investigation
( does not disclose sharp reductions over
| rates OF 1855" | refer TO pages O. 10. IL
| and i2 Of our campaign book. Mr.. May
! fieli says nothing Of lunsher. flour. plows,
ETC., but he may think these are NO, i'm
/ portant or not much used by the people.
The average wesght OF csiton bales ia
| Texas In iSSS, as given IN our remarkable
/ production, the campaign book, Is 90 "a
! pounds. and not 532 s-4. IS stated by Mr..
MAyfiold II a 52Q-pound bale was ear
rcd for $3.50 this would be less than 81 50
+ per 500-pouni hale. II II was carried Tor
Z So, this would be s2,sS per .O-plund bale
/ and Mr. Maytield eau NOT evade ths under
any proposal 10 take IL literally" Lit
! orally S good, but won't work
: Mr.. Mayf!eld makes great cutlery and
! presents serious charges OF deceit and at
ienipts 10 deceive against the populsts.
charging that our campaign book stated
! The rates from common ponts 20 Houston