The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-03-21
FOR The FARMERS.
..af.the Readers Actively Or.
1 qanizina Them.
|pllLROAD SCHEME OF GIBBS
-, Reason for Their Organ
.,..--RaiIroad Commission
4, Being Trnduced.

IA. Texas, MaiVh ~ io' 'iia''o'
ia here to the effect that through.
~ Texas there is Being formed
educational clubs for the osten-
..rrose OF educating the horny.
n politics. These clubs are sup
4 he NON partisan, but 1t traas2ires
.o,ed "middle- Of the roade-s' arc
npch stock in their Organization
Z, much trouble is being taken Ia
!. The members thereof that freigh.
n higher now than they We're te-
railroad commission bsgau opera
,hot the railroad commission is uL-
Influence OF railroad traffic mar
and a curse to the people, and tnat
4 way to obtain relief In the prom
"a take to aud back UP ltruey
relief railroad scheme. These re.ls-
sxrtions have so often been. made
4 often and successfully disproven
seems hardly possible that the au-
thereof should have the tenl,.i,y to
lake 10 revamp them for cantaig On,
hsr fake railroad building pdri oses.
those who deal in that KIM of
,r In this State are so bold and ex-
the manipulation of statistics end
assessed of such elastic consstclces
Mere Is no telling to what degree of
kejty they will reach in ATTEMPTING
nsform their latest proposed lob into
ular fad.
again, it is so easy to find PEOPLE
have been hurt by the comm cs'on
uch as they have been deprived
~ Of the fat snaps they formerly en-
In the way Of rebates and ST ecjal
Advantages, that there is no t.,i;i,g
kind of mass of apparently ttL-
n argument the manipuleiors OF
farmers clubs are loaded with to
the boys at the forks down with.
batter what they may have 10 sly,
Ter, the answer thereto is easy, for
| is but one way to judge of how
Il rates affect both shipper and car
Is well as to tell what said rates are
aggregate at a given time in the
bt in comparison with what they were
4.s
be other given time in the past, and
Is BY the record of tonnage handled
< beth periods and OF the revenues
y from the handling of such tonnage.
illustrate: For the year ending June
Fl the last year before that in which
bmmisson was established, the rail-
| Of Texas with the exception of few
roads CT no Importance, performed |
FS equal to transporting LII ,49S,57s |
|ci freight one mile. fer which they |
fed G4Ss2526. For the year ending
|so, 1897, ell the railroads in Texas,
|lne exception of one small and I'M
ltant line, performed nrvice equa!
Illng 2424,S3l313 tons of freight one
lcr which they received SIS, 720. 752.;
/ rate charged in 1891 Il 4o3- 1000 OF
\ per ton per mile) the earnings in
would have been S3t,013,36S. But,
rlns to sworn to reports they were
P'ie less than that amount. OF course
WV or more is mare bagatelle 10
IN who are engaged in the movement
credit the commission in furtherance
scheme to bunco the people Into
stock In Gibbs great relief rail-
Iet the sum is sufficiently large TO
Y Inc attention of thinking persons,
nN mat OF the owners Of the prop
aasc'sd, and the fact is established
ali'oad rates are in the aggregate 20
y 'ower now than they were seven
~ no matter what the cause.
y 'he assertion that the commission
'iolled by the railroads it can not
= we lace Of the persistent and con-
protest with which tho railroad at
and traffic men have met every
p'oposed and promulgated by said
y 's'Ol the Inconsistency of such u
'S0n being too apparent to med
attention to even.
"safd to the relief railroad"
: scueme little need be said. 1t Is
uuennatory. Presented by men OF
! u business circles it might con-
attention and possibly Sc
eap'e consideration, but launched
!, oeen Under the auspices of star
essieis and destined as i. seems
pas the part of tail TO raucn
sSHucai kite its fate is ssa,el.