The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-11-18
Daily Eagle
VI. NJ. MURDOCH. Editor.
Kansas and Her Railroads.

and seemingly only because that the state
in becoming more prosperous its people might stand mod
crate amount of robbery protest The Capital is
the only daily paper the dared read the riot
act to railway managements at the only daily
that has Only a days ago pointed out that the
proposed new schedule lumber Wichita and
surrounding towns discrimination in the interest of
kansas City and against principal patrons of these
roads The trouble for years that the traffic Of
railroads has manipulated and managed by cobna-
tons of clerks under managers The clerks in some
sense being experts have the whole thing
That is as traffic for which railways are
constructed and whereas these aforesaid clerks manipulate
the carrier rates. they real controllers holding in
their hands the interests denies of entire conuri-
ties Railway presidents and superintend-
ents and other high priced railway officials have little
voice or influence the details of the interest
for which railways built The lumber schedule looks
as if it was put in to finding of the Inter
state Commission in which the ordered to cease
their determinations against milers No president
or manager of Kansas railway comprehend the
simple proposition the growth development and
prosperity of the state of their They
will haul pig five hundred nothing rather than
it should be slaughtered bushe of grain
thousand miles should be ground where
it was grown the while knowing ham and -four go
at higher classification than hog and corn and knowing
sume1s and patrons lines Railway arrangements
would rather haul loaded car thousand a profit
of one dollar than to miles and
load dollars profit That is theoretically they
would rather This the of the clerical combine
aforementioned easy irresponsible long haul as
against but better paying local haul
As it is the Kansas product instead of being handled in
way the number of the states inhabitants and
the value properties all be long hauled
to some railway terminal the Lakes to the
Gulf the pig steer There should be
mill at every railroad station in with county
seat packing plants and small manufacturing con-
Germs galore with the preserving ocahaul
where to the end of only the higher
classification but for its increase
in the way of additional incoming fuel material and
greater number of patrons to be served But Kansas
cannot always commercially chained the wheels of
Kansas Cys by discriminating Missouri river
basing rates mails, the like. Railway
agements depore Pop legislatures with their menacng
anarchy threatened drastic Yet is just
things the categorical by contemporary
the Capital, up Pop dominancy There is too
spirit the traffic management of
railroads. it, indeed of it's presence
personality in their directorshps. The hope of the
greater Trusts fact only survival and
of ultimate triumph is in, by and through railway
agency it railroads fail wisdom fairness
in their management impartiaty political
demagogue to whom the Capital aludes factor viii
the of his constituency paralyze the plexus of the
Trust by handicapping
cripple efficiency a public
This would prove unfortunate to ownership and public
alike things far-reachng
consequences. are ever coming to pass.
The people of Kansas in being the most radical in the
world are given heroic treatment They have root and
tendency they undertake whether on the
battlefield the Philippines in political conventions and
legislative halls whatever they embark or plunge
Into The railroads of Kansas gone through terrific
but than by the state and
people shrinkage sustained by the rail-
roads shrink and shrvel of the interests of the
local patrons, and which contraction and colapng
into reoeivehips such prosperity their mere Mis-
souri, river and other points could mitigate or
Kansas having again struck prosperous pace the