The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-13

transportation charge has been ac-
| complished in various ways"
This is especially good reading and
/ would advise anyone interested in rail-
way matters to do so:
Again on page is, Concessions to
Favored Shippers in Published Tar
4 ifs, where it describes, taking five
pages to do it, the organizat ton of The
Hutchinson & Arkansas City Railroad
! com pany, whose total mileage consists
| of 5000 feet of switches connecting
| the Hutchinson Salt company without
any equipment of any kind and by this
I imaginary railroad the salt trust Sc
cures a rebate of so cents a ton on salt
and the commission says: THE trust
with this advantage can at any time
shut down every rival salt com pany in
/ kansas And still there is no ex-
cuse for agitation on this railroad
1 Will tell you why the business man
of Kansas is interested in this rail-
road problem. He knows by expert
ence and don't require any newspap per
to tell him that the railway problem is
the problem of legitimate business en-
terprise- He knows that the railway
is building up a class of privileged
favorites in every quarter, men who
are receiving special rates and who
are able to conquer in the competitive
struggle for existence over their I'M
equally matched foes. There are
things in this article we would like to
railway dollar mentioned but the space
allotted to newspaper article will not
permit
Something could be said on the sub
railroads on which the people are
obliged to pay interest in excessive
freight rates.
There is filed an exhibit of COM
parative freight rates on cattle in
Kansas as compared with other states,
Ia "a ~
no higher than in neighboring states.
The cattle rate is the most reasona bic
rate that we have While there has
been in reality an advance of at least
Is per cent in the last few years by
change from car rate to the hundred
pound rate and a great deal of annoy
ance and sometimes loss is occaSioned
by the delay in weighing at Kansas
City still taking all the conditions I'M
der consideration. it is the most rea-
sonable rate we have and the writer
referred to has used excellent judg-
ment in selecting this rate for COM
parison. The reason of this compare
lively satisfactory rate is because the
live stock men of the state have for
years maintained an active association.
which has closely looked after the
question of the rates on cattle
Even this showing is not quite as good
a. tne article mentioned would have US
believe and the following exhibit will l
nave before me the rates on cattle
from several hundred statutes in Kansas,
Missouri. Iowa. Nebraska and Texas As
Kansas City is Kansas principal. almost
only. cattle market. all comparisons are
based up rates TO that point.
1 would draw particular attention to -he
Texas rate on live stock shipments as
compared unto Kansas. In Texas the rate
applies to hogs the same as to cattle In
Iowa in some Instances higher some low
err bit about a stand off \ comparison
OF over 15G stations in Kansas shows the
hog rate on an average a good TO &c
higher than cattle. In 1901. the last Stats
tics available. there were three million
seven hundred thousand hogs received at
the Kansas City market 1t would be a
conservative estimate that two millions