The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-05-28

That from Conroe Texas, lumber point,
to GAINESVILLE Texas, 342 miles, the rate IS
1874 cents, and TO Ardmore O. T., 3S2
miles the rate is . cents. So YOU see by
this rate that in Texas. where they had
railroad law, they hauled IL for 3f2 miles
for lS% cents but when they struck Ard
more o T. Oklahoma having no rail-
road laws, only forty miles further. the
rate jumper to % cents. a raise of Ga
cents and at Wichita the rate reached
the high point, 2Sh cents. and at Topeka,
hauling it l62 miles farther, it costs To-
peka 2J2 cents less than Wichita and if
carried to Lawrence. q miles farther than
Topeka il costs , cents less than if left at
Topeka and if still carried on to Kansas
City. Mo-. forty miles farther than Law
renee, it cost cent per hun
renee. three cents less than If left al
Topeka and 512 cents less than if left at
Wichita. And if carried on to chicago,
H.. more than twice the distance from
Conroe. Texas. than to Wichita the lum-
ber would be hauled for cents per hun
dred less than If unloaded at Wichita
In other words. my friends the same
company that starts the lumber hauls it
ent cities and charges Wichita dealers 3
cents per hundred. which is about two
dollars a thousand feet. more for un-
loading al Wichita than they would if
they hauled 1t 225 miles farther to Kan
saS CITY Mo. and nearly two dollars per
thousands feet more than they would if
they hauled il 6ST miles farther TO Chi
cago. and it charges Topeka nearly a
dollar a thousand more for unloading
there than 1t would if il hauled il to
Chicago 525 miles farther away and
II charges Lawrence. Kansas, the same
for the privilege of unloading there that
II would for carrying the same lumber
to Chicago. 49S miles farther. And since
the Interstate Commerce Commission
heard this case and pronounced the rate
from COnroe. IeXaS to Kansas City of 23
refto ,.at>l. fN-r.s
and the Wichita rate an excessive one.
the company has unanimously reduced
the rate TO Wichita to 2712 cents \
great big reduction of one cent.
Facts and Figures
DO you know that freight charges on
sugar shipped from California through
Wichita, hutchinson. Salina to Kansas
city. were until recently fifteen cents per
hundred more to Wichita Hutchinson and
SAUNA than to Kansas City? And through
colorado points il was seven and one
half cents more until the matter was
taken up by the Interstate commerce COM
mission, when the railroads acknowledged
IL was an injustice and partially reduced
II. That the same discrimination against
Kansas points prevails upon nearly every
thing brought into the state as well as
that shipped out. Do you know that until
recently on wheat shipped out of the
state TO the gulf. the rate from Wichita
TO Galveston was thirty and one-half
cents and from Kansas City seventeen
cents. and that the matter finally got
before the interstate commerce commits
sion. and il made finding that the rate
rom Kansas City of seventeen cents per
hundred was remunerative one. and
tn2t the rate from Wichita was Excess
SiVe? You will see at once that il ought
not to be as much from Wichita, 225
miles nearer the gulf market ard Vet
the very same railroad companies that
shipped this grain from Wichita and
. olner grain markets in the wheat bon
hanlFf grain right -hrot1uh Ha afr If
wichita. If billed from Kansas City 225
miles farther away for thirteen and one
| ha.- cents cheaper than they would haul
II If billed ont OF Wichita Do YOU know
what that means to the farmers in the
wheat belt? 1t means that a tritie over
eight cents per bushel for every buShel
Of wheat raised by you has wrongfully
been taken from your pocket and nut
down In the Golfers Of the railroad com
pany. And this is figured on the basis
OF the same rate from Wichita as Kan
Sas City But the fact is that the rate
from Kansas City of seventeen cents be-
ing remunerative one IL surely follows
that aalesS rate from Wichita would also
! be reasonable and remuuerative but fig
uring II on the basis Of the Kansas City
rate. ! want 10 call your attention for a
few moments to the amount Of money
/ that Is being taken wrongfully from you
each year. | hold in my hands a mar
of the country within a radius of one
hundred miles OF the city Of Wichita
showing among other things. the number
Of bushels Of wheat raised in each county
in this district for 1901. and | find that
the total number Of bushels of wheat
raised was ~, k5ll2. and at eight cents
per bUshel the farmers have VIZ ngfuity
had taken from them over S5,Hl0.0[ That
the farmers Of Sumner county. With its
6.Sle.226 bushels lost over oue-hsIf mil
lion dollars. kingmau. with IL 1858. -
nearly $4,000 Harper. with its 2.sSe. -
bushels. S9o.oan. Reno. with its S.SSS. 81
bushels. S260.9oa. Harvey. with its i.s5s. sa
bushels. nearly Sl5eoo0 Butler. with %.
34S bushels over S2S.Gsa Cowley, with
N2S.e7S bushels. over $3.50 90 SedCwick
with its 2.poi.N1 bushels. $4,000
And each Of YOU farmers in the wheat
belt that usually put in at least eighty
Of your lSa acres in wheat. raising at leaS'
l.543 bushels each year. are paying tri
butte 10 this unjust discrimination si23,es
yearly
have not attempted to quote from al
7 the counties In this district but enough a
those surrounding counties merely 20 show
YOU the enormous amount OF money
E through these unlawful discrimination:
and eNtcriions And there never has bee
a valid reason given for IL. and tho com
panies themselves have lately agreed Z
! give Wichita. Hutchinson and Sslna tn
Z same sugar rate as Kansas City fror,
/ California points. thereby acknowledge 2:
( their ability TO do Justice To our peopt
I il Saey feel so inclined. And the rail
1 road companies have lately gotten int
| racket among themselves al hsnSa
/ City over the rate east on wheat ant
| they put in a rate temporarily fror,
l Wichita TO the gSif Of ~. cents per nun