Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-09-10
why Not Tell the Truth ?
Eldorado kan, Republican.

decent about it? A dollar invested in |
a Kansas railway Is entitled to the
same consideration, by the courts, by
the legislature, as well as by the gen.
eral run of people, as q dollar invested |
in any other property in the state
entitled to receive the same prOtec- |
ton from the courts and the law-mak-
ing power as the dollar put into a |
are free to say that ninety-five per |
cent of the taxpayers of the state are
well satisfied, not only with the rail- |
way dollar invested, with railway |
management and operation, but with
the rates charged and collected for |
freight and passenger service. But
The Candidate, the newspaper. the
Walking Delegate of so-called ship
pers' organizations, keep up perpet- !
lal agitation of questions pertaining
to the railways. and always for per-
SOnal ends These people think it is
popular to swipe railroads; think it
Will bring them votes, or patronage.
or support. And no later than last
although the delegates TO the
state convention travelled to Topeka
on railway paSSes-no sooner had they
gotten together than they resolved to
smash the railroads. Not that they
intended to smash anything or any
body, or tear up any railway tracks,
but on the theory that such declara-
tlpn will catch votes, or in some way
deceive the sovereign squat and cause
him to vote their ticket. But there
is nothing in it.. Kansas property
owners want more and better rail-
ways, better service, faster time and
all that, and are ready and willing to
help pay for all of it. But getting
down to facts; A few weeks ago we
printed a statement to the effect that
Kansas railways were. not rObbing
cattle shippers; and gave some figures
to prove our assertion. But our state
ment was cOntrOverted by Walking
Delegates, who are evidently trying
to deceive somebody. So we got some
more figures from outside railways to
further fortify our statement. We
are prepared to give stock rates from
an hundred stations in Kansas, Mis-
souri,, Iowa, Nebraska and Illinois, to
Chicago, Omaha, Kansas City and St.
Louis, over dozen trunk lines of
railway. but will make but few COM
parsons. We havn't the room: and,
besides, it is not necessary to convince
our readers that we told the truth, as
they already know it; but to expose
the Walking Delegate who is trying to
deceive the people. From Stanwood,
a point on the Chicago s. Northwest
ern Railway, to Chicago, is 189 miles.
The cattle rate over this road, for this
distance. is olRnGceu Genus per Dun-
dred pounds. From EldoradO to Kan
sas CITY. by the Santa Fe, is 1S9 miles.
The cattle rate from EldoradO to Kan
sas City, on this road Is fourteen cents
per hundred pounds. From Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, by the Northwestern to
Chicago is 2ls miles. Cattle rate
twenty-one cents. From Hutchinson
to Kansas City, by the Santa Fe, is
22l miles. Cattle rate, sixteen and
one-haIf cents; and it is the same by
other roads. From Elkton, South
Dakota, to st. Paul, by the st. Paul
nineteen cents. From Winfield to
Kansas City, by the Santa Fee, is 22S
miles. Cattle rate, sixteen and one
half cents per hundred. From Mo-
nett, Mo-, by the Frisco Railway, to
St. Louis is 2S3 miles. Cattle rate,
twenty cents per hundred. From
Larned to Kansas City, Dy the Santa
Fee, is POI miles. Cattle rate eighteen
cents per hundred. From Benkelnau,
a point on the Burlington & Missouri
River Railway, to Omaha is 335 miles.
Cattle rate, twenty-three cents. From
sas City, is BAL miles. Cattle rate,
twenty-four cents. From Lincoln,
Nebr., to Omaha, same line of railway,
is IS miles. Cattle rate, eight and
half cents per hundred. From Otta-
wa, Kans., to Kansas City, by the
II u, q
cents per hundred. Down In Texas a
State Roard of Railway Commission
ers establishes tariffs. Some of our
Kansas agItatOrS are moving for the
Texas Railway law. The Texas dis
lance tariff on cattle as established by
this board, is seventeen and a half
cents per hundred on single line of
railway, or twenty-one and One-fOurth
cents per hundred on joint line, for
100 miles to any market. The Santa
Fe charges fourteen cents per hun
, dred pounds for the same service
Under the Texas distance tariff, a cat
: tie shipper pays thirteen and three
fOurths cents per hundred over a sin
gle Zine, or seventeen and half cents
per hundred, over joint lines, for a
distance OF los to 124 miles. The
Santa Fla charges eleven cents pei
hundred from Emporia to Kansas
City, which is ia miles. We can give
columns OF figures to further substan.
} tiate our original statement but deem
It unnecessary. 1t would appear by
! all this that Kansas railways haul
cattle to market from all points in
the stats at lower rates than other
railways haul cattle to Chicago, ST
! Paul, Omaha and st. Louis. In fact
charge a considerable less rate on cat
tie than other roads in other states
So that ii Kansas stock shippers are
robbed by the Kansas railways, all the
other shippers in all the western
states are held up in the same way
A railway that hauis 2 Thousand
pound steer 200 miles to market, in a
comfortable, we'll bedded car, insures
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