Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-10-27
HAMILTON WILCOX.
An Address.

To the Voters of the Ninth Congress
iunal District OF lowa-Gentlemcn
In an agricultural, stock growing
district like ours, where the gram
and the stock raised upon the farms
must be transported by rail to our
markets, the farmers, stocks raiscra.
feeders and shippers OF stock and all
OF our people, generally. are deeply
interested in the question OF the re-
spective rights and duties OF the rail
roads anI the corresponding right
ard duties Oh the shippers OF all kinds
OF freight owe: these highways q.
commerce.
That the pacpie have been subject:
ed to ia35s.'ions. abuses and wrolg,
by the railroads OF the state, III.
freight RACES naye been and are nov
Giscriminalivc and in vcry many IN
stances high and e.cessivc.-th thai
reasonable .acililies Tor the shipment
and transportation of our live stock
have not Dcen provided. and that ul
warranted disorlm nations have been
made against our farmers and stock
and the meat trust. are questions no
longer open to discussion.
The only way open TO the people
to correct these evils and provide a
remedy against these unjust discrim
nations, and prevent these unlawful
combinations between the railroads
and these gigantic corporations which
seek to rob the farmers and stock
men of our western states, is to vote
tor those men to enact our laws who
are pledged to so amend them that
these wrongs may be righted and
these combinations effectually sup.
pressed.
The Democratic National Platform
contains the following declaration: =
we demand an enlargement of the
powers of the Interstate Commerce
Commission, to the end that the trav-
cling public and shippers OF this coun.
try may have prompt and adequate
relief from the abuses to which they
are subjected in the matter of trans.
portation. We demand strict eil.
forcement of existing civil and Grim.
inal statutes against all such trusts.
combinations and monopolies; and we
demand the enactment of such fur.
ther legislation as may be necessary
to effcctually suppress them"
The Democrats Of this district have
nominated Hamilton Wilcox. Esq, OF
Griswold, Iowa, as their candidate for
hH to. no
pledged to the people to carry this
declaration into effect if elected to
this position; he is in full sympathy
with this declaration in his party plat
form and gives 1t his MIST hearty
support, and he understands and ap
the farmers. stock raisers and stock
shippers Of this state, as we'll as those
OF the merchant and others who ship
freight over our railroads.
Mr.. Wilcox is banker, but he is
also farmer. q grower of stock On a
western ranch, a raiser and feeder OF
stock on his Iowa farms, and a ship,
per OF his own stock He has had
personal experience in the business
of stock shipping, and he is not un.
familiar with the impesitions, dis
ordinations, abuses and wrongs per-
petrated by the railroads against the
farmer who ships his own stock and
the small shipper of live stock.
During the session Of the Iowa leg
islature last winter when certain
measures were introduced which
were intended and calculated to se-
cure relief to the farmers, stock rails
ers and stock shippers of this state
from the determinations of the rail-
roads against them. and to require
better facilities and better service in