The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1905-10-15

do with horticulture But it has. |
have often said in this department
that when man has raised a good
crop of fruit his work is but half done.
He must get it to market in good
shape. The railroads and other means
of transportation are essential to his
success. If, however the charges for
transportation eat up all the profits
his business must be a failure. In
some instances this has actually oc-
Cured. If the transportation compa-
MES make an enormous profit when
the grower makes little or nothing,
then it must be evident to every per-
son who loves justice that great
wrong has been done. If the trans
portatiOn companies will not do the
right thing in such cases, then they
should be made to do so. Our presi-
dent is advocating and pushing with
all his energy a measure to have such
matters under the control of the in
ter-state commerce commission, and
the railroads and some of their sub
servient tools are opposing the meas
ure One of the strange things about
this opposition is that the real thing
recommended by the president is not
opposed at all but something which
these opponets substitute for it. Read
the speeches recently made by j. j.
Hill and Howard Elliott in Portland
and before the Senate committee on
interstate commerce, and from these
YOU would suppose that President
Roosevelt wants to clothe the inter
state commerce commission with au-
thority to make the rates for the rail-
g.. hot thn
says in his last annual message i
am of the opinion that at present 1t
would be undesirable, if not imprac-
ticable, finally to clOthe the commits
mission with general authority to Tx
railroad rates" But this is the very
thing that the railroad men are hight
ing. What the president recommends
is stated as follows: Il do believe
that as a fair security to shippers the
commission should be vested with the
power, when a given rate mas Deen
challenged, and after FULL nearing
found to be unreasonable, to decide,
subject to judicial review, what snail
be a reasonable rate to take its place,
the ruling of the commission to take
effect Immediately and to obtain I'M
less and until it. is reversed by the
court of review" No sane man ought
to be found opposing such measure
as the one here recommended. 1nlS
is a very different thing from fixing
the freight rates of the railroads and
TRANSPORTATION companies OF the coun-
trv. 1t simply means to give RELIEF
where the rates are shown to be unrea-
sonable and then finally let the courts
decide the matter If the railroads
are wise they will not oppose so rea-
sonable a measure as this. Ii they do,
the people are likely to arise in their
might and impose destructive legisla-
ton on these roads.
This regulation of rates proposed by
the president is also to reach the
abuses of private cars and terminal
charges which in many cases nave
been unreasonable. The Armour com
pany own many refrigerator cars and
in many cases have charged four times
too much for icing cars. This has
been shown most conclusively and the
people will not always permit such
outrages The question must be final
ly settled whether these corporate
bodies are amenable to the laws OF
the land or are Independent and can
do as they please. More will be said
in this department on these matters
so vital to the welfare of the fruit
grower
The question has been frequently
asked why a certain kind of peach is
called the Indian peach. Two views
seem to prevail on this matter, one
being that the peach originated among
the Indians and the other, that it is
so called on account Of it's color being
A. Ia1;o, Nathan &c COR