Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1905-07-05

1ney may De used 10 advance his
political interest or those of his
successor in the Presidential chair.
IL also agrees with my contention
IN previous letters that this whole
railway rate regulation agitation is
only device of the protected in
dustries to stave off and smother
for time ut least, all propositions
for such tariff revision as are now
urgently demanded for the relief
of the people and to supply the
deficit now existing in the govern
ment treasury, and that President
Roosevelt is a party to the scheme.
1T his back sommersaults and gyra-
tons do not mean this then | am
hunting for the man who can ex-
plain them To me.
People who think that Roosevelt
Is a little tin deity, should study
some of his Inconsistencies. He
can side-step a proposition quicker
than Hades can scorch a feather.
just watch him.
As plea for the shipper and the
grower of fruits and his rights to
make contracts with the people
who can serve his interests best
without the interference of the law
makers of the country, the testi-
mony of Mr.. +. $. Quincy. of
Hart, Michigan, is about the best
that was made before the Senate
Committee ON Interstate Com
merce, during the hearings recent
~ adjourned. My interest in this
matter was excited because this
has been the cause Of the man be-
hind the hoe and he has the right
to have his side of the story go out
10 the people So that they may say
to their member of Congress what
it seems right and best that they
may say TO him before he comes
here next fall To make laws. |
gave a part of Mr.. Harris teSti-
mOny in my letter of last week.
He Is a grower of peaches and he
went on 10 say: Every dollar that
has ever gone into those peaches
the peach grower put in. He has
to educate himself when he buys
the land, and he has to put money
in it when he plants his trees, and
he has 10 put in the money when
he kills the San Jose scale, and he
keeps putting in money until
those peaches land on the desk or
the counter stall of some commits
sion man. That is the reason the
commission men are here. Did
you ever consider when these COM
mission men are talking To you
that they never paid one dollar of
these excessive freight charges or
icing charges that they talk about
do not represent the people of
western Michigan, but / am here
10 say that we have a very long
strip of country along the west
shore of Lake Michigan that raises
large quantities of fruit, and | am
here to voice the sentiments of 80
per cent of the fruit growers of
western Michigan when | say that
the Armour service is the best ser
vice we ever had. ! would rather
pay $50 or 500 for the icing charges
on their car to Boston, when ]
know that that car is going to land
there in good condition, than to
pay So or $40 for a poor service
and theR-lose car of peaches. "
Senator Kean, of New Jersey
then asked the question: Then
you are satisfied with existing con
ditiOns Z"
1--WE are satisfied" said Mr.
| Quincy. II want to say this fur
Their, that those rates are published
and every man knows what the
icing charges are, what his freight
is, and we are perfectly satisfied
and, further than that, you SHOULD
make a ruling, or recommend tn,
Interstate Commerce Commission
to make a ruling, that the charges
are too high for this icing, and thu
Armour car people should say, W.
can not furnish it for any less.
why, it would rum me and GU
whole country, because we woulC
be compelled to go to Chicago anC
Milwaukee and go into the hand
of the commission men and Their
: would be q g!ut there every day
We had the Armour car line fou
or five years, and in 1899 and i
= 1900 the commission men, not tn
growers, made such howl abou
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