The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-11-11
THE BIG HOWL ABOUT
RATE LEGIS
LATION
THERE ARE LAWS ENOUGH
Ii Only the Administration
VIII Enforce Them.

Special Correspondence Daily Leader
Washington, Nov Ill submitted a
few dcsuitory remarks In this cores
pendencc anent the hearings before the
senate committee on interstate CONF
mcrce on the subject Of the ao-called
private car lines Ia other words, the re-
frircraior lines that were sending the
peaches ana the melons and the grapes
and the pears Of the farmers and fruit
growers OF the country to the markets
told them that the farmers and the
growers themselves came here and had
40 laning ana told the people who asked
thNSa questions that they needed these
car tms.. or isc they could not do bus-
inslss Now then. there has been an-
other hearing before IN Interstate COM
merce commission on th same subject,
Tor the purpoec OF letting the alleged
wise men on that commission decide
whether thcy viii ask that ,he refrig-
orator car lines be placed unoer their
jurisdiction 80 that they may say what
they stail charge tie PEOPLE out IN the
woods for icing ,hcr cars and taking
care Of their frul. until It arrives at the
pont al destination. The result has
l,Sen the same The people do not want
the present conditions disturbed, nccord-
ing 10 their testimony, neither hi the
railroads. according 20 the testimony OF
The railway managers who have testified
a. 20 why they employ the private car
lines when It comes 10 moving the fruit
crops ~ thc country Now. then, as
tho skunk said when he smelled tan au-
tonoDGe On the road. Whats the useG
n The present conditions SUI thi
people who grow the things out on GA,
farms and IN The country. what's the
use OF changIung ihem2 Has the demo
.watic party gone into the business Of
regulating the business OF the people o
the country? II So then e is usurpnl
the prcroettives Of The republican parts
and ought 70 go out Of business ana tha
IS t.e concensus Of opinion here ainonl
n iel OF leading democrats who iatel,
have visited the national capital
Now. seriously, there has been NOR
rot written and printed about this rail-
road rate business and the so-calle
prlvasa car lines tlmn about anythinl
else that has come mp here as news
lot Of hystericid people have jimmin
fits about the great outrages that hay
been perpetratrd by the railroads o
the shippers Of the country and az
T bowling Justify for the kind OF legisia
. tion that viii check this thing and CIV
the people relief. The truth Of the mat
Il er rs that there now IS al the legis
1 lati0n on the statute books Of the coun
4 Try snfricsent 20 check and completed
n eradicate the evils Of rebates and un
just discrimnations BY the railroads q
me country II Il were only enforced b
the present republican administration
and through It's department Of justic'
They won't DO o. ana yet they set a.
lhe hypocriticai howl that they have n
way Or dolne things unless the congres
viii strengthen the hands OF tha inter
sac commerce commission They ha
tue chance 70 send PAU Morton, LAT
secretary of the navy under Tedd
fa0osevel, and pebater Ia chief Of th
Santa Re railroad. So the lookup o
bis own testimony. but there was notf
lug doing from Teddy's standpoint. u
wants to put the corporation sin hook
and presume, place the charter
jail What idiotic rot and nonsense
DoR't believe a. am telling yc
straight a IS an rot
Wht a bill probably win be INTRODUCES
into The next house OF representative
= the eject that an private car lines, d