The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1906-01-05

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Line,,sthe Fruit-GroE9 te h
press.yArmour & Co., OEs' F.
Fruit Express. BarbaS netal fl
frigerator Line. Ka:H TIA IRE tt
Fruit Express, Tropicals City 81
rator Express and othlefrlge- la
they are all under the +. But fl
a corporation known sltrol of VI
mour Car Lines, andt Ehe Ar tt
is owned by the sajE in turn
who own the ArmouiA persons il
otherwise j. Ogden Enpany, S,
his family-,the mains .ur and
beef trust. of the %
ARMOUR'S ENORMOUS "a
Bills. inlaHr 8 /,
The Armour CARS dksf =
raj classes of busii gene 81
carry beef products f.. They :,
nour packing houses, ae Ar :
carry fruit and vegetableaey A
shippers generally. With 14,C
'efrigerator- cars in operatiS ?
their business is naturally enorD
nous. Every day in the year
Armour ships $50 cars from
Chicago alone--a" the other
members of theS,ueef trust ship
over 400 more. In single week
Armour pays to the railroads
some 5000. 900 in freight formeat
products alone and ethis, -'e"has
40 account Of his wide lib =,
direct and Indirect, n the Snip )
ment Of other products, fruit,
grain, cattle and SO on.
| Now, there are twenty or thirty
railroads entering Chicago every
one of which is hungry for more
traffic. Scores of traffic manag-
ers and freight agents are MAX
ing or unmaking their regulations
in getting this freight. Armour,
knowing his power, holds back
he wants CONCESSIONS OF
course, there is a law against
favoring one shipper to the dis
advantage of another; but what
is law when profits are to be had
So the various railroads bid on
Armour's business: they give
him a rebate. or a concession, OF
a discrimination one word may
sound better than another, but
they all mean the same thing,
Because he is big and powerfe
fthey break the law for his bene
, fit; while they compel the veal
T shipper to obey they law. Be
,, cause Armour is big he gets re
!. bates; and because he gets. re
bates he grows bigger still. Ar
mour's business, like that O
! Rockefeller before him, is, in
= = deed, not only founded upon in
justice but upon downright law
; breaking. He and the railroa'
! agents, in conspiracy, committee
:, crimes, the result Of which wa
= the wholesale ruin of Independent
beef-butchers in every part o
. the country.
: HOW THE PRIVATE CAR is USE
e AS A MEANS OF DISCRIMINATION
l. Long before 1902 the privat
0 car machinery of rebate was i
IS excellent working order. Afte
= 1902 it was seized upon as tn
= peculiar vehicle of discrimination
n and the business since then ha
?, enormously expanded. 1t wa
?, Especially useful for this purpose
ID because it was and is, apparently
IS outside the law. 1t is not recoa
le nized by law at all. When COZ
J. gress was discussing plans ft
g regulating private car ownershi
70 last winter, George B. Robbins
president, and A. R. Urion, a
of torney, for the Armour car line
IL appeared and denied that legi
or lation could touch them in ar
lt way.
k I'VE deny" said Mr.. Robin
x that we are common carrie
a or that we are engaged in inte
lit state commerce.
r. They were outside the lay
o, therefore they could do VIII
OF they liked! Indeed, they ha'
defied the Interstate CONNER
re Commission and the Committe
ny of Congress, refusing to answ
OF certain questions or to produ
X stheir records.
or Let us, thens examine t,