The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-09
The Railroad Gazette Discusses
POrtend Of Rail Prosecutions.
Calls Attention to Importance of
Men and Roads Under Fire.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN ?
Northwestern Railway to Build
Ia Million Chicago Depot.
Gossip and Matters Of Interest
in Railroad Circles.

The editor of the chief Republican
Sunday for something to print
which would warm the heart of
the man whom he delights to
honor, and I'LL up some of the
empty columns of the Monday morn
ing issue, says the Railroad Gazette,
compiled a couple of thousand words
on the prosecution of the trusts with
the old and familiar headline:
president and Attorney General in
Earnest in Attack on Evils AS news
there is nothing in ft-as is to be ex-
peeted on Monday morning; and the
impression on the reader is one of
languid amusement at the distorted
editorial judgment which requires
Washington Sunday date line, and the
work that accompanies it, to meet
supposed demand for news when moth
ing has happened. But on glancing
back over the article the railroad man,
If not the general reader, may have a
more serious thought After a half
column of words to support the above
quoted headline. the writer continues
with Il half column Of facts-tells of
what results the antitrust fight has
produced already This consists main
~ of two lists of cases. The first is OF
fines and penalties imposed. Omit
ting the sums and other details this
list is as follows (totaI fines collected.
about $200,000):
Convictions
Wells & Price, false billing.
Chicago. Burlington & Quincy,
charging less than published rates
Zorn ct al, receiving rebates
Price & Wells, conspiracy In re-
straint of trade.
Thomas & Taggart. conspiracy to
obtain rebates. Sentenced to Jail.
Swift & Co, receiving rebates
lii ~fTr1~
Cudahy Packing Co. receiving re-
bates.
Nelson. Morris & Co. receiving re
Wen ct al. conspiracy to obtain re-
Chicago. Burlington & Quincy,
granting rebates.
Miller &C. B. & a..
Bernham &C. B. & O..
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, grant
ing rebates
Suits Pending
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, tenn
porary injunction granted.
Southern Pacific,
Mobile & Ohio
Chicago & Northwestern, Illinois
Central, Michigan Central, Pennsyl-
Va1ifa company, Lake Shore & Michi-
gan Southern. to enjoin departure
from published rates: temporary in
Faithorn ct al. indicted for granting
Great Northern, indicted for grant
ing rebates.
Campbell, Pennsylvania, indicted for
Lake. Pennsylvania, indicted for
granting rebates.
Mutual Transit company. Pennsyl-
vania. indicted for granting. rebates.
Diver. Pennsylvania, indicted three
times for granting rebates.
Suffolk & Carolina railway, granting
rebates
Bosiey, Virginia, indicted for grant
ing rebates.
Gay Manufacturing Co, Virginia, in
dicted for receiving rebates.
New York Central & Hudson River,
indicted for granting rebates
Delaware & Hudson Co., indicted
for granting rebates.
American Sugar Refining CO., in
dicted three times for receiving re-
bates.
New York Central & Hudson River.
indicted five times for granting re-
AS we have said, these lists are
SOLDERING. We have no comment to
make on them. The SOLDERING effect
comes by comparing the situation here
brought out with that of few years
ago when convictions, and even prose
cutions, had been so few that traffic
managers seemed almost justified in
believing that law breaking was not
law breaking. Many did believe so.
and acted accordingly. There was
good ground for holding that the anti
pooling law was contrary to public
policy. and it was easy to follow this
with the assumption that to disobey it
was to serve the state; which would
lead some to justify themselves in other
disobediences. Moreover. it appeared
to outsiders, if not to many railroad
men also, that the offenders against
law, if there were any. were the weak
roads; weak and therefore presumably
vicious by nature. But all this is
changed. Six of the IA titles in the
first list are of railroads or railroad
men. In the second list-not actually
list of disgrace. because accusation is
not conviction-and yet one that sug-
gests dark cloud, twenty items are
railroads or transportation men, and
only two are shippers. And in both
lists the railroad names are neither
obscure nor disreputable ones. The
lists are not very long: perhaps the
crimes proved or the crimes charged
are not the blacklist in the calendar;
but the fact that reporters ike to print
such lists Is or should be disquieting to
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