The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-07-21
Railroads and Cattle Raising

Editor OF The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Nh t3S
sir,-Wili you kindly allow me, q long
time subscriber, o. few words q bout WIZ
ginin cattle interests and the ever llaLsnI
century old protective tarin
HiAt first blush the two sui tects ma y not
Il Scam closely related, n but 1 wish to show
that he principle 81 protec ton. orr
Nfayoritisr11 I Is the same. whethe admin
iatored BY the government under N arln
4 Ia s. IN the Interests OF 5manufacturers, or
BY railroads and beef packers. BY means
OF freight rates and q dire compuision
IN Z the part OF the beef men to n keh
small butchers handle Chicago meat. or
~ undertaking, to drive the little man ian
out OF business. VI IN 81 .
$B Six or eight years ago, when the comic
papers had pictures Of beefsteaks and .ll
roasts hanging up In trees marked "A 20
cents Dor pound, & I took one or two head
s OF smooth, fat cattle to 7 the town OF
Characteristics to SELL MY highest offer
was two and one-hnlf cents per pound,
gross. z.s 5G gs :. 81 !, U.
i saw Chicago refrigerated beef In the
butchers, stalls, and I was not dull enough
to ask, Why the great difference? OF
course these same small butchers who
belong to Armour & Co.. Will very fire.
Squently buy nelgllborhood cattle when
they can get them for little or nothing,
ana work them of at Armour prices.
MY Its a double cut once to the Virginia
small Ca tile -raisor and once to tho con-
sumner. AS sg 88 3iSg h. N a ".
Now. I will give you o startling fact
right under your nose, how the railroad
works the small shipper. From the sta
ton OF Columbia, flfty-slx and one-half
miles to Richmond, the rail- freight ~
local on one cow or steer, VIII thers weigh
Ing thnae or eighteen hundred pounds
IA 1910. II you are O cattle-dealer you
can got q car for twenty Or ftwenty-five,
head at 10 IL cents per 100 pounds; that -.
;1.05 on thousand pound steers @
difference betWeon tho small shipper and
the carload man on each head ~ ss5 81 NJ }i
n This discrimination Is logical only on
one or two grounds; that Isl that the rail-
4 road wishes to kill the cattle Industry
along its line or to throw tho whole tariff
Into the hands OF the few larger buyers.
Or II may be the railroad thinks-With
y ar: experienced basis for its think-that
tho menr- packers will give them more
4 ii eight than tho small and larger title
men combined. Elk 3 53s5 i55ss b
Il, Now stick q pin here. Very recently
AthefrailroaGs. Chesapeake ana Ohio and
cNbrfolk and Western, have announced q
5reduc ton in coal rates from{1O cents e.
4 25 cents per ton to Richmond and New
port News, to manufacturers only.
sY This sounds good to manufacturers, and
1T Is good to them 81 "
II But why manufacturer With their MIL
lions should DO favored more than the
poor bbbtail man who wants ono ton sof
coal to keep dozen brats from freezing,
passes all comprehension IL there is any
such thing rs equity! or fair dealing
Railroads, ii like all other servants Of
tho people. should have 9 falr return
for services performed, but they should
not and as sure as God sun shines
they will not, be allowed much longer n 70
favor or discriminate. fSis
f !, Any law, national, State or. corporate.
that fayors one class at the expense OF
another, Is robbery and fraud, 5s
Tho most curious thing about this late
concession OF tho railroads to the manu-
facturergis the selfish argument that the
railroads will get lack their rs cents per
ton Iii freights from the manufacturers,
i The owner Of Tho Tlmes-p Dispatch.
Knows that here In his native io!lntyl Of
ETluyapna there are to-day n thousapds
.;of acres of unenclosed lands on who'll
I numbers of cattle can be raised II we
Sfreight, weighing, commissou. etc., are
taken on IA $40 COW, you. have paid our
Eonc-foprth to market three-fourths. We
win raise the cattle ~ you Will raise the
price. Y.
/ 4 Columbia, Va, III .i \ S
81 [SInce Mr., Jaekson's letter was written
the special rate on coal recently granted
TO 81 manufacturers has been With
drawn. Editor Tlmes-p ispatch,l
felioM Who besoh,ss agsd q lwo ,glF!s st