The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-05-19

Lhat VIZ WAVAC Va
fering, because Of freight rates which
are on their very face unjust. The
dealer In Sacramento buys a carload Of
hardware In some Eastern point Of
manufacture. He pays for hauling
that hardware to Sacramento and no
farther. The dealer in Reno buys a
similar carload of hardware and he
pays, not only for the hauling Of that
car to Reno but for the hauling OF It to
Sacramento and back to Reno. Ii is
cut out here. But the freight bill is
the rate charged the Sacramento man
plus the rate for hauling a car from
Sacramento to Reno. Railroad men
will scott and sneer as they read this.
and they will say that all this is super.
fetal, aud that there are ten thousand
things that enter into the making OF
rates. Probably there are. But there
are railroad men. too, who will agree
that those same ten thousand things are
largely the o~utgrowth Of an egregious
system and earnestly hope that the
complex system of classification. which
in itself is both creator and creature of
fraud, could be done away with. Sup
CRITICAL or not, the fact remains that
Reno and all the rest Of the State is
suffering from these discriminating
rates.
The business men of Reno well know
that when they undertake the fight for
better things from the railroad they
will have working against them the
powerful interests of San Francisco and
Sacramento wholesalers. The whole
salers of those two places will fight to re-
tain the clutch which they have had on
this State during all these years. They
know that as soon as Nevada is given
a terminal point they will lose this
place as a market for their goods be.
cause wholesale houses will be opened
here as soon a s the rates are made
equable. So it is no only the natural
opposition of the railroad that is to
be overcome, but also the opposition OF
powerful interests that have grown fat
because Nevada was irreparably in
their clutches.
But in the face of these obstacles we
believe the fight should be made. 1t
will take time and it will take money
But the game is worth the candle. A
club, an organization should be formed.
Its membership should be recruited
from the whole State for the interests
of the whole State are identical in this
matter. Call it the Terminal Club, or
anything else you please, but let its
object be the obtaining Of terminal
rates for some place in this State.
There is not a single man in Nevada
who has at heart the welfare of the
State who would not be proud and
glad to join such an organization and
do what he could to accomplish its
object. The fact hat failure has been
encountered in the past should not
make us faint of heart to-day, aud all
the tortuous sophistry which the rail-
road might weave about its claims
should not obscure the issue. With
painstaking care, with an answering
fidelity of purpose, with a willingness
to labor months and years if need be,
the movement should be started
Nevada is a different State than it wal
a few years q We have more conf
dence In ourselves than we had then
We can fight a harder fight. And alliet
to our own u are those outsid,
aids which we mentioned in the frs
! paragraph of this article.
We earnestly commend the subject t.
the people Of the State. We believ
that the cause is a high one and q jus
one, one that should call forth the I'm
firing effort of every bnsin ess man il
Nevada. Whatever we can do W
pledge ourselves to do, and we kno,
that all the press of Nevoda will joil
with us to the full extent of its power