Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-01-24


ent in large and generous bales. old
time college yells and some new ones
greeted each effort and afforded an ef-
fectve orchestra" Colorado came In
for generous applause and no favortes
were played, From first to last sports
manliko impartiality prevailed.
THE OFFICIALS.
The judges were John Cain, Judge
Andrew Howat and Rev, F. A. Simp-
kin. When the decision was announced
II was received with great applause, and
the Colorado debaters advanced and
congratulated their erstwhile oppo-
nents. The timekeepers were W. w.
Ray and G. s. Kinney.
Prior TO the commencement OF the
debate proper two musical numbers
were given comprising soprano solo
by Miss Ella LCWenstein and violin
solo BY Miss Janet Wittick, accompan-
led by Mrs. George shelton. Then Pres
ident Love announced that each speaker
would be given II minutes on direct
argument. and that the first four speak
ers would be given three minutes each
and the last two debaters five minutes
each in rebuttal.
OPENING GUN FIRED.
The opening gun was fired by Percy
Goddard of the L.. OF e., which took
the Affirmative in the argument. His
speech was the foundation upon which
a verbal structure was built OF rock.
brick and adobe, so To speak, lie spoke
as follows:
Resolved, That the interstate COM
merce commission be empowered to fix'
railway freight rates.
The question which we are here to
consider is one OF foremost impor-
lance To the American people.
President Roosevelt has called the at
tention OF Congress In three messages
to the urgent necessity of empowering
the interstate commerce commission 10
Fix railway freight rates. The president
has the enthusiastic support OF CONNER
clal organizations all over the land, and
the fact that the house OF representa-
tives in its last session passed almost
unanimously bill which aimed 10 con-
fer this very power. proves that a large
proportion Of the American people sup
port the plan. This widespread de-
mand for additional legislation arises
from the innumerable railway abuses
from which the people are suffering.
The necessity for a remedy Is becom-
ing more and more urgent In that our
railways are acquiring monopolistic
power TO an astounding extent In fact,
today five or six giant systems, whose
interest In tuIn are closely interviewer.
virtually control the railway operations
Of our country. Furthermore, trusts
and monopolies on the outside, seek
ing tQ be nourlshed from railway favor
itlsm give rise to numerous abuses In
rate adjustment: and finally. as the eli
. ,t Mi tfutsl nh.
combined interests In the railway and
the trust operate the one discrimina-
lively to the advantage of the other
The evils that result from these condi-
tions are enormous and widespread.
Where q few years ago five competing
companies carried bituminous coal TO
the Atlantic seaboard, today one sys-
tenn. the Pennsylvania, controls that
tremendous Industry, which constitutes
nearly 80 per cent OF its entire traffic,
AS a result, prices on this coal have
advanced so that now people Of New
England and the eastern states, In
securing necessary commodity are
contributing millions and millions Of
dollars a year 10 the monopoly Incl
dentally, the citizens OF Salt Lake are
also paying a monopoly price on coal
Thousands OF extortionate rates due
10 tle same cause inlgnl ne citu.
A FEW FIGURES.
AS great. possibly a greater evil than
the extortionate rate, Is the dlscrlm-
NATIVE rate. That the Standard on
company has been nutured fronf>infan-
cy on railway favoritlsm Is a notorious
fact. What 1t acquired before the El-
kina law from rebates It now gets
through discrimnatlvc rates. For AS-
ample the Standard on company has
retinorles just outside Chicago, Inde-
pendent re1neries at Cleveland are shut
out from fair competition with stan
dard on. by the influence OF John D.
Rookie TELLER with the railways Take
the rates, as an illustration to New Or
leans, the chief distributing point for
all southern territory. on most COM
modltes of the same class as oil, the
rate from Cleveland is but two cents
higher, or per cent higher than the
rate from Chicago, but on oil the rate
from Cleveland Is S cents or So peg
cent higher. These rates shut out tho
independent retneries OF Cleveland and
put millions on the Golfers OF Rookie
Teller.
Not only. however, do the railways
make extortionate rates by virtue Of
their monopoly. and dlscriminative
rates by reason Of conspiracy with the
trusts, but also by means OF combina-
tions and agreements among themselves
they preserve rate adjustments which
under free competition, could not ex-
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