The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-11-14
TO SECURE BETTER
FREIGHT RATES
Petition Filed Yesterday With the Interstate Com
merCe Commission Asking That the Freight Rates
Into and Out of the Pecos Valley Be More
FqItaby Adjusted A Short History of
the Movement.

ton of this fact we ought to get fair
treatment from the railroad company,
but this we do not get Albuquerque
does not ask the Santa Fe Railway
company or any other company Or in
stitution for any special favors. All
she asks is a square deal, and this
we mean to get, peaceably if we can,
by an appeal to the interstate COM
mission if we must. We fully appre-
ciate the Importance to Albuquerque
of the Santa Fe road, and have al
ways been ready and willing to do
anything in reason to defend and pro-
mote the interests of the road, but
we are not willing to be skinned, and
in consideration of the fact tnat we
are one of the roads best customers
we regard is as exceptionally unjust
for it to subject us to the skinning
process.
But to be more specific: The road
is deliberately robbing the business
men of this place by unlawful dis
ordinations against the town in its
freight rates. We are not prepared
to assert that our merchants are over
charged on every class of freight, but
we can assert positively that this
is true in every case that we have in
vestigated. In one class, especially
which is sample of many, we are
state Commerce Commission, by the
roads receipted bills, that it has charg
ed Forty Per Cent. More for goods
hauled to Albuquerque from Missouri
| river points than for identically. the
same kind and character of goods
hauled from the same points to Ell
Paso, two hundred and fifty-four miles
further. And this not in a single in
stance only, but as a regular practice.
Now, railroad people may talk as
they please about common points"
and all that, but the simple fact re-
| mains that such discrimination as
we have referred to is not only fla
grantly unjust and outrageous, but
is ir open, direct and indefensible
violation of the plain letter and spir-
| it of the United States law on the
subject, which declares in terms as
lplain and positive as the English lam
guage affords that no interstate road
may charge more for a shorter haul
| than for a longer one.
If there Were any special favors to
be granted, then the fact that this
town is the best customer the road
has in the southwest would give us
reason to feel that such favors should
be given to us. But as we have said
above, we do not ask or expect any
favors- We only want what is ou1
due-and, in fact, we do not even
ask for that much, because we are
perfectly willing to pay as much fo1
our freight as is paid by our neigh
bors whose goods have to be hauled
$50 miles further, but when it comes
to charging US a fifty percent higher
price tnan our neighbors are asked
to pay for twenty-five per cent long
er haul, that's rubbing it in. We have
stood this Indefinitely in the past
and we propose to find out whethel
we shall have to stand it in the fu
ture. Possibly we shall. but if so WI
shall nave the satisfaction. at least
of knowing that 1t is not due to an,
neglect of duty on our part.
THIRD FLOW OF OIL
THE ROSWELL WELL