The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-07
STAKES
ALLON RATE LAW.
Continued From First Page.

First-They demand rate reduction.
Second-They demand the abolition
Of rebates.
Third-They demand control by the
government of d~ifferentials; or, in other
words, they favor a minimum as well as
a maximum rate.
Fourth--They demand the abolition of
the long and short haul provision.
Fifth-They demand a readjustment
of the export and import freight rate
system.
The disappointment of this large mass
of the people-in the main the shippers
outside Of the great terminal points
will be keen, no matter what the char.
acter Of the bill that congress will final.
ly pass. No bill that can be passed can
be made to carry the foregoing pro.
visions, except the second. It's failure
to carry them will cause these inter.
ests to turn against the president and
abuse him for taking a middle ground
1t will matter nothing to them that this
position is the n which he has occu.
pied consistently from the beginning
They want him to be a radical, and his
fsilure to be one will invite their criti-
cism.
Disappointment Coming.
No bill that can be passed will reduce
J the general level of all rates. This may
as we'll be understood one time as an.
other. Here will be disappointment
number one.
i No bill that can be passed will affect
diferentials, and, should it do SO, it is
the opinion of many Of the president IS
friends that it would for years lay the
entire west PROSTATE, commercially and
, industrially. Disappointment number
; two. ,
No bill that can be passed will touch
the long and short haul clause, and were
it to do so, it is again the opinion Of the
president IS friends that chaos and de-.
= struction would run riot in all that sec.
= ton of the country beyond the Missis.
:. sippi river. Disappointment number
three. -.
No bill that can be passed will touch
the export and import freight rates,
and were it to do. SO, again the presi'
dents friends say that the points in
land would be torn down in order to
build up the coast cities. It would be
\ impossible then to ship by thru rate
= from the interior United States to Eu'
rope for export, or from Europe to the
interior United States for import. Il
imports and exports are to be hauled
east or west to or from the American
seaboard for the same rates charged 70,
in the country, the whole interior woult
suffer, and instead Of selling to and buy
? ing direct from Europe, this immens'
8. section would buy and sell thru New
York. Disappointment number four.
a The Diferentials.
" The Dolliver bill, which is to be tn,
administration bill = Representative.
! Hepburn has introduced it in the houst
n has been attacked because it fails t.
d, cover .differentials. But there are farm
g ers and small shippers filling a million
!. square miles of the interior Unite'
it States who, were diferentials EN-
'r braced in the law, would find thei
n property deprecated in value by tn
re Increased cost of getting their prod
ucts to market. The long and shor
in sary to the prosperity Of the great mid
le and whose farmers, under the diferen
le tial policy, are enabled to sell the prod
ucts Of their farms in the great maj
re- kets Of the country, in competition
with the same goods raised nearer t
those markets.. Z.
a e. P. Bacon, who is at the head 0
le the organized shippers Of the countr,
in the demand for rate legislation, at
tacks the bill for it's silence as to diff
ferentials in his circular letter, sen
out broadcast during the holiday re
cess. It might be presumed that thi
gentleman and his followers would b
I'd able to see the situation as the presi
dent sees it, but they are not, and Their
is no use arguing with them.
n. Support the President.
IT. It is the purpose of representative
ss in the house to subordinate their ow
to ideas as to the kind of a rate bill tina
ul ought to be passed, and to support e1
N. actly what the president wants. Tn
ty bill which will finally be- passed wi
A therefore be known as the president
er. bill, and after the lapse of six month
is or a year, when it is discovered tina
it isn't reducing rates, that it doesn
ed affect diferentials, the long and shoT
haul or the export and import rate;
there is a likelihood of a violent re
nj coil against the president, led by tn
" disappointed shippers, and encourage
and aided by the machine politician
NJ in New York, in Pennsylvania, in Obi,
~ and elsewhere, upon whom he has troe
den with an iron heel in his purpos
to purify politics and elevate the star
::r dard Of efficiency and honesty in tn
40 public service.
vel What will be the result upon Pres
a1' dent Roosevelt personally? He doesn
know, and to be blunt about it, h
ey doesn't, care. He feels that he
o. right, and he is quite willing, if niece
ut sary, to be made a sacrifice for til
sake of what he conceives to be pril
IRE ciple.
es. Power as to Rates.
ey After the great epochal affirmatio
pc which the rate law of this. session wi
WI contain, its next most important fe'
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