Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-31
|0A|N DISCRIMINATION
Live Stock Men of Iowa Peti-
ton Interstate Commission
For Lower Rates
SHOW UNFAIR CONDITIONS
w UNFAIR CONDITIONS
Gross Discrimination Against Iowa In
tsrssts Provsd--shipmsnts Into Iowa
From Southwest and to Kansas City
and Chicago lnvolved-some Of the
inequalities Pointed Out.
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Interstate commerce. SpiliitlsIIoifoAA -
relief from discriminatory railroad
trates and regulations affecting the In
ldustry In this state.
| Their petition relating not only to the
lrates charged against live stock ship
ments to the Chicago market, but to
| the Kansas city and other interstate
shipments out and the rates on live
stock from the ranges, will reach the
Interstate commerce commission this
lweek. BIZ
| H. q. Wallace, secretary Of the Corn
Belt Meat Producers association, APP
pears in the petition as complainant,
while Clifford Thorne, Of washington,
appears as attorney for. the associa-
| ton and the petitioners. More than
1000 live stock men join In the pre-
Isentation to the commerce commission.
| Recently the state railroad commits
sion reduced live stock rates within
Iowa an average of IS per cent, leaving
Them but s per cent in excess OF Al1-
| nois rates. It is on this action that the
Hive stock shippers so to the interstate
80, !, 30 cn,,,n1;ssinn for like reduce
- II, ~ T., tarstate rates and for adj
dit;a;,a1 rs,ief against violations Of the
4, o,,,,, i, arcaI act of the recent
angrass is7'5
.,,a' IL, ;,,+ - he fled at wash
49, .t,i,, ,..as,r 4 10 charged that the
l y, a,,kee Great west
-. M 4. ort; !, western. Rock Island and
WEI, ~, ] J, ~ ds 70 "a sizing. demanding,
o,11 .sot;,,., nd receiving unreasonable,
,,n5,,iw ii inatory. unjust and un-
| 4 . ,,f,,i i fraigbt rate Tor the transporta-
-. - - - bosrs baa,, ana cattle. includ-
II fat cattle calves and feeders, from
si H.. 1inas If "a ilroad II Iowa to Chi
10 - IL violation of the law.
low. sufferinu.
Ractttne that the i've stock industry
Y tba hackbone Or the Industrial life
A. IOWA ana complainant calls atten-
f,or y he. enormous business done in
20 ttanin., western cattle IN this state
for n ,.l5et east Respecting rates the
netition saws
IN this important industry Of ship
ping live stock. while the. state rates
have beer under state regulation for
MANY years. there has been no tribunal
with mower to Ak Interstate rates. The
resnlt is Il remarkable commentary on
line railroads, time honored and basic
nrinciple of rate making all you
can or. more elegantly phrased,
acharpe all the traffic will bear
The 1ack If federal control has cost
1.-The shippers of the corn belt III Iowa
millions OF dollars. AS an example Of
this. consider the rates on cattle in this
section of the country
II has been estimated that over TO-
1000 cars OF cattle are shipped from
Iowa to Chicago each year.
The cattle rates to Chicago on the
Chicago Great western railway, as it
| ma sses thru Iowa. are from $40 to $40
per car higher than for the same dis
tances between ali towns in Illinois,
under tina state schedule from 50 to
$50 per car higher than for the same
distance between all towns in Iowa,
under the state schedule, from 81 to
s12 per car higher than for the same
distances between all towns in Mis-
souri, under the state schedule; from
SIS to s1S per car higher than the ac-
Itual rates from Missouri and Kansas
towns to ST. Louis and Kansas City,
and from 50 to SIS per car higher than
for the; same distances, If shipping
from the great bulk of Iowa towns to
Kansa. city in place Of Chicago, over
the same line of railroad
The rates to Chicago from many
southeastern Iowa towns are from So
Der cent to 70 per cent COR from. S13 to
S15) per car higher than for the same
distances from northeastern Missouri
towns. Notwithstanding the fact that
both groups are on the same line Of
lraflroad, in similar territory, under
substantially similar conditions and for
similar distances.
Is It right to compel the Iowa farm
er to pay from Is to so per cent more
THAN the Illinois farmer to get his cat
ltle to market? The Illinois farmer Is
protected by schedule that was es-
|tablished by the state over seventeen
years ago
The eastern half Of Iowa is as close
to Chicago a. the southern half of
Illinois and it is the eastern half Of
Iowa that is most grossly and unrea-
sonably discriminated against. For
instance. the shipper from Batavia, Ia.
NAYS 81 per cent Cor s17.s0) per car
more for hauling his cattle on the c.,
/ 49, = 4