The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-15
FREIGHT RATES UP Inquiry Shows Constant Rise in Recent Years, Despite
 Denials.
HUNDREDS OF CASES FOUND
Railroad Men Have Not Told the Whole Truth Regarding Changes
 in Tariffs.

The New York Evening Post of yes- terday says: An inquiry into the his tory of changes in railroad rates In re- cent years has disclosed the fact that accuracy is disregarded by those rail way men who are telling of general and constant reductions. The truth is that in hundreds of caaes rates are much higher than they were few years ago.
 There have been instances of re- auctions, of course, and the railway men have put these forward with painful care, emitting to mention the increases.
 The Manufacturers association, in it's recently published correspondence with Vice President Brown of the New York Central railroad, showed a suspicion of the truth by saying. We feel that the claim of the railroads, viz, that rates have been constantly reduced, is insincere.'
 It is fact that since the Hepburn rate law was passed, only two years ago, making 1t necessary for the rail- roads to be most careful in publishing changes in freight rates, hundreds of , cases of increases may be found in the records. Moreover, the New York Central has already filed with the Interstate Commerce commission changes that will go into effect August lb The transportation charges on such commodities as groc cries, canned goods, drugs. lumber and building materials, condensed milk, machinery fiou.', coffee, sugar. and practically all other commodities are also to be in . creased iu the near future.
 On and after August 16 next, if a New York shipper intends to send q consignment of, say, four tc Bruns- wick, Go. Charleston, S. C., or Savan- nah, Ga., he will turn to ;nc railroad classification list and find that flour in barrels is listed under. /. He will then turn to the new schedule, which shows that the rate on 5loss r has been increased from 53 l-2 cents a barrel in the case of Brunswick to 59 1-2 cents.
 On all hardware shipments to the same point, which are included un- der class two, he will find an increas SC of two cents hundred. On hats, caps, clothing, and drugs, which are included in the first class the rate will be increased from S5 cents hundred to ST cents a hundred.
 Canned goods and condensed milk coming under class A will be in- creased from 2S cents hundred to 33 cents hundred.
 in recent increases in the rates on flour in sacks.
 On August i, 1907, all the railroads operating In the territory north of the Ohio and Potomac Rivers, and east of the Mississippi (the territory affected by the present proposed increase of 10 per cent, in rate) advanced the minimum carload weight on practical ly every commodity shipped
 The effect of that, action was that, whereas a shipper could previously get carload rate of say nine cents a hundred on 30,000 pounds of freight he was forced under the new rule to ship 36,000 pounds to get the same ate or else pay the very much higher Tess than carload rate.
 For more than year The same ar- engagement has been in force on ship ments from the Pacific coast.
 On May 27 all rall and lake lines put of New York established new ates on all commodities to St, Paul