The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-15
KINDEL LOADED
WITH HOT SHOT
FOR RAILROADS
Speaker Secured by Traffic
Bureau for Monday Night
Arrives in Salt Lake.
HAS A REPUTATION
AS A RATE BUSTER
WRITES LETTER TO TAFT CALL
ING ATTENTION TO ALLEGED
DENOMINATIONS.

big mass meeting under the aus
pieces of the traffic bureau will be held
at o'clock tomorrow night in the Com
mercial club, with George J. Kindel OF
Denver. who owns the sobriquet of the
rate buster" as the star attraction.
/ The meeting viii be open to all busi-
ness men. and preparations have been
made by the traffic bureau. which is
now composed of the heads OF the big
I gest concerns in the city. to make Il
4 one that will go down in the business
history OF Salt Lake. 1t will also be
distinctive. because it will BE- the occa-
/ sion of the firing of the first gun by the
bureau in the campaign to get lower
| and better rates.
Mr. Kindel arrived in this city late
/ Friday night from Denver. and yester-
day met the business men in the Com
mercial club. He will be here until
Tuesday. He said in an interview with
a Herald reporter yesterday:
( II am going to pass out some hot
shot I'm going after them roughshod,
/ and Will tell the Salt Lake business men
some things that will stir them up.
I I'm with them TO the finish in this
fight The business men here have got
justice on their side. and they are bound
to win. They are influential, well
banded together. and they've got the
spirit and determination that / like
'"rhe whole question with Salt Lake,
as we'll as Denver, is this: Are we cow
ardly enough TO lie down and let the
railroads do anything they like to u.s.
l am not tate buster. as l have
been so frequently called, but / am try
ing to be a rate regulator l have
never been out to reduce the rates. but
to equalize them.
Meets Mr.. Hartman.
Il met z. H. Hartman, the railroad
! magnate. not long ago in Kansas City.
and told him what thought of him and
his unjust railroad rates. He listened
attentively, then shook hands with me
and said: Kindel. you're all right I
like a fighter / told him that 1 GER
tainly was right. for l had the truth
behind me. Mr.. Hartman has realized
that more and more with each victory
that my fighting has won since.
THE contention of the Salt Lake
business men is not with the railroads
or the railroad men. but with the sys-
tenn. 1t is the system that is respon-
sible for the injustice.
Il am not a railroad hater. / carried
a gun to defend the Rio Grande rail-
road against strikers. l have always
, championed right | am out 10 get A
l
as transportation is necessary to bust
ness. so are equal rates. We must have
rates that viii put us on an equal foot
ing with other big cities i'm order 10
. properly compete with them. and We
, propose to get those rates"
t Mr.. Kindel has inquired into the
laws. objects and purposes Of the Com
! merciaI Club Traffic Bureau. and
believes that it will be a tremen-
dous factor in the upbuilding Of this
, city, and says that the spirit OF the men
and the way they are going about TO
= achieve the end desired will surely
2 bring victory.
Kinde's Letter TO Taft.
President-elect William H. Taft is the
; latest notable that Kindel has appealed
: to in his fight. He has just sent a let
< ter to Mr. Taft telling about the rates
, and how they affect this section OF the
= country. The letter. which is self-ex-
planatory, follows:
=. William II. Taft. Cincinnati, O-Dear
! President Elect: Perhaps you will think
| l am committing n second offense when
! offer you a suggestion as to what yo1
should incorporate in your first mes
sage for an extra session. l confess.
gave so and my vote to your worthy
i opponent. Like yourself, ] am a Cincin-
= ATTAIN bred and born. but made Colorado
T the state of my adoption. Thirty years
ago I established a mandatory Of bed
T. ding in this city For the last eigh-
I teen years the railroads and express com
pauies have more and more circumscribed
: our territory and opportunities by the
] most violent and outrageous freight rates
e and cIassificatiOns. Der veris freight rates
? today are from 100 to 800 per cent high
er per ton per mile than any other city
e CT its size in the Union. II has been
! my aim Tor the past sixteen years TO
! secure commercial uniformity by the ad-
Vocacy of equitable freight rates 10 IA
cilitate business. ! have attended every
3 Interstate commerce convention meeting
held in the various cities OF the west
? In the past six months I have written
/ President Roosevelt five letters on this
= subject all Of which. I am sorry TO say.
= have been ignored and which, in part.
explains why Colorado went Democratic.
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