Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-30
MANSS AND HIS LITTLE JOKE
Chicago Commercial Agent Talks Of
Wiping Omaha OF Map.
REVEALS PLOT AT SALT LAKE
Tells How Four Railroad Presidents
Are Ia the GRme-FelOw r. an
Ex-Preacher from Linz
colu.

Rev" William II. Manss, former pastor
Of the First Congregational church at Lin
coin. now Industrial commissioner Of the
Chicago Commercial association proposes
to wash Omaha off the railroad map as
a freight Ioint' even as he used to wash
away sins.
Rev. Mr.. Manss represented Chicago at
the recent meeting OF the executive COM
mittee OF the National Wool Growers asso-
citation and there made known the plot
with the presidents of several western
trunk lines to wipe omaha off the map"
The former Lincoln pulpit orator met
a college mate at Salt Lake City. who is
a reporter on the Deseret News CMormonl.
According to the reporter, Manss 'let him
into the secrets OF what is the largest
boosting organization In the world refer
ring to the Chicago Commercial a~ssocis.
ton.
When these college mates came together
Manss had to give up the conspiracy to his
old fraternity brother and the doom of
is announced in flaring head lines
In the Mormon organ. Marked copies have
reached Omaha shippers and embers Of
the Commercial club, who. are preparing
to return to the great farms of the west
as soon as Manss and his friend in Zion
get their railroad presidents to working
to cleanse Omaha off the map"
THE announc ementy that the presidents
of four western trunk lines, presumably
the Union Pacific. Chicago e. Northwest
ern, Great Northern and Burlington, and
the mid-western Gould lines have agreed
to make a through freight. rate from west
ern shipping points to Chicago will be a
bomb thrown into the Omaha camp" says
the Deseret Evening News, A the pres
ent time a rate to Missouri river points
prevails and is one argument that has
been used as an argument by those OPP
posed to storage (of wooD.'
Quite a Big Joker.
Then in letting the reporter into the con-
spirscy Manss furnishes the following in
formation:
With this announcement the Chicago
boosters hope to completely wipe out OPP
from Omaha. They declare that
the action, of the railway presidents will
freight point. To accomplish a reduction
in the shipping rates on wool the Chicago
men declare that through rates must also
be made on other commodities In order to
escape the operation of the interstate COM
merce act with regard to favoring any
one class of shippers or any one COM
modlty TO the disadvantage of other COM
and other shippers.
IL is this point of the Chicago mems ar
gument that is expected to draw fire from
the Omaha men. They will debate the mat
ter and will attempt to show that the en-
tire proposition as advanced by the Chi
cagoans is not reasonable, for the reason
Omaha, centering as 1t does so much
shipping of cattle, cannot be wiped from
the Industrial map merely to favor Chicago
IN a warehouse project involving the NOV
ing of lOO,OOo,OO to 200. 100000 pounds Of wool.
Local railroad men deny any knowledge
of any such move on the part Of railroad
presidents, and as the Great Northern
Railroad company does not make a Mis-
souri, river rate" to Omaha, the expostula-
tion of Rev" Mr.. Msnss is considered
as quite a serious joke for a representa-
tive OF Chicago commercial interests to
play on Omaha.