The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-01
SLAP AT KANSAS.
New Creamery Rates Are Com
sidered Most Unjust.
Application Filed to Have Order
Modified.
UNWARRANTED RAISE
Schedule Fixed by Interstate
Commission Boosted.
WARRANTED RAISE
Result Will Be to Help Cream
cries Outside the State.

| Springs, Concordia, Leavenworth. OF
| tawa and Junction City creameries and
the Continental creamery of Topeka
have filed an application with the state
railroad board for a modification of the
order made by the board a short time
ago in the matter of express rates on
cream shipments in this state.
| After hearing that lasted the great
er part of a week the board recently
decided the case by cutting the rate on
the short haul and then allowing a
higher rate for the long haul on cream
| than even the express companies asked
for themselves and higher than the in
terstate rate on this commodity.
1t was understood that the object of
the board was to help the small cream
cries as against the large ones of the
state.
But when a Kansas railway board
makes rate higher than the interstate
rates 1t has taken a step that tends to
take business from Kansas concerns
and give 1t to the institutions of other
states.
Under the new rates made by the
board the Kansas City, Mo-, creamery
can ship cream from western Kansas
through Topeka to it's own factory by
the Interstate rate cheaper than the
Topeka creamery can ship cream here
to this point by the Kansas railroad
board rate.
And then again, when a railroad
board elected by the people for the
protection of the people puts a higher
rate into effect than was even asked
for or hoped for by the express COM
panies, that Is strange to say the least.
The Kansas rate on cream is now
higher than that of Missouri, Nebraska,
Oklahoma, Colorado, Illinois or Wis
consin. Four of these states border
Kansas and operate big creameries
70 Mi 81
will give an idea of the blow these
high rates direct at a Kansas industry
totaling many millions in business an
nually. Ten cents higher than the
Oklahoma. rate, three cents higher than
that of Nebraska, and six cents higher
than the interstate rate.
On the three hundred mile haul
the Kansas rate Is II cents higher
than that of Oklahoma, six cents
higher than Colorado, six cents higher
than Missouri, six cents higher than
Wisconsin, four cents higher than
Nebraska and seven cents higher
than Illinois.
Again where one express company
carries cream by two lines of rail-
road the Kansas board has directed
that the rate shall be the sum of the
local rates on each railroad-this is
contrary to the practice of the ex-
press companies which have always
taken the rate for the continuous
mileage in Kansas. It is contrary to
the rule in Nebraska, Oklahoma and
the neighboring states and contrary to
the rule of the Interstate Commerce
commission. The rate thus estab-
lished is prohibitive-under it the
creameries pay the following in the
case of cream shipments from Downs,
points where creameries are located
when you compare them with To-
peka:
Topeka rate So cents: Omaha rate
as cents; favor Omaha 9 cents.
Topeka rate. 55 cents; st. Joe rate,
SO cents; favor St. Joe 16 cents.
Topeka rate, So cents; Crete. Neb..
rate, As cents; favor Crete, Neb.. 10
cents
Topeka rate. SIS cents; Beatrice,
Neb., 5 cents.
Topeka rate, So cents; Kansas City,
Mo, rate. Al cents; favor Kansas City,
Mo. IA cents.
Topeka rate, 7s cents; Omaha rate. |
81 cents; favor Omaha, % cents
Topeka rate. 70 cents; St Joe rate. |
As cents; favor st. Joe. "a cents.
Neb.. rate, As cents; favor Beatrice. |
"a cents.
Topeka rate. 70 cents; Kansas City.
Mo. rate, Al cents; favor Kansas City.
These comparisons will apply
equally to all points on the Central |
Branch of the Missouri Pacific when /
destination of shipments is to Topeka
as compared with points outside the |
state.
Look up a railroad map and you will |
find that Downs and Lencra are located I
west of Topeka and yet Missouri cream I
ard take cream away from the Kansas |
concerns by means of lower rates of |
AS for the little creameries. they can
handle the cream in their own neigh !
borhoods by virtue of the protection |
afforded them by the railroad board |
rates and can pay what they please for |
their cream without fear of competi- |
state. In protecting the little creameries |
he board, however, has failed, 1t would |
seem, to protect the producer at ali.
In his petition asking the. railroad |
cream rates Attorney Doran
declares that the rates fixed by the
BOARD June Is are actually in excess of
hose asked for or demanded by thei
0etitioning express companies; that /
hey are higher than the rates recently
established by the Interstate commerce
commission and that they are higher
han those of any OF our neighboring |
states. He goes further and asserts that
hey are a material increase Of the old !
and long established rates In effect In |
lis state and that there was no cause
shown for the increase, as the old rates
we're SlOWat at 70 nave DSSn
-emuneratiTe. The Increase In rates
complained of was made on the long L
laul, which is to say on cream ship
Eents Of so miles and over.
Mr.. Doran's brief in this case bristIes
With arguments and figures. He repre-
,snted Ka-4sas creameries in the inter
state commerce commission hearing IN
Chicago. and also won his cases for low
,ream rates before the Nebraska and
Oklahoma boards. twice in the United |.
States circuit court in Chicago where
functions were secured against adj
tanced rates and also before the inter
state commerce commission in Wash