Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1910-11-04
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and that the Interstate Commerce
COMMISSION should be denied the
right to make any exceptions at
all whatever, but should apply
the Long and Short Haul clause
to every city, town or hamlet
alike, and if that is done the
JCbblng centerS of the Seventh
District will then be able to eOm-
pete with any OF the larger cities.
The rate ON wheat for 275 mile
ON any railroad in the state of
Kansas is 13ha cents per hundred
pounds. From Kansas City to
st. Louis it is exactly 275 miles
and the rate is only s cents per
hundred pounds, a discrimination
against the farmers of Kansas of
I5h cents on every hundred
pounds OF wheat. Yet your cO1r
gresham says that the matter
had already been fixed ninety
days before my platform was
announced. The rate ON corn
from Anthony, Kansas, to Gal
weston, Tex. 720 miles, and then
1920 miles across the ocean to
Rotterdam, Holland, is &c cents
per hundred pounds. From Am
thony to Carlsbad, New Mexico,
it is 400 miles, one ninth the dis
tapce tO Rotterdam, and the rate
! is As cents per hundred pounds.
From Anthony to Rotterdam, A.
d, miles, the rate on wheat is
80 cents per hundred pounds;
from Anthony to- Phoenix, Ariz.,
1t is $50 miles and the rate ON
wheat is $1.14 per hundred
pOSndS. From New York to st.
Louis it is 1,054 miles and the
rate on firStrclaSs freight is SIC
per hundred pounds; from Kan
sas City to- Dodge City it is, 345
miles, less than Onethird the
distance from New York to st.
Louis, and the rate is exactly
the same, 81 cents; thus proving
that your congressman won't
even stand up and fight for his
own city, much less the other job
ling centers of his district.
The miller at Mulvane recently
told me that he could load a car
OF wheat at Mulvalne, bound for
Galveston, ship it to Kansas City,
312 miles, re7bill it right back
through Mulvane in the same
car and ON to Galveston, making
q rip of ga miles out OF the
way, for less money than he
could ship it direct from MuE-
vane to Galveston. Yet with
these facts staring him in the fac
of your congressman goes about
over this district deliberately mis-
representing the conditions as
they exist and fighting against
the bettering of freight rate con-
ditions for his own people. (FrOm
Geo. a. Neeley'S speech at Dodge
City Oct. Sth.)
This is an agricultural district,
my friends, and you would nat
urally expect that your congress-
man, being from a district where
agricultural and stock raising
were the chief occupations, would
make every effort in behalf of
MS constituents. Do you know
!hat the appropriations for the
Army and the Navy during the
past year aggregated $3.39 for
every man, woman and child IN
the United Statesl Well, you say,
agriculture and labor produce
everything in the world, one or
both of them, and | guess ne
cot as much as he did for the
Army and Navy. But he didn't
lie didn't get your $500, nor
SOU, nor Z.UU, nor 9l.oU, hui
$1.OO, nor SOC, no, he didn't even
get you the 39c without the $500
or the half of it. Well, you say
how much did he get us. Listen,
my friend, fifteen cents per
ca lta, and you took your pay IN
old rotten garden seeds at that.
| got some of them. They were
marked lettuce ON the outside
and l planted them and they
came up mustard and it is grow
ing in my back yard today. yet
: with S3 90 for the ARMY and