The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-07-22

rates. and by SO doing better the
credit by attracting the univel
sal dollars that are now goin
to other more attractive but less Pre-
: ductive investments.
s What will the advance cost the Ulti
q mate Consumer?
Poor's Manual says the averag
: haul Of all freight In 1908 was Ia
miles. The average rate in 1909 wa
three-fourths of cent per ton pc
mile.
The average total rate for the ave
rage total haul, assuming it to be tn,
same as 1908, would be $1.O6 pei
ton. An advance of 10 per cent or
this rate would increase the cost IL
cents per ton, or 1900 of cent pei
pound. An advance of 10 per cent
on the present specific rates would
increase the cost of 100 pounds dres-
sed beef in New York, shipped from
Chicago, 4 IL cents; 100 pounds
canned fish In st, Louis, shipped from
Maine, l $40 cents; 100 pounds -four
in New York, from Minneapolis, 2
cents; suit of clothes in Chicago,
from Boston, IL cent; the same for
woman's suit. On mans outfit,
coat, trousers, shoes and hat, New
England to Mississippi Valley, not to
exceed cent. The Ultimate Con-
sumer can multiply these illustra-
tons Indefinitely. The manufacturer,
jobber, and retailer could easily abb
sorb this slight advance, because, if
his business increased but one unit,
that would more than Fay the in
creased cost on one hundred units.
Railroad net earnings thus increas-
ed, the railroads would have ready
market for their securities, and with
the money thus obtained again start
all the business and industries now
comparately idle that are directly or
indirectly dependent on their pro-
perty. The working men would be
fully employed, their families would
again purchase freely, and that mean
good business for everyone.
There are 100000 railroad en-
ployees. 1t takes 100000 men to
supply what the railroads need, and
a vast number Of men are employed
in supplying the personal needs of
the above 1000, 900 men and their
families, representing 10000, 900 peo.
pie. Every kind of business is Deepen
dent in some measure on railroad
High cost of living
If it had not been for the encour-
agement given railroad investors in
the past, where would we have been
to-day for our food supply? They
opened up thousands of miles of un-
developed and unproductive land and
yet our food is high, because of lack
of supply; our consumption is in
faster than our food pro- ,
luction. If the railroad investor stops,
Is he now has, there will be an adj
yance in food rates soon that will be
ar greater than increased freight I
ates. High food means high labor,
Ind high labor means high every {
hing. Therefore the Ultimate Con- {
umer and the State and National
should be- interested in G
developing land that will produce t
ountiful food products. Half of the a
ountry west of the Mississippi Is not 9
sed, and will not be until covered r
Nth railroads. Who would want to a
'uild roads in unproductive lands {
yhen those in cultivated country will c
areGy pay the lowest rate of interest
nd the owners and managers are t
eing harassed and maligned as in mol
therabusiness. s
This condition will only improve /,
hen the business man realizes that "
he investor does not provide the 1
PURGE Of his own investments. He @
ats for you to do that In some de-
lrable form. BY you individually II
,tting things drift, and doing moth t,
ng your legislator, with no busi- s.
ess experience, hearing no advice n
nd receiving no direct information, o.
hitch he gladly would from you *
quite likely you do not even know II
Is name), listens to the only voices a,
card; the agitator or the aggressive OIL
ripper whose views of the business oil
ord are obtained by looking out of CO
lie small hole of a funnel directed b,
his own plant, unconscious of 9TH tt
conditions of far more Importance sa
his own business than the freight W
ties. Such men as these by their OF
'ciferous vigor, have stirred up a