The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-06-30

motive power and equipment 10 move
their freight with promptness and occ~-
omy. Where can they get the none
Only by increased earnings from "a
vanced rates, and by SC doing better
their credit by attracting the uninvest-
ed dollars that are now going to other
more attractive but less productive in
vestments,
What will the advance cost the VI.
innate Consumer Poor's Manual says
the average haul of all freight In 1908
was 142 miles. The average rate In
1909 was three-fourths Of cent per
ton per mile.
The average total rate for the aver
age total haul, assuming 1t to be the
same as 1908, would be $1.06 per ton.
An advance of 1870 on this rate would
increase the cost 10 cents per ton.
or 1900 of cent per pound. An ad-
vance of 1919 on the present specific
rates would increase the cost OF 100
pounds dressed beef in New York.
shipped from Chicago. AZ cents; 100
pounds canned fish In st. Louis.
shipped from Maine, $40 cents; 100
pounds -four in New York. from Min
neapolis, 2 cents; suit Of clothes In
Chicago, from Boston, "a cent; the
same for q woman's suit On mans
outfit. coat, trousers, shoes and hat.
New England to Mississippi Valley. not
to exceed cent. The Ultimate
Consumer can multiply these illustra-
tions indefinitely. The manufacturer,
jobber and retailer could easily absorb
this slight advance, because. II his
| business increased but one unit, that
would More than pay the increased
cost on one hundred units
Railroad net earnings thus increased.
the railroads would have ready mar
| ket for their securities, and with the
money thus obtained again start all
the business and industries now COM
parativeiy idle that are directly or in
directly dependent on their property.
The working men would be fully en-
ployed, their families would again pur-
chase freely, and that means good
business for everyone.
There are 100000 railroad en-
ployees. II takes 1850. 900 men to sup
ply what the railroads need, and vast
number of men are employed in sup
plying the personal needs Of the above
900 900 men and their families. rep
resenting 100000 people. Every
kind of business is dependent in some
measure on railroad prosperity.
High cost Of living: II It had not been
for the encouragement given railroad
investors in the past, where would we
have been to-day for our food supply
They opened up thousands of miles
of undeveloped and unproductfve land
and yet our food ia high. because OF
Z lack Of supply; our consumption Is In
creasing faster than our food produc
I ton. II the railroad investor stops as
| he now has, there will be an advance
+ in food rates soon that will be fal
1 greater than increased freight rates
q High food means high labor, and hisl
o labor means high everything. There
p fore the Ultimate Consumer and thu
q State and National Governments shoult
!. be interested in developing land tina
4 will produce bountiful food products
Half of the country west of the Mis-
n sissippi is not used. and will not b
n until covered with railroads. VIII
g would want to build roads In unproduc
;. tive lands when those in cultivated
@ country will barely pay the lowest rat
q of interest, and the owners and man
a ayers are being harassed and maligne'
n as in no other business?
# This condition will only improv
If when the business man realizes tina
the investor does not provide tn
n. source of his own investments. IL
n waits for you to do that In some d.
ID sirable form. BY your individually le
t. ting things drift, and doing nothing
Ia your legislator, with no business e,
~ perience, hearing no advice and recei'
I'd ing no direct information, which b
Ia gladly would from you quite likel
he you do not even know his name), ii
n. tens to the only voices heard; the ag
x tator or the aggressive shipper who's
at views Of the business world are o
ry tanned by looking out Of the sma
hole of a funnel directed at his ON
10. plant, unconscious of other condition
m. of far more Importance to his ov
We business than the freight rates. SUI
rs, men as these by their vcciferous vigc
ge have stirred up popular anti-corpor
IS ton agitation that has cowed all pa
Tx ties, and they are 30 scared of bell
ne charged as owned or bought that {
ed questions of principle, equity or L
N. general good are ignored. The ra
ed road man draws his salary, wheth
re the road pays or not; he does not ov
OF 1t. If he does say anything he is 6
in upon. The stockholders as a body a
,te defenseless. You are the sufferer a
is, the only one who would be listen
on to. viii you not study your own int
nd ests, find out your legislators nan
est and tell him the real situation? 9th
Ids wise we must walt until grim nee
les sity starves out the present anti-rf
ase road fever.
nts June 6, 1910.
md r. A. GRIFFIN
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