Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-07-31

transportation. have put them In d.
rect competition with our own plants,
and they are undertaking u.s. / in
tend 10 let them have some large con-
tracts at price we cannot touch Now
1 begin to have dreams"
II don't see any difficulty In that"
laughed Kelvin. "a man doesn't
dream many dreams in the face of
failures. It's success that brings
dreams. 1 have dreams Of my own
/ have done a little thinking about
these dreams of late
II know you have" interposed Rol-
Inns. Somebody has been doing a
great deal Of thinking around here At
first 1 thought it was Mr.. Breed, but now
1 know that he hires his thinking"
Breed himself was the first to ac-
knowledge by a chuckle the truth OF
this remark.
II used to have to do it myself when
] was poor" he admitted. but that
is not the way to success. You can't
get rich that way any more than you
can by performing all your own man
uaIIabor. MySuccess is built on an I'M
usual abiIity'to discover men who can
think for me- But you two go ahead
and exchange your dreams; l am in
terested."
II have nosobjection to telling mine, I"
said Kelvin II want to do a little
trust busting"
I've tried #. and that's why I'm
here" laughed Rollins. Trust bust
ing. with absolute control Of every
mile of railroad in the United States,
is the easiest thing In the world. Ray
mer, Speed. Melton Sears & Co. and
all the others have been making life
q burden TO me. Strangely enough,
they don't,want to be drawn and quar-
tered"
81 hate them, every one" suddenly
snapped Breed. "a dozen times they
tried to gobbIe me up in the early
days. 1 have their photographs, too.
waiting to be checked of"
Well let you check them of by and
by" replied Rollins ''Tbey are Grip
pied now, but it was 8 task. Even
with all my experience ! didn't appre-
cfate the full extent of the private
car graft It was a colossal trick,
serving merely as a disguise for ex-
cessive and absurd rebates"
We'll. you stopped It" Kelvin con-
soled him
Yes. / stopped it." admitted Rollins.
with a. sigh. land the next thing that
happened had all the big packers on
my neck"
The only way to forget the attacks
of the packers" suggested Kelvin. rs
TO attack the other monopolies. Ham
thar. tho f4r-ot sfrOkR"
"Goodr' said Rollins. with relief
-It's a pleasure to find that we want
the same thing without argument It's
simple enough. I've merely TO estao-
Hsh my nat freight rate without undue
reduction for quantity and without re-
bate. thus giving the small shipper an
equal chance with the big one The
interstate commerce law may then go
out Of commission. for we will do the
same work which it was designed TO
do. but in which it failed"
Kelvin and Breed exchanged glances.
Don't misunderstood me-" went on
Rollins II consider the trusts as much
a product of natural Is " as the attrac
ton OF grav1ta ton. but where they at
tain to seupendous fatness merely on
abuses they cease 70 fulfill the need
which brought them into existence.
The greatest abuse of which the mo-
nopolies have been guilty is in trans
portation- Probably more than half of
the freight carried is shipped by large
corpors lions. nearly every ton of 1t be
ing subject TO n rebate or drawback
Of some sort, and this drain on the
railroads. amounting TO millions every
year, must be made up by the small
shippers can lower the present os-
tensibie cost Of transportation on a
Eat rate basis and make more money
for our stockholders"
Breed looked at Kelvin inQuiringiy.