The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-02-17
Says There are Mills and Factories
in Other Places Than the Twin
I Cities and Scores Beck.
CITES CASE OF PRINT PAPER
Freight From Mill to Fergus Falls is
4.22 per 100, While Cost to Min.
neapolis is $40. .

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St. Paul, Jan. Ex-senator T. E.
eastman of Owatonna, author Of the
eastman distance tariff bill, gave out
. statement Saturday in answer to
the arguments of business men and
railroad men against the measure.
Mr.. eastman asserts that his bill,
with the distance tarif. rates of Iowa
added to it by the railroad commits
sion, will result in general equal
izfng and in most cases a reduction
of-rates in Minnesota, and put amend
to discrimination. Mr.. eastman be-
gins by challenging the statement
that the present conditions force
short-line rates upon the longer lines
as a maximum at intermediate sta
tions. thus securing these points
lower rates than their mileage dis
tauce would give them.
"This statement is anything but
true." said Mr.. eastman. .'The facts
are that the short-line rates. be-
tween .Owatonna and the twin cities
and Waseca and the twin cities are
made very high in order to- allow
the Chicago & North Western rail-
way to compete with the Chicago &
Milwaukee. and Minneapolis G. St.
Louis railways, hauling 1872 miles by
circuitous route around by way Of
Mankato. :
AT present the people of Ovation
ma and Waseca pay rate of ten
cents per 100 on wheat and fax that
they ship into the twin cities. I'm
der the Iowa law they would pay but
I'll cents per 100. They now pay
nine cents per 100 on corn, oats and
barley, while under the Iowa: law
they would pay out but So cents
Then now pay nine cents per 400 ON
lumber shipped from the twin cities,
while under the provisions of the
Iowa distance tariff they would pay
but LIZ cents. II the people OF
Meriden were compelled to ship their
wheat to Minneapolis their rates per
100 on wheat would now be 10 cents,
while under. the Iowa law it would
be 8 IL cents. ... Under the Iowa law
they would pay 6.6 cents per. 100 on
lumber instead of nine they now pay;
10.A on fat cattle instead of twelve
they now pay. The GAINESVILLE,
Smiths Mills and Eagle Lake rates
would be some less because their mil
cage is somewhat shorter. - '-~v S
5 Hits at Sanborn Decision.
: Like all. public questions, the dis.
tance tariff. has two sides, and can
be looked upon from two viewpoints
the one from the railroad compan.
les who find 1t more profitable tc
build up a, business that will cen.
tralize business, draw the people tc
one center and give them an excuse
TO exact exorbitant rates which will
pay dividends on inflated values and
watered stocks. their excuse is
often substantiated by some judge
who will decree that a dividend OF
seven per cent is just on these inflat-
I'd valuations; the other from the
viewpoint Of the man who desires
: equitable freightsrates to enable: him
to enter into fair competition with
his more wealthy competitor.
"The manufacturers and jobbers Of
the twin cities enjoy. q very low rate
on lumber and how about their little
competitors. out In the country dis.
tricts. The people in Fergus Falls
Moorhead, Marshall. Mankato, Owa.
tonna and other points also use lum'
Der. They. too. would like . lower
rate.
Cites Case Of Print Paper.
''The man who uses paper at Fer.
gus Falls cannot understand why h,
should have to pay thirty-three cent,
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