Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-10-07
,,n.,,isr DISCRIMINATION,

Gladstone.
UNJUST DISCRIMINATION.
Senator Cummins of Iowa IN re-
cent speech in the senate during the
discussion of the tariff bill which last
NIGHT was signed by the president
pointed out the following facts regard
ing railroad rate determinations pc
tween domestic and imported SNIP
ments from seaboard or border towns
towards the interior. -
The domestic class rate from Mon
treal. Canada, to Chicago, on first class
freight per hundred pounds. was 90
cents. The import rate on that class
was "a cents.
On second-class freight the domestic
rate was So cents, and the import rate
Al cents.
On third-class freight the domestic
rata was 45 cents, and the import rate
was 81 cents.
On fourth-class freight the domestic
rate was 81 cents, and the import rate
was 81 cents.
On afth-class freight the domestic
rate was 26 cents, and the import rate
20 cents.
On S1Xtl-Cld6S lIcl6uI SdC oOA.ASSs.S
rate was % cents, and the import rate
20 cents.
I might read through these tables
by the hour in showing these d1sparl-
ties in rates. Take the item OF crock
ery: We have greatly reduced the
rates on crockery. Whether that reduc-
ton is wise or not Is not material 10
this argument. But upon crockery IN
crates from Portland, Me-, to Cincin-
nati-the domestic rate was "a cents
per hundred pounds and the import
rate was 10 cents per hundred pounds.
The class rates over the same distances
show the same unfavorable compare
son with the domestic rates.
To Duluth, MIMI, that being point
at which comparison can be made, the
freight rate on grain from Emerson,
Manitoba. 20 20 miles from Duluth, IS
IL cents per hundred. The freight
rate 11pon the same grain from fatr-
dale. n Oak, 1868 miles from Duluth,
M IA cents per hundred. So the grain
N2uyer or the grain producer who lives
I'm or near Emerson, or any point that
takes the same freight rate, is now
enabled to bring his grain to an Ameri-
can market over q distance OF $40
miles for 1 cent per hundred pounds
less than can his American competf
tor.
From Saskatoon, Canada, to Duluth,
293 miles. the rate is % cents per
hundred. The domestic rate from
Billings, Mont, which Is the same dis
lance from Duluth, is 28 cents per hun
dred pounds. On flaxseed from Sas-
katoon to Duluth the rate is % cents
and from Billings 80 cents, the dis
lance being within mile Of the same.
The first-class rate on domestic pro-
duots from Boston to Cleveland fs 50
cents per hundred. The import rate is
"a ce11ta Der hundred On the second
class the domestic rate is 46 cents and
the import rate AZ cents.
On the sixth class the rates are the
same On band iron, for instance (and
that covers q very large class OF tron),
the domestic rate from Boston TO
Cleveland is Fl cents and the import
rate ia 171s cents.
The following are the rates quoted
us on domestic and imported rice Dy
the railroads, applying from Galveston,
Tex, to the points named below: TO
Chicago, Ill.,-domestic rate, 20 cents;
imported rate, Is cents.
I pause here to say that evidently
the common carriers are given the
same rate from the point of origin for
this rice, whether Japan, China, Java,
or wherever 1t may be grown, to the
point OF consumption as is given from
Galveston to the point Of consumption
or to the market.
TO La Crosse. Wis, the domestic
rate is 291a cents, and the imported
rate is 241k cents.
70 Milwaukee, Wis, domestic rate,
80; imported rate, Is.
To Minneapolis, Mimi, domestic
rate, 291s; imported rate, 241s.
TO Quincy, Ill, domestic rate, "a;
imported rate, To-. vs.. s.
TO st. Louis, Mo-, domestic rate,
20; imported rate, Is.
TO st. Paul, Mimi, domestic rate.
29h; imported rate, 24h.
TO Cincinnati, Ohio, domestic rate,
26h; imported rate, Is.
TO Peoria, H., domestic rate, %;
imported rate, IT.
To Des Moines, Iowa, domestic rate,
% cents; import rate, 231h cents.
The senator showed that In addition
TO the even chance which the foreign
producer gets in the Underwood tariff
bin, thereby enabling him to compete
on equal terms with the American
laborer, he gets an added advantage in
the shape Of greatly reduced freight
rates.
No matter how long this discrimina-
ton has been going on. or who is re-
sponsible for it, the time to correct It
is now. It is unfair under either re-
publican or democratic administration