River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-09-30
CHAPTER X-Ceoae.ed.

CHAPTER x-ceoae9ed.
1isou Wclt over TO his wall map.
vim 4 step tn which there was the
sp~ing 81 boy al l.. Vance OF the
United States Supplies company
which controlled beef. sugar and prac-
tically al other food products. except
those mighty necessities under the
sways Of the Standard Cereal com
pany ard Eldrldge Rabbits National
Dairy Products consolidation, studied
the buoyant Allison with puzzled ex-
preston. He had seen Allison grow
to caTG-burdened manhood, and sud
denly Ed seemed twenty years young
er Ouly Eldridge Babbitt knew the
secret of this miraculous rejuvenes-
ccnce. Rabbit had married late in
life. > beautiful young woman!
The key to the north and south sit
nation Ia here" said Allison, and he
drew firm, swift, green line down
across the United States, branching at
each end. George Dalrymple will be
here I'D half an hour, and BY that time
! trust we may come TO some agree
ment"
IL dependa on what you want, q
doomed Arthur Grandin, who, sitting
beside the immense Haverman, looked
as If that giant had shrmk him by his
mere proximity,
Freight, TO begin WITH stated ALI
son. resuming his place at the head OF
the table, but not his seat You gen
tlemen represent the largest freight
age interests in the United States
You all know your relative products,
and yet il order to grasp this situation
completely. wish to enumerate them
Rabbits National Dairy Products con-
soltdation can swing the shipment of
every ounce OF butter. cream, cheese,
eggs and poultry handled in this coun-
try; CIarks Standard Cereal company,
wheat, corn, oats. rice, barley, malt,
flour, every ounce of breadstuffs or
cereal goods, grown on American soil:
HaVerman. the Amalgamated Metals
Constructive company, every pound
OF iron. lead and copper, and every ton
of ore from the moment it leaves the
ground until it appears as an iron web
in city sky or spans river; Grandin.
The Union Fuel company, coal and
wood from Alaska to PENNSYLVANIA.
with oil and all its enormous by-prod-
ucts Taylor, The American Textiles
company, wool. cotton. flax, the raw
ana finished material OF every thread
of clothing We wear, or any other tex
tile fabric we use except silks; Vance.
the United States Supplies company,
meat sugar fruit, the main blood and
oinew builders of the country. Gentle
men. give me the freightage controlled
by your six companies, and I'll toss
the rest Of the country's freightage
to 4 beggar."
You forgot Chisholm. Rabbit re-
minded him. and Banker Chisholm's
white mutton-chops turned pink from
the appreciation which glowed in his
ruddy-veined face.
Allison was quite right returned
big Haverinan with dry smile. The
treightage income on money is an item
scarcely worth considering"
Give the Atlantic-P Pacific this
freight, and. inside OF two years, the
entire business OF the United States
with ali its qualifications, will be
merged in one management, and that
management ours. We shall not need
to absorb. nor purchase. a single rail-
road until it is bankrupt"
Sensible idea, Allison" approved
Clark of the Standard Cereal company.
Its logical proposition which had
in mind years ago"
"Allison's stroke of genius, it seems
to me, consists in getting us together"
smiled Hayerman, hanging his arm
over the back of his chair
Banker Chisholm leaned forward On
the table, and stroked his round chin
rehectively. There would be some
disOrganization, and perhaps financial
disorder, in the first two years." he
cOnsidered "but the railroads are al
ready harassed too much by the gov
ernment to thrive under competition,
and. in the end, believe this proposed
Capitalization would be the best thing
for the interests of the country"
wherein Chisholm displayed that he
was q restryman of Market Square
church wherever he went.
What is your propositions" asked
C.uGdin, who. because of the self-as-
sasl.cn nec2ssitated by his diminutive
ss2.- aea.aal ponpous. but was not. No