The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1921-05-16
THE GREAT IF

0NE Of he most intcsestme ntters The Herald has pnblhhed re.
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s e s g" es s..,l.s s. ,s,.s Ssgg. - , 2 query :. in a,. many mind. Just now =
popnlariy supposed 20 y carried BY the transportation act
who're else, that thc transportation aci guarantees is not a guarantee
a az Il f~ weak E' soss aud W. ssn confess !, sssi rsa asiS. ,s %p9% %s .i SsS rs rssai in the r s'I
seems % g b ca = common e s,"as ss'g Ann w ,ss are ,.s clad 1oweSer tina, the y srT Fs
fnl people
people % seek for > goat when things go wrong aud that the rail
ss"'s railroads. e sas S 'sss' been S sSs goa, )" ans { 1 me- i%asSsSu . Il he ;. A ID aSs'
law They have nei heen the ultimate goat, however. In fact many
railroads ia recent years;in nnwee legislation affecting them; ia the
conditions brought about by government operation in ths raising
rates upward, that the public uniformany aud consistently has been
The goat We DO not place the blame for this upon private railyoad
Rssosnisiag TIA, foreign trade has been suspended, that move
incnt 20 the scaboard has ended; that business is quiet and that ship
pefs n.e not shipping, We are still IN agreement with the belief ex-
herring al least a few railroad executives, that railroad freight rates
are 100 high and thai one Of the reasons why there were 1900 idle
freight cars on the Santa Fe on April u, and probably a greater pro-
portion Of lille carr GA other and less capably managed railroads, is
because freight yates are 400 high
crease IN livestock freight rates out Of this territory is not continued
section. II seems fahsy certain thai when the freight a pair Of
ordinary eszt5ren Hinges for the barn door is twice the cost Of the
reEung in these paris II freight rates are to continue 10 go up, as the
only remedy for dull business; then, indeed are we caught in the
whiri of another svicieus circle. n dangerous Is that formed by the
mutual chasing Of freight rates and railroad wages Then, indeed
the ultimate goat is not the railroads but the public
IN brief, while the skyreketing of freight rates is certainly an
effet rather than a cause Of bad fundamental conditions, it seems
petlectly clear 10 a.. and We hazznfd the belief that it is clear TO rail
road manag, hent. that freight rates must come down before the rail
roads or the puhlc an get hack 20 normally prosperous conditions
How fhe retcs arr 70 be- brought down is another matter, as We
Save sad before, and one on which this newspaper has frankly cx-
pressed Ms views Those views are very closely in lire with Mr. Jar
reds We Disagree viii him wholly in just one Of his assertions
That j. IN bis conclusion that in the present unfortunate situation The
railroads are the goal. That we think, is n. ipaccnraey, due perhaps
10 the point Of view. IL is not the railroads who are the goat in the
transportation -tanele ~ H the people; the great, unorganized
misses az the people who can maintain no Hobbies ia Washington, who
ep secure no steady advances N their wages and no guarantees a.
10 their incomes from government commissions.