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NOVEMBER 3, 1905
The Commoner.
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that Mr. Hooker made a mistake in
not locating his bleacheries or dye
house at one end or the other of the
road over which he Is to ship."
On the principle you suggest, every
iron foundry and every consumer of
pig iron in Cincinnati, should move
to Birmingham, Ala., or to Chicago or
Cleveland; every rolling mill should
move to Birmingham or Pittsburg,
and every manufacturer of door sash
blinds, furniture, vehicle bodies, white
load, etc., should establish his manu
factory either at the source of supply
of raw material or else at some point
beyond Cincinnati at which the fin
ished product is finally marketed. Also
all our hay and grain dealers handling
through shipments should remove
their elevators to the country districts
where the hay and grain originates.
Wo will not take space to follow
this thought further, except to say
that your theory would deprive Cin
cinnati of many of its industries. The
manufacturing and commercial inter
ests of our city-cannot stand for any
such absurd theory.
On December 22, 1904, the board of
directors of this association called on
you at your office to urge you to sup
port legislation which would confer
upon the interstate commerce com
mission the right to substitute a rea
sonable rate for a rate, which upon
careful investigation by the commis
sion, has been found to be unrea
sonable. The matter was discussed quite at
length. You seemed Interested, and
from the inquiries you made you had
doubtless previously hear'1 one side
of the question only. We were glad
to have the opportunity to place be
fore you information sufficient to con
vince any fair-minded person that the
mercantile interests of the metropo
lis of the state, which you represent
in the United States senate, were
suffering through an unjust and un
fair discrimination in railway rates.
Surely it was not too much for us
to expect that having a senator of
commanding influence (a fellow citi
zen) to represent us, our cause would
be safe in his hands. Gur hopes were
dissipated, however, when at the hear
ing's before the senate committee on
interstate commerqe, during the sum
mer, you seemed to ignore the appeal
made to you by the Receivers and
SliSinners of your own citv and leaned
to the side of the railways. And
right here we want to say that we
are not hostile to the railways in any
sense; we have given them all that
It was possible for us to give, we have
fairly turned our city over to them,
and what we ask in return is that in
transportation charges we shall be
put on an equality with our competi
tors north, south, east and west. Tn
the great competitive struggle for
trade growing keener and stronger
all the time, we must and shall have,
in the matter of rates, what our worthy
president calls "a square deal."
Wo feel hopeful that when you
have full knowledge of the injustice
which our shippers are forced to bear
under the established schedule of
rates for cities in the central west,
and your own city in particular, you
will be ready to join hands with Presi
dent Roosevelt in the passage of
remedial legislation -which will insure
equal rights to all and ' special 'priv
ileges to none.
The Receivers & Shippers associa
tion embraces a membership of nearly
300 of the largest shippers in this
city. The organization is sunnorted
by the contributions of its individual
members, and may be truly called a
representative body. Surely such a
body of supposed Intelligent business
toion would not be foolish enough to
put itself on record as complaining
of a grievance, which you say is more
apparent than real. Therefore, your
utterance in your BellefoiJ Jne speech,
is misleading. You say:
"But the truth is that, while there
are many ldnds of discriminations to
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I sawyour Ad. In Nov. COMMONER. XR, F D. No.
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be complained of, there are, on the
ntho.r hand, i anv alleged discrlmina-
' tions that investigation has shown are
only apparent.
"Cincinati affords another illustra
tion. That city is situated only about
one-half the distance from Atlanta that
New York is from Atlanta, yet New
York has practically as low an all-rail
rate to Atlanta as Cincinnati has, but
why? Not because the railroads want
.to discriminate -against uracinnau,
but because the "ew York snipper
has the advantage of water transporta
tion, with its low rates, for the greater,
-part -of the distance to the nearby
points on the coast."
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ment Is found in the report of the
Interstate commerce commision in the
findings relating to the case of rates
from New York to Atlanta, versus
Cincinnati to Atlanta. Here is the
language used by the commission:
"The weight of testimony of rail
road officials connected with the roads
' leading from central territory to the
south, as appears from our findings of
facts, tends to show that the idea
is prevalent in western railroad cir
cles, .that the adjustment of rates
'from central and eastern territories
is unjustly prejudicial to the former,
and that those roads and lines, south
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posed to favor a readjustment of their
rates on a basis more favorable to
central territory, but that they havo
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ance with the eastern lines as mem
bers of the Southpra Railway &
Steamship association the latter lines
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adjustment. ;'
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that, as charged in the complaint of
the Chicago case, the rates on the
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