Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 30, 1881, Page 2

| | | " LEGALIZED YULTURES. Ruined Stalks in Shadow of the| [\, Central Pacific Railroad in the State of Nevada, Behind their 8moking Chariote is Dragged the Living Booty of the Commonwealth, ‘Whistle comotize is a And the Scream of Deflance to the People. Another Chaptor of Congressman ||+ Daggett's Great Spoech From Congressional Record, Feb EXCLURIVE OUTRAGES OF PACIFIC Having thus far devoted myself to the freight rates of the Central Pacitic i ada, in connection with other 1 will now say a fow words in relation to the freight rates of the company exclusively overits own rails. The rates from point to point in vada amount almost to an interdiction of internal traffic, and farmers wagon their grains to the mills and their pro- duce to the markets from station to station along the milroad track Why, the farmers of Biz Meadowsare to-day hauling their grains in wagous along the line of the railroad from Lovelock station to Winnemucea for milling profitably compoting with railr charges A correspondent of tho Sil- ver st writing from Lovelock un- der date of November 20, 1880, gives the following: i The farmers ighe about sixty thousand ¢ Ml uring mills youn Winnemucea KO many tew time t 5 s farmers ¢ their wheat for flour, purpose oxchi and by doin They expect ¢ seven days, and give employ wen and a large number of and ru ni round trip in t to seven of the Lo-| THE CENTRAL n | ympany o get tl vest rates of | transportation from Virginia City to Reno and from Reno to Ogden. In reply he received the following dis g \ \ L 91,18 v Fracei A t pHly answered, Ce m Reno to Ogden, Our (Virgini and teno $75 per car o special rates over y but T wil jom them tariff r.tes above ut no reduction in the rates tel phed was made, and the machin was furnished from San Francisco. Curious to know what rates had been Jarged on the machinery from San Franciseo to Ogden, after its delivery | Mr. Eckart telegraphed the superin- | tendent of the Ontario mining com [pany at Salt Lake, making the in- The reply was this SALT Lake, Fe'r at Virginin Cit 20 p. m, R. Eckart Three hundred and twenty a car for ma chinery. R, CLCHAMBERS Freights which the railroad com- pany refused to take from Reno to Ogden for less than 5632 per car load they forwarded from San Francisco to Ogden for 8320, and made a longer carnage by 306 miles. It was a mat ter entirely with the Central Pacifie, and T am curious to know what the explanation can be for such heartless discriminations against the manufac- turers of Nevada, BLIGHTING THE FUTURE OF THE STATE, )t only are theso excossive rail- road rates and discriminations an un- just and barbarous afflicticn to those who are compolled to endure them now, but they are blighting the future of the state with a cureless evil. To keep hot the flues of Story county alone, tens of thousands of acres are being denuded of the grandest timber that ever lifted its wealth of green above the valloys, Tn afow years will vanish the snow-fed streams which now breathe their healthful balm upon the summer air, and deserts will crawl up to the feet of the ravaged moun- tain sides, and with them curse the | children of the men who made the | Jand a desolation. | 'or these disappearing ry; 1879, Fevruary 12, forests the wo loals back. [ owners of the Central Pacific railroad | point, larena w ago had they | for what has b ware responsible, Years been grateful L'llnll‘.'h‘ done for them to roilrod company. As | deliver the Rocky mountain coal in teams return thay will be | Reno at San Francisco rates, they in and their powber will be in- | would have taken every stick of woo'l ix trip 81 yundls, a tot 1 for the of o & Lall this money it home. fiven by paying the r day and board, the farmers fro $10 to 515 per day on which they would have theie stables, and for sma'l teans nowa- plenty of g uin on the & this year, and there is talk of % the barley by wagon to Wads- th instead of shipping it by rail Aund no wonder the farme Meadows are hauling ther ins to market along the line of the railvoad when the charges for a distwnce of less than seventy-five miles are over two handred dollars per car-load. Yet the gentlemen who manage the affairs of the railroad company talk of their efforts to develop the resources of the state PARALYZING OUR INDUSTRIUS, Nevada abounds in rich and vebel- lious ores, requiri g the expensive aid of fire in reduction. To be reduced at a profit they must be either cheaply transported to cheap fuel, or cheap fuel must be cheaply trausported to them- These raillroad promoters of our industries will fulfill neither re quirement, ard while the mines re- main undeveloped, and thousands of hands are vaioly gomployment, their cars are hoarly running wabur- «dencd throagh the state. Meade haul of Big Their object seems to Lo {o crush, uot to develop, the industries of Nov- adu, and to this end the competition of inl rates from California is em d when thore is danger of an in Yy growi nto mportance. Lest T may not be quite understood, per- mit me tocite an oxample or two Limestone is rare in_the neighbor hood of the C Finally, to the gratification of all, o quarry was discovered and opencd about ten miles south of Virginia City, and for a few months lime was fur nished on the Comstock cheaper than it had ever been sold befc Califor nin lime was no longer required in Virginia, and its transportation to Ne- vada almost censed. The opening of this quarry Was an interference with the business of the railroad company, and they promptly colosed it by pu ting the rates on California line to tigures below the cost of local produe uon, Ths quatry was abandoned, many wen were deprived of omploy- ment, a growing industry was crushed, and the price of lime has gone back to its old tigures, nstock There aro val ulphur deposits in Humboldt county, and large quan tities of the article were used in the manufacture 'of acids near Virginia, wda sulphur is no longer in do- and, It can be Iaid down in Vir- ginia City cheaper trom Europe thun trom Humboldt county, Wo have salt and soda in abund ance, but they caunot be transported wh beyond the state, and farmers along the line of the railroad zre kept in poverty by special rates from Califor- SPFCTAL DISCRIMINATIONS AGAINST NE VADA, With San Francisco rates of trans. porwation the foundry and machine shops of Virginia and Gold Hill would be able to supply Eastern Nevada 1 quantities of but the Central md Utah with larg mining machinery; bu Pacific wall not permit it, and to pre e vent it they charge £200 per car load more for machinery torwarded fron Reno to Utah than from San Fran cisco to Utah, strange statement T submit the fol lowing capies of telegrams in my pos sossion. In explunation 1 will state that the Utali quantity of Ontario Mining Company, in torritory, requived a chinery, which Mr. Ecks an enterprising foundryman and 1 chinist of Virginia city, lieved he could Francisco prices, provided he wa charged no wore than rates for transportation. Mr, was in San Francisco at the Eekar time, In verification of this be- | porting a ¢ furnish ut San San Francisco | from the furaaces of Comstock, {and saved from destruction hurdic of square miles of timber., Henco, 1 am warranted i ng that the pas | sage and approval of the Reagan bill | | would be an important element in the | Jewislation contemplated for the pro | tection of timber ranges of the Sierra Nevada mountaing HOW THE RAILROADS ATTEMPT TO JUS- TIFY THEIR ROBBERIES. When confronted with this array ot outrages, what are tho explanations | oficred by the oyerland raiivoad own- ers and their agents! I can answer the question, for Tam somewhat fa- miliar with their sophistries, They tell us that they are forced by the eastern roads to discriminato against Nevada on through rates; that thero is littlo or no profit in the carriage of froights from ocean to ocean, owing to thu’iuw rates compelled by water com- petition; and, finally, ~ that their charges and discriminations are in ac- cordance with commercial law. The assertion that they aro forcod by the castern roads with which theirs connect to chargo way rates back from San I sisco or Sacramento to points in No annot be properly classed, I think, among the frozen truths which sometimes sanctify the ut- terances of men. If T am corroct, and 1| shall assume that I am, Mr, J. C. Stubbs, the general freight agent of the Central Pacific, testified before a committee the Nevada senate, in 1879, that these back rates collected in Nevada were not accounted for cast of tho Mississippi, but wero ap portioned and retained s tollows Central Pacific, twelve-twentieths ; Union Pacific, cight-twentieths. 1 shall helieve Mr, Stubbs, They next tell us that their profits amount to a little or nothing on through freights, If so, then in the name of all the gods at once, where have they made their millions annual- Iy As" about one-half the Cen- tral Pacilic r0ad lies in Novada, and its owners have derived but little profit from through carriage, it follows that in some manner the peo- ple of Nevada lave been plundored annually of an amount equal to about one-halt the profits of the rond. This gives the explanation an ugly look, But T shall not stop to smooth down its unpleasant features. The 1einl law” under which they find raut for their depreda tions is a statnte of their own creation All recognized laws are founded in justice. ~ Theivs is the law of pivacy; the luw of him whose business capital inw skeloton key and dark lantern. It 15 the law of lawlegsn the very law which it is the purvose of tiio teavan bill to repeul; o law which, carried to its ultimate by avms instead of age ated aated dollars, would make tramps of its au- along the rails of their own When all other explanations thors roads, advocates fall back behind that vidi culous defense which, for the lack of a botter name, wo may call the **long” and “short-haul” theory. The com- merce committes havecourteously list- encd toa volume of this kind of argu- ment, if argument it be called, during their patient consideration of this bill; and T especially roquest that ro shadow of re h to the intelli- | gonce of the distinguished gontlemen who compose the committee may be | inferred when Texpress the Gpinion that the *“long” and ‘‘short-haul” theory is still something of a mystery to them. And it could not well be otherwise, for its advocates know not what it means. But it must mean, if it means anything, that long hauls can be made cheaper per mile than short hauls. »one will deny this; ) | yet, in the name of common sense, does it follow that the cost of traus ar load of freight is in the for a e distance, than and that rail road companics may therefore charge t | more dollars for moving a car load of , | freight tive hundred miles than for a horter 8 and telegraphed to the freight agent | thovkand/ of the Yuginia aud Truckee railroad ‘*Syringes to catch woodcocks. fail the railrond owners and their feed | THE OMAHA DAILY BER: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30 1881, Sophistry iteclf furnishes but an in | dif differe yrop to an argument so fee [Vle, and for support it is \gain | the ¢ wth of the west has been pro moted by railrond diserimination Wherever prosperity has been thus | created it has heen dishonest, ficti tious ¢ communities have been robbed to se care it. Without the Have | Jegiglation it 18 doubtless possible for with the Atlantic Jands in the ) were purs ratlroads connectin caboard to penetr west, which five years ased at a doll acre, and advance their value a hun- dred fold by giving their products the advantage of cheaper rates of car- are exacted from the far- mors farther cast. The fact that the railroads possess this almost omnipo- tent power - that they are permitted to do what the government itself can not do, whicl'is to lay, unequal burdens of taxation on the several states—is an overwhelming argument in favor of tho necessity of railroad restriction. According to their own admissions, these railroad princes have become our state makers, Itis at their feet that “‘solemn ties of empire ebb and flow.” They can make or unmake communitics . distroy or commercially aggrandizo whole secticns ; and _yet we hesitate about taking from them these more than royal prerogatives. This argument, then, briefly ex- preesed is, that the ]:rua{»unty of the west has been promoted through the cheap rates of “‘long hauls.” At what degree of longitude does the railroad west begin, and where does it end! The State of Nevada is well towards the setting sun. From the croppings of the Comstock can almost be heard the beating of the waves against the pillars of the Gol- den Gate; yet the only pros- penity vouchsafed to us has been un- der the piration of double the rates charg 4‘ from New York to San Francisco. And as for the *‘haul,” ours is long enough, certainly, to en- title us to all the advantages of that seductive charactor of railway busi- ness; but the figures T have given show that the benefi i s its of 2,000 miles of continuous carriage are not es- Lally mviting, . The west of the railroads, like their is & movable and indefinite \thing or nothing, to meet the exigencies of defenseless digcriminations and drown the clamors of complaint. It may perhaps be said that it scems carcely” reasonable that men should thus oppress the peoj discour- age the industries. and retard the growth and development of a state holding within its boundaries so many miles of their road. But, sir, the future of Nevaaa is nothing to them. They have another continental road which will soon be completed—a road which they are building on the spoil of back rates—and I cannot question that it is their purpose to abandon the old road for the now, the matwity of i'saccumu- obligations wiil wavrant the transfor of the property to the ment. They have made and are making no adequate preparations to S T et . Ch government, and in the end tho road will be permitted to go for its mort- gages. Meantime, they will have sold their vast subsidies of lands, and are not over-anxious to pass with the transfer of the road the comgpting ad- vantages of the trade of a populous and prosperous state. Hence, their sole object is to make the most of the present, and their oporations in Nevada show how well thoy are succeeding. The flight of their trains through the state is like the winging of vultures, and ruin stalks in the shadow of their boilers and sleeps beside their depots. The whistleof their locomotives through cur narrow yalleys is a seream of de ance, and the thunder of their wheels a mockery of commercial law and in- dividual justice. Behind their smok- ing chariots, with heels bored, is bo- ing dragged the living body of the state, Shall tardy legislation like Priai come lereaftor to beg the corpse forsepulture; or will congress now streteh forth its hand and rescue the victim bofore life becomes extinet! And who are the men who have been made the victims, of these especial corporate crce elties’ Arve they outcasts, felons, fugitives from prisons, who, recog- nizing no law thomselves, should be judged and treated without the pale of law? sir! They are a part of that vrand army of men who years ago became the state-makers of the re public; who, with ax and rifle on their shoulders, vlunged boldly into the wilderness, uncovering its riches, and blazing the ways for timid feet to fol- low. Strong arms and foarless hearts were their heritage, and their lives havo been full of hardships and dan wors Many of them have gone down vayside, with no hand to help, and their ves are found in the sands ert and under the shadow of he man voice to cheer, hunble of the d: the pine These, sir, turing beyond the re: are the men who, ven- h of railvoad competition, have been singled out as railrond especial victims of unusual greed, Had the overland roads heen built by their owners, there would have been some poor excuse for these ; but when wo consider that onstructed by the govern- and paid for at almost double their value, the excess being absorbed by the directors themsolves, it is ditli- cult to refer with patience to the wrongs for which remedy. — A Significant Fact, The cheapest medicine in use is THoMAN' lcLreTiic 1, hecause so very little of it uired to' effvet & cure, For croup, ond diseases of tue lungs and throat, whether used for bathiug the chest or throat, tor takivg internally or inbaling, it is & watchlesw compound. eodlw DexterL. 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