TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. APRIL 20, 1 I tienatc railroad charges on one side and they could. Make Railroads Pay. rebates and drawbacks on the other. Nearly all railroad managers insist By this contract the railroads have * 5 B Fred C Baker. Publisher offered to double the freight rates on that no rebates are being given any- petroleum, not to charge the increase to where to anybody, directly or indirectly. Now is the Time. the Standard Oil Company mid to give In discussing the railway problem with the increase collected from all coinpeti- a prominent Omaha merchant the other ¡^Btirne has come for farmers to put tors to that company through go-be­ day he expressed himself as decidedly ^Hctice what they learned during the to The first business of the state is opposed to any congressional interfer­ Mr regarding scientific farming. Ag- guard its people against the abuses of tweens. The rate for carrying petroleum ence with rebates. When pinned down experiment etatione have liecn its corporate creatures. 1 tie power of to Cleveland to be refined was advanced as to whether he received rebates, he ^■all winter giving short course» »nd railway managers to enrich or injure for instance, to HO cents n barrel, but to ! admitted the soft impeachment by say­ ^Bng out bulletins giving tbe results particular patrons, branches of business ' the Standard Oil Company, through its ing : “ We don’t get rebates from any i tiller circle, 40 cents of the HO cents were Man »u- ex peri mt nls. There or sections of country by discriminations to be refunded to it- W hen paid by railroad at Omaha. We get them in the I n PT been many excursions through the in their rales of freight is a momentous I country on which representatives of the element of the railway problem. The anyone else the +0 cents was not to be east from the M. D.” When asked what ' experiment stations have given lectures freight rales are practically a tax which merely refunded, but paid over to its “ M. D.” signified, he responded, “Don’t on see I wheat and other topics for the follows the commodity from the produc­ competitor. The charge on refined oil to you know ? The M. D. is the Mer­ benefit of such farmers as could not at- er to the consumer. An arbitrary and Boston was increased to $3 70, on which chants' Dispatch,” and the “ Merchants’ tend the short courses at the colleges. I unjust tax is, therefore, an arbitrary the Standard Oil concern was to get Dispatch’’ is only one of half a dozen Then, too, the agricultural papers have and unjust tax imposed upon the public hack a rebate of $1.35 on every barrel fast freight lines by which the railroads it sent to Boston and on every barrel are able to whip the devil around the been pounding away all winter on the without its consent. stump. subject of better and more up to date The most iniquitous form of discrimi- that anv one else sent. In the language of In a nutshell, the railroads are under methods of farming. In view of these nation in railway rates is secret rebates Henry 0 Lloyd, in his work of "Wealth contract to haul the freight shipped by Against Commonwealth. ” facts the farmer who has failed to get and drawbacks. Rebates and their private car lines at a much lower rate some new ideas has lost a ¿great oppor- origin in silent partnerships between Kings of the Road “The railwpv managers, made |kings than the ordinary shipper is required to tunity and is worse off than he was a railway managers and concerns whose veji£ affo. for the reason that his com- prosperity was promoted by advantage of the road by the grant to them ot the pay, and the private car line, which ---- **------ ' pelitor« “ have beeu adopting new 7 meth- over business rivals i.i the matter of rail sovereign powers of the state, covenant­ transports merchandise ostensibly at a high rate, is able to give a drawback to increasing production. way rates. As side partners, or share ed in order to make their friends kings Bylt is in easy matter, howtvir. whe n holders, in grain elevators, flouring mills of oil. that they would maintaine the its patrons and still make large divi rrr«h nf spring work comes on for a stock yards, coal mines, stone quarries, business of their auxiliary against loss derids for its stockholders, among whom i farmer to fail to put into practice what gravel pits, oil refineries, smelting works, or injury by competition, and pledged it counts railroad magnates and lower he has learned. He has been told to ex- fast freight lines, sleeping car lines and themselves to put the rates of freight up rank officials. ercise great care in the selection of his express companies, railway magnates or down, as might be necessary to over­ Sermons Boiled Down. seed wheat mid to test its germinating and their traffic managers have had an come such competition.” qualities. But all that takes time and incentive to grant rebates to one class It is positively denied by the Standard It takes more than a syllogism to save it is so easy to go back to the old way of shippers and exact exhorbitant rates oil magnates that uny rebates are paid men. of careless selection of seed. It may also from another class with whom their or allowed directly or indirectly bv any Hot air is al wavs succeeded by. a cold seem more difficult to prepare the soil business partners were in competition. railroad at this time to that company, wave. in the way that it should be for the vari- and this is substantially true. The Enrich a Favored Class. Deeper science is the cure for scientific ous crops than lie is accustomed to and In playing the part of providence by Standard Oil magnates now own a con­ doubt. consequently lie can easily drop back to enriching a favor-d class of patrons and trolling interest in nearly all the rail­ A form of faith is apt to be a figure of the old method. It also takes time to industrial concerns and building up lav roads and the hulk of their product is speech. prune the orchard and spray the trees ored localities ill which these magnates shipped by pipeline to the seaboard. It There’s always room for two on the at the proper season and as a result or managers were inventors in town is another n alter, however, with scores narrow way. while he knows it should be done, he lots or shareholders in factories, and of other combinations in restraint of The sun that shines in the face rises in can readily let the chance go by, with improverishing a disfavored class of trade, notably with the Big Four, the heart. the result that there is no improvement p itions and descrimating against towns better known us the " Beet Trust,” that No man can sacrifice himself until he in the quality of the fruit. which they hail no individual interest, have obtained the practical monopoly appreciates himself. i. It is true that in some cases it is no railroad managers laid the foundation 1 ot the meat packing industry through God never visits one church in order harder to do a thing the right way than for the most flagrant abuse from which the control of private car lines. to vanquish another. it is the wrong way, but in many other the Amciican people have suffered at the According to latest railway statistics, It lakes more love to say “No’’ than instances the opposite is true. But hands of the public carriers. there are 54,000 refrigerator cars in it does to say “Yes.’’ when it conies to a question of the right While it is doubtless true that the daily operation ill the United States, in Many prayers for blessings are but re­ and wrong wav of farming there is no Standard Oil trust has been the benefi­ which the hulk of all the live stock pro­ quests for burdens. doubt but what the results obtained ciary ol the unscrupulous exercise of the duets, fruits anil vegetables are trans When a man pretends to the Lord from following scientific, common sense power of railroads to grant special ad­ ported at a very low rate, and verv high that he is poor the Lord is likely 'to take methods more than make up for anv vantages in the shape of rebates and rate to the consumers ot their products. it as position to make him so. extra labor that may be involved. It drawbacks, in was by no means tile or­ Following the example of the Pullman takes considerable will power and perse­ iginator of that system whicii, as already Sleeping Car company, charges for haul By the new parcels post arranginent verance for a man to cast off the habit stated, is dir. tly traceable to the greed ing privately owned freight cars, were with Great Britain the rate has been of doing things in the same old way, blit of high railway officials who use their inaugurated in the earlv SO s bv the reduced from $1.60 a pound to 12 cents, where old methods are replaced by mod­ power to make nrbit.iry and discriminat­ Standard Oil company’s union tank line but the domestic rate remains at 1 cent em ideas a vast difference is noted in ing freight tariffs lor their own aggradi- as a convenient disguise for rebates. an ounce. the profits from the hum. Tile practice was abandoned after a few zement. * * * months because a better stystem ol re ­ Railway Officials as Exploiters. Riiler Haggard is in this country to in­ Value of Good C owh . Thus, for example, the officials of tile bates was devised vestigate social conditions in behalf of Packers Take a Hand. Prof. Eckels, in charge of the depart Union Pacific, from president down, uu the Salvation Army and to find some Between 1HH0 and 1883 the Chicago, scheme to iuduce the toilers of the big ment of dairy husbandry at the Uni ver e- 110,000 plurality five months ago, is that such a conspiracy could have been tween refrigerator rars and the mileage $ 10O Reward. $ 10O. now a l>cmocrattc town. There was consninated in a country like our», in rate granted to one firm must in the end The readers of this paper will be pleased to not a vestige of partisan politics in the which publicity arid intelligence are so lie granted to all. Hence all refrigerator learn that thereis nt lea-t one dreaded Ufae^e that science has been able to cure in all its Chicago canvass. Tens of thousands of general. cars, however owned, came to l»c mile- •»taites and that is Catarrh Halls Catarrh < ure is the only positive cure not known to the Republicans voted for Dunne. Tens of The first authentic proof of the secret ; > age earners and shared in the loot. As medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitu­ thousands of Ikrmocrats cast their bal compact entered into with the railroad« the four big packing houses began to tional disease. requires a con«titntionanl treat­ ment Hall * Catarrh Cuie is taken internally, lots for Harlan, the Republican, who by the Slandartl Oil company was pro assume over-shadowing importance the acting directly upon the blood and mucous suitace« *»i the system, thereby destroying the headed a ticket which carried the Repub­ duced Intore a congressional investigat­ refrigerator cars became a most po­ foundation ot the di«ease. and giving the |>atient lican title. The parties were mixed mis ing committee manv tears ago. By this tential factor for crushing out ; com. •trength bv building up the constitution and assisting ualure in doing it« work I he proprie­ cellnneouslv in the division on election compact the whole nil industry, not petition. Rival houses that had I no re tors have so much faith in ft« curative power«, that they offer mi • H iti Ired Doiiars for any day. Dunne and the men who support alone ot the valley« where petroleum was frigerator cars found that rebates i made ease that it tail* toeure. eend for list of testi­ rd him went a little farther in the direc first found, but of the districts where it the four big packers unassailable, Rival monial a. Ad lrr«a, F J. CIlENFV % CO . Toledo. O lion of immediate and unconditional was retired, the markets where it was houses that had refrigerator cars i found .<> d by Prngvi«i* ’sc Hall s Family Fills are the best. muucipal ownership of the street rail bought and s*>ld, and the ports .from that the ears of the bigger and I more wavs than Harlan and Ins supporters which it was sbipi