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Show WIS MUDS ' FOR HIGH PRIDES rMARrS THAT RATES ARE PRO. CHJ TIVE MADE BEFORE NA. HTIONAL SHIPPERS' BODY. Foodstuff. Said to Be Rotting on Farms While People In Cities Co Without Because Growers Are Unable to Ship. Ohlrnco. Responsibility for tlio hieh price of foo.lstuffs was ascribed in railway rates by speakers on Mon-L Mon-L beforo the national shlppors' con-teieim con-teieim called with n view to bringing Iboat u reduction of railroad rates. Speakers said: "Cabbngo selling In Chlcas for 7 cents a pound Is sold for $3 50 a ton In Texas, and oranges re rotting In California under signs reading: Too cheap to sell; help your- The conference, representing farm-tn, farm-tn, mniiufacturcrs, miners and others, rejected a proposal thnt a permanent organization bo formed to bo known is the National Organization of Shippers Ship-pers and Consumers, but Indlcnted resolutions of protest rould bo sent Ite congress and to the railroad oxecu-Livestock oxecu-Livestock men, railway officials and men representing tho railroad brother-hoods brother-hoods were among those who spoke. "I am a farmer, but I can't produce unless I cau transport," suld X, 11 Hon ard, president of tho Amcrlcni rrra Bureau federation, who wad chairman. "I am a consumer, hut I aa't consume unless things nro transported trans-ported to me. Tho schcdulo of transportation trans-portation charges Is prohibitive. They most come down. t To send a bushel of corn from Omaha to New York costs as much ns , the farmer gets for It on tho Missouri rlicr." , E. H. Cunningham, representing tho Iotra Farm Bureau federation, declared ( -farmers arc ihelplessi and ngrlculturo li fiat on Its back In 'the gutter." Iowa com) he said, cost tho fanner 2 rents n bushel to Chlcngo, where Le sets 3S cents, notwithstanding that 'it coat 03 cents a bushel to produce. ' Glen Plumb, author of tho Plumb ' plan, (aid twenty-three officials of tlio ' ftnnsjrlvnnla rullrouf received 100 per ' ml more In salaries than tho twenty- ' hree highest government officials, In- ' rthdlng the president. ' I The railroads," ho snld, "were nl- ' twd an Increase In rates of 10 per st'o cover wage adjustments." Since Hit, ho added, the railroads hnve re-Ami re-Ami the number of employees nbout i Bper cent, so that tho railroad pay- i nJU are less In money paid out than 3 ty were when tho Increases were nl- J uned. 1 |