Show I s West as a a a Way Station Statin n I 1 since the history of the United States as a nation began E EVER 1 the he e West t ever expanding ding but always the the W West st ha has been bee looked l ed upon upon by a part of the effete East as a n Necessary necessary essary nuisance nce or or r. r a dependent from which it would but could not be separated d. d t An evidence of this disposition was disclosed 4 recently in 1 thel the l I senate senate when the Cummins railroad bill was Under consideration and andY v Y heti hed several Western senators made mide a a strong fight to compel in inS insertion in- in S ion in n the the measure of a a. a res resolution futi n providing that the railway railway y c CJ companies give the West fair rates ates in n th the event that the cp control rot I of oJ the roads roads' passed from the gover government nt to the owners as President President Wilson plans ans shall be done March 1 next eIn e l In these arguments if it was d declared that on the shipment of mining ining 11 machinery into Nevada the rate from 1 New York to G Gold ld field fIeld was greater than that charged from New York via San Franc Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- c cisco co to South Africa a The discrepancy cy it was was declared consisted l principally in the addition to the shipment of the freight rate from Francisco back to Goldfield although although- the freight never was yas sent seni to San Francisco but went direct from New York to q Goldfield Gold Gold- ld- ld 1 field dj while the charge to to the shipper was the rate ate from New York York t San tS-San San Francisco plus plus' the rat rate bac back from front San Francisco to Gold Gold- Gold Gold- f i E It was also shown that because of discrimination on the fhe people o t Colorado which h state is is' is a large a-large producer producer-of ter of be beet t sugar could could jr Colorado sugar at Omaha or K Kansas City and ship it back to Denver envier and other points in Colorado cheaper 1 than they could buy l from the manufacturers right at home h I Again it was shown that while Denver to Galveston i is a cf haul the freight rates ar are so arranged that it it costs more more j ship freight downhill from the C Colorado lorado capital capit l to the gulf se seaport seaport port than it does to haul it uphill from m Galveston to D Denver j Ii Honest opinions may differ among among- the people of the Weste West e garding arding goy ownership of th the railroads and other like but there can can beno difference 1 e of of opinion pinio as to t the of the rights of the tiie th great and growing West to fair tr treat treatment ati at- at meant ment i n by the railroads r j i 1 il i j |