Show 4 SAVAGE ATTACK RAILROADS ON M Min fn Feature of of Governor La LaFollette Follette s Message t RATES IN WISCONSIN HIGH j I FREIGHT RATE BATE COMMISSION IS RECOMMENDED WIs Jan main featureS feature oZ or sage which ho he reni rena to the tho tur tUrn toda waR W R a demand for an ap appoIntive rate commission the Ia t of the big reforms ked by the governor He said elid Independently of the question of eX cx freight ha th the state should no long r Io a railway y cor corporation to control without super supervision vision Islon abSOlutely and arbitrarily the commerce of Wisconsin and through control o of that commerce determine what shall become cities what dUetS become great t markets and nd dic dictate tote tate as to In every industry Whatever temporary I Hons ma may have been made for bust ness reasons a study of railway ta ruTs rifts In force In Wisconsin now dis doses I rates are still sUIl higher than the thc ra rates tea charged under substantially sImilar conditIons on state traffic In the states of Illinois and Iowa where the rates are regulated b by law rates In sin Ain are gen generally rall higher than rates in and arul IoV charged on t mc In on the whole yield a gross Income to the above t the e amounts required for nil all expenses for maintenance of property and for a fair interest or c profit on the cost of the roads k railway companies are guilty of gross gross discriminations In favor ot or certain shippers and their as between favored shippers are likewise rankly unjust S in the of monopoly con trollIng production and markets alike The fact that railroads have such complete control over the rates has given them control over commerce or of effect It is easily In their power to destroy cities and villages or nr build them up In wealth and power They have but to raise rates In the theone theone one case and lower them in another afford superIor facilities In one case or Inadequate service in iii another The time has come for decisive at ac tion the control of prices of coal and 1 iron and the food products nd other 1 basic elements of our commercial Ue life b by trust organizations In connection with the great transportation SS toms of the country is absolutely de destructive destructive of at industrial and commercial importance Industrial and amI commer Ial servitude In the final analysis Is absolutely destructive of poll political im c It Is time to look to the government for relief and for its own sake no power short of UIE th govern gern ment luent Itself is a adequate equate now to meet existing Among Amon th recommendations Is one for an tion or of for a rep tion of Wisconsin V at the and Clarke exposition II |