Show ANOTHER aible i 11 tins is a a lipavr phrase to apply to the controversy iveray winch which ts is doming into ARLD respecting cheaper transports transportation by railroads particularly between ast and tho the histand yet it is is a contest conical which li Is exciting deep interest over a wide section of the country W avde icca by such nn an utterance as that or of in an illinois farmer in a recent meeting nj ajl namely ely ill that it 19 when to steal hij hia farm lie he proposed P 0 sed to fig fight lit already the zo state t legislatures representing 0 one third of f the population of the io country haver memorialized gra 6 to pro vicc y ide some remedy for the evils et ila corn cam of hoarde and nd cily ci y councils of ne nearly irly all the cities cilie of the acet daod aa or of anivy etuy or the leading cities bf it tho the esst east and the president of the United states in two of hia big ha v ef like up the sut joet weije i in I 1 anany auy localities thi the people forming for ot bellare protection and the assertion of lof their rights lights A contemporary ra states the question how in in the minds in inda people as fo follows lois 11 shall the tha railroad corpora lions rule the country or shall tho the people 0 o through throng h the general government control and regulate the railroads r 0 ads in the inheres is ofa of justIce use I 1 ee add of camu commerce berco between the states we trust thit this is 13 an extreme statement in both of its claus clauses iii that the managers of railroads have haro no DO ambition to rule rate tho the country find and that there will prove to be tic no necessity of the general aning control of the railroads the previous question should rather be an earnest inquiry into the possibility of f harmonizing by mutual understanding and concession abc interests now in antagonism the abo difficulty is very much like that now tire rife bet bethlen veen labor and capital tho the farmers of the west cannot do without the railroads latter would 6 bome me to ruin ruin without I 1 the producers say abal the forwarders absorb all U their pr profits olits so that they remain I 1 poor in tho the midst of seeming plenty th jhc thc railroad managers on abo other litber hand band contend that thai their rates are as low as can bi be relied upon lo 10 produce reasonable upon the amount of capital capi ital anve invented ea here is the first point to 0 o be ba Bett lid and atwould it would seem that there ought to be DO difficulty y in ha getting etting g at the decisive fets facts hero ficro probably is where the com COI milace on transportation will begin begia the jt it is ia authorized izel I 1 I 1 to pursue brider the chairmanship s bi p of air windom of Minoe minnesota sota during du ing the recess of congress Cori gress until IF ave th e question is ia settled or at laatt beasi until tho the facca rie are clearly put before the country we ima ino that the talk of the r people eople in any quarter 1 fighting oz or then the matter iatter into their own hands will be regarded merely us as controversial language cx expressive pres sivo of great the mass of 0 tho the people of we the country naturally sympathize with the pro dubers own interests are arc generally in davoy of cheap I 1 emlon the burden is fairly upon the railroads railroad ij to slow show that hat the charges of rates are not dot wll found fouad ed th they ey arff ara not only under tinder ebli obligation a as aa jin factors of the Gat ai lional ional willarc to provo prove that they sire are not levying burdens where blew ings are I 1 lut but aaa aj cred common carr catri catrice cn they are arc always to coll consult sult tin tili accommodation on ft of the public do a well as their own private interests intercity abin this thia i foundation of the controversy controversy is 13 cleared up it 11 will be time enough to oon consider consid sid r the duties of the government and all the other contingent questions of moment which ban hae e al already been thru thrust st into view boston bobson jour journal al |