Show I WHY RAILROADS ARE POOR A beautiful example of what happens hap pens wh when n railroad rates are arc high is till ore CIne we have ave just heard about bout Texas onions Texas is a a great state you know for thi bulb of the lily my family which ha has an aroma all its own In former years the Texas producer cr er sent his onions to to the tho eastern aste n markets markets markets mar mar- mar mar- by railroad d Along long came the increased railroad rates and he found that it cost him 83 cents a crate of 50 pounds to skip ship t tn to New York by freight car I I I Just about that time the Texas producer also learned that he could ship from Galveston ston to New NewYork York b by boat for 66 60 2 1 cents pe per crate a clear saving of 26 2 1 cents per crate Of all nIl the rest of f us economist economist e- e e of the plain life the Texas farmer jumped at the lower rate with the result that what might have I been carloads of onion onions b by r railI railroad rail rail- road just n naturally tu ally float into NewYork New Now York YOlk by sl steamers mers I There are ae several hundred crt cr in a carload and accordingly the railroads lost nearly in n leight income figuring at the boat rate per crate It i i. i is clea as daylight that similar things are happening all aU along the line any people are shipping shipping shipping ship ship- ping by boat when they can and shutting down factories s where they I have to pay the high railroad rates o on n articles which naturally only bring a small when delivered somewhere somewhere some some- where here else and nd sold I We hear ear nothing but shrieks from the about their profitless business they and their employees employees employees em em- realize that lower rates will mean more traffic and consequently I a much greater income the railroad I Ib b business s ness will wiH again pick up uI and dividends dividends divi- divi de ds with it And incidentally lower lower low low- er railroad rates will also mean low lower r cost of living Ving a point the railroad d I worker mig might t well wen consider |