| Show The Railroad Rates Tremont Times Makes Exception The last week's issue of the Utah Independent has an article in it that ought to be worth five hundred dollars to the tells what an advantage the railroads have been to the country in getting it settled and how they have reduced the rates on freight and passage and have continued to reduce them while they have increased and improved the accommodations for shippers and while the cost of labor and everything that enters into the construction of a railroad as well as the price of everything else has increased from twenty to fifty per this is all true and will not be disputed by any one conversant with the changes that have been made in this country in the last two yet the Independent does not explain how it is that the railroads will or can carry a passenger as cheaply from Chicago to San Los Angeles or Portland as they can to Ogden or Salt Lake which is some or miles nearer the starting It might be explained that the trains have to run through to the coast anyhow and they might just as well haul them loaded but that will not for the companies will not run any more trains than are necessary to accommodate the Tremont Similar Postal There are many things that the Utah Independent does not attempt It cannot explain why it will cost 2 cents to send a letter from Tremonton to Garland when the same letter with the same stamp could be sent from to Island and then to and then to the city of It cannot explain why it cost 1 cent each to mail the Tremonton Times or the Utah Independent to when it only costs 1 cent per pound to mail the dail or semi-weekly do not pretend to know why we can mail the Utah Independent for 1 cent per pound to people m Salt Lake when a little one- eighth the has pay 1 cent each for the same Similar to Other A grocery man will make a special trip to deliver a sack of flour or a pound of sugar to a customer who lives two miles away just as cheaply as to the one the next although the delivery costs ten times as much as the short Tn railroading as in all other is a law of general What they lose in one way they make up in On pome a sells he does make on of one per while on he makes one hundred per would K- just as reasonable in demand he make one half of one i-ont his maximum as it i to demand of the railroads that they make their lowest rates their maximum The men in charge of the operating department of a railroad are not angels nor do they expect to grow wings at in order to make a big showing they overcharge on their freight and passenger Many manufacturers during slack times will manufacture goods at fourth simply to keep men at Human ingenuity has not yet been to devise an equalizing scale that will at all times treat all of the people at the same |
