| Show RATES In fx another column will be bo found an ani i article from S H Babcock criticizing somo omo statements as to railroad freight charges appeared In thes i columns wi u IlS Mr M Ir Babcock represents the thc I Commercial Club Traffic Bureau or 01 organized organized to secure better botter freight rates ratas rat s sto to Utah 1 The rho first point to which exception o is i taken and this is the main maln Issue I in involved in the entire subject is that prater competition as adversely affect affectIng log Ing tho thu transcontinental freight rates rate 4 or Of the rail carriers has lon Ion long since to be bc i much If anything more than a mere mero pretext or subterfuge on the tho part art of those carriers This may rosy or 01 not not be ho true Tho The railways allege It as a fact tact Mr Bab Babcock cock declares d lares it a subterfuge aa as is evidenced ho he says by the fact tact that 1 the thenet net earnings per mile of ot tho the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads 4 I are higher than those of oC any an of oC any in the country west of or Chicago He Ho then gives figures as to the earnings of ot these roads We Wo are aro not defending tho railroads Il but the tho remark scorns pertinent that the tho tl o figures presented ma be 00 may perfectly P correct and yet may have no bearing I t 1 whatever upon the question as to I whether wh thel water competition has any an in influence l i II fluence upon inland rates That the tho th theUnes I j lines Unes referred to i are making money mone I may be bo duo to numerous other I I stances that readily suggest them themselves themselves 4 selves solves I We Wc wish to remove another suspicion i from t m tho the mind of or our critic I The au an authorship of the article to does i I res rest t with a member of or our regular edi edl editorial I tonal staff No railroad representative I supplied the facts acts we supposed they I were ere facts tads They The were taken from irom a i Ij recent reent number of or the tho Saturday Eve ive Evening ve veI fling ning Post Pest If U any of ot the tho th statements is isas l las I J I as Mr rr Babcock B Is polite enough to de declare 1 dare clare c unworthy of ot consideration or oj r J I too absurd for tor comment correction I on on b our r part pIrt will be bo both easy and andI I agreeable Neither was It suggested in Int t I tho article that the people of ot Utah I J h uld ld be burdened burdene with grossly glo ly un Ul 1 I C Yn as an Insurance for tor the th t I f t alleged loss logs in their V S I imputation or of 1 concert I box office the price atO remark that we w down lown to Jl U l The or r tn the lowest pos evening tab tah aa as the mem mein memO meinS O S O C c A nc new b bill night the be ur r cani c ira Bloomquist and Rosa Hosa Roin ROI does not I e may be beOO widely OO The widely km play Commencement Da Dp Frederick V Bowers In tj q If absolute role iole will be seen n all aU this wed vc for tor low f 4 Grand Willard Mack Ck an ij or er freight rates s to this state and wo we weare 0 are Inclined to admire the tho vigorous 8 fight to that end which h IB Is being waged raged by the local organization Yet every such question is not only but often and anti wo we do not pro propose propOS pose pOS to deviate from tho the policy of ot tho the News to present Im Impartially impartially partially as ns far tu us tho the data can con be ascertained l tho facts anti and an arguments submitted by both sides of ot any con c con n question of ot public Interest As already remarked marked we believe b Utah Is entitled to lower lo er freight and passenger passenger ger gel rates and we wo hope llope tho the ss ot o 0 Mr Babcock may m exceed the tho most san sanguine sangUino guine gUino expectations I 1 |
