| Show W P PA A AND D DT T THE t IL O I Itan tan ian Who WJ Was Wall n 11 Factor In a Belter Detter Comes Cowes To Salt Lake lk j JI H lit MADDY OF ERIE It IU IN UTAH Will vuI l be Entertained by Pren aid aad Commercial Clubs Stir of or Ills ls Work ork j s jr ir Muddy Maddy occupying a n private ar ir at ot O the Erie III due dUO to come In with I patty of ot oil all TUb Hlo No NoI I j this afternoon Ivery very lIew known knowlI Mr Muddy man In the country It I pot ot personally by reputation To Toti Tob Tobt ti b bt mote more precise Mr Is h the Al AI Alfred Alfred i fred Ired Darlow of or the Erie Ede There used to ho a 0 time when the tho at attitude attitude attitude of ot the railroads towards ho tho JUMP eap pern Iera was Y Hot ao an ut It now In l I h 11 days the deemed jt It J rank Impertinence on tim the part of 01 a l reporter to seek eek to acquire Information tion accidents con conditions conditions and earnings When remInd remInded td ed that were Just juat an no n jary ury an 1111 a railroads In this thia enlightened ate aSe and that the public hat hall a 1 right to be b informed 1 of ot the tile true trite state or oC flairs tho the reporter generally cot IOL Bat BUI down on 00 for tor ht hl biN temerity good gool hard ard The result was that the reporter iv print every overy rumor that he ho heard nd n sometimes moro more besides throw throwing throwing ing II a n tt g I lOll iod ns as halm lalIn for tor his outraged feelings Under such condi condition condition tion liin hlll sort ort of Ot reporting lifter after awhile rot ot up an the Iho nerves of ot tho the railroad aut nU nfl i 1 anI guards were placed lit ll to see that tho the t did dI not KI Un In to 10 tho One reason why the tho did dill not nt n t appreciate the attitude of ot the Iho news new r ip r In tho the delro dedro to 10 print the tho legit WW was va that thAI noon nono of ot the otil om tie or ever eve been Ie re reporters porters r or cr editors All Mi this has been changed now and practically every big hI railroad system 8 has hay a II former r ow pa lem JI In Its lis it employ us 1111 advertising ar rl publicity man wIlD who pees roell that his road ro d is JI kept hopt before be toto the public and when disaster does dolS strike his personal In flun Is III u IL great groat factor actor In heading any ny yellow and distorted accounts tl Li might appear and give sho the road soma somo advertising The man w o 0 J lisa hns exerted the tho great grent rent influence st L in tn establishing more moro cor cordial cordial cordial dial relations lations r between the railroads and ana the th press IH is I probably J 3 It H Maddy who arrives hero this afternoon for tor light eight years tho the special representative of ot the Baltimore and Ohio and now acting In Inthe Inthe Inthe the simo samo capacity for tor tho the Erie Mr Air Middy had been the managing editor of or r the loveland Cleveland World and had also alao alaoen been en connected with ono one of at Vf brg dallies when In HOC 1896 he was wn M ta to Uko tice charge nf ot the tho new publicity department of ot the Baltimore Ohio railroad rill road One of ot his first acts was to tot t tend fend out oUI an circular to 10 all nil tho tha of ot the company requesting them to give the tho newspaper men full tull Information any accidents that might happen on all the tiis rood road and such other f fas ift an as tim tho public was entitled to 10 know The Tho effect of 01 this order was Ial as to almost Immediately change the hostile attitude of ot the pre to ono of ot tolerance rl aM ar In m many cases case hearty henrt support CAMPAIGN OF Ol EDUCATION live Ine his hili hi appointment to the tho ho he hohas hohal has hal bc ii engaged in a n of or ed cd II JI tion allon on railroad rates rate a tI subject ti ia specially engaged and attention during the past He Ire believed bell that the attitude of or orthe the thi newspapers which was In a largo larga Measure hostile to the railroads was dui dur to Ignorance rather than to malice sid nd that If II tho the editor editors were Informed is a 5 to t the tho real nets foots they would tea se ei theft error and recede r from their poal position tion in speaking to a 0 representative of ot on the tho subject recent IY ly Mr Maddy said sald ono one undertakes to 10 change a 1 treat neat public clamor he ho has hili more or orle le or of a R Job on Ills his hands When wo we 0 to prove to tho the people that thA t KOV gov go nt ratemaking wag not good for or the th commercial prosperity of 01 the tho coun cone try tTY there were vere mighty few rew editors who wire Wife or of that trend of 01 mind Tho The tion tto tad fad bp bon n fanned by political dl db local railroad abuse and tho the florin of ot o organizations to whom low lowr Sr r rte meant Increased profits Ai M A matter of ot fact tact not one editor In a md knew know what he won Wall ad lid He lie had hall a 11 general Idea that M at r paid Pahi rebates rebated to all largo large that the railroads were the tho of ot tho the private car lines and thai w lint carload shipper more moro than IhAn thana a train tra III load loul shipper lie not know Mr ir mid JulI he be expected to that rates rotes are ro Interdependent made and unmade by y Ui n law hw of 01 supply and demand and amI W Ugh high rates tilt throttled business and anti low 0 raD ras encouraged It II r i illy mistakes of or tact fact were made sad nd tIre then WOK was exhibited woeful n i on the subject of present rate rote reg Citing laws Assertions were wore made an ati tu drawn at It length from that nut had no foundation In f the tIB subject was aa most extensively rt 1 n II r about anti and all ui sorts carts of at things up lip a It Will vaa said saji sa d that to lot the tho intern Int rs tie lie te commerce commission make snake maker bh r rte to would stop discrimination re rei bate a t i private car lino IIno abuses and alt all II p hf things that needed attention If lh Jh did ij you oU not ael ot nt at It IL 7 H i fol fl lout L out story after story tt I V th Ih tits real conditions and malt male Ing nj n but hut of or o fact tact In Wj the Ille t pinco the public did not lint de 10 wand J that the r power be wen given V n in 1 the interstate commerce corn com mission It thought that titers there Was no r arr rf i for discriminations There Thero Is la p e tr of It f law on this line 11 lit Rebate f g and receiving is 18 a II misdemeanor r In f r IMS are not within the tho 1 Ii nf of interstate Com Coin flior r I t and alid l to terminal can CIll be declared illegal by bytho bytho bythe tho the commission I ITou You Tou know It does doea not take tong long to convince en ell editor that he IH in wrong It If you show him Many MallY who were welo against the railroads now nos see that It would seriously cripple business to let seven men Inca control the tM th manufacturing and producing communities of ot the country they are beginning to realize what such uch sucha a n power would mean menn anti that a 1 re reduction reduction In III rates rAte would seriously Im Impair pair the tho revenue of or railroads with the tho consentient economics economies Homo Borne of ot them are arc stilt still hammering away avay and that they are arc right They Thoy fuel feet It II will vIii help the tho people They do not yet rea Iea lizo that the farmer does d s not get the tho of ot a n lowered price rate nor does docs II s the consumer Tho The grain broker lockets It II ItI III I 1 find II lid much hit has been said saki about dis discrimination crimination between on tho the small sinai and olId tho the shipper meaning perhaps tho the thoman thoman theman man who loads the tho small package an all against the carload lot fellow tollow Well Weli this very VrY slon to whom they lIe hue for or help under a I stat statute ute tite ut hove have decided that tho the difference In III rate rato In Is Just and legal There are arc many Inconsistencies of 01 this kind being and wo we plenty of ot answers anti 1111 proofs In tho the reports of ot the commission Itself tHeir Tho The work Is haul haiti but bl ba It Is Interesting probably probablY probably ably because b ause tho the results are aro moro more anti and antimore more apparent every day When tho tue editor finds that the situ situation Is its not as nil he thinks It Ills Is und anti that business 9 prosperity depends uK upon n rail railroads railroads roads roa s for tor anti and nurturing their communities end and that rates ate arc not made arbitrarily but are aro aa as subject to fluctuation us tho the thermometer then the llo railroads anti and Congress can CUll get Het to Improve the present laws lawsto to U tie benefit of ot tho the people anti and tho the railroad 11 lIr Hr r Maddy during his stay In III Salt BAIt Lako Lake will be Ito entertained by the tho local newspaper fraternity nOd and the Press and Commercial clubs He tie Is 18 a II prince of or good fellows tellow luid has halt many friends In III thin city |
