Show FIXING RAILROAD RATES making railroad rates Is like play ing a game 0 checkers or chess corn to be producers manufacturers to be aided represent the pieces used lvery possible hovels or its effect on the general result by skilled trat fie managers false move in the making of freight rates may mean the ruin ot a city of a great ing interest ot an agricultural community railroads strive to build up all these so that each may have an equal chance in the sharp compete alon of business so sensitive to this rivalry are the railroads that in order to build up business along their lines they frequently allow the shipper 10 practically dictate rates kate male ing has been a matter of development of mutual concessions for mutual benefit that la why the railroads of the united states have voluntarily made freight rates much lower in this country than they are on the government owned and operated rail ways of europe and australia that they are now the lowest transportation rates in the world |