Show study the facts wien when individuals or groups ot of individuals are dissatisfied they usually blame someone else for their troubles selfish interests have repeatedly told workmen and farmers that the high prices the other fellow charged were robbing them them they have simply used the farmers and workers as tools in their campaign against any established business or custom they wished to destroy counteracting such groundless agitation the following figures given by C H markham president of the II 11 illinois central railroad are illuminating in 1923 the company paid for same quantity of locomotive coal that it paid 1 tor for in 1913 for same quantity of materials and supplies other than coal that it paid 1 for in 1913 in taxes for every 1 it paid in 1913 for same number of hours of 0 labor that it paid 1 1 for or in 1913 in transportation rates the increase is not so BO larga via 1111 illinois nOIS central system in 1928 1923 received only 15 1 tor for hauling a passenger the same distance that it received 1 for in 1913 it received only for hauling a ton of freight the same distance that it received 1 1 for in 1913 the latter figures show that the average revenue received in 1923 tor for each ton ot freight carried one mile only as per cent greater than it was in 1913 tins this increase cr ase in rates comp compares axes as noted above in dollars and cents with increases in costs of 0 hi per cent tor for locomotive coal sa 87 per cent for material Iii s and supplies supplies other than coal per cent for taxes and 96 per cent for labor |