Show I DS AND n TILE THE NATION 1 f I Now NeWYork rl k Sun The transportation tr rates fJ of the Sl States 1 s are the lowest in the world and aro are a at t scientific wonder They have been achieved by the ther jc r roads th without an any legislation or govern govern- nt int Interference frence t There Is no page in the history of commerce that Is so wonderful as that which records t the e fall all In Inthe the cost of oC railroad transportation during the list thirty thc years year's Natural causes brought It about id d d i if natural causes are not checked in their operation by y fatuous and Ignorant meddling rates will go l lower yet ret If Ie they they are arc checked and there Is a reckless and mischievous mis mis- chievous ert effort rt now flow on foot to do so then disaster will ensue as surely as the night follows the time lla day and with with disaster will come increased cost of transportation The Tho lasts quarter of ot the year ear has seen over S 1 ii nf nr es Like Like- S u u tj v L 0 Wise vise the greatest greatest decrease ge in the tho etl of labor ever o noted in th or an any other country countr The record o of the prices of or i- i railroad inroad supplies rails mils alone alono excepted during the year 8 the greatest advance ever known in a alike alike like Ilke per he condition of all around apparent prosperity pros pios is th li ost ominous disclosed In our annals In n th nd a 10 per cent horizontal reduction reduction tion in lat of transportation by the Joint forces of or the thu and special enactment interstate commerce commission once to the sane sano and competent competent com corn Is proposed ana it jt suggests at once nce observer ci that Mr 11 Br Bryans Bryan's ns n's idea of government and more equitable equitable equit equit- ownership r ill an the railroads was sas wiser able and find implied a regard for the Hie rights of property u wt WOuld uld seem beOm as Jf If the intention was to go Mr Bryan Dryan orm On better betler or go him one Ofle worse In the the fa of this menace what shat are aro the tho railroads to to todo do rc they to get set the money to bu buy the thu ad additional additional ad- ad the need of ot which Is now so painfully enlarged terminals The pressur pres- pres apparent the he ioner for acute that has hus ever surf sur to Xu these Is the most must How can the be existed in our ft road history the destructive plans pans O Othe of forthcoming In hc presence of for tor the thu Is the thu prospect the What Whal federal go Ta privileged elo cla class they have havo wage earners a highly these things ar are to sonic some interest In knowing whence come The rhe rent of f the present T 7 must of the railroads As A It H Itis itIs way before the aral Indeed new is we see building the no fact that ii spite of oC the we arp b the ominous the tho market for ran well rails ell f known is slackening and H It i could uW conditions not po possiblY by X do circumstances M so 80 if Ie the time railroads rail mil normal nonn roads were dOI doing k what at under ek thu i v 11 L 1 S rIo ito ui vw- vw x oJ y U nave no ChOI choice serious Such a aThe railroads Is s sc The Thu out outlook ook for tor the arisen for moro more has waS heard ns as clamor was vas J never before cars sent nt to them the curs cars Consignees wont won't unload Indeed to do so ss them then and there is s no 0 way to compel the tho railroads from forbid some state stat e railroad commissions lons for earn carn- ad delay Tho The gross Kross 1088 oci Imposing dem demurrage charges argeS for foi net nei n are steadily J ings lags are sut suffocating them the of f an Intolerable vanishing b and b behind e h Ind all aU ll Is 8 the specter and disaster Usurpation n which c h means only farmers are arc distracted dis for or c coal cual Communities are arc howling to market marlet merthe mer- mer grain for means to get their gr sidings g and chokes chandise of oC all an kinds members the ine weather wether eau tho the the railroad yards and nd 0 only open Immediate a 0 prospect t. t S S |