Show Or Of EROM I. I c F I Tr Traffic Bureau Ir B Br Brings to J Light St Startling Sling Assumption n of Railroads that Works Injury to Business Men I. I 5 f If By a t joker inserted in in the principal freight tariffs tariff's that have been issued and were effective January 1 1909 the railroads have taken away the supreme right of every shipper in Utah as well 3 as in other states The railroads railroads' reserve the right to to say how shippers shall route their shipments In other words if the shipper desires to send his goods by one route and the railroads would rather er take i it by another route the shipper takes second place The discovery Ory of or this condition was I made by members of tho the Commercial Club Traffic bureau organization I which last nl night ht Issued a a. bulletin on the subject The Tho bulletin explains the situation clearly and Is as follows vs It I Is perhaps well veil that the ship ship- lers of Utah should hould noto that In order to enlarge tho powers and to the monopoly of the great grent railway systems systems terns to an absolutely arbitrary do- do de degree gree In the matter and to the total disregard ard and great cat disadvantage of shippers as well as o or of the tile small smaller or railway lines some of tho the principal freight tariffs notably those most Important important Im tin ones Issued by the tile Tran Trans con con Freight bureau effective January I 1 1009 1909 governing the transcontinental transcontinental transcontinental trans trans- continental traffic of ot tho the country contain contain con con- tain lain the following rule The rates named heroin herein are subJect subJect subject sub sub- to the absolute and unqualified rl right ht of the tho Initial carrier to determine routing beyond Its own line The Tho lo logical and undoubted purpose p f C this rule In it Its operation Is Js the establishment establishment es es- es of the tIre STRONGEST KIND OF 01 A POOL BY DISTRIBUTING ING INC THE TIlE TRAFFIC UNDER SOME SO PRIVATELY AGREED BASIS BETWEEN BE BE- TWEEN THE CARRIERS C. It will take takeaway I away all rights of ot shippers to route their on o freight ht which Is their property property prop prop- erty and not that of the tho carriers an and when generally applied must ultimately ultimate ly result In the abolishment of at all outside out out- side aide id railroad traffic agencies throughout through through- out the country and the tho discharge ot 01 their of oC which there are arc so ec many with their families living In it Inthis Inthis this city alone Tho The smaller lines can on only secure what traffic may be given them thorn by thc jh larger and If it they thoy cannot live ll on such allowance why then they can the larger lines to bu buy In their proper proper- ties tics at such prices as they thoy may seo sec fit fil II to pay thorn thom The Tire business mens men's traffic bureau In the East are actively at work endeavoring en 0 o 0 secure national legisla legislation tion prohibiting the tho application of the thc foregoing or any similar rule rulo It some slime decree deree the rule appears to havE hav met with the approval of ot tho Interstate Inter state Commerce commission cl A uA little c careful reflection unon till thi subject Is la commended to the shipper and business men of or Utah In In order that they to what extent their rights to their manage manage their own busIness business bus bus- iness mess are being abridged under the unceasing tendencies toward absolutism absolutism ism In control of or all traffic affairs i by bythe bytho the tho rall a railways s of the country |