Show RAILROAD RATE CASE DECISION The newspaper comment on fed cral court decisIon on the tho Missouri rate case Is made wIth some I owing to 10 the fact that the decision as by telegraph Is Incomplete The ho San Francisco Call a re remarkable mara In what the New York Sun said prIor to Gross GroBs cups caps decision The Sun Stun said rue rho commerce commis commission e sion in rC response pont e to lo a popular for fOl recourse against the railroads that thaL would load 1 to and effective result has hns ac power 1001 to Investigate to Lo prose prosecute i cute to adjudicate anti to enforce its The braut with that their exorcise be miot subject to lo coUrt appeal would been without constitutional warrant yet rc t there was teas a widespread ad popular demand that that appeal be It was therefore the tho gen bout oral cral impression tint the was nas to lo protect trio tho shippers from f Uw the cr sL rapacity of limo railroads That tiro might aught need protection from Crom the rapacity of the shippers was an Idea not e entertained my many anti and androl yet rol inasmuch as half haIr of the complaints made to the commission lI are arc dismiss dismissed ell ed It would If the number of cases he taken ns as tine the sole criterIon that the railroads have needed as much protection as the shippers Jump on tho word comes omes Judge Grosscup to protect the suffering rail railroads roads from the tho autocratic commission i A savior Is raised up tip to rescue the downtrodden railroads a s from the op oppressors Wr wrong Db Is the tho way Judge puts It We are aro not prepared to lo say that the has the tho power to lo enter I upon a plan looking toward a system i Of rates rales wherein eln the rates for Ion longer gel i or shorter hauls will taper downward I according to distance such tapering Is both and symmetrically with witha a II desien or nr eam t In HIt t what mav h he hethe the economic fact that on the It Is wu Q less per mile mHo mileto to can carry for the long icing distances than for the short distances But it does not follow that power ower or of that character Includes power hr by time the use of differentials to lo artificially i divide the country countr Into traffic zones to given trade and manu manufacturing centers the commission In such cases having as a result to pro pre predetermine determine what the I trade and manufacturing manu centers shall be for such power vaster than limn an any one body boll or of men heretofore exercIsed though wIsely exerted In specific instances would he putting In the hands of oC the commIssion the general power of lIfo life anti and death over oel every trade null and mauu center iu In the United States Slates Who bo then shall exercise this vast power It does docs not cease to exist it il is taken aa away from rom the tho in interstate commission The power to 10 create zones or of business b means menns of eren has been al always ars exercised by br the traffic of the roads Tho commIssion asserts the tho right under the tho law to regulate the tho exercise of that power Judge Gross Grosscup Grosscup cup that right and the power Jower necessarily gOes back to the council councilor or of traffic acting as a mil all i road pool 1001 in defiance or of the he v against combinations In restraint of competition ThIs power powel must reside somewhere Judge only rea on for denying it il to the commis commission sloe sion is that it Is vast to ho entrusted to lo the tho os of the tho people Jut but not too tou vast lIst to lo he exercised obo by a secret council of oC rail railroad railroad road men whose interests arc aro ossen essen antagonistic to 10 those of the pub public lie lic Gr Is the tho man whoso moral sense is so blunted that he used to Lo accept railroad passes passos and justified th the practice by the plea pIca that at the tho time lime some somo years eals ago public opinion did lIld not nol the tho practice which he explained was then common among the j We need not flat there therefore fore foro be surprised at al any shape which Judge CI reasoning may as assume sumo sume |