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Show FIXING RAILROAD RATES. Mnklni; railroad rates It like play-Ing play-Ing a gsmo of chcckcra or chess. Communities Com-munities to be benefitted, producer!, manufacturers or shippers to bo aide) represent tho pieces uted. livery poe slbto movo Is studied for III effect on tho general result by skilled traffic traf-fic managers. A (alio moro In Iht maklnc of freight rates may mean ths ruin ot a city, ot a great manufacturing manufactur-ing Interest, ot an agricultural community. com-munity. Ilallroads strlvo to build us all these, to that each may htvo in. equal chance In tho sharp competition competi-tion ot builnstt. So tentlUvo to this rivalry are tho rail road t that In order to build up butlnctt along tbolr llnet they frequently allow tho thlpcer 10 practically dictate ratct. Kate making mak-ing bat been a matter ot development; ot mutual conceulons for mutual benefit. That It why tho railroads of tho United fllates have voluntarily mado freight ratea so much lower In Uilt country than they aro oa tho government-owned and operated rail-waya rail-waya of Kuropu and Australia that they aro now the lowctt transportation transporta-tion ratct In the world. |