Show RAIL RATES BATES HERE AND ABROAD those who rise up and howl at the thai the amerlean american railroads should be given a nc I rate ate increase in III order to save gave this industry with its billion a year purchasing power its ha hundreds ot of thousands of investors and its vast army of highly workers from ruin would do well to read an analysis of the rates charged by the railroads in the principal foreign countries published in the cleveland trust company business bulletin in france the average rate per ton mlle mile is benm in ili great britain it Is cents in italy it t ii 14 cents and in ili argentina average Is cents in ill australia it a cents and in argentina cents in the unified states by contrast the average ton mile rate Is 13 under one cent 94 cents to be exact only one important foreign country has a lower rate than country japan with 77 cents highly significant is tue the fact hat tour countries are in a class clasa by themselves in the matter of heap cheap rail transport two of these canada with 98 cents rate aal the united states have similar ema and pay very high wages the other two japan and india pay ex tri mely low wages which would be considered consid cred starvation pay here or in the dominion to the north in ili seme ot of the foreign countries the railroads aro abo wholly or partly owned by the government and even the high ton lon nille freight charges dont always catry carry the lines the taxpayer tax payer being assessed for losses we get the best railroad service n the world and wages considered the very cheapest cheape qt freight rates rate high enough to return the lines a small profit would mt nit noticeably affect the operating cost of industry rhey would on the contrary spur a railroad betterment program that would be felt directly in every state and by every investor arid and worker the cold figures provide the unanswerable sw erable proof of the necessity tor for a fair rate policy tor for the amer amerlean american lean railroads and n addition the need tor for a cessation of the uninformed agitation to saddle the lines with laws lawa such as the train bill which would add heavily to the cost of operation and inevitably lower the Indu indus irys lagh standards tf of efficiency clency and safety |