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the grasp of a favored few, and thus creating the worst form 

 of monopoly. 



For instance, Alexander or Sullivant, or any large ship 

 per, having secured a special rate for fifty or one hundred 

 car loads, may go to his poorer neighbors, who wish to ship 

 but a few car loads each, and say : &quot; Look here, I ve got a 

 rebate of ten dollars per car ; I can ship that much cheaper 

 than you can ; now, you give me five dollars per car, and I 

 will ship your freight along with mine at my special rate.&quot; 

 The small shippers accept the offer, because thereby they 

 gain five dollars per car; but, in the name of justice, why 

 should they be compelled to pay a tax to their richer neigh 

 bor ? Under such a law, are the days of feudalism gone by ? 

 Surely, if there is a statute that ought to be blotted out by 

 any means known to freemen, it is one that prostrates the 

 poor man under the heel of the rich. 



Circumstances and conditions, however, daily arise, under 

 which it is eminently fair to all that discrimination for the 

 quantity shipped should be allowed. It is one of the first 

 principles of commercial law. The man who buys a hogs 

 head of sugar gets it at a cheaper rate than the man who 

 buys only one pound. If the principle is sound, should it 

 not equally apply to transportation ? The dealer who can 

 give a train load of freight to a railroad company is cer 

 tainly entitled to a lower rate than the man who merely 

 offers half a car load, provided the distance carried is the 

 same ; were the full cargo destined to a point only three or 

 fourmiles distant, and the half car load three hundred miles, 

 the case would be reversed, because transportation can be 

 conducted one hundred miles much cheaper, per mile, than 

 for ten miles, provided all other things are equal. 



The further west we go the less travel and freighting is 

 seen. The first twenty-five miles or more out of Chicago 

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