Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1883 — PASSING EVENTS. [ARTICLE]

PASSING EVENTS.

Preparing to Squeeze Monopoly—The Ischia Calamity. J. Our Forests—The Cholera—Cheering Agricultural Prospects. The completion of the Northern Pacific railway is fraught with vital interest to the people of the Pauifio coast Heretofore, in the opening of the new routes, the Central Pacific combination have been enabled, by geograpMoal and other influences, to so maintain fare and freight rates that the new routes afforded no relief to anybody. Tho oompletion of the Pacific, the Atchison, Topeka sad Santa Fe, the Denver and Rio Grinds and the Atlantic and Pa* etflo, has In no oaae resulted in a redaction of fare to California, for the reason that the Central Pacific, controlling, aa it doaa on all sides, the Western outlet of these roads, refuses to make concessions. With the oompletion of the Northern Pacific a new era will dawn. That road la under obligation to nobody. It reaches tide-water with Its own line, and the Paolflo ocean la free to all It can make its own rates without fear of reprisals in any direction. It can out the fare to Ban Francisco to |<s—quite enough; by the way—and force lta rivals to follow suit or lose the business. It can make its own freight rates, make lta own contracts with Paolflo coast merchants—in other words, do exactly as it pleases, and the Central Paolflo combination is powerless for either redress or vengesnoe.