Testimony of J. W. Midgley, for over 20 years commissioner, chairman and arbitrator for various Western railroads. I. C. C. Hearing, April, 1904, p. 8. The reader who is specially interested in the Beef Trust and its doings should send for a copy of this Hearing, and those of 1901–1902. The report of the Bureau of Commerce Mar. 3, 1905, and Mr. Baker’s articles in _McClure’s_ for Jan. 1906 and following months, are also of the deepest interest. Footnote 293: Sen. Com. 1905, p. 311. The organizations represented by Mr. Ferguson are the Western Fruit Jobbers’ Association; the National Retail Grocers’ Association; the Minnesota Jobbers’ Association; Wisconsin Retail and General Merchandise Association; Wisconsin Master Butchers’ Association; Minnesota State Retail Grocers’ Association, Superior, Wis.; Lake Superior Butchers’ Association, Duluth, Minn.; Duluth Commercial Club; Duluth Produce and Fruit Exchange, and the Iowa Fruit Jobbers’ Association. Footnote 294: Rep. U. S. Industrial Commission, iv, p. 53. Footnote 295: The Standard has the tanks and private sidings all over the New Haven’s territory while few are owned by the independents. Persons without these facilities must pay 2d-class rates, while the Standard Oil pays 5th class. The 5th class rate between Boston and New Haven is 10 cents per hundred, while the 2d class is 20 cents, the difference probably representing several times the profit in handling one hundred lbs. of kerosene. (Commissioner Prouty, in Annals of American Academy of Political and Social Science, January, 1900.) Footnote 296: Ind. Com. iv, p. 53. Footnote 297: Sen. Com., 1905, pp. 2740, 2742. Footnote 298: See _The Outlook_, July 1, 1905, p. 578. Footnote 299: See Miss Tarbell’s vigorous description of what the Standard did to Kansas in _McClure’s_ for September, 1905. Footnote 300: Ind. Com. vi, pp. 663–665. The seaboard pipe line was completed in 1884. Footnote 301: Sen. Com. 1905, p. 2322, Professor Ripley. Footnote 302: _Ibid._, p. 48. A member of the Florida State Commission says the roads also show favoritism in the supply of cars and by giving rebates to large shippers. (_Ibid._, p. 47, R. H. Burr.) Footnote 303: Sen. Com. 1905, pp. 3339, 3340, Commissioner Fifer. Footnote 304: _Ibid._, pp. 1816–1820, 3439, 3440. Footnote 305: 10 I. C. C. Decis. 342, June 25, 1904. Footnote 306: Sen. Com. 1905, p. 3441. Other witnesses agreed as to the oppressive freight rates, and said the town had subsidized two roads, both of which are now controlled by the Southern Railway, but they did not think town values had decreased or that population had diminished (pp. 2006, 2018). Footnote 307: _Ibid._, pp. 1761, 1762. Footnote 308: _Ibid._, p. 3294. Footnote 309: _Ibid._, p. 1878. Footnote 310: Sen. Com. 1905, p. 2040. Footnote 311: Sen. Com. 1905, p. 34. Footnote 312: