“Boots and shoes are carried from Chicago to Colorado common points at $2.05 per hundred, from Chicago to California at $1.50 per hundred. If a jobber in Colorado wishes to ship boots and shoes to California he must pay $3, making a total freight rate of $5.05 from Chicago to California in this way. Cotton-piece goods under commodity rates are shipped from Boston to the Missouri River for 52 cents per hundred, while the rate from the Missouri River to Denver is $1.25 for a haul of one-third the distance. The rate from the Missouri River through Denver to California is only $1.”[131] No wonder a Denver manufacturer said to the Industrial Commission: “My city, Denver, and State, Colorado, and all the territory embraced in the one hundred and fifth meridian section, are violently discriminated against by the railroads and express company. We are denied commercial equality, which forbids the development of our resources. Our freight rates are anywhere from 100 to 300 percent higher per ton per mile than those of our Eastern and Western competitors.”[132] Such conditions tend to force dealers to points on the Missouri River or east of it. The shipper at St. Joseph on the Missouri River, for example, can get goods from Chicago at 80 cents and reship to San Francisco for $1.50, while the Denver shipper must pay $2 from Chicago to Denver and $3 from Denver to San Francisco,—$5 for the Denver shipper against $2.30 for the St. Joseph man.[133] CHAPTER XV. LONG-HAUL DECISIONS OF THE SUPREME COURT. The long-haul clause did not realize the intent of its framers. It received a series of shocks from the United States Supreme Court, which produced, if not paralysis, at least a bad case of nervous prostration.[134] At first, believing that the law would be enforced in accordance with its purpose and intent to get rid of unjust and needless discrimination between localities, the Northern and Western roads revised their tariffs in good faith in reference to long and short haul rates, but, later, when they found that the Supreme Court did not intend to enforce the 4th section, they joined the Southern roads in practical disregard of it wherever they found it convenient to do so, and only in a few cases has their disregard been checked.