Note 36 — SECTION X. NEW CLASSIFICATION.

“What is complained of by the traders is not so much the high scale of the rates as their inconsistency and want of classification, as well as the want of facilities given by the railway companies for the development of the trade in a particular locality. That before the Royal Commission on Depression of Trade, not a single witness, except in the shipping interest, was examined in reference to railway rates who did not complain of some act of injustice on the part of the railway companies, not so much in regard to the rates, although they were onerous and prohibitory in some cases, as to the inconsistency of such rates.”—Mr. L. Cohen, House of Commons Debate, 6th May, 1886. Hansard, vol. cccv., pages 428-9.