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...Under private ownership and management public interest is made subservient to private interest. - (a) Railroads carried on for private ends alone. - (1) Paralleling: R. T. Ely, Problems of Today. - (2) Speculation: Hadley, Railroad Transportation, ch. 3. - (b) Neglectful of public welfare. - (1) Poor service. - (2) Accidents. - (3) Discriminations: Hudson. The Railways and the Republic, ch. 2, 3, 4. - (4) "Skinning the Road." - (c) Source of corruption in politics: - T.V. Powderly, Arena...
...JAMES and V. H. MAY.Best general references: Hadley's Railroad Transportation; The Railroad and the State in Methods of Social Reform; Compendium of Transportation Theories; Hudson's Railways and the Republic; Kirkwood, Railway Rates and Government Control; Acworth, Railways and the Traders...
...functions of a Railroad are to give, - (a) Satisfactory transportation to the public, i.e. - (1) Cheap rates. - (2) Efficient service. - (3) No discrimination. - (b) Fair return on capital invested: J. D. Potts in Railway Review June 4, 1892; Hadley in Scribner's Magazine...
...connection with the University Extension Summer Meeting to be held at Philadelphia in July, a Summer Session of Economics will be held. The corps of lecturers includes a number of noted economists, among whom are President Andrews of Brown, Professors Hadley of Yale, Seligman of Columbia, Clark of Amherst, and Patten of the University of Pennsylvania. The lectures are intended primarily for students and teachers of economics, rather than for those desiring an elementary knowledge of the subject...
Best general references: Hadley in Political Science Quarterly III: 373. Hadley in Nation 49: 85. Means in North Am. Rev. 139: 51. Public Opinion...