Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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President Eliot presided over the debate and the judges were Pres. E. B. Andrews, of Brown University, Prof. E. R. A. Seligman of Columbia College and Hon. W. E. Barrett, Speaker of the Massachusetts House. The subject of the debate was "Resolved: - That the power of railroad corporations should be...
MR. LAMSON'S ARGUMENT.Mr. Lamson, first upholder of the affirmative, began by stating that railroads are the strongest corporate powers in the world and have control of many legislatures. There is no denying that they have also brought great evils. The problem of today is how to control them. That...
The public must be benefited by a check on the express companies, the offspring of the railway, which enjoy all privileges of common carriers, with none of their restrictions. Their present system is a burden. The enormous loss of life could also be brought to the minimum by legislation compelling...
MR. CUMMING'S ARGUMENT.H S. Cummings, the last speaker from Yale, began by emphasizing the fact that granting a system of pools to be the true solution of the railroad problem, such a system necessitates further limitation by national legislation. Therefore in declaring the system to be the true solution...
The welfare of the railroads of this country is interwoven with the welfare of the nation itself. They are directly involved in every branch of our national life. It to by their means that time and space have sunk into comparative insignificance.