Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Question: Resolved, That the United States ought to take steps toward the complete ownership and management or railways...
Question: Resolved, That the United States ought to take steps toward the complete ownership and management of railways...
...Answers to disadvantages claimed for government ownership and management. 1. Conditions are not as alleged, unfavorable-Labor, article on transportation. 2. Political effect would be beneficial rather than injurious, on account of (a) increased civil service and (b) scrutiny of opposition party and press. 3. Individual enterprise is quickened instead of dulled-Harpers Monthly, Vol 73. 4. Instances of inferiority of state roads in other countries are due to conditions not existing here...
...Conditions much less favorable for success of government management in a Republic. (a) Difficulty of detecting bad management. Impossibility for the public at large to do so.- Hadley, Railroad Transportation, pp. 57-60. (b) Legitimate differences in charges would not be submitted to under government ownership in a republic. Cheap transportation to a great extent dependent on such differences-Hadley, Railroad Transportation, p. 112. (c) Certain to be degradation of railroad offices into rewards for party service-Hudson, The Railways and the Republic, p. 327; Spofford, The Railroad Question...
...That government ownership is no remedy for railroad abuses is shown by the equally grave abuses in govern ment departments...