Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Private ownership in the United States has brought about efficient service and low rates, and has developed the country. The evils of undue competition and discrimination are being satisfactorily remedied by the Interstate Commerce Commission: Quar. Jl. Eson...
...present system of private ownership of railways is unsatisfactory.- (a) The railways have fallen into the hands of a few men, e. g. the Vanderbilts and the N. Y. C. system, Gould and the Missouri Pacific.- (b) The roads in many cases have been run merely for speculation and stock jobbery; case of Erie road, C. F. Adams. "Chapters on Erie," p. 61 fol. N. A. Rev. Vol. 139, p. 53. Hadley, Railroad Transportation, p. 48.- (c) Waste of capital in useless roads, e. g. "Nickel Plate," West Shore, Chi. St. Paul and Kansas City, etc.; Bradstreets April...
...Government ownership would be the natural outcome of the present system, and is practicable.- (a) Cases of Prussia, Austria, Belgium and Austria...
...Government ownership is a necessity.- (a) Because a natural solution of the existing evils.- (b) It would give uniformity of rates.- (c) Provide greater safety and convenience for passengers.- (d) Great saving in expense of management. Harper, 73, 571; Fortnightly...
...revolutionary and socialistic in its tendencies; a. inaugurates government ownership of land; b. abolishes entire revenue system; c. gives too much power to central government...