Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...pool regulated by law and controlled by a commission is the best-solution of the railway problem.-(a) Most economists and railroad experts support this view...
...Pooling is an evil.- (a) It deteriorates the service: J. F. Hudson, 229.-(b) It puts arbitrary power over the commerce of the country into the hands of a few men: Hadley's Railroad Trans. p. 76: Hon. T. M. Cooley in Boston Transcript, Jan. 9,1889.-(c) Its object is to raise rates by destroying competition: Hudson p. 215: Mr. Lincoln in Interstate Commerce Rep't 1886, p. 363.-(d) It destroys healthful competition.-(e) It leads to the maintenance of unnecessary roads at the expense of the public: Hudson...
...look at our life and see what it is. First is the influence that enters from without and secondly is the outward matter which comes to us. Like the two tracks of a railroad, one is used to carry material away and distribute it along the road while the other collects it and brings it to be stored at the journey's end. Now let us suppose that one of our human trusts is blockaded, what then is the result? Your physician informs you that you are unwell; that your system is not in order. The fact...
...Monthly is on sale at the following places: in Cambridge, at the Cooperative, Leavitt and Peirce's, Amee's and Thurston's; in Boston, at Damrell and Upham's, the Archway Bookstore, Metcalf and Co. Druggists, corner of Boylston and Clarendon Streets, and at the hotel and railroad news stands in the city; in New York, at Brentano...
...STONE'S ARGUMENT.We are not here to discuss the minute details of railroad legislation, but its general tendency. Instead of further legislation providing for the enforcement of existing laws make the present laws consistent. Modify them so that they will receive the support of public opinion, and may be enforced by the ordinary machines of government...