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Best general references: Hadley's Railroad Transportation; Hudson's The Railroads and the Republic; Jevons' The Railroad and the State (in Methods of Social Reform); N. A. Rev. Vol...
Best general references: E. J. James in Am. Econ. Associations Publications II. 246; Harper's Mo., Vol...
...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 25, 1885.- (d) Monopolies have been fostered by unjust personal and local discrimination; Interstate Com. Com. rep. I, 503; Standard oil case.- (c). Effect of railway...
...would make railroads the subjects of political schemes. Hadley, ch. XIII; Hudson, p. 327; Spofford, The Railroad Question, 18.- (b) Private enterprise would be lessened, -(c) It has failed in countries where circumstances were more favorable than in the United States. Hadley, 214, 217, 228, 246; Nation, Vol...
...lost the confidence of the country: Nation, Vol. 51, pp. 375, 393, 413.- (a) It is a notably corrupt party in its leaders Quay and Dudley: N. A. Review, Vol. 150, p. 706; N. Y. Herald, Nov. 3, 1888, p. 8.- (b) Corrupt methods to gain power: N. Y. Herald, October...