National Ownership of RailwaysHumboldt Library, 1897 - 47 pages |
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19 Astor Place 30 cents actual cash ANDREW WILSON April Arena Austro-Hungary average speed BALFOUR STEWART C. W. Davis capital cars Cator charges Charles Kingsley CLIFFORD Cloth coal competition corporations corruption fund cost per passenger DARWIN discriminations dividends Double number economies of public EDWARD CARPENTER EDWARD CLODD estimates Evolution FABIAN ESSAYS favor freight Germany government ownership GRANT ALLEN GRONLUND HERBERT SPENCER HUMBOLDT LIBRARY Humboldt Publishing Illus Industrial injured interest J. F. C. HECKER JOHN John Stuart Mill JOHN TYNDALL Laurence Gronlund managers ment Mental Suggestion miles an hour miles of railway monopoly National officers operating expenses Parsons passenger mile politics private ownership PROCTOR Prof profit public highway public ownership railroad companies rates rebates reduced regular fare RICH'D Richard Jeffries roads saving says Science shippers T. H. HUXLEY tion traffic train mile United W. D. P. Bliss wages wealth
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Page 14 - I see, in the near future, a crisis approaching that unnerves me, and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavour to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people, until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed.
Page 19 - Canada — are nine tenths of the people taxed to pay the travelling expenses of the other tenth. By what right do the corporations tax the public that members of Congress, legislators, judges, and other court officials and their families may ride free?
Page 16 - No. 4147, p. xxii. 1893 both state that the railroads of the country are similarly becoming the owners of our iron and timber lands, and both call upon the people to save themselves. A new law of industry is rising into view. Ownership of the highways ends in ownership of everything and everybody that must use the highways. The railroads compel private owners to sell them their mines or all the product by refusing to supply cars...
Page 20 - That the effect of the prevailing policy of railroad management is, by an elaborate system of secret special rates, rebates, drawbacks, and concessions, to foster monopoly, to enrich favored shippers, and to prevent free competition in many lines of trade in which the item of transportation is an important factor.
Page 10 - Railroad — all these are missing. From the minutes and accounts of the railroad companies, and from fragmentary information gathered from various sources, it is disclosed that the officers of at least three of these companies made false statements under oath, in affidavits now on file in the Interior Department. From these affidavits the following has been compiled : Stock talle.
Page 13 - That they (the railroads) control absolutely the Legislatures of a majority of the States of the Union; make and unmake Governors' United States Senators and Congressmen, and under the forms of popular government are practical dictators of the governmental policy of the United States, is not to be questioned.