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Bridge across the Mississippi, 319
British railways, cost of right of way, 370
Brown, Justice, 214
Bryce, Prof., 391 on decadence of bar, 222 on lobby, 222
Budd vs. N. Y., 213, 290, 295
Buddha, commended roads to care of pious, 18
Burmah, 61
Burstall, 49
California railways, 122
Calmar, 328
Camden and Amboy charter, 113
Camden and Amboy Railroad Company, 102
Canada, 73 canals, 43
Canadian Pacific, 74
Canal, Erie, 40 from Bitter Lake to Red Sea, 23 Nicaragua, 44, 174
Canals, Canadian, 43 in Great Britain, 33 Italian, 34 private companies, 42 Spanish, 34
Candidates, railroad, 226 servile to railroads, 206
Cape Colony, 63
Capitalization of railroads, 86
Capital of Standard Oil Company, 121
Carey, H. C., 110
Carload lots, 386 rates, 140
Carthage, harbor, fleets, roads, 24
Carthaginians, 91 commerce of, constructed roads, 22
Cars refused, 120
Cassat, Mr., testimony of, 121
C., B. & Q. R. R. strike, 285
Cedar Rapids and Missouri River R. R. Co., 324
Central America, 70
Central Pacific, 175 scheme, 347
Ceylon, 61
Charlemagne repaired and built roads, 28
Chicago and Milwaukee system, cost of, 235 and Omaha pool, 194 convention, 224 Iowa and Nebraska Railroad, 328 third-rate lawyer, 222
Chile, 68
Chinese built roads before the Christian era, 21
Classification, 363 rule, 361 unjust features, 151
Clay, Mr., 303
Clews, Henry, 304 pictures evils, 404 "Twenty-eight Years in Wall Street," 185
Clear Lake, 328
Clerk of U. S. Court, 217
Cleveland, President, 359
Clinton, 328
Club address of C. F. Adams, Jr., 257
C., M. & St. P. R. R. Co. vs. Minn., 213
Coal and kindred articles, 386
Coffin, Mr. L. S., 452
Colbert, idea of postal service, 30
Coleridge, Lord, 454
Combinations, 189 regulate, 299
Commission evil, 420
Commission received, 119
Commissioner system, 246
Commission, Interstate, reviews Judge Brewer's rule, 365
Commissions acquire expert knowledge, 384
Commission's decisions, 359 acts subject to judicial review, 381 become a pliant tool, 429 character of, 359
Commission system adopted in Iowa, 335
Committee bill passed, 354
Commodities, character of, 373
Common law, sufficient in theory but fails in practice, 268
Competition, 190, 196 a great educator, 260 and enhanced rates, 352 in United States depended upon, 129 the death of trade, 298 vicious, 300
Communism, strength of, 454
Conduit company, 117
Confiscation of railroads, 293
Conflicts between labor and capital, 448
Congress, appropriations for improving rivers, 44 in three camps, 352 responds to demand of Pacific road, 183 to cease futile attempts 299
Congressmen imposed upon, 17
Connecticut railroad construction, 288
Conscientious managers cannot retain business, 399
Consolidation of C., R. I. & P. R. R. Co., 323 tendency to, 262
Conspiracies should not be legalized, 260
Conspiracy, 296
Constitutions made for, 457
Contests, expense of in Great Britain, 371
Contributions to Pacific roads, 180
Control, suggestions for, 425
Cooley, Judge, 315, 359 in reference to State and National Commissions, 426
Corporations, danger from, 223 willing to pay for questionable services, 222
Corrupt practice act in Mass., 223
Cost of American roads, 187 of building roads at present, 186 of existing railway system, 422 of operating M. & M. R. R., 322 of railroads, 172, 370, 417
Council Bluffs, 324 line completed to, 323
Courteous employes, 447
Courts ordered restoration of Erie securities, 170 should not aid, 381
C., R. I. & P. Railroad, 284
Crosby, J. O., story of tramp, 178
Crusaders, 92
Cuba, 70
Cullom committee report, 131 Senator, 353
Customs laws, 15
Dabney, W. D., drift toward railroad centralization, 261 favors pooling, 261 favors State control, 261
Darius I., work on canal, 23
Dartmouth College case, 315 decision, 259
Davis, C. Wood, 413 on cost of roads, 187
Dows, David, & Co., 138
Davis, Jefferson, plea, 276
Delegates to conventions, 224
Demand in other States for reform, 331
Denmark, 35, 58 first-class passenger rates, 439
Depew, Mr., 138
Depew says all railroad men are politicians, 366
Devices, various, 296
Differentials, 296
Discriminations, 118, 137, 143, 156, 147, 160 damaging, 248 in classifications, 148 in Iowa, 337 practiced openly, 331
Dillon, Judge, 411 Sidney, 273 on cost of Pacific roads, 185
Directors and officials of corporations, 316 character of, 406 with personal interests 317
Director-General, 431 should have power to remove managers, 432
Distance disregarded, 331
Dividends, 164, 187 by fluctuations, 302 Standard Oil Company, 121
Donations, 329 for benefit of public, 376 made by railroad companies, 446 to Pacific roads, 176 to railroads, 125
Donation to road completed, 320
Doud amendment, 331
Dual government, 401
Dual sovereignty must be recognized, 425
Dubuque & S. C. Co., 324
Dutch East India Company, 97
Duties of common carriers, 315
Duty of state, 456
Earnings diverted, 403 of first Iowa railroad, 320 gross, larger in United States, 281 of C., B. & Q., 175 of Iowa roads increased, 264 of Massachusetts railroads, 175 of Lake Shore, 175
Earnings of Liverpool and Manchester, 50 of Terre Haute, 175 of railroads, 86 per employe, 372 per train mile in the United States and United Kingdom, 270 per train mile larger in United States, 281
East India Company, 99, 303
Economy of fuel, 375
Editors, 221, 231 controlled by counting-room, 339
Egyptians, commerce of, constructed roads, 22
Electoral Commission, 215
Eminent domain, 314 Spelling on, 317
Employes fare better under Government management, 412 in Iowa, compensation, 344 in Iowa, number, 344 number of, in various countries, 371 number of, per mile of road, 269 number of, as related to gross earnings, 269 organized for political work, 277 quasi-public officers, 447 should have passes, 209
England, 99 roads maintained by statute and parish labor, 32
English landlords, 287
Entrance into railway service regulated, 448
Ericsson, 449
Erie Canal, 40 Railroad, 170
European and American investments compared, 371
European history began in Greece, 24
Evans, Oliver, 47
Executive charged with construction and maintenance of roads and canals, 22
Executives influenced, 225
Experiments with wooden rail, 46
Extortion, effects of, 111
Farmers' Alliance, 300
Farmers' pool, 300
Federal agencies, need of improved, 430
Federal courts, influence of, 212
Ferocity of public opinion in the West, 312
Feudal features, 455
Field, Justice, 214, 269
Fink, Albert, 200
First rail tracks, 46
First railroad survey in Iowa, 319
Fort Dodge, 325
Fortunes, great, 400 made, 301
France, 54 duty of employes, 447 first system of roads, first artificial waterways, 30 large number of canals, 30 rates on freight and passengers, 293
Frederick the Great built turnpikes and canals, 31
Frederick William IV., 53
Free competition, 407
Freight agents, 383
Freight carried by railroads in the United States, 292
Friction under Iowa law, 341
Galena and Chicago Union, 164
Gallatin advocated roads and canals, 38
Garfield, President, 224 on Dartmouth College case, 316
Garrett, J. W., 83
Germany, first mail service, 31 first railroad, 53
German instructions to employes, 447
Georgia prescribed rates, 289
Glenwood, 337
Gibbon, 92
Gibbon concerning postal service, 27
Goodman, Mr., testimony of, 138
Gospel of wealth, 404
Goeta canal, 35
Gould's bulldozing, 452
Gould, Jay, 212, 224, 269 on cost of Pacific roads, 184
Governor called extra session of General Assembly, 321 importuned, 228 of Iowa, 311 influenced, 227
Government ownership drawbacks, 412
Granger cases, 212
Granger, Judge, 229
Granger law did not retard construction, 335 of Iowa, 332
Granger laws, moderate, 322 repealed, 246
Granger movement, 84 a necessary one, 258 spread, 332
Granger system in Wisconsin, 245
Grant and Conkling, 224
Grant, Judge, 411
Great Britain, canals, 33 crossed by Roman roads, 27 recent origin of public roads and postal service, 32
Great Northern Railroad Co., 185
Grecian civilization passed to Romans and then to other nations, 24
Greek geographers, praise of highways of Hindostan, 19
Gresham, Judge, 212
Grinnell, Hon. J. B., 411
Gross and net earnings in Iowa, 344 earnings, increase in Iowa, 287, 293 earnings of Iowa roads, 265
Hadley, Prof. A. T., 245 on passenger rates, 278 on State legislation, 286
Hadley's address before Bankers' Association, 284 ignorance, 287 mistake, 290
Hadrian improved postal service, 27
Hagar, Mr., 109
Hackworth, 49
Hale, Lord Chief Justice, 316
Harrison, President, 214 on watered stocks, 174 on Nicaragua Canal, 44
Hanseatic League, 94 object, extent, power, 95
Haul, length of, compared, 372
Hayes-Tilden contest, 215
Hayti, 71
Hepburn committee, 137, 146
Hindoo culture and broad statesmanship, 18
Hoe printing-press, 231
Holland, 98 largest canal of, 31
Hoyt, J., & Co., 138
Hudson, J. F., 250, 266, 407
Hudson River Railroad accident, 451 Co., 167 stock watering, 167
Humboldt said of roads of Incas, 36
Hungary, 54
Hungarian zone system, 282, 440
Huntington, C. P., 347 letter of, 346
Illinois canals, 42 Granger laws, 331
Importance of transportation facilities, 17
Improved appliances should be used, 450
Income of railroads, 128 per capita, 292
Increase of traffic under zone system, 442
India supplied Nineveh and Babylon, Greece and Rome, 18
Individual entitled to full use, 392
Inflation, 163
Influences at work to create public sentiment, 294
Iniquitous taxation, 307
Injunction asked for, 323
Inspection service should be established, 432
Insurance provided for, 451
Interchangeable 1,000-mile tickets, 445
Interstate Commerce Act, 85, 319 amended, 358 approved, 354
Interstate Commerce Commission, sixth annual report, 160
Interstate Commerce law attacked, 162
Intimidation of railroad employes, 226
Inventors, 126
Investments, none pay so well, 248
Iowa attorney, 210 Bill of Rights, 445 Central Air Line, 324 City, road built to, 319 Commissioners enjoined, 343 Commissioners' valuable service, 336 Falls & S. C. Co., 325 General Assembly passed maximum tariff act, 264 General Assembly passed act authorizing commissioners to make prima facie rates, 264 law, features of, 341 misunderstanding of, 342 vindicated, 266 legislation, 319 politics, 311 prosperity accelerated, 345 railroad construction, 288 the queen, 348
Irish tenants, 287
Iron strap rail, 46
Itaki Atabeck, road seen to this day, 19
Italy, 57 canals, 34
Jackson, President, 367
Japan, 60
Java, 61
Jeans, Mr. J. S., 269 on railroad revenues, 437 on state railroad, 410
Jefferson's inquiries, 37
Judges, servile, 162 use passes, 208
Jurists, eminent, 234
Kansas Midland, 187
Kent, 314
Kirkman, M. M., 239
Labor organizations, 448
Labor-saving causes, 375
Lake transportation, 453
Land grant policy, wisdom of, 320 to Dubuque & S. C. R. R., 325
Land grants to Iowa railroads, 320 value of, 325
Languedoc Canal, 30
Lawyer and farmer, 209
Lawyers, briefless, 219 political, 223 third-rate, 222
Legislation, 299 of California, 123
Legislative campaign of 1887, 339 reform needed, 405 reports, 110
Lincoln, President, 216 story of the Irishman, and the pig, 271
Lines projected, 288
Lobbies frowned out of legislative halls, 402
Lobby, 219 formidable, 339
Locomotive, early inventors, 47 reward for, 49
Long and short haul clause, 297 of Iowa law, 341
Louis XIV., 98
Louis XI. transferred postal service to state, 30
Lowest rates in Europe, 409
Mails carried free in France, 373
Managers arrogant, 331 concede necessity of regulation, 369 have lost influence, 230 make law odious, 333 naturally despotical, 151 of great parties, 144
M. & M. R. R. Co., 319
Marshall, Chief Justice, 350
Marshalltown, 324
Massachusetts Commission, 428
Mathews, Judge Stanley, 269
Maximilian established postal route, 31
Maximum charges, 331
McDill, Hon. J. W., as a lobbyist, 238
McGregor grant resumed, 326, 327
McGregor Western R. R. Co., 325
Means employed to control legislation, 218
Mesopotamia, inhabitants perfect cart, 19
Methods for control, 402 impracticable, 425
Mexico, 72
Mileage of the future, 389 to area, 112,389 to population, 292
Minneapolis and Chicago conventions, 224
Minnesota case, 295 Granger laws, 331 politics, 311
Missouri Pacific, 187
Mitchell, Alexander, 232
Modern doctrine, Kent's rule, 314
Monopoly, 317 in transportation, 90
Morgan, Appleton, 250
Mortgaging prohibited, 434
Munn vs. Illinois, 213, 290
Muscatine, branch line to, 319
Mushroom millionaires, 307
National banking system, 303
National bureau should be established, 431
National control, 424
Nation inclined to follow beaten tracks, 425
Nations should profit by experience, 367
Napoleon Company, 108
Navigation act, 98
Nebraska maximum tariff, 346
Net earnings increased in Iowa, 265 in 1890 and 1891, 187
Netherlands, canals, 31
Net profit of passenger traffic in United Kingdom, 270
Nevada, 324
New England railroad construction, 288
New Orleans Cotton Exchange case, 360
Newton, 47
New York canals, 41
New York Central, gross earnings, 167 stock watering, 165
New York delegation, 224
Nicaragua, 70 Canal, 44, 174
Nile, canals, roads, people, 23
Notice given when rates are changed, 388
Number of employes per mile, 372 of hours' work of employes, 372
Office of railroad public, 368
Officers of railroads should not be allowed to use proxies, 432 should take oath, 432
Officials not likely to resist temptation, 436
Ohio canals, 42
Oliver Cromwell, 98
Operating expenses reduced, 375
Pacific railroad, 81 diplomacy, 180 prejudice, 45
Pacific roads before boards of equalization, 186 comparative cost, 186 cost to duplicate, 185 easy grade, 185 indebtedness to Government, 184
Papin, constructed steamboat, 47
Parliament compelled British railways, 451
Party organs, 221
Pass abuse, ruling of commission, 362
Pass, purposes for which given, 209 should be discarded, 446
Passenger rate-making principle wrong, 439
Passenger rates not reduced, 375
Passenger rates too high, 438
Passengers carried by railroads in the United States, 292
Passengers, English third-class, 270 killed and injured, 450 third-class, 269
Passes, 207, 208 plentiful, 420 to delegates, 226
Pauper tickets for the clergy should be abolished, 446
Pausanias shown well-kept road, 19
Pedigree of a proverb, 298
Peik vs. Chicago, 213
Pennsylvania canals, 41
Pennsylvania Central R. R. Co., 171
People prone to believe, 245
People's parties called into existence, 404
People will not tolerate, 397
Perquisites abolished, 446
Persian Empire, magnitude, 20
Peru, 67 roads, 35
Phoenicians, 90 built great roads, traders of antiquity, 20 first great maritime nation, 19
Pipe line, 116, 119
Plan capable of being improved, 433
Policy of delay, 381
Political campaigns in Iowa, 339
Politicians as railroad employes, 229
Pooling, 261, 398 committee does not recommend prohibition, 354 contracts void, 317 grave effects of, 268 means of swelling railroad earnings, 267 should be prohibited, 203
Pools, 85, 194, 195, 251, 297 defended by Mr. Hadley, 247 defended by Mr. Morgan, 250 maintained in Iowa, 336 suppress competition, 198
Poor's, H., opinion, 187 estimate of cost, 86, 173, 247
Poor's estimate of watered stock, 186
Porter, Horace, North American Review article, 290
Porter, John, 104
Portugal, 58
Portuguese, 96
Postal communication, royal road from Susa to Sardes, 21
Postal service not carried on by state, 30
Potential value of interstate law, 367
Powderly, T. V., 449
Prediction of Mr. Walker, 299
Predictions of railroad men, 332
Press abuse, 221
Press, efforts of railroads to control, 271 servile to railroads, 228
Prima facie rates, 341
Prize worth contending for, 380
Procopius, statement of, concerning Via Appia, 27
Problem would be solved if abuses, 297
Providence, 136
Psammitichus cuts canal, 33
Ptolemaic kings built canals, 24
Public at mercy of managers, 381 not unreasonable, 450
Public opinion dormant, 400 efforts to influence, 273 rules, 400
Publicity advantageous, 402
Purchasers of land made the donation, 321
Question not settled until settled right, 377
Railroad attorneys, 214
Railroad-building after 1873, 246
Railroad business not private, 403 safe, 436 changes in Iowa, 393 company public agent, 388 competition, 190, 338 consolidation, 82 construction, 287 diplomate, 228 first line, 77 first steam engine, 47 improved highway, 339 like common road, 391 literature, 231 magazine literature, 273 managers do not do things by halves, 223 managers' opportunities to speculate, 399 men always oppose reductions of rates, 283 officials, 257 papers, 340 precursor of, 46 president's letters, 229
Railroads, abandoned, 79 bonded for more than cost, 175 capitalization of, 86 but few that do not pay, 52 cost to build, 186 earnings of, 86 in Asia, 59 in Austria, 54 in Belgium, 56 in Denmark, 58 in France, 54 in Germany, 53 in Granger States did not comply with law, 246 in Hungary, 54 in Italy, 57 in politics, 205 in Portugal, 58 in Russia, 58 in Switzerland, 56 in Spain, 57 in the Balkan Peninsula, 59 in the Scandinavian Peninsula, 58 in the United States, 76 in Turkey, 60 land grants to, 80 partake of two natures, 392 propitiate judiciary, 211 public tax collectors, 396 rebelled against Iowa law, 344
Railroad stations, number of, 190
Railroad tax, amount of, 393
Railway acts, first in England, 127
Railway Age, 288
Railway benefits, 231 employes in politics, 308 first act, 49 organs, 229 Pan-American, 88
Railways, highways, 13 weakened their arguments, 237
Railway system, growth of, 87 length of in the world, 87
Rate-making a legislative and not a judicial function, 332
Rate-making difficult, 244 not a judicial question, 378
Rate of 1870, 248, 249 per ton per mile on Camden and Amboy Railroad, 109 question, 370
Rates, fixing of by commission demanded, 430 fundamental principles in making, 385 in France, 293 lower will prevail, 256 lower, reason for, 374 might be reduced, 417 on Milwaukee road, 233 reduced by zone tariff in Austria-Hungary, 283 should be lower here than in Europe, 373 should be referred to National and State boards, 379 under Granger laws, 246 under Wisconsin Granger laws, 236 what are reasonable, 376
Reagan, John H., bill of, 352
Reform demanded, 295
Reasonable rates, 376, 387 fixing of, 361
Rebates Standard Oil Company, 115
Redfield, J. F., 312
Reduced rates on Government business in France, 293 increased business, 282
Refineries closed, 116
Reforms needed, 438
Remedies, 389 proposed by committee, 352
Remedy proposed by Mr. Hudson of doubtful efficiency, 268
Reorganization of the M. &. M. R. R., 322
Report of Cullom committee, 353
Reports of Interstate Commission, 366
Revenues increased by Granger law, 246, 332 uniform, 437
Revolution and anarchy, 299
Rhenish League, 94
Ricks, Judge, 449
Ridgeway, Jacob, 106
Right of control rests upon firmer ground, 318
Right of way, cost of, 370
River and harbor improvements, 453
Rivers, improvement of, 44
Robber knights, 93, 149
Robbers and feudal knights, depredations being tax, 29
Rob Roy, 258 policy, 102
Robinson, H. P., railway in politics, 308
Rocket, the, 49
Rogers, Thorold, 454
Roman Empire, after downfall roads destroyed, 28
Roman postal service, 27
Romans learned art of paving roads from Carthaginians, 24
Rome, 91 connecting link between antiquity and mediaevalism, 24 extent, population, roads, etc., 25
Roads built from proceeds of stocks and bonds, 373
Roads built only when immediately profitable, 328 early, 37 pioneers of enlightenment and political eminence, 17 subject to legislative control, 327 utility of good, recognized in colonial times, 36
Russia, 58 roads, 35
Rutter, J. H., agent of New York Central, 116
Salaries, American railways pay the highest, 420
Saloon men politicians, 366
San Domingo, 71
San Salvador, 70
Sanspareil, the, 49
Savings under Government management, 422
Scandinavian Peninsula, 58
Scandinavian roads and canals, 35
Schedule rates made by Iowa Commission, 342
Schedules should be submitted to bureau, 432
Scriptures, roads of the, 22
Second-class passenger rates, why not successful, 282
Secrecy a source of evils, 402
Select committee, 353
Select Committee on Transportation, 351
Senate committee, 172
Senators and Congressmen raise campaign funds, 436
Servility of Interstate Commerce Commission, 203
Sesostris cut canal, 23
Shippers given favors, 219, 221 powerless, 382
Sioux City, 325
Smyth Judge, 229
South America, 66
Southern Pacific Railroad Company, 122
Southern pool, 200
Southern Railway and Steamship Association, 194
South Sea Company, 303
Spain, 57 canals, 34
Spain and Gaul, roads of, 27
Special arrangements, 295
Special-car aristocracy, 445
Special contracts, 137 rate agreement, 141 rates, 120, 138
Speed of railroads, 279
Spelling, T. Carl, 317
Speculative element should be removed, 433
Speculators and gamblers, 434
Spirit of Interstate Law, 369
Standard Oil monopoly, 114 discrimination, 160, 362
State control encourages building, 130 in Iowa asserted early, 330 Spelling on, 318
State, duty of, 391 management, advantages of, 410 ownership and regulation, 409 with private management, 422 railway system, 277
States to cease futile attempts, 299
Steam engine, first account, 47
Stephenson, 48
Stevens, Mr., 107
Stewart, A. T., & Co., 138
Stickney, A. B., criticises President Mitchell's letter, 23 his criticism of Iowa rates, 343 his error, 256 favors entire control by Nation, 255 on interstate law, 255 on national control, 424
Stock a bonus, 434
Stock and bond inflation, 163
Stockholders, 131 dissatisfied, 112 interested in publicity, 403
Stock market controlled by few, 308
Stocks, fluctuations of, 435 should be paid in full, 438 shrinkage of value, 284
Stockton, R. F., 103
Stock watered 50 per cent., 307
Stock-watering, 164, 165 in America, 270 English, 371
Stock wiped out, 326
Stone, Governor, 324
Subordinates have to suffer for superiors, 203
Subsidies, 329 to press, 271
Sunday trains restricted, 451
Superintendents responsible for uncivil subordinates, 447
Supreme Court, 215, 289
Switzerland, 56
Taney, Justice, 216
Tariff, a tax, 135 prepared by sworn officials, 381
Tariffs impeachable, 382 official, should stand until proved unreasonable, 382
Texas legislation, 346
Text books, 312
Thiers, M., 51
Third-class passengers in Europe, 443
Times, New York, 340
Tipping, 447
Traffic associations, 149, 300
Trainmen should be allowed rest, 451
Train mile earnings, 269
Trains, number of, per mile, per annum, 281 should connect, 451
Transportation not a commodity, 368
Trevithick, Richard, 48
Tribune, Chicago, 244 New York, 340
Turkey, 60
Turnpike, first American, 37
Turnpikes in Great Britain, 32
Turnpike tolls, 396
Twelfth General Assembly, 323, 330
Umpires, high-priced, 420
Unanimous vote on Iowa law, 341
Union Pacific, 175
United States Bank, 303, 366
Unscrupulous men attracted, 390
Value of land grants, 329
Vanderbilt, 82, 452
Vedas, testimony of, 18
Venetian council, 253
Venezuela, 66
Venice, 93
Via Appia and other roads, 26
Violations of law encouraged by courts, 430
Wabash Railroad, 212
Walker, A. F., 294, 295, 311
Wall Street, defense of, 340 managers, 346 method, 302
War, 399
War rule, 331
Washington among the first to advocate internal improvements, 39
Water courses as levelers, 453
Watering stock, Mr. Jeans on, 270 methods of, 174
Water transportation, 145
Watered stocks, 172 Hadley on, 247
Watt and Stephenson's inventions, 126
Watt, James, 47
Weak roads helped, 344
Western candidates, 224
Water classification, 343
West Indies, 71
Western politician outwitted, 225 pool, failure of, 200 Traffic Association, 299 Union Telegraph Company, 127
White House, the, 215
Whitney, Asa, 81
Whitney's cotton gin, 231
Why Western people do not invest in railroad stocks, 308
Wells, David A., 374
Windom committee, 351
Wisconsin Granger laws, 331
Witnesses recusant, 134
Wrecking roads, 305
Wrought-iron rails patented, 47
World, New York, 340
Zone tariff, 409 ridiculed, 441
A Standard Book on an Important Subject.
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"Gov. Larrabee's book will rank among the greatest productions of the day on that question."—Cedar Rapids Gazette.
"The book is the result of extraordinary observation, great reading and careful study. * * * This element of completeness, of massing so much information between the covers of a book of ordinary size, makes it invaluable for reference. Of all the many books called out by the agitation of the railroad question, this one will be oftenest referred to, not so much for its opinions as for its stores of facts."— Davenport Democrat.
"Governor Larrabee has always been a careful and conscientious student of the railroad question, and in exposing the abuses to which the railroad system has committed itself he renders a service from which the public may derive great benefit."—Good Roads.
"The high character and well known reputation of the author will create a demand for this book, aside from the fact that it contains a vast amount of information as well as sound reasoning on the railroad question."—American Journal of Politics.
"The author's attitude, while firm, is by no means a sinister or fantastic one. He writes obviously from honest conviction, and he writes with skill and force."—Philadelphia Press.
"A temperate and instructive contribution to railroad literature."—Chicago Times.
"A mine of facts gathered by a man who has made a specialty of his subject and who is evidently in earnest in his desire to lessen the burdens of the American people."—San Francisco Chronicle.
"In point of authenticity the book is absolutely to be relied upon."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
"Governor Larrabee came to Iowa before any railroad had reached the Mississippi. Engaging in manufacturing, the inconveniences which he suffered from want of transportation facilities instilled liberal opinions concerning railroads. He made private donations to new roads and he advocated public aid to them. As a legislator he introduced a bill authorizing a 5 per cent. tax in aid of railroad construction. He believed that the common law and competition could be relied upon to correct abuses and to solve the rate problem. It has not been until since these efforts were made that he has become convinced, as he says in his preface, that 'where combination is possible competition is impossible.' The object of this work is explained to be to set forth the objections which lie against the management of railroads as private property. They are used by their managers for speculative purposes. They cannot perform their proper functions so long as they are used only for the interests of their stockholders. In order to serve their real purpose, 'they must become in fact what they are in theory, highways to be controlled by the Government as thoroughly and effectively as the common road, the turnpike and the ferry, the post-office and the custom-house.'"—Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
"THE RAILROAD QUESTION"
may be ordered through any bookseller, or will be sent by mail to any address, on receipt of price, by the publishers.
The Schulte Publishing Company, 334 DEARBORN STREET, CHICAGO.
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