Government Ownership of Railways Considered as the Next Great Step in American ProgressG. P.Putnam's sons, 1910 - 256 páginas |
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Página 239 - Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pitch and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action.
Página 9 - ... under discussion. If it be true that government railroad ownership would be a most serious political misfortune for the United States, we must be prepared to meet the danger with our eyes open. Unless we are able to face it intelligently, and to show reason for our action, the widespread feeling in its favor will prove too strong for us. It may not come for many years; but the lessons of the Granger movement show plainly enough what forces will lie behind it when it does come.
Página 9 - There is a strong popular feeling, to a large extent unsuspected by those in authority, in favor of government ownership of railroads as a system. No one can have much to do with the more thoughtful workingmen without finding how strong that feeling is, and what hopes are based upon it. The fact that the question is not now under discussion must not blind us to the fact that forces are at work which may prove all but revolutionary when the question actually does come under discussion. If it be true...
Página 156 - In judging the railroad policy of Belgium by its results, all must unite in admitting that they are in many respects extraordinarily good. What their average rates are, we have already seen. The passenger rates are lower than anywhere else in the world, except, perhaps, on some East Indian railroads. The freight rates are much lower than anywhere else in Europe. Nominally, they are about the same as in the United States.
Página 113 - ... hear not, the things which so nearly concern, their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth ; to know the worst, and to provide for it. I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided ; and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way to judge of the future but by the past.
Página 11 - I do not believe that the sentiment of the majority of the people of the United States is favorable to government-ownership, nor do I believe that Congress and our state legislatures are consciously moving in that direction, but I do believe that if some of the more extreme legislation already enacted is supplemented along the lines now proposed the ultimate result must be to break down the system of private ownership.
Página 168 - ... of the Act requiring rates of common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to be reasonable and just, and authorize the Commission to determine as to the reasonableness and unreasonableness of such rates ; and " Whereas, it is alleged that by reason of excessive freight rates on lines of railways subject to the jurisdiction of the Act of Congress to regulate commerce between the several States, the great section of the country lying between the Rocky mountains and the principal food distribution...
Página 208 - Within the last few months I have had occasion to meet men from both those countries who are thoroughly well informed, not only as to the operation of their railroads, but as to the sentiment of their people, and I was assured that the idea of discontinuing public ownership and allowing the railroads to pass into private hands would find no support in public opinion or be regarded as among future possibilities. It is true, the conditions existing in other countries are quite different from those...
Página 227 - Company, shall be three millions of dollars, in shares of one hundred dollars each, of which ten thousand shares shall be reserved for subscription by the state of Maryland, and five thousand for the city of Baltimore...
Página 242 - It is not by accident that railroad building has declined to its lowest within a generation at the very time when all other forms of activity have been growing most rapidly.