A Practical Treatise Upon The Law Of Railways

Author : William Larrabee
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ISBN 13 : 9781331374640
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book The Railroad Question written by William Larrabee and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Railroad Question: A Historical and Practical Treatise on Railroads, and Remedies for Their Abuses The people of the United States are engaged in the solution of the railroad problem. The main question to be determined is: Shall the railroads be owned and operated as public or as private property? Shall these great arteries of commerce be owned and controlled by a few persons for their own private use and gain, or shall they be made highways to be kept under strict government control and to be open for the use of all for a fixed, equal and reasonable compensation? In a new and sparsely settled country which is rich in natural resources there may be no great danger in pursuing a laissez-faire policy in governmental affairs, but as the population of a commonwealth becomes denser, the quickened strife for property and the growing complexity of social and industrial interests make an extension of the functions of the state absolutely necessary to secure protection to property and freedom to the individual. The American people have shown themselves capable of solving any political question yet presented to them, and the author has no doubt that with full information upon the subject they will find the proper solution of the railroad problem. The masses have an honest purpose and a keen sense of right and wrong. With them a question is not settled until it is settled right. It must be conceded that of all the great inventions of modern times none has contributed as much to the prosperity and happiness of mankind as the railroad. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.