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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Railroad Question, by William Larrabee This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses Author: William Larrabee Release Date: July 2, 2009 [EBook #29294] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE RAILROAD QUESTION *** Produced by Peter Vachuska, Barbara Kosker, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net The Railroad Question. THE RAILROAD QUESTION A HISTORICAL AND PRACTICAL TREATISE ON RAILROADS, AND REMEDIES FOR THEIR ABUSES BY WILLIAM LARRABEE, LATE GOVERNOR OF IOWA. _Salus populi suprema lex._ NINTH EDITION. CHICAGO: THE SCHULTE PUBLISHING COMPANY. 1898. Copyright, 1893, BY WILLIAM LARRABEE. PREFACE. 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
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