Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1914 — Figuring the Railroads. [ARTICLE]

Figuring the Railroads.

Has not much legislation by the State been enacted with no view whatever to aiding the railroads in solving the great problems which confront them,, and will snch legislation in the quiet hour, seem excusable, from any point of view, particularly that which may be found after painful processes to be actually Invalid? Legislation affecting the vast transportation necessities and interests of a unified country should, like that of older countries, protect as well as supervise; for duty is reciprocal and is not bounded by. State lines. As a Federal judge has recently pointed out, legislation by one State may have the effect of subjecting an adjoining State to discriminations. Bjonflicting legislation by the States reults in chaos, and it has already come to pass that the ensuing Impairment to oredlt has not only retarded development in such States, but legitimate aspirations for development in other States, which are as truly part of a united country, have been, so far as can now be seen, indefinitely postponed.