Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1914 — Railroads Out of politics. [ARTICLE]

Railroads Out of politics.

Recent railway legislation, beginning with the Hepburn amendment of 1906 to the interstate commerce law of 1887. and supplemented by the acts of various Legislatures, together with the suits which, have been brought by the government against rebating and other abuses, have worked a general reform among the roads and have cut th«4n loose from all connection with politics of any sort. The measures against the roads which have been proposed have all been placed on the statute-books, and ‘there is nothing more for the roads to fight against. All the legislation in that direction which the people have asked for has been granted. The roads, therefore, have nothing further to fear or hope from the State and national law-makers, and are now giving their whole time to their legitimate business of handling the traffic as expeditiously and cheaply as possible, and of putting their facilities at the service of the publlic They should bb left unmolested by our law-givers while the good work is going on.