People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1893 — That Ricks Decision. [ARTICLE]

That Ricks Decision.

“I consider this decision,” says James N. Ashley, Jr., vice president of the Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan railroad, in reference to the Judge Ricks decision, “an acknowledgement of the power of the state to regulate the action both of railroad corporations and the employes whenever the public interests are affected. The. railroads of the country must be nationalized, and I consider this decision only a step in the evolution toward that end. I have no doubt that the decision of Judge Ricks will be sustained, and that the decision of Judge Gresham in the case of the C., B. & Q. strike will eventually be overturned.” The republican senate of Minnesota has passed a resolution asking congress to nationalize the coal fields. Here in Kansas where populists advocate such measures, it is sneered at as “paternalism.''—Kansas City Sun.