People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1895 — TRANSPORTATION QUESTION. [ARTICLE]

TRANSPORTATION QUESTION.

Necesaary Reform* in the Present Railroad Ryatem. Ottawa Journal: The abolition of all passes except to employes of the road. The prohibition of all rebates. A uniform passenger rate similar to present postage system, of two cents per mile for first class and one cent for second class passage. All long distance tickets to be abolished, and mileage books issued at same rates as for single passage. Uniform freight rates regulated by law, sufficient to allow fair profit on actual value of the road. All railways shall be operated on the market value of the road. Government inspectors shall be appointed to regularly inspect every bridge and culvert, roadbed, ties,crossings, etc., with power to order removal and repairs of same. They shall also be inspectors of rolling stock, to see that all cars and engines are safe to life and limb of employe and passenger. The use of all safety appliances in way of brakes, couplings, switches, etc., shall be made compulsory by law} and it shall be the duty of railway inspectors to enforce the use of such as may be recommended by a board of experts appointed by the government every other year. Every ro i.l shall, out of its profits before declaring dividends, lay a double t ruck. That hII employes disabled in service of any road by accident, or that have groe. n disabled by age in its service, shall be pensioned by it at not less than M? per month. That h violat ion of any of these requirements shall work a forfeiture of the charter to the government, which shall become the owner of the road by paying its appraised value. bene ver it becomes necessary to appoint a receiver, it shall l>e the bn iness of that receiver to take the road as a government agent, settle the claims of the debtors, and turn the road ov rto the govvnment, which, by paying the stockholders the balance, if any, shall become the sole owner. All gambling in railroad stocks, as in present stock boards, shall be made t criminal offense at once, thus helping to bring down the road to actual value. 11. H. Brown.

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