The Railroad Question
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The Railroad Question is A Historical and Practical Treatise on Railroads, and Remedies for Their Abuses by William Larrabee, late Governor of Iowa. The preface says the main question to be determined is whether the railroads shall be owned and operated as public or as private property. The preface asks whether these great arteries of commerce shall be owned and controlled by a few persons for their own private use and gain, or made highways kept under strict government control.
The text says that public roads and the state postal service are of comparatively recent origin in Great Britain, and that the first public postal route was established in 1635, during the reign of Charles I. In 1678 a public stage-coach route was established between Edinburgh and Glasgow, a distance of only forty-four miles, but the roads were so bad that, though the coach was drawn by six able horses, the journey took three days. The text says Mr. Stickney has fallen into the error common to railroad men in believing that lower rates of transportation will not prevail in the future.
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- Author
- William Larrabee
- Reading time
- About 11 hours
- Pages
- 315
- Language
- English
- Genre
- American History
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