Railroads: Their Construction, Cost, Operation, and Control (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Railroads: Their Construction, Cost, Operation, and Control

Figures furnished by the Interstate Commerce Com mission are produced, showing that the producers pay more than four times as much to support general railroad officers as is paid to all the general officers of the United States, States and Territories for their ser vices to the people. Facts and figures concerning rail road taxation are produced, showing that the burden of paying such taxes is unequal and falls most heavily on the producers of the country.

United States ownership, State control and State ownership of the railroads are presented for the con sideration of the reader.

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