, 1873-03-11

romainhg sooto',a ol tho Stnto by 4 roAp6nAihlo
topura Vhiol cannot 10 ahnkot', nntlsto Tie groAt
wo flna Tic IN family nlyp,i poitho eold Colony.
CONSOLIDATION NEoEssANY AND BENEFICIAL.
Unlosa my foresight wholly falla mo, hayo
now roughly indcatod tho genoral oltlih6 or oiir
eae oS
monwoalth In dealing with lis rallroa ta, would
much rathor hayo to do with tltoso nix families
tl,an With an awkward oongohes Of disconnected
ssss ssE q o. s{gsss gs. sns f and as wow
could deal with It in gotno position OF equality.
It could DO hold to somo dogroe Of responsibility,
and upon my abuse connected with itB 1nanago-
mont5we might hopo to concentrate and direot
corporations on tho contrary is always irroenon-
ebfo, and to argue with thon is like spending
ones brcath". iii n talk with tho north
wind. They ennnot understand you in tho
o gs ae sess y 9 nn Ii S .v 5 they osnha could ne @
ford to aocuro tho servloos Of those ablo mon-
who alone can grasp the Significance and posHl-
bilities Of tho railroad syseom and thoy could
not carry out thoir plans II they did. II you
eyetem, II you want corporations which you can
hold to somo dogroe Of responsibility, then you
must lot development take ita natural course,
and you must not sock to keop tho man awathed
in tho awaddling clothes Of tho babo.
But 1t this Is to bc tho form Which tue railroad
Bystem Is to assume, If consolidation Ia thus in
eyitably, reducing the amall number Of oompe-
ting points, why is not your ayatom Of last
nakod, recognized monopoly 2: :fme E phantom ot
competition lnunts It no more. Then you must
regulate Or you must submit thore is tho nltor-
native. Now If this Ia the result to which tho
railroad system Of, Massachusetts, Is tonding,
and you would 'nook to regulate, through
through logielatien and modelling, what iB the
least possible ownership among six ouch fanll-
1ios aH have described which would enablc tho
Stato, through tho management OF. q part, to
regulate Tie whole :, oloarly,: wo say. 1t is to
own ono Of theso family groups out Of tho sixi
and tiion mere common senne. peinta out the
Eitcnbnrg and tunnel 1amily as tho .ono.'
Why gout!omon seo TIE position which THIS Inc II,
occupiea, ami tho contfolng power which tho
gosaeseion OF It would put into the hands Of the
btnto through tho Ohoshire roaa II connects .H
with Canaaa on tho north, competing with lilo
Northern limo. 1t runs n9rouel with mo Boston
d. d Albany, ana WnoIo shat. gees IL can g.
Ihrough .tno ohsnneia OF tno DelaWape " hna-
son Canal company, It, reaohes INTO PennaylVa.
nla aha cunPases WIN 1no aseaola alle ana
VII With ~ Ius yoty ooluols WMcn come 70 us ~ eea.
n lne Isaap 3 ui oGanocslout and NOV 1orK Cisy IS
% tno ohy .1aoo II eann1t touch, ana tEat IS com,
mo @ hosae % therefore mo key of the Tntlrond EYE W
tEaro " Ia hese.IsGi.s' h,,t M he nous .ao Key pus
snolo ~ pus one holoer Mho woula use y.
-, % ~. mum JOE our e1tetnhl traho bue tnls
Ae1~A sAEA.AS" - AN3
n1owovor, impossible that thero shou!d bo two
olnerens eyatems o. Ioea! tranSporta5ion III any
wrong. A successful innovation will soon force
tta way into general uae. But to remove an
nbuso or to explode falEe theory, you must
demonstrate tho existence OF your abuse or tho
falsity Of tho theory. Horo tho railroad cor
porntionB have ua on tho hip. We may talk,
argue. and dlsouss; We cannot. demonstrato.
With tile State operating tho tunnel limo thero
would not be q form Of transportation by rail
from without or within tho Commonwealth, no
matter how removed from Immediate contact
With tho State road, which would not fool In
Btantly tho of1oot Of any roform In. management
establiahed upon 1t. I have shown you that In
practice this WAS found to be tho caso through
the long experience Of Belgium, and II would
hayo to be tho case hore. II, on tho contrary,
no reforms could bo introduced successfully on
tho 6tate road, then the case Of tho private cor
Porations would be mado ors.. What tho people
could not accomplish on their own road, they
could not ask Or expect to SEQ accomplished on
tho roads Of others. ,,
THE LIMITS OF THE EXPERIMENT.
iment Of Stato ownership. To 90 boyoud this,
and to talk of assuming all tho railroads in tho
State, Or oven tho creator part OF them, would