Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-01-10
sCaE REFLECTIONS on THE REGr-
LATION OF RAILROADS..

sSaE REFLECTIONS ON THE REGU
LATION OF RAILROADS.
We do not know whether Speake
WILSON or other advocates of a bette
system of railroad regulation hav,
eNOlYedany new scheme or device, sine
the close of the last session of the !.c.-iS
iature, for accomplishing this purpose
but they can't have been Very clo~. OBJ
servers of / sing events in this cOnnrc
ton If they have failed To discover Tha
10y the action Of the railroad companies
themselves, within the past few month,
or perhaps it would b. more proper L
say, by the disagreement among the
railroad nearly all the dis
satisfaction aTd complaints from thl
general public have been silcuced, ami I
new era seems to nave dawucd upon
the country in this regard
Not that thCSr new Developments
have worked any special change 0I
amUliOrutiOu Of the wrongs complained
of in this state, hut thry present facts
from which much j. to be learned by
those who are studying this problem.
aud which perhaps, may bp useful i'm
dealing with the subject in any OF il
aSpcrtS.
We refer specially ta the one fact that
/ the smashing gfHc ppDi system. 6.'s"s.g,
. hC trunk rCfjj.O0skS ,f,td Hh,,rhy rGgID.H-
. ing W,$" cDmE"gics 70 u""uvy 7i~ jl1+'-
. Tim ,.i cvmy1ttDr, isr jll,ja,Ns, mas,
even with hut u few months trial. dis
pcilCd almost every evil ui which thu
pubic has heretofore cumpiaiard; SHOW
ing with the Cunclu>iYcncSS which -, ~
other Kind ut business demonstrates i.
that DH'p'iTiDR, attcr all, Is the ..".tt
, regulator OF railroads. and the absence
, OF it III" pool system, or any other such
combination j. the generating source
and support of all the cNactiDu~ di,-
ordinations and cXtor,iUnS that are
common L. railroad traffic.
- simple dot. thrpruHirm .ym from
such standpoint and such illustration
a. lhc railroads have givcn Us in the last
few months, that - far ~ the trunk
lines 81 the country are concerned. there
seems 10 br need Of bUt one Law 10 free
the railroad traffic If all iHiG,tira and
and combinations ofH.i kinds. and ,Jm-
pei icgll'matrccmpvtiti"H between COM
pauiU~.
There i another equally important
fact IN TIL. connection, and that j.. that
competition i Uot uniy right for the rail
roads but the public has u right To the
mlreE>r benefits which would arcru"
irui., II. 1t has right to have the use of
the railroads for traffic or passage at the
Lowest rates which competing lines show
[" hc practicable; to hayr rhy b,nrtitSur
that favor, accommodation, care AMI
r"urtv~y which uniycomPytjtiou can in
~pir".
Their is nothing th,. promise. 80
much fer the advancement Of this vDun-
try IN all IL interests, ~ quick commit
mrati"u between different sections By
rail Oh terms equally advantageous ami
Within the reach of all GLASSES. a., exist
through the telegraph system for YER
hal communication.
And the events Ia which We refer
have also demonstrated, thut while
competition will soon bring this, il will
also h" profitable - the railroads. The
reports @! tn" railroads during the peri
oil AZ which rates have been reduced
from - 20 - per cent, show that while
this competition in freight and piS>,u-
gjr traffic has 81 far ~ the NANDEE-
ElIT group ul roads i cone, r"yd. u
dUrcd their GuuCai incomes. also show
that even these reads h.I.. pro>pcrrI.
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