The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1905-05-26
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Committee on Interstate Commerce at
Washington on May 18th. rrof. Hugo Il.
Meyer OF Chicago University. an OK.
pert on railroad management, made
this statement:
Let us look ut what might have
happened it we had needed the pro
| tests OF the farmers OF New York and
Ohio aud Pennsylvania lin the seven
ties when grain from the west began
| pouring to tho Atlantic %ScnbOuru) and
acted upon the doctrine which the In
tcrstate Commerce Commission has
enunciated time and again. that no
man may be deprived OF the ndvant-
ages accruing to him by virtue of his
geographical position. We could not
have west OF the Mississippi Il popula.
ton of millions of people who are
prosperous and are great consumers.
We never should have seen the years
when we built 10000 ANA $4,000 miles
of railway. for there would have been
no farmers west of the mississippi Riy-
cr who could have used the land that
would have been opened up by tho
building OF those railways. Aud If we
had not seen the years when we could
build 10000 and 10000 miles of rail
way a year, We should not have today
east OF the Mississippi Il steel and iron
producing center which is ut once the
marvel aud the despair of Europe. be
cause WE could not have built up n
steel and iron industry il there had
been no market for it's product.
w could not have in New England
a great boot aud shoe industry; we
could not have in New England a great
cotton milling industry; we could not
have spread throughout New York and
Pennsylvania and Ohio manufacturing
industries Of the most diversified kinds,
because those industries would have no
market among the farmers west of Tic
Mississippi River.
And while the progress of this coun-
try, while the development of the asri-
cultural west Of this country. did mean
the impairment of the agricultural
value east of the Mississippi River that
ran up into hundreds OF millions OF
''A ~ ii'thN Nv
building up of great manufacturing in
dustrics that added to the value of
this land by thousands of millions of
dollars. Aud. gentlemen. those things
were not foreSern in the seventies. The
statesmen n the public men OF this
country did not see what part the agri-
cultural development Of the West was
going to play in the industrial develop
mcnt of the East. And you may read
the decisions. of the Interstate Com
mercc Commission from the first 10 the
last. and what is one of the greatest
characteristics of those decisions? The
continued inability to see the question
in this large way.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion never can see anything more than
that the farm land of some farmer il
decreasing in value, or that some man
who has n flour mil! With Il production
of 30 barrels Il day is being crowded
out. 1t nevcr can SEQ thai the destruc-
ton or impairment of farm values in
this place means the building UP Of
Garm values i'll that place. and taat
that shifting of values is Il necessary
incident to the industrial and manu-
featuring development of this country.
And if we shall give to the Interstate
Commerce Commission power To rf-u-
late rates. wc slall no longer have oar
rates regulated on the atates;nanllke
basis on which they nave been rrgu-
lated in the past by the railway men.
who really have been great statesmen,
who really have seer great builders of
empires, who have had an imagination
HAT rivals the Imagination of tine great
est poet and of the greatest inventor,
and who have operated with Il courage
and daring that rivals the courage and
daring the Srca,cst military general.
But we shall have our rates regulated
by IL body of civil servants. hu"eatl-
Gratis. whose bcsetting sin the world
over is that they never can grasp Il sit
uation in Il large way and With the
grasp of the statesman: that they new
O.. can see the fact that they are con-
frontcd with Il small evil: that that vii
is relatively small, and that it ca:not
be corrected except by the creation OF
evils and abuses which are infinitely
greater than the one that is to be cor
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