The San Francisco call., 1905-06-22
THE PRESIDENT AND THE RAILROADS.

q ENATOR MILLARD of Nebraska member Of the Senate
Committee which has the charge quoted to the
~ the will favor and further the legislation
asked for by the President enarng the OF the Interstate
Commerce Commission Prior to this there
country intended to do anything
else That of the which makes politics out OF peanuts mas
been encouraging public ownership advocates by assuming what the
has all been assumption
The committee probably shares the Presidents idea that the ov
created and to curb only SUCH persons %
business policies nma TO the interest Ii Is 10 40
this by exercising the of government and not by entering
into business in competition with its own citizens. h,;
Senator Mlards statement is eassung to those VINO pefve
received by those who think Government 1aiure ana mus
change itself and its by going into business on scale 50
large make individual effort impossible Some of the railroads
of the have done their best help along the latter class
They entirely confused the public mind relation to the con-
pass great many people believe that he
upon the Interstate Commerce Commission make
equal the fear has been raised that long haul shippers
by abolition of the derena provided for in the
fourth clause of the interstate commerce law
By avoiding attack what the President does want
and bv very earnest of
want corporations confusion
the public mind What he does reasonable and
that there should be no objection to it. and there can
founded in good or good policy All of the Presidents
idea expressed this brief from his The In
Commerce Commission should be vested with the power
given challenged and after full hearing found
unreasonable decide subject judicial what shall
place; the ruling of the commission
take effect Immediately and to obtain unless and until it
versed by the OF review.
That plan unried 1t followed by the earliest and
successful State railroad commissions Those bodies admin
itratve their legal by trying brought to them
through the challenge OF rate ed by railroad became IN their
judicial bodies Prior their creation State Legislatures
had schedules which
cable and in restraint of trade.
The decision of the Supreme Court that authority
replace unreasonable by reasonable widely
1t has taken be the old impossible
enacng This The
public authority function of
legislative origin This we'll understood by the President
desires legislation the Interstate Commerce Com
udcay that has been challenged and
found unreasonable Immediately reasonable its
Then the appeal by the corporation
affected The real point putting the reasonable
de operation. Heretofore could be held abeyance
pending the delay the shippers had relief
ALL but had paying the unreasonable while enduring
the expense of litigation
While there covering the point that
the policy advocated by the President the
through the Department of Justice will
This will that the individual citizen seeking
of the will have endure the of following
appeal In other words the Government will by this legislation
its between the shipper and the railroad the
else of purely governmental function
This explanation good understanding of
what the President proposes 1t the projection of
into the policy of the country order govern
corporations supplant substitute them. Between
the abdcaon the
functions the going
ITSELF great gulf The propositions wide apart
the poles Socialism the Government governing
go business The President govern
business individual energy and enterprise