The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1905-05-26
Railroads and Prorre,.

10.
Committee on Interstate Commere..
washington on May ith. Prof Hugo ,
Meyer. OF Chicago University an =
pert on railroad MANAGEMENT r,.,
this statement
lie, us look NJ what mieht ha.
happened II We had Needed ibe r.
tests Of the farmers OF New YORK ~,
Ohio and Pennsylvania Gin the seven
ties when grain from the west b.e,,
pouring 70 the Atlantic seaboardl s,d
acted upon the doctrine which M.
Interstate Commerce Commission ~,
enumerated time and again. thar \,
man may DO deprived OF the ady,,-
tages aocruing TO him by virtue OF M,
geographical position. We could nj,
have vest OF the Mississippi a poppla.
ton OF millions OF people who ~
prosperous and are great consumer
We never should have seen the ves-.
when We built 10000 and 1900 mia.
OF railway. for there would have been
no farmers west OF the Alississipo,
River who could have used the lana
that would have been opened up bv ~
building OF those railways. ANA h v.
had not seen the years when We cluls
build 10000 and 1900 miles of rau.
way year. We should not have rs
day east OF the Mississippi a steel ans
iron producing center which IA a
once the marvel and the despair OF rtl.
rope. because we could not have buil
up a steel and iron industry If ther,
had been no market for its product
we could not have IN New Enelanc
a great boot and shoe industry y,
could not have in New England
great cotton milling industry. ",
could not have spread throughout New
York and Pennsylvania and Ohio man
industries OF the most IN
yerelled ki1ds. because those indus
tries would have no market among ths
farmers west OF the Mississippi River
And while the progress of this coun.
try. while the development or tie az
ricultural West of this country dle
mean the impairment OF the ayr
value east OF the Mississippi.
River that ran up into hundreds OF
Of dollars. It meant incident
ally the building up OF great manufac.
turing industries that added 70 the
value of'this land by thousands Of mil
lions OF dollars. And, gentlemen
hose things were not foreseen IN the
seventies. The statesmen and ths
public men OF this country did not seq
what part the agricultural develop
nent OF the West was going 10 pag
4 the industrial development OF Tx
EAST. And you may read the decisions
Il thu Interstate Commerce Comus
ion from the first 10 the last, and
ghat is one Of the greatest character
sites OF those decisions? The con.
inuei inability TO see the question IL
ais large way
The Interstate Commerce Commis-
ion never can see anything more than
hat the farm land OF some farmer is
decreasing in value. or that some MAJ
Tho has q -four mill With a produc-
lon of 80 barrels a DAY IS being crowd
d out II never can see that The
or impairment OF farm
alues in this place means the build
* UP Of farm values IN that place
nd that that shifting OF values Is
ecessary incident 70 the industrial.
nd manufacturing Development OF this
Duntry. And II we shall give 20 the
Interstate Commerce Commission pow
r TO regulate rates. we shall no long
4 have our rates regulated on tht
basis on which they
ave leen regulated In the past Is ,hF
lllway men. who really have been
-elt statesmen. who really have beer
-eat builders OF empires, who have
al an Imagination that rivals Dc
Imagination Of the greatest poet and q
lie greatest inventor. and who have
lerated with courage and darias
lat rivals the courage and daring Of
ie fraatest military general But We
TALL have our rates regulated by
,dy OF civil servants. bureaucrats
hose besetting sin the world over g
at they never can grasp a situation
lerge way. and with the grasp o.
e statesman; that they never can
e the fact that they are confronted
lth q small evil that that evil g
latively small. and that Il cannot be
ERECTED except by the creation o.
lis and abuses which are infinitely
eater than the one that IS 70 BE-
ERECTED"