Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1905-06-01
a,uro.d. and, Proeresa..
In his testimony before the SEM

In his testimony before. the Senate
Committee on Interstate Commerce at
Washington on May 4th, Prof. Hugo r.
Meyer of Chicago University. an ex.
merit on railroad management, made
this statement:
Let us look at what might have
happened il we had needed the pro-
tests of the farmers Of New York and
Ohio and Pennsylvania lin the seven.
ties when grain from the west began
poNring to the Atlantic seaboard) and
acted upon the doctrine which the In.
terstate Commerce Commission has.
enunciated time and again. that no
man may be deprived of the advant.
AGES accruing to him by virtue Of his.
geographical position. We could not
have west of the Mississippi a popr.A-
ton of millions Of people who are.
prosperous and are great consumers.
We never should have seen the years
when we built 10000 and 1900 miles.
of railway, for there would have been
no farmers west of the Mississippi Riv-
er who could have used the land that
would have been opened up by the
building of those railways. And ii We
had not seen the years when we could
build 10000 and 10000 miles OF rail-
a q year, we should not have today
east Of the Mississippi a steel and iron
producing center which is at once the
marvel and the despair of Europe, be-
cause we could not have built up IA
steel and iron industry if there had
beer no market for it's product.
I'VE could not have in New England
a great boot and 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 the
Mississippi River.
And while the progress of this coun-
try, while the development of the agri-
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
dollars, it meant incidentally the
building up of great manufacturing in
dustries that added to the value OF
this land by thousands Of millions OF
dollars. And. gentlemen, those things
were not foreseen in the seventies. The
statesmen and the pubic men of this
country did not see what part the agri-
cultural development of the West was
uninp 70 nlnv in tho industrial 6Avolnn.
ment of the East. And you may read
the decisions of the Interstate Com
MERGE Commission FROM the first to the
last. and what is one of the greatest
characteristics Of those decisions? The
continued inability to see the question
in this large way.
1.-The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion never can see anything more than
that the farm land Of some farmer is
decreasing in value, or that some man
who has a flour mill with Il production
Of so barrels a day is being crowded
out. 1t never car see that the destruc-
ton or impairment Of farm values I'D
this place means the building up OF
farm values in that place, and that
lldI SllIllIS VI Values 10 ~
incident to tie industrial and manu-
featuring development of this country.
And il we shall give to the Interstate
Commerce Commission power to resu-
late rates. we SHALL no longer have u
rates regulated on the st~ateslnanllke
basis OH which they nave been reSu-
lated in the past 10y the railway men,
who really have been great statesmen,
who really have been great builders OK
empires, who have had an Imagination
that rivals the Imagination of the great
est meet and of the greatest inventor.
and who have operated with a courage
and daring that rivals the courage and
daring the greatest military general.
But we shall have our rates regulated
by q body of civil servants. bureau
Gratis. whose besetting sin the world
over is that they never can grasp a sit
uation In a large way and with the
| grasp Of the statesman; that they rev
G. can see the fact that they are con
fronted with q small evil; that that EVIL
: is relatively small, and that 1t cannot
be corrected except by the creation OF
I evils and abuses which are infinitely
greater than the n that is to be cor
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