The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-05-26
Railroads and Pra,

In his testimony befor, Senate
Committee on Interstate herce at
Washington on May 4th, PIugo r.
Meyer of Chicago Univer an ex-
! pert on railroad manage, made
this statement:
Let us look at what t have
happened if we had heedne pro-
tests of the farmers of Neyrk and
Ohio and Pennsylvania Qn seven
ties when grain from the began
pouring to the Atlantic sead) and
acted upon the doctrine whine In
terstate Commerce COmmh has
%enunciated time and againat no
man may be deprived Of thvant-
ages accruing to him by virof his
geographical position. We d not
have west Of the Mississippi opula-
ton Of millions of people are
prosperous and are great ctmers.
We never should have seen years
when we built 10000 and l2,Nmiles
Of railway, for there would N been
no farmers west Of the Mississ Riv-
er who could have used the Il that
would have been opened up the
building of those railways. AFT we
had not seen the years when would
build 10000 and $4,000 miles rail-
way a year, ~wessshould not hav-day
east of the Mississippi a steel akron
producing center which is at o the
marvel and the despair Of Eur, be-
cause we could not have builp a
steel and iron industry If the had
been no market for its product.
I'VE could not have in New Eand
a great boot and shoe industl we
could not have in New England teat
cotton milling industry; we counot
have spread throughout New Yohnd
Pennsylvania and Ohio manufacing
industries Of the most diversified IDS,
because those industries would h> no
market among the farmers west the
Mississippi River.
And while the progress Of thisun-
try, while the development Of thesri-
cultural west of this country, did IAN
the impairment of the a%gricural
value east of the Mississippi Rivenat
Il up into hundreds Of million Of
dollars, it meant incidentally he
building up Of great Misunderstanding
. dustries that added to the valuof
this land by thousands Of millionof
dollars. And, gentlemen, those thgs
were not foreSeen in the seventies. he
statesmen and the pubic men of is
country did not see what part the al
cultural development Of the West 1:
going to play in the Industrial devep
ment of the East. And you may ri
the decisions Of the Interstate ca
merce Commission from the first to
last, and what is one of the great
characteristics of those decisions? I
continued inability to see the quest
in this large way.
The Interstate Commerce Comm
sion never can see anything more til
that the farm land of some farmer
decreasing in value, or that some n
viz LAS Il lOul LII Win Il plouuNl
Of 80 barrels a day is being crowt
out. 1t never can see that the destr
ton or impairment Of farm values
. this place means the building up
farm values in that place, and t
that shifting OF values is a necess,
) incident to the industrial and ma
I featuring development of this count
And if we shall give to the Interest
I Commerce Commission power to re
r late rates, we snail no longer have
rates regulated on the statesman
basis on which they have been re
= lated in the past by the railway III
who really have been great statesm
| who really have been great builders
: empires, who have had an imaginat
that rivals the imagination of the gre
? est poet and of the greatest inven
= and who have operated with a cour
( and daring that rivals the courage
e daring the greatest military gene
: But we shall have Il rates regula
n by a body Of civil servants, bure
h Gratis. whose besetting sin the W.
F. over is that they never a grasp a
e uation in a large way and with
8 grasp Of the statesman; that they /
= c" can see the fact that they are
fronted with a small evil; that that
is relatively small, and that it car
n be corrected except. by the creatio,
# evils and abuses which are intini
! greater than the one that is to be
n rected." Advertiser
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