Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1922-07-05
RAILROAD UNMERCER IS
BROAD ECONOMIC
ADVANTAGE

Pacific from the Southern Pacific, as
ordered by recent Supreme Court de-
csion, will mean the entrance OF new
competing railroad into California and
is a broad economic advantage" to
the western states was the statement
Of Frank K. Devlin. former president
OF the California State Railroad Com
mission, who has just announced his
entrance into the campaign to pro
vide the public with the facts
Dcvlin, who is a leading authority
i'll public matters OF the west, and who
was formerly district attorney and
superior Judge OF Salano County. Cali
fornia and member OF the California
legislature, has been retained by the
Union Pacific System, according to
his announcement. TO vigorously con-
test the efforts OF tho Southern Pacific
to nullify the action OF the Supreme
Court
In all official statement announcing
his entry into the campaign, Devlin
stated:
at has been truly said that one of
the results of the World War has been
to make a science of propaganda.
There is unqucstionably no organiza
ton in California better equipped for
effective propaganda work than the
Southern Pacific Company. say this
not in criticism OF that company, but
as statement of what ] believe to be
fact That many far-reaching and
effective agencies have been put into
full operation during the past ten days
to stampede public opinion is obvious.
The ultimate decision in this matter
cannot be rendered at this time. but
will undoubtedly be the subject of eN-
tended inquiry and study before and
by appropriate tribunals. The ques-
tons involved are many and complex,
including railroad operations in its
many phases industrial and agricul-
tural expansion and all the other things
which follow and become a part OF
transcontincntal railroad Development
There is no reason i'll the world why
the people of the State should permit
themselves to be swept off their feet
through fear that the United States
Supreme Court, the Interstate Com
mercc Commerce. the California State
Railroad Commission the commissions
OF the other western states. and all
courts and tribunals, whose response
bility it is to examine into. to weigh
carefully and determine the many
questions involved in this subject, are
going, to render Judgment which will
result in the disaster which some of
the Southern Pacific spokesman claim
must follow the pronounccmcnt of the
United States Supreme Court.
Courts and commissions are organ
lied and have proper machinery pro
vidcd for them for orderly presenta-
ton, consideration and adjudication OF
all of these questions 1t is only fair
and sensible, and it is in the interest
OF the public OF the State at large to-
allow the courts and commissions to
consider and determine this matter in
the orderly fashion which the law COM
nands. 1t is unwisc, unfair and I'M
sound for any people or group of
people TO go on record as dcnouncing
or protesting decisions of our highest
courts and commissions on cxpartc
statements and on presentation of only
half the facts. No man, or group OF |
men, and no community should be
afraid or unwilling to hear both sides |
OF every question. There are two
sides to this question. and the public
should refrain from making commit
ments or protests until all the facts |
have been presented
1T is not new thing TO have an old |
and established railroad fight to keep
a competitor which,it fears out of it's
territory. With the control of the
NShti I'll d. tiiS IoSt 10 inc SOutnern
Pacific, the Union Pacific would be a
real competitor. 1t is. however, very
unusual and startling TO find that APP
parently the first impression of the
upon the announcement of
a possible competitor OF the existing
system seems TO be one of alarm.
IN view of the TACT that the United
States Supreme Court, after thorough !,
declared the law to be
in favor of the separation of the Cen
raj Pacific from the Southern Pacific.
md that Professor William Z. Ripley,
If Harvard University. one of the out
standing world authorities on econom-
cs. who was employed as an indepcn-
lent advisor to the Interstate Conn
nercc Commission to make study h