Show THE RAILWAY investigation THE iiii longwinded long winded invest investigation igal on being held by the later antor state commerce commission assumes the appearance to the casual re reader ader at a distance of being a means of affording pastime for the members by asking quest questions ioris simply to have them answered with no objective point in view it does look a little that way so far particularly in view of the fact that no changes have resulted nor any startling or unlooked for developments occurred yet there is ia more of it than appears upon the surface and the reason it unfolds before the public so slowly is simply because there is such an immense neld to be covered and so many volumes to be written the highways of traffic have been going along in the even U anor nor of their way no molestation that amounts to tm anything more than a breshin brushing 9 up now and then aggressiveness si of what w bat the I 1 kublic sentiment of the east is ia rapidly b leving t to 0 be a continental octopus and its ravages unchecked to start at the beginning and fish out piece by piece all the crookedness duplicity cunning strategy circumvention of law bribery anti and even thefts which some of the trunk lines of this country have not only committed but systematized is a proceeding requiring time patience perseverance pei severance industry and ability and the commission so far exhibit all these qualities in a marked degree in a nation where the domain is so vast that the taking or obtaining of great areas in places is hardly noticed no matter by what means the taking has been accomplished there is bound to be a mile now and then where permission for but a rod was given but like murder they will out and the remote encroachments encroach ments of monopolies cease to be remote when civilization draws its folds nearer and nearer about them and the clamor of those who realize that they are being deprived of inherent rights and their children threatened with peonage go up to the nations headquarters it was such constriction and such clamors that made a eom commission mission whose duty it is to give the railroads their rigans and nothing more the people their rights and nothing less an existing 1 acting institution at the present time |