A SOUND suggestion F L chapman editor of better farming in an article entitled the farmer fanner and the railroad says 1 I think that the farming business b I 1 and the railroad business busin esus ar a r so utterly dependent upon each other their interests are so identical that the man who drives a wedge between them is either crazy or a crook perhaps he is neither but just ambitious to capture political leadership among the farmer fanner and to entice them he is willing to deceive them to their injury commenting on mr air chapmans Chap mans suggestion the albuquerque herald says yet year after year we have permitted ourselves to be led around by the collective nose by this ignorant politician and that unscrupulous demagogue demo gogue ambitious to capture leadership who have proposed nostrum after nostrum in the way of unintelligent regul regulation aaion until the railroads are striking out blindly in a fruitless effort for relief and shippers and ultimate consumers are reaching around gropingly gly for some remedy hid in the dark but to no one does the thought seem to have occurred that we might return for another experiment peri ment with individual initiative that we might remove e a few of the wrappings ingi of regulation under which the genius of american railroad management has shriveled that instead of rush ing headlong into consolidations and swallowing whole the new ceory of eliminating competition which will lead uso us certainly where we do not want to go 90 government ownership we might return to the principle from which railroad regulation sprung a quarter of a century ago and take steps to insure at least a measure of competition would it not be possible for the government of the united T states to say to the railroad own ers here take your railroads an run them if you cruft run them right and treat our people just ly y we are arc with you if you run them grea greedily dily and recklessly we vill punish you it is up to you is that a dream in this land of the free or have we indeed encounters in the railroad problem one with which this nation is li competent to deal