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Show The Massachusetts railroad commissioners com-missioners in their report for 1875 say that tho anti-railroad movement in the wejt haH established three material principles. Theie are the accountability accounta-bility of railroads to the public as well as to their stockholders; the necessity of dealing equitably with all men; and tho existence of a broad distinction distinc-tion between a railroad corporation and a manufacturing company. Since these pointa have been settled, the issues pending in the courts are, so the commissioners say, of comparatively compar-atively little importance. |