Show THE RAILROAD BILL Senator Root has spoken parts o othree ot of three days on the railroad bill which President Taft desires shall be enacted Into law And in the course of his ad address address address dress one startling thing has been re revealed revealed revealed A majority of the senators have not read the bill billIt billIt billIt It has been before Congress for months It has been discussed In twenty twenty twenty ty cities at big assemblies of ot commercial commer commercial commercial cial and financial men It has hass been at attacked attacked attacked tacked and defended In a multitude of newspapers And yet the senators themselves are not at all familiar with Its provisions I Is it ft at all likely that congressmen as class clas are any better Informed Is It likely the people know what the tha bill provides Yet that bill has been print printed ed ea eL It Is In the Congressional Record The substance of it has hub been bean an faithfully reported though in fn condensed form larm by bythe bythe the he Associated Press reporters and by special correspondents for many news newspapers newspapers I papers But do the people get benefit from the government provisions for publicity That is the question Every possible means has been adopted ed to tell the peo people people people about that and every other measure presented before House or Senate Not Nota a citizen of 01 the land but may have ave a copy opy of 01 the bill if It he will ask his sen senator senator senator ator or his congressman for it The Record tells every word of it and every word vord that has been be n said In Congress either Ither for or against it And yet it is doubtful If the people know That is the more likely because the people certainly are mistaken as to the present tariff law Probably a ma majority majority of 01 the people of the United States have lave damned that law in the belief bellet that it t revises the tariff upward And that is not at all the truth With every facil facilIty Ity ty for getting perfectly reliable information Information Information mation they decline to be Informed Publicity Is demanded But are the peo e taking the benefit provided |