Show 4 1 U I 1 I 1 it my 3 L I 1 C F 0 F i U M V E P ripley on relations of railroads and pomplo tho the industrial leaders of this nation are talking to 7 tho the public faco face to face through tile the columns of this paper j tho the time was NA when hen it if a corporation hail had anything to say az to the people they the sent bent a hired hand whimpered it through a lawyer lawer or employed a lobby lobbyist let to explain it to the legis labute but the rien who know and the men who 40 do are now alkire over the fence to tho the man who plows when tho the leading buil business ness men of this nation got back to tho the soil soft with their problems strife and dissension will disappear forshen for when men look into each others faces arid and sillo thero there Is a better day coming mr E P ill ploy president of tho santa 17 fc c nall railroad road when asked to givia his views in reference to relations existing beaw between cen tho the railroad and the public said tn in part frequently we hear bear statements to the effect that these relations are improving that the era of rall railroad road baiting has passed and that public centa mant now favors treating the railroads fairly As yet this change tn in public sentiment it any such thero there be is not effective lit in results it Is true that in tile the legislatures of the southwestern states during 60 tho past winter vinter there were fewer unreasonable and unreason unreasoning hig laws passed than usual but a consideration of at the hostile bills introduced shows tows that thero is still reagon for much disquiet oven though they octia def defeated dated by br more or less of a malo majority rity moreover the idea that the railroads have been harshly treated dors does not icem to prevail in tile the offices of tho the state railroad commissions which seem to cherish a notion that their business is not to act as an arbitrator between the railroads and the people but which proceed on the theory that the railroads railroad are able to take caro care of themselves and that their sr duty la is to act as attorney for tho the people even though in so doing they deny justice to the railroads it requires no argument to demonstrate that the railroads are entitled to justice equally with other citizens and taxpayers that they have not rec received elved it and are not receiving it Is perfectly susceptible or of proof that they have practically no recourse in tile the courts has bar also been determined the situation therefore is that the people through their representatives ves I 1 must elect whether the of the railroads shall bo be adequately adequate lf compesi compensated or not and it requires no fortune teller or booths sooths soothsayer abor to predict that in the long run the ho service will take the class that impald is paid for and rio no botor boater the natural competition between the tha railroads and tile the natural destroy dewa to per perform forth first class service has heretofore resulted tit in giving tho the public mu much ch more than it was willing to pay for continuation it it this fillba impossible and no laws however drastic can long accomplish the M jia t 1 |