| Show TIm NI iI Till Titi BAli lH In an In London Landon Mr An Andrew Andrew drew tnt Carnegie CarMalo Is III quoted as aa Haying You can con say for mo me that thal I t nm am am thor thoroughly In favor for of Kerr Hardys Ug that all cli railways should b be na ne nationalized It be an nn excellent thing fur for ti people It If that were done donl Look at lit the tilt economy that would be bc ef et fc foaled teil If All the railways Were cro under understate underState state llIto control Fares lorea l lIres would be lowered and II tilt tho IHo of ot the passengers bolter looked after C course clr to the railways but It niftY may bt b pre pro that It expresses letl Mr tr Carnegles vices tn regarding railways In this coun country countr try tr DR wall 11 Ordinarily this would bo ho If It no n nOt I t pure dema denni but bul coming from tho the source whence It t does from Irom one ulle of oC the tho biggest capitalists gnu nd nil perhaps the greatest philanthropist tho world line has ever eor seen thin this charge cannot bo ho made It Is Isery Very ery doubtful Indeed If It tate Mate owner ownership ownership ship of ot railways r would result In tho the benefits here hero outlined They have hae state lit ala railways In France and but bUI butIn butIn In III no single particular are they superior to 10 those of ot or America while hile In many they rail fall short State Slate owner olner ownership ownership ship would mean more and that In large measure means what old ol Commodore Vanderbilt sold said of or the pub flub public lie lic The public he be In this Ibis country It would mean not better belter railway ser service cervice er ervice vice nor solicitude for tor or the corn com comfort tort fort and welfare of ot patrons of or tho tim rail railways railways ways wa but bul more patronage for tor the poll more Inore Voters voter tot for tho the party In Int ii t power oser And wherein would be bo the econ economy omy way In this country the fixed and current expenses of at the railways railway are ore re reduced reo almost to the tue minimum while It Is well welt known knowlI that all branches ot of the Rov are not run on the theory of ot reducing expenses to the minimum that the contrary Is la the rule Is II a 11 business and should be run as all such uch If It the government could conduct It Il more economically lly than It U IB Is now flow done which no one ono believes It Il could It Mould still bo bt b wrong frong for It to todo todo todo do so In the matter of ot business un undertakings the tho duty ot of the tha th government ts Is to afford nil all th the freest possible range to treat all alt fairly and am alike and to afford each ellCh the protection ot of the tho law That Th t Is U tin duty and not nol to assume control ot of the business Mr Ir theory Is III equally equall applicable to any an In Industry great or small email Under It the government might make steel cheaper than does doell the United Untied ei com corn company pany Hut mit Mr lr Carnegie would scarcity ly ba hI b expected to advocate this and he lie could doubtless very try soon show shaw where wherein in the government would foil fall In fact we think he lie could Hut could not the great groat railroad magnates m soon loon point out the fallacy In his lila argument for tor state ownership of ot railways We Wo think they the could There Is on one OM phase phalle of oC the railway question that would give some strength or at lit least lend lead his hla argo argument ment railways r are qua quasI l 1 public corpor corporations corporations They Y are endowed with some rights rIght II that ate peculiarly the prerogatives prerogatives tives tIe of or the th sovereign power In n a gov government 0 particularly Is this so In III the matter ot the exercise of the right rat AIr eminent domain And this tight Is given en primarily tor for the benefit of ot the public This Thin makes the relation of the railway to the public unique The Tho railways too frequently Ig Ignore nore note this fact This justifies partial public supervision of ot them but not state ownership The solution ot of the railway problem If It one can be said sahl to exist Is IB In a more rigid and antI constant exercise of ot this Ihl supervision That there Ina lea growing demand for tor It on Orl the part rat ot of the public cannot be bo denied dented The Tho proceedings pr c In the celebrated case of ot the Northern Securities are the direct result of at this demand Just Ju t now hOW the tendency IH is to bring the rail railways ways was more lucre under the tue control of ot the state anti and to curtail their powers than It has been In the past The sentiment of at the people In this regard Is h that It ItU It U Is a 0 question whether the tue railways shall dictate to the people or the tho pee pea people to the railways It shall be the lot lat latter lotter iatter ter That condition of ot affairs has not 1101 oL yet jet et come ome about aboul and probably never will but bUI this liSa has that thul the railways enjoying special and extraordinary privileges granted ranted by the he public In the exercise of them shall be more omen amen amenable able n le to 10 public Interest and sentiment than they have been een cen About a de demorn morn there la Is nothing revolutionary nothing drastic Ue nothing that Is la not reasonable anti and right |
