| Show vanderbilt AND THE RAILROADS it is a very favorable sign that tho railroad king had the idea of expressing his views on the perplexed and perplexing question in a letter to tho kew york chamber of commerce 31 is letter proves in the first line tint the complaints of the people about the ad ministration of the railroads has made some impression on tl irman mr vanderbilt deems alie railroad rail raad question of too gravo gra vo an im to be made a football foot ball for tiia politicians Further inore he thinks that it is only two easy to excite the people to animosity by the circulation of erroneous statements about the railroads he then believes that some of the proposed legislative remedies will do more injury to choso needing alie railroads than to the railroad administrations themselves finally he makes the bad assertion that the relations bo tho railroads and the public can be better adjusted by tho people than by any legislative interference this though it may appear betrays the truo purport of mr to be tho desire of delivering the railroads of nil control by the state mr vanderbilt desires to havo laws protecting the railroad but be docs not want to hear anything of legal and constitutional protection of iho interests of the public in tah vie wo cannot ogree with the emigen t railroad magnate wp aro far from underrating the benefits which tho public have do rived and are ever deriving from the roads wo do not desire to seo any undue pressure on thus wo do think to la liable to bo justly abc acc med of adrai cabuag communistic but on tho other jeand it docs not appear that the railroad question has been a football for tho case bill and his com would have ong sauce settled all by a most amiable understanding kail roads have always found the aciana very accessible to arguments especially to those of a tangible and kind what embarrasses mr vanderbilt and aholo caste of railroad ests Is tho with which he commence to treat the railroad question thoi people desire and by and by may demand the abolishment of all the manifold abuses existing in the present railroad management tho omnipotence of the shall be broken and supplanted ly a legal condition of things for and equitable to all unfortunately mr vanderbilt to imagine that all similar demands ro an invasion into certain a nd inviolable private rights but suck is not the case the railroads owe their exi atenco to grants privileges and laws passed in their favor by tho if the railroads favored by such grants have allow eil ibea selves not only to promote baff to control arbitrarily commerce and industry tins is an abuse of power w bich requires to be amended II 11 is verb much to be regretted that potentates will not understand der stand how injurious this abuse is not only to the public but to the railroads themselves i mr vanderbilt even goes as far as to appl to congress for protection against ho claims of the people it may well become necessary for con gross to intervene and have something to do with the regulation of the railroad but then it ivill be leas a question of protecting the railroad than the public in the mc antimo however it i the business oc each individual slate to erect barriers against tho alio railroads on tho pro ca of alio people eap exp iriente iri ence teaches that wealthy cor portion very well how to protect their own interests and hat they aio mostly liable the popular rights to their own addan tags when therefore or federal authorities can bo found solid benough to establishment impassable for the railroads their chief tendency will ly ba lo 10 fortify the of the nation the people do to exercise anny undue pressure on the railroad or even to achieve their ruin but they do desire and will yet insist hat they ba placed on a sound and legitimate business lisis on to accomplish boblo find ends AS public M ayta of general TUB Ci wima to called contains a at us for coupling the banai of grant and it was wo admit lathor for wd wo tender ai abject aipolo gy to |
