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Show I MONOPOLY ACCEPTABLE ijli Aa a war measure, the American, T Wells FaxKo, Adams aud Southern Lx press companies srare allowed to con solidate nnd operate as on company I under tho name of American Rall; Express company. Recently the con-1 con-1 ' 1 solidatton was attacked as n monopoly liU, and the matter was brought before the J1' 'Interstate commerce commission. which. In a majority decision, declared r tho consolidation not to be injurious to the public welfare. Two of iho commission dissented, charging thai I the merglnR of the express companies M 4 : created a monopoly and destroyed Hi 'every semblance of competition According Ac-cording to the minority opinion, writ jjj t 'ten by Commissioner McChord, It will I 'now he practically impossible for an other company to enter the express 1 I business in competition with the con-1 111 t 1 solidated express companv. anil while 1 1 the commission can, of course, regu-Hate regu-Hate the rates and certain practices of Ml 'the American Railway Express com- I 1 pany, it will have no control mu IU (I 1 fittl'.ude toward the public. The view K is expressed in the minority report that carriers should now seriously consider conducting the express busl HV ' ness themselves, because it "ban reached such proportions that It Is a B parasite on the freight traffic' of the BB railroads." The dissenting opinion also BB contended that the commission had BB authority to prescribe the manner in BB which the consoliti.it ion might bo ef BB fected and should not have merely granted the companies' petition for a H. consolidation B v If the express companies can com bine, what is there to obstruct the BB merging of a number of our railroads? BB With this decision as a precedent the BB Union Pacific cannot be denied the n privilege of buylnj it part ol Southern Padfk from Ogden ( ak-BB ak-BB land and operating the same ::s n part B of its system, aaaal nn |