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Show GOVERNMENT FAIR TO THE RAILROADS New York. July lfi. "There is no danger to the railroads lu government supervision." declares President David Da-vid Starr Jordan of Leland Stanford, Jr., university, in an interview published pub-lished here today. "On the contrary," he says, "government "gov-ernment supervision will benefit both the railroads and the public by conserving con-serving the interests of both. It Is . far tatter for a railroad like the I Southern Pacific, for example, which, traverses many .states, to be under the supervision of a strong, able interstate inter-state commerce commission than under un-der the rule of the legislatures of many states. The railroad question is too b)g for the individual sta'es to handle: therefore, the federal government govern-ment has a right to step In and super- tee. Any theory of states' rights that does not concede that the government govern-ment must handle those corporations and questions which have grown too large for the states to handle, is unsound. un-sound. "In the west, particularly in the middle west, there Is a demand that the railroads be taken in hand by tho government; but, with the exception of a few radicals, there are none who wish to give the: railroads anything but a square deal. In the latt analysis, analy-sis, the lallronde are the creatures of tho people and owned bv the people, who can be dependel upon to deal fairly with them. They arc assured fair treatment by the Interstate Commerce Com-merce commission. Under tho old system of having tho states attempt to regulate tho railroads, It meant that the railroads wero harassed by demagogues and others." |