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Show Regulate All Alike On the settlement of the railroad rail-road problems depends the jobs of 500,000 men who are normally employed by the rails and are now out of work, the jobs of hundreds of thousands of others in related industries which must retrench as railroad purchases are cut, the savings of millions of our citizens who own railroad stock and bonds either directly, or through the ownership of life insurance policies, poli-cies, savings bank accounts, trust funds, etc. It is an Interesting and important impor-tant fact that both political parties par-ties have planks promising the rails a fair deal. They realize that no problem effects a greater number num-ber of people. We shan't go far toward bringing back prosperity until we remove the legislative obstacles ob-stacles that, ' ever since the war, have made it impossible for the rails to "earn a living." Motor carriers operate, unregulated, unregu-lated, over the public highways. Ships ply waterways built and maintained by the government Oil pipe lines run underground As a consequence, the railroads must stand by and watch theii business decline while they are prevented from competing on an equitable basis with the othei carriers. Every move of a railroad rail-road must first have the approval of government officials while their competitors, for the most part, are not so restricted. Regulate and tax all transport agencies on a basis of equality. There is the solution to the rail-rpad rail-rpad problem a solution at the 1 same time to a number of other problems of the moment. |