The Railroad Question - A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and - remedies for their abuses

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Railroad Question, by William Larrabee This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses Author: William Larrabee Release Date: July 2, 2009 [EBook #29294] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE RAILROAD QUESTION *** Produced by Peter Vachuska, Barbara Kosker, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net The Railroad Question. THE RAILROAD QUESTION A HISTORICAL AND PRACTICAL TREATISE ON RAILROADS, AND REMEDIES FOR THEIR ABUSES BY WILLIAM LARRABEE, LATE GOVERNOR OF IOWA. Salus populi suprema lex. NINTH EDITION. CHICAGO: THE SCHULTE PUBLISHING COMPANY. 1898. Copyright, 1893, BY WILLIAM LARRABEE. PREFACE The people of the United States are engaged in the solution of the railroad problem. The main question to be determined is: Shall the railroads be owned and operated as public or as private property?