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Excerpt from Townsend Bill; Interview of Representative F. C. Stevens of Minnesota; Opinion of Experts; Sober Consideration of Rate Question
The disaster now invited difiers in no degree from that ned by the free-silver-coinage party. Our people will It took a long time for a good many to very short the road was between the r-coinage and industrial confusion. Not the way prove between the taking by e right to make rates conferred their stockholders and turning that right over to appointed by the Government, from whose de ng to the present program laid down, the man be deprived of even the protection of the courts. Ers everywhere rebel against that action will thereby be virtually deprived of the value of That conclusion cannot be avoided. The ob change is everywhere stated to be by its advocates tes the literature of the Interstate Commerce Com and - their followers shows beyond question that the the legislation is to lower the rates the railroad man made. The fact is so obvious it does not need argu ove that the indiscriminate lowering of rates of a rom the refuge of the courts different from that the high he citizen walking home of a dark night. The lodged with the official, the victim is at his mercy; Ie the instrument of destruction in both cases is deadly.
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