Selected Articles On Government Ownership of Railroads
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A few cities have owned gas- works, and there may be some two hundred cities in the United States owning electric-lighting plants. The results of the policy are now clearly manifest. First, we observe vast waste. As these businesses are non-competi- tive, every attempt to force competition upon them means a waste of a great amount of labor and capital. One rail- way manager claims that if the railways of the country were operated as a unit, the saving would be $200, 000, 000 per annum. This may... be an exaggerated estimate, but the waste is enormous; and when we begin to estimate what it has been in the past in railways alone in the United States, we at once run up into the hundreds of millions. A second result of the policy advocated, which now appears plainly, is the enormous and unprecedented inequal- ity in fortunes in the United States. A large proportion of our mammoth fortunes can be traced to this false policy. Had the post-office been private property, we would have had a still larger number of multi-millionaires who would have absorbed a large proportion of the benefits of im- provement in that business, the advantages of which have, through public management, accrued to the people at large.
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