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not get along without the railroads. They are two great interests 

 that must subserve each other. Take away from the State the rail 

 roads of the State, and where will the producing interests go to ? 

 On the other hand, the railroad interests can not get along without 

 the producing interests. Let every farmer in this State cease pro 

 ducing let him go to other States and other countries ; let them 

 cease cultivating the soil, and what interests would the railroads 

 have in occupying their lines of track over the prairies ? These two 

 interests must go together, hand in hand, working for each other s 

 good and each other s benefit. 



Now, having said so much, I recognize this fact, that the railroad 

 interests of this State, or the railroads of this State, are exacting from 

 the producing class, and from the commercial, the professional, and 

 the manufacturing classes, extortionate rates for passenger and 



Other Interests Also.&quot; 



freight tariffs. I recognize the fact that this great interest, wielding 

 a capital of nearly two hundred and fifty million dollars,&quot; if not 

 more, as a unit readily combining all its powers and all its forces, is 

 exacting of the people of this State too much money making too 

 many discriminations. Then, what I wish, to say to this convention, 

 gentlemen, is, that when you make this war upc.i railroads, do net 

 make it upon them to abolish them, but make your war to bring 

 them within subjection of the legislature, of the law of the land. 

 (Cheers, and cries of &quot; That s the talk.&quot;) 



&quot;There is thrust in our faces, from time tc time, the Dartmouth 

 College decision ; there is thrust in our faces the argument that the 

 granting of charters to these corporations is a contract between the 

 people of the State and the corporations, in pursuance of the Con 

 stitution of the United States, and can not be impaired. Well, 



