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Adams, Charles F., Jr. An Address, delivered at Oshkosh, Wis., Sept. j, 1875. 

 " Which will quickest solve the railroad question: force bills or public 

 opinion ? " n. p., n. d. 20 pp. H.C. 



Adams, Charles F., Jr. " The Granger Movement," in North American 

 Review, cxx. 394-424 (April, 1875). Probably the most widely known 

 article on the railroad phase of the Granger movement. Mr. Adams 

 looked upon the movement as a thing of the past and assumed to treat it 

 " in a spirit of critical justice." Though he admitted that there were 

 adequate causes for the movement in the abuses of railway management 

 and that much good would probably result from it, still he made assump- 

 tions as to the character and effects of the Granger legislation which are 

 not well founded. 



Adams, Charles F., Jr. Railroads; their Origin and Problems. New York, 

 1878. 216 pp. A classic book on the subject. The abuses in railway 

 organization and management are clearly set forth and it is admitted 

 that the Granger movement was perhaps necessary for the purpose of 

 bringing about a better understanding of the obligations of railway 

 corporations to the public. 



Adams, Charles F., Jr. " The State and the Railroads," in Atlantic, xxxvii. 

 360-371, 691-699, xxxviii. 72-85 (1876). The first article deals with 

 the problem abroad, the others bring out the events which result from 

 unrestrained competition and advocate consolidation as the remedy. 



Adams, Henry C. "The Farmer and Railway Legislation," in Century, xxi. 

 780-783 (March, 1892). A statement of reasons why the farmer is 

 especially affected by the railway problem and of the abuses in railway 

 management, followed by an account of railway legislation in effect in 

 1892. 



American Cheap Transportation Association. National Convention . . . 

 held at Washington, D. C., January iqth, 1874. Troy, New York, 1874. 

 99 pp. U.I. Contains proceedings and numerous addresses, including 

 those of Messrs. Flagg and Allen of Illinois. 



American Board of Transportation and Commerce. Report of the committee 

 on railroad transportation . . . at the third annual convention of that body, 

 held in Chicago, December i8th, 1875. 15 pp. U.I. This was merely 

 the American Cheap Transportation Association under another name. 

 The committee was composed of five delegates from New York, Iowa, 

 Kentucky, Illinois, and Indiana. The Iowa and Illinois representatives 

 were A. B. Smedley and S. R. Moore, both of whom were prominent in 

 the farmers' movement in their respective states. 



Atkinson, Edward. The Railroad and the Farmer, nos. one and two, and The 

 Standard of Adequate Railroad Service. New York, 1883. 56 pp. L.C., 

 U.I. An argument against government control. 



Atlantic Monthly. Editorials: " Railway Despotism," xxxi. 380-384 

 (March, 1875). " Report of the Erie Investigating Committee," xxxii. 

 124-128 (July, 1873), " Granges against the Railroads," xxxii. 508- 

 512 (October, 1873). " Railway Stock and Stockholders," xxxii. 764- 

 768 (December, 1873). These editorials bring out clearly a number of 

 abuses in railway management; but the position is taken that it was the 



