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[l The Cheap Transportation Report," xviii. 294 (May 7, 1874). 

 " Corporations and Monopolies," xviii. 359 (June 4, 1874). 

 " The Granger Method of Reform," xix. 36 (July 16, 1874). 

 '' The Right to Confiscate," xix. 199 (September 24, 1874). 

 " Potter and His Law," xix. 231 (October 8, 1874). 

 ' The Farmers and the Supreme Court," xx. 53 (January 28, 1875). 

 " The Farmer as a ' Mediaeval Baron,' " xxi. 145 (September 2, 1875). 

 " A General Regulation Act," xxi. 384 (December 16, 1875). 

 1 The Granger Collapse," xxii. 57 (January 27, 1876). 

 " The Last Railroad Grievance," xxii. 189 (March 23, 1876). 

 " The Granger Decisions," xxiv. 143 (March 8, 1877). 

 " The Granger Theory applied to the Grangers," xxvii. 37 (July 18, 1878). 

 " The Farm Change in Politics," lii. 453 (June 4, 1891). 



These articles together with the briefer paragraph editorials scattered 

 through the Nation are largely responsible for the long prevalent idea of 

 the Granger movement as a dishonest attempt of the western farmers to 

 confiscate railroad property by securing control of the legislatures and 

 the courts. 



Railroad Companies. Annual Reports to the Stockholders. Some of these 

 contain discussions of the Granger legislation from the railroad stand- 

 point. The most significant are: Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy, 

 1874, 1876; Chicago and Northwestern, 1874-76; Chicago, Milwaukee, 

 and St. Paul, 1874, 1875. 



Ringwalt, John L. Development of Transportation Systems in the United 

 States. Philadelphia, 1888. 398 pp. The Granger legislation is 

 treated at some length and the abuses in railway construction and man- 

 agement are brought out; but the laws themselves are looked upon as 

 attempts "to compel railways to render services for inadequate compen- 

 sation." 



Sanborn, J. B. Congressional Grants of Land in Aid of Railways. Madison, 

 Wisconsin, 1899. 130 pp. (University of Wisconsin, Bulletins, Eco- 

 nomics, Political Science, and History Series, ii. no. 3.) The standard 

 work on the subject. Useful for an understanding of the railway situ- 

 ation during the Granger period. 



Seligman, Edwin R. A. " Railway Tariffs and the Interstate Commerce 

 Law," in Political Science Quarterly, ii. 222-264, 369-413 (June, Septem- 

 ber, 1887). The Granger movement is discussed as one of the origins 

 of the commission system of government control. The conclusions that 

 " the Granger movement was economically as unwise as it was politically 

 important and successful " and that " the compulsory commissions 

 were an avowed failure," are stronger statements than the facts would 

 seem to warrant. 



Senate Committee on Commerce. Rates of Freight on Railroads. Wash- 

 ington, 1873. 20 pp. (42 Congress, 3 session, Senate Reports, no. 462, 

 serial no. 1550.) 



Seymour, Charles. " A Western View of Interstate Transportation," in 

 Atlantic, xxx. 345-351 (September, 1872). Maintained that transpor- 

 tation rates were too high and favored the construction of canals. 



