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stockholders and not the western farmers who were injured. The cause 

 of the farmers' movement is seen in a " glut in the grain market." 



Gary, J. W. The Organization and History of the Chicago, Milwaukee and 

 St. Paul Railway Company. Milwaukee, 1873. 392 pp. J.C. Gary 

 was general counsel for the company in the early days, and his book 

 throws a strong light on early methods of railway financiering. 



Clark, Frederick C. " State Railroad Commissions, and how they may be 

 made effective," in American Economic Association, Publications, vi. 

 no. 6, pp. 473-583 (November, 1891). The Granger agitation is said 

 to be " the real beginning of an enlightened public opinion on the rail- 

 road question." The work of the Illinois commission is treated at some 

 length. 



Coleman, John A. " The Fight of a Man with a Railroad," and " My 

 Railroad Fight in and out of Court," in Atlantic, xxx. 641-653, xxxi. 

 610-618 (December, 1872, May, 18-73). Illustrates what Charles 

 Francis Adams, Jr., termed " bad manners " on the part of railway 

 employees and officials. 



Cook, William W. The Corporation Problem. New York, 1893. 262 pp. 

 Sets forth the abuses in railway management and the dangers to be 

 feared from the increased power of corporations. Cook was a New York 

 lawyer and had written a treatise on corporation law. 



[Cullom Committee.] Report of the Select Committee on Interstate Com- 

 merce. Washington, 1886. 2 vols. (49 Congress, i session, Senate 

 Reports, no. 46.) The report contains a useful summary of state rail- 

 way legislation, and some of the testimony in the second volume relates 

 to the Granger legislation. 



Davis, C. W. " The Farmer, the Investor, and the Railway," in Arena, iii. 

 291-3 13 (February, 1891). Discusses railway profits and discriminations 

 and favors government control. 



Detrick, Charles R. " The Effects of the Granger Acts," in Journal of 

 Political Economy, xi. 237-256 (March, 1903). A careful statistical 

 study. See above, p. 235. 



Dunbar, William H. " State Regulation of Prices and Rates," in Quarterly 

 Journal of Economics, xi. 305-332 (April, 1895). Discusses the Granger 

 cases and later decisions along the same line. 



Edsall, James K. " The Granger Cases and the Police Power," in American 

 Bar Association, Reports, x. 288-316 (1887). Bases the right of the 

 state to regulate railroads upon the inherent power of every government 

 to protect its citizens; in other words, upon the police power. Edsall 

 was attorney-general of Illinois at the time the Granger cases were being 

 tried in that state. 



Fink, Albert. Cost of Railroad Transportation; Railroad Accounts and 

 Government Regulation of Railroad Tariffs. Louisville, 1875. 48 pp. 

 L.C., W.H. An argument against government control of railroad rates 

 by the president of the Louisville and Nashville Railway Company. 



Grosvenor, W. M. " The Communist and the Railway," in International 

 Review, iv. 585-599 (September, 1877). Calls the Granger legislation 

 communistic and assigns it as the principal cause of the panic of 1873. 



