CONTENTS. 13 



is worth Brutal Assault on Mr. Coleman A Struggle for Justice 

 The Policy of Eailroad Corporations announced The Public to be tied 

 Hand and Foot Railroad Testimony How to manufacture Evidence 

 What a Negro got by losing his Ticket A Specimen Eailroad Murder 

 A Life for a Lost Ticket A new Penalty for Drunkenness Startling 

 Details The Avenue of Death Eailroad Killing not considered Mur- 

 der Unjust Treatment of Passengers The Palace Car Swindle Bag- 

 gage Smashers The War on the Merchants How a Eailroad endea- 

 vored to ruin a Business Firm The Power of the Corporations 98 



CHAPTER VII. 

 THE CAPTUEE OF THE COUETS. 



Sources of Eedress for the People against Eailroad Tyranny Failure of 

 the Courts to afford Protection Efforts of the Eailroads to debauch 

 the Courts of Justice The Free Pass System Judicial Stockholders 

 Designs of the Eailroads upon the Law A Case in Point How the 

 Erie Eoad managed the Courts A new System of Eailroad Jurispru- 

 dence Curious Details How Boss Tweed became a Director of Erie 

 Efforts of Fisk & Co. to lock up Money Daniel Drew beaten The 

 Government intervenes The War in the Courts The Value of an Inj unc- 

 tion How the Law was made to aid Sharp Practice Mr. Jas. Fisk's 

 little Journey The Country Judge vs. the City Judge The Eailroad 

 makes War on the Press Arrest of Mr. Samuel Bowles Justice turned 

 against the People 132 



CHAPTER VIII. 

 EAILEOAD LEGISLATION. 



Success of the Eailroads in managing Legislatures Efforts to corrupt 

 Congress The Eailroad Lobby at Washington How the State Legis- 

 latures are managed A Case in Point The Camden & Amboy Monop- 

 oly and the New Jersey Legislature Erie Legislation Exploits of the 

 Erie Eing at Albany The Story of a Check Book A Disappointed 

 Legislature 165 



CHAPTER IX. 

 EAILEOAD STOCK GAMBLING. 



Who owns the Eailroads ? The Old-fashioned Method of building a Eoad 

 The Present Style A Contrast The Honest Policy not suited "o the 

 Present Ideas of Eailroad Men The Art of building Eailroads with 

 other People's Money brought to Perfection The Era of Mortgages 

 The Land Grab System Demoralization in Eailroad Finances The 

 Gamblers in Power The Eeal Owners of the Eailroads robbed by the 

 Directors A Eotten System and its Consequences The Banks involved 



