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CHAPTER VI. 



RAILROAD TYRANNY. 



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Dangers arising from the Eailroad Monopoly Irresponsibility of the Road 

 Their Disregard of Individual Eights A Man's Fight with a Railroad 

 A Corporation's Idea of a Contract What a Eailroad Ticket 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 Murder Unjust Treatment of 

 Passengers The Palace Car Swindle Baggage Smashers The War on 

 the Merchants How a Eailroad endeavored to ruin a Business Firm The 

 Power of the Corporations. 



WE have seen the gradual growth of the railroad 

 system of the country ; how many of the roads have 

 been built at the public expense by means of the im- 

 mense land grants they have obtained ; how fictitious 

 capital has been created by the issuing of watered stock 

 for the purpose of concealing the impositions of the 

 road upon the public ; how that which is a monopoly 

 in itself has been made a more odious monopoly by the 

 process of consolidation; and how these corporations 

 have committed to them the right to tax the whole 

 community, without being responsible to any one. 

 We come now to consider some of the evils springing 

 from this immense system of monopolies. 



Conceding all the good results that have been brought 

 about by the successful growth of our railways ; admit- 



