Conference on Federal Regulation of Railways: Under the Auspices of the Massachusetts State Board of Trade; Held at Springfield, Mass;, December 28, 1916 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1331372011 ISBN 13: 9781331372011

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Conference on Federal Regulation of Railways: Under the Auspices of the Massachusetts State Board of Trade; Held at Springfield, Mass;, December 28, 1916

Now this is not a meeting, as I understand it, that is called in favor of any side of the question, except simply the public side. I represent the public. We want to know what can best be done to serve the public and to meet the great ends for which these carriers were established. Nobody is here in hostility to the railroads. Nobody is here in hostility to the men who operate them, but we are here for a common purpose - to have the subject looked at from different viewpoints. And so I say that I felt that the great importance of this question required here to-day the presence of the chief executive of the Common wealth. Not me, but simply because of the office that I happen at the moment to hold.

I think that Springfield is a good place in which to hold this meeting. I was here last February when they were having the preliminary meeting in order to get here the National Dairy exhibition - one of the greatest exhibi tions of livestock that is held, the very greatest that is held in the United States, and I believe probably the greatest ever held in the world. I came to a meeting where there were men from different parts of New England, and it was necessary to raise a large sum of money in order to have this exhibition - I think something like three-quarters of a million dollars. I do not know whether Mayor Stacy put that money up, but I know that in an incredibly short time the public-spirited men, and chiefly the men who live in Springfield and this vicinity, raised that great sum of money, and as a result Spring field last fall had as great a dairy show as was ever held on this continent.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1331372011
• ISBN 13: 9781331372011
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 93