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Croly, Herbert David, 1869-1930

"The Promise of American Life"

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law should be passed providing for agreements between roads, and
mergers, 364-305;
freedom should be left to, to make rates and schedules, and develop
their traffic, 365-366;
public ownership of, 366;
regulation of, by Federal commissions a doubtful step, 360-363, 368;
process of combination among, and results, 375-376;
value of monopoly possessed by, could be secured to the community by
Federal government taking possession of terminals, right of way,
tracks, and stations, 376-377;
the alternative plan, of government appropriation of roads, and its
working out, 377-378.
_See_ Corporations.
Real estate tax, 385.
Rebates, 109, 110-113, 357.
Recall,
principle of the, 332-333;
employment of the, in suggested administrative system, 338, 340.
Referendum,
movement in favor of, in state governments, 320;
pros and cons of the, 327-328.
Reform,
course of the movement, 141-142;
variety in kinds of, 142-143;
variety found in exponents of, 143-144;
function of, according to the reformers, 144-145;
disappointment of hopes for, and reasons, 145-147;
a better understanding of meaning of, and of the function of reformers,
necessary to successful correction of abuses, 147;
causes of need for, 148-150;
wrong conceptions of, and intellectual awakening essential for, 150;
true methods for accomplishing, 152-154;
state institutional, 315 ff.


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