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A Congressional History of Railways in the United States, Vol. 2: The Railway in Congress: 1850 1887 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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The period covered by the present work extends from 1850 to 1887, from the beginning of the rapid growth of railway systems to the Interstate Commerce Act. In but a little more than a generation there was tremendous mansion in railways, in society, in social consciousness, and in government. Nor mally, the aid aspect became smaller and smaller, dwindling to a sort of negative aid which a railway receives when the friction of political machinery retards or prevents the hostile working of social conscience or public opinion; and regulation grew, chang ing from a negative disburdening of commerce from private restrictions to a more positive control. The demand for rail ways had become more qualitative.
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The period covered by the present work extends from 1850 to 1887, from the beginning of the rapid growth of railway systems to the Interstate Commerce Act. In but a little more than a generation there was tremendous mansion in railways, in society, in social consciousness, and in government. Nor mally, the aid aspect became smaller and smaller, dwindling to a sort of negative aid which a railway receives when the friction of political machinery retards or prevents the hostile working of social conscience or public opinion; and regulation grew, chang ing from a negative disburdening of commerce from private restrictions to a more positive control. The demand for rail ways had become more qualitative.
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