Word: governmental
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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III. Government ownership and management will remedy these evils for: 1. It is more economical-Harper 73, Jeans p. 460. 2. It will stop speculation and mitigate crises. 2. It will prevent discrimination. 4. It will do away with private monopoly. 5. It will decrease accidents-eans p. 461. 6...
IV. Answers to disadvantages claimed for government ownership and management. 1. Conditions are not as alleged, unfavorable-Labor, article on transportation. 2. Political effect would be beneficial rather than injurious, on account of (a) increased civil service and (b) scrutiny of opposition party and press. 3. Individual enterprise is quickened...
I. A government enterprise to be successful must have (a) routine business, (b) small amount of capital, (c) must be submitted to public inspection-Jevous, The Railroads and the State.
III. That government control of railroads has been unsuccessful is shown by results in (1) Belgium, (2) Germany. (3), Italy.- Hadley, Railroad Transportation, pp. 217, 246, 228, 214; Spofford. The Railroad Question; Hudson, The Railways and the Republic, p. 326.
IV. Conditions much less favorable for success of government management in a Republic. (a) Difficulty of detecting bad management. Impossibility for the public at large to do so.- Hadley, Railroad Transportation, pp. 57-60. (b) Legitimate differences in charges would not be submitted to under government ownership in a republic...