UNITED STATES RAILWAYS

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13433, 26 March 1907, Page 5

UNITED STATES RAILWAYS

MR. CLEVELAND'S OPINION.

United Press Association — By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. NEW YORK, March 24. Mr Grover Cleveland states that the outcry against railroads resembles a delirium. Presently the nation will J>e ashamed. He admits some form of Government supervision is necessary, but it ought to be planned quietly, not during a period of excitement. He appeals to the Democrats to force tariff reform on the broader ground of , enlarged national life. Americans ought to abandon the. policy of selfish isolation, of excluding other nations from the American market, and cutting off America's foreign markets, (Last year the Hepjburn Railroad Rate Bill, empowering the Inter-State Commerce Commission to investigate£he question of and to regulate railway' rates for the carriage of goods, became law: Mr Roosevelt considers there should be a system of national supervision of inter-State corporations, to cope with the evils of over-capitalisa-tion.) " , d fM,