Note 350 — Chapter XXX · SUMMARY OF METHODS AND RESULTS.

We have seen earlier in this chapter that a number of railroad men and others told the Senate Committee that they believed rebates and discriminations to have ceased. In his excellent book, “The Strategy of Great Railroads,” Mr. Spearman says: “Alexander J. Cassatt has made unjust discrimination in railroad traffic a thing of the past.” Sometimes we are assured: “There can be no doubt but that, on the whole, the freight rates of the country have been adjusted in very nearly the best way possible for the upbuilding of the country’s commerce.” (See “Freight Rates that were made by the Railroads,” W. D. Taylor, Review of Reviews, July, 1905, p. 73.) For one who has in mind the facts brought out in this book, comment on these statements is hardly necessary. There is no doubt that President Cassatt is a railroad commander of exceptional power, but he has not vanquished the smokeless rebate, nor driven the hosts of unjust discrimination from the railroads of the United States.