tation, 436

Ohio canals, 42

Oliver Cromwell, 98

Operating expenses reduced, 375

Pacific railroad, 81
diplomacy, 180
prejudice, 45

Pacific roads before boards of equalization, 186
comparative cost, 186
cost to duplicate, 185
easy grade, 185
indebtedness to Government, 184

Papin, constructed steamboat, 47

Parliament compelled British railways, 451

Party organs, 221

Pass abuse, ruling of commission, 362

Pass, purposes for which given, 209
should be discarded, 446

Passenger rate-making principle wrong, 439

Passenger rates not reduced, 375

Passenger rates too high, 438

Passengers carried by railroads in the United States, 292

Passengers, English third-class, 270
killed and injured, 450
third-class, 269

Passes, 207, 208
plentiful, 420
to delegates, 226

Pauper tickets for the clergy should be abolished, 446

Pausanias shown well-kept road, 19

Pedigree of a proverb, 298

Peik vs. Chicago, 213

Pennsylvania canals, 41

Pennsylvania Central R. R. Co., 171

People prone to believe, 245

People's parties called into existence, 404

People will not tolerate, 397

Perquisites abolished, 446

Persian Empire, magnitude, 20

Peru, 67
roads, 35

Phoenicians, 90
built great roads,
traders of antiquity, 20
first great maritime nation, 19

Pipe line, 116, 119

Plan capable of being improved, 433

Policy of delay, 381

Political campaigns in Iowa, 339

Politicians as railroad employes, 229

Pooling, 261, 398
committee does not recommend prohibition, 354
contracts void, 317
grave effects of, 268
means of swelling railroad earnings, 267
should be prohibited, 203

Pools, 85, 194, 195, 251, 297
defended by Mr. Hadley, 247
defended by Mr. Morgan, 250
maintained in Iowa, 336
suppress competition, 198

Poor's, H., opinion, 187
estimate of cost, 86, 173, 247

Poor's estimate of watered stock, 186

Porter, Horace, _North American Review_ article, 290

Porter, John, 104

Portugal, 58

Portuguese, 96

Postal communication, royal road from Susa to Sardes, 21

Postal service not carried on by state, 30

Potential value of interstate law, 367

Powderly, T. V., 449

Prediction of Mr. Walker, 299

Predictions of railroad men, 332

Press abuse, 221

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