efforts of railroads to control, 271
servile to railroads, 228

_Prima facie_ rates, 341

Prize worth contending for, 380

Procopius, statement of, concerning Via Appia, 27

Problem would be solved if abuses, 297

Providence, 136

Psammitichus cuts canal, 33

Ptolemaic kings built canals, 24

Public at mercy of managers, 381
not unreasonable, 450

Public opinion dormant, 400
efforts to influence, 273
rules, 400

Publicity advantageous, 402

Purchasers of land made the donation, 321

Question not settled until settled right, 377

Railroad attorneys, 214

Railroad-building after 1873, 246

Railroad business not private, 403
safe, 436
changes in Iowa, 393
company public agent, 388
competition, 190, 338
consolidation, 82
construction, 287
diplomate, 228
first line, 77
first steam engine, 47
improved highway, 339
like common road, 391
literature, 231
magazine literature, 273
managers do not do things by halves, 223
managers' opportunities to speculate, 399
men always oppose reductions of rates, 283
officials, 257
papers, 340
precursor of, 46
president's letters, 229

Railroads, abandoned, 79
bonded for more than cost, 175
capitalization of, 86
but few that do not pay, 52
cost to build, 186
earnings of, 86
in Asia, 59
in Austria, 54
in Belgium, 56
in Denmark, 58
in France, 54
in Germany, 53
in Granger States did not comply with law, 246
in Hungary, 54
in Italy, 57
in politics, 205
in Portugal, 58
in Russia, 58
in Switzerland, 56
in Spain, 57
in the Balkan Peninsula, 59
in the Scandinavian Peninsula, 58
in the United States, 76
in Turkey, 60
land grants to, 80
partake of two natures, 392
propitiate judiciary, 211
public tax collectors, 396
rebelled against Iowa law, 344

Railroad stations, number of, 190

Railroad tax, amount of, 393

Railway acts, first in England, 127

_Railway Age_, 288

Railway benefits, 231
employes in politics, 308
first act, 49
organs, 229
Pan-American, 88

Railways, highways, 13
weakened their arguments, 237

Railway system, growth of, 87
length of in the world, 87

Rate-making a legislative and not a judicial function, 332

Rate-making difficult, 244