A HISTORICAL AND PRACTICAL TREATISE

ON

RAILROADS, AND REMEDIES FOR THEIR ABUSES.

BY

=_William Larrabee_=,

Late Governor of Iowa.

12mo, cloth extra, gilt top (488 pages), $1.50.

I.--History of Transportation. II.--The History of Railroads.
III.--History of Railroads in the United States. IV.--Monopoly in
Transportation. V.--Railroad Abuses. VI.--Stock and Bond Inflation.
VII.--Combinations. VIII.--Railroads in Politics. IX., X.--Railroad
Literature. XI.--Railroads and Railroad Legislation in Iowa. XII.--The
Inter-State Commerce Act. XIII.--The Rate Question. XIV.--Remedies.
Appendix:--Tables and Statistics. There is also a bibliography on the
subject of Railroads, embracing ninety-eight titles, and a carefully
prepared alphabetical index.

Opinions of the Press.

"No work has ever before told so completely and clearly what the public
want to know, and ought to know, about the secret management and true
legal status of railroads. What journalists and magazine writers have
studiously left unsaid, whether from lack of knowledge or from motives
of 'revenue only,' Governor Larrabee has said, and said it
well."--_Western Rural._

"This book is evidently the result of long study and experience and much
thinking. While it is radical in its treatment of the question, no side
of it has been overlooked. It deserves careful reading by every person
who is interested in this great question. No subject is more worthy the
profound study of the statesman, the man of affairs, the scholar and the
citizen. Surely all who are trying to understand the good and evil of
railroads can turn to the pages of this book with the certain
expectation of learning much both in the way of fact and
suggestion."--_Bankers' Magazine._

"Perhaps the most interesting chapters are the two in which the author
reviews and criticises former publications on railway questions, and the
one in which he reviews the various remedies which have been from time
to time advanced for railway abuses. The book is concisely and clearly
written."--_Engineering News._

"Ex.-Gov. Larrabee of Iowa has written a highly meaty book on the
railroad question. It is a topic he is well qualified to handle, viewing
that he was no small part of the movement in former days to repress
railroad abuses in the West, and particularly in his own
State."--_Chicago Tribune._

"A careful study of an important question, fortified by facts and
figures which are both intere