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Excerpt from Proposed Solutions of the Railway Rate Problem: A Paper Presented at the Fifty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Before the Section on Social and Economic Science, at New Orleans, Louisiana, on December 30, 1905 In order to clear the ground for discussion it is necessary to observe that the legislation discussed in this paper has nothing to do with rebates. Any system of rate regulation must, as its first step, require the publication of rates and attempt to enforce the rates published. When this has been done any rebate; that is, any concession which amounts to carrying the goods of any shipper for less than the tariff rate on those goods, is an offense against the state because it deprives the initial step in the regulative process of its efficacy. For this reason, even more than on account of the grievous wrong to individuals in which they may result, rebates should not be tolerated, and any device by which they are accomplished should be rigorously repressed. Over this there is no controversy. Write the most drastic law practicable and you have but to convince that it is workable and there will be no opposition to its enactment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.