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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 72

How We can Get it

How We can Get it.

In my opinion there is only one remedy for the existing evils, and that is to reduce railway administration to a system; to make all fares and rates fixed, and only alterable, like the postal rates, by the sanction of Parliament; and to absolutely abolish all mileage and differential rating. Can this be done? I say, Yes, and easily. There is no reason whatever why the rate for carrying a ton of potatoes should not be fixed as easily as the rate for an ounce of mail matter. The system on which I would do this in thinly populated countries will be best illustrated by the following