Bill for the Nationalization of Railroads

Authors

William W. Cook, New York

Abstract

The great Mississippi Valley from the Alleghanies to the Rockies and from the Lakes to the Gulf dominates the Federal Government. It sends 231 of the 435 Representatives and 48 of the 96 Senators to Congress. In its confines are 24 of the 48 states. It has an area of over a billion acres of land-over one-half of the United States. It has fifty million people-over one-half of the nation. Some day it will have two hundred and fifty million. It contains a new race of men-fused of many nations-strong, enduring, resilient.' To it and the South, as Elihu Root said in a speech at Philadelphia on March 23rd, 1915, "the sceptre has passed."

Recommended Citation

William W. Cook, Bill for the Nationalization of Railroads, 14 Mich. L. Rev. 1 (1915).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol14/iss1/2