While this book is on the press, the eighth report, covering 1902 and 1903, has come to hand. More than half the 180 new complaints filed in the 2 years directly relate to questions of discrimination—undue preference, rebates, denial of facilities accorded to others, excessive charges as compared with other rates, etc., and nearly all the 180 cases involve discrimination directly or indirectly. (See Appendix B.) Footnote 422: From the _Progressive Review_, vol. II, no. 11, pp. 441, 442, where a number of facts relating to import rates are condensed from the testimony before Parliamentary committees. Footnote 423: See “The Railway Act” 1903. Footnote 424: This and other phases of the problem relating to the comparison of private management, government control, and government ownership, are more fully dealt with in “The Railways, the Trusts and the People” by the same author. Oct. 1905, Equity Series, 1520 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. [Illustration] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE RAILWAYS, THE TRUSTS AND THE PEOPLE. BY PROF. FRANK PARSONS, PH.D. _Edited and Published by C. F. TAYLOR, M.D., Editor and Publisher of Equity Series, 1520 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia._ THE CONTENTS ARE AS FOLLOWS: PART I. THE RELATIONS OF THE RAILROADS TO THE PUBLIC, OR VITAL FACTS FROM THE RAILWAY HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. CHAPTER The Railway Empire I. The Allied Interests II. Railway Favoritism III. Railways in Politics IV. Fostering Monopoly V. Watered Stock and Capital Frauds VI. Gambling and Manipulation of Stock VII. Railroad Graft and Official Abuse VIII. Railways and the Postal Service IX. The Express X. The Chaos of Rates XI. Taxation without Representation XII. Railways and Panics XIII. Railway Strikes XIV. Railway Wars XV. Defiance of Law XVI. Nullification of the Protective Tariff XVII. Railway Potentates XVIII. The Failure of Control, How Far and Why XIX. The Irrepressible Conflict XX.