Depreciated Currency and Diminished Railway Rates (Classi...
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Excerpt from Depreciated Currency and Diminished Railway Rates
During the summer of 1908 the daily press gave currency to rumors that the railways of the United States were considering a general revision of their schedules of freight rates with a view to obtaining increased revenue. Accompanying these reports were statements that the augmented cost of conducting the business of supplying railway transportation had made increased revenue absol...