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- Title
SOME CURIOUS PHASES OF THE RAILWAY QUESTION IN EUROPE.
- Authors
Sterne, Simon
- Abstract
The article focuses on the financial and economic problems of railways in Europe. The limitations of human activity are such that the men who come in contact with affairs have generally not the time and more often lack the technical knowledge to write down their experiences. This is as true in regard to the railway problem, whether it works out its solution in Europe or elsewhere. The French railways were making special rates for importations into France, which largely tended to nullify the protective tariff rates. The iron-masters, coal-miners, machine-builders, and textile producers of France, stirred up by the financial interests and by their own greed, in the press and upon the platform drew attention to this nullification of the French national protective policy; and, indeed, the only substantially important new condition that was imposed by the French government upon the railways under the new contract is, that all tariffs upon goods which tend to counteract the fiscal legislation of the country shall be subjected to the absolute control of the government, so as to quiet the agitation which threatened very considerably the permanency of the ministry, and to satisfy the public clamor for protective measures.
- Subjects
FRANCE; EUROPE; RAILROADS; TARIFF; RAILROAD law; GOVERNMENT policy
- Publication
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1887, Vol 1, Issue 4, p453
- ISSN
0033-5533
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1879340