Speech #590051255

And every man who has watched our progress or development and the causes which conduced to it knows that the progress. the prosperity. the development of that country and its industries have been due to the efforts of each of the great transcontinental lines to build up the industries and the country along and contiguous to its own road. and that this has been accomplished by discrimination in ratesnot discrimina- tion between individuals. which is always pernicious. but discrimination in favor of their own territory. in other words. it has been accomplished by giving especially favorable rates to those sections. It has been done by giving discriminations in rates as between localities. It has been done by giving preferences where those preferences were absolutely needed to build up a great country. And this is something that we can not justly and fairly take away from that section of country. They have maintained immigration bureaus to attract settlers along the lines of their roads. They have given special rates to land seekers. They have given special rates for the purpose of developing industries.