easy-to-be-foreseen

Updated: July 18, 2026

Taft himself, it seems, has since recognized its faultiness, for he has repeatedly and publicly protested against the over-regulation, the starvation and the oppression of the railroad which were the inevitable and easy-to-be-foreseen consequences of its enactment. The States, to extent that they had not already anticipated it, were not slow to follow the precedent set by the Federal Government.

Otto Hermann Kahn - Government Ownership of Railroads, and War Taxation