THE TRUTH ABOUTH THE RAILROADS
research, and extension work, so as to produce a larger food-supply; and to the railroad, that it may help the general prosperity by being able to provide sufficient transportation when it is needed.
The people can have good farming and good railroading, but it means hard work and plenty of it. Men who stand off on one side and find fault, criticise, and embarrass those who are really doing the constructive work in the country, by numerous petty, foolish restrictions, are not helping, but are really hindering the work of better farming and better railroading, and the country will sooner or later wake up to this fact.
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