If the railway-user and the railway employee are not careful to see that justice is done to the railway-owner, and if he is not protected and encouraged a little, the time is rapidly coming when the railway-user will go to buy some transportation for his wheat, his coal, his cattle, his manufactured articles, and he will be confronted with the statement from the railway-owner that all the transportation he has has been sold, and furthermore, that he cannot produce any more transportation because he cannot get any more money, and if the railway-user desires an increased quantity or quality of transportation he must organize and produce it for himself. The railway employee will find that the monthly pay-day is not so regular and certain as it used to be, and that the wages paid are lower.
The ultimate good sense of the American people and their belief in the rights of property will, in the long run, I believe, prevail over the misstatements and misrepresentations of some public men who, without careful study and full knowledge of the situation, and without
