The Railway Library, 1909. Various

politicians consider it a popular thing to do.

      I might suggest a multitude of things which could be done to increase the credit of railroads throughout your section.

      I might mention a multitude of things which have been done to injure and impair and prevent railroads securing the necessary capital to provide for their needs.

      I might also attempt to enumerate the ill-advised actions of railroad managers and employees toward the public.

      

      I might expatiate upon the foolishness and unwisdom of a corporation—the creature of the public—attempting to dictate to its master or declining to obey its commands.

      It is doubtful, however, if the enumeration of the errors and shortcomings of the fellow-members of the same family ever tends to a better understanding or more harmonious relationships. The need of the hour is a recognition of the interdependent relations which exist between us all, and to remember—intensely, actively, potently remember—that an "injury to one is an injury to all," and that "united we stand, divided we fall."