Government Partnership in Railroads (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Government Partnership in Railroads The railroad horse has been a faithful beast of burden for American commerce. He has pulled its commodities from the Atlantic over the Alleghenies in the east, across the fertile central prairies, the blistering plains and arid deserts of the west, over the Rockies, Sierras and Coast Range to the Pacific and through the great central Mississippi Valley from the Great Lakes and Canada to the Gulf. Heretofore he has never balked. When we have given him the word, he has always pulled, steadily and effectively, whether across bog and swamp or over steep hill and high mountain. At times he has kicked over the traces at his driver, but at the word to go he has always pulled. At times he has been found in the public cornfield getting more than his allotted feed, but he has been charged with eating corn that in fact went to fatten the hogs of the Manufacturer, the Farmer, the Miner, the Packer and the Merchant. He has never been foundered by overfeeding. He is a valuable animal, having cost us some 16 billion dollars. He requires the work of 1,800,000 Americans in maintaining and serving him. It costs us about 3¿ billions of dollars a year to feed him. His welfare is therefore a matter of very great economic importance to us. If for only a week or so he should refuse to pull we would freeze and starve in the big cities, our industrial plants would close, our lamps remain unlit at night, our street cars stop; we should have to confine our journeys to short distances. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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