Caption: Dedication - Transportation Building Dedication Addresses
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in tno i m « the number cither by « Oonaequantl 1 undertakings pdividuals ind Lonent or r~ ov pder the ; a ooneiiti 1 considerably loss than that is, 'ctly involved — publio service rendered. >na of their charters, the minority in the regulatioi owning i n t e railroads by popular fovernrnent. nai ,hese conditions, the opportunity for per sonal aggrandizement is oftentimes too alluring to be denied, and in the absence of a keen sense of realization o th< esnonsibilities devolving upon the public, the absurdre vo.1 is that the railroads are autocratic, and that tl ey itirely too liberally in general prosperity, The fact of the matter is that the railroads hav era long sin pe realized an important truth which the genrublic h is not yet learned; that is - that the intere ts ids cannot be advanced without a healthy deLndustrial and commercial possibilities^- that tors constitute a two-horse team - v/hen they pull togeth these facto eagerly urg indeed this L public welfare is advanced, but when one of is held in rigid restraint and the other forward, progress is simply impossible, if ondition of affairs does not portend serious fro latt cas n jside om the relative str itrol, there is an e ossible technical1t t be denied, the da\ igth lity ion and rough an this equ in dead b
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