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Caption: Dedication - Transportation Building Dedication Addresses
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In our own Declaration of Independence, you will', doubt1698 recall this section: "Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light fcnd transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed." Prudence, indeed, should dictate that governments and forms of governments, long established should not be changed for light and transient causes. The terms "light "and transient" are relative terms, necessarily; and when we consider the marvelous wealth which has been developed and accumulated in this country within the past thirty years, and our enviable position among the nations of the world today, one wonders how he should classify the causes which have brought down upon the railroads the awful avalanche of restrictive legislation. "Experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed". But the question is, how much more radical legislation will be required to convince the people that the situation is fast becoming insufferable? In plain words, how much longer are the people going to stand for this revolutionary state of affairs? Are they so blinded by (
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