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adjua by conditions of railroad operation, sensed and heeded by the railroads themselves. These results would seenVto indicate that the less tampering with these finely poised economic conditions through arbitrary legislative enactment, the better for the public good. A railroad plant is not totally unlike any other kind of a plant. It is an organic structure which is supBut posed to grow, and it thrives best under cultivation* who would think, for instance, that he could raise more wheat to the acre by heaping upon productive fields, all sorts of rubbish that prejudice could conceive, and in addition thereto, passing the laws that the kernels shall be larger and the stalks shorter! This seems very much like an absurdity, but I ask you in all sincereity, is it not a pertinent analogy? Shorn of its many bewildering absurdities, this is the real railroad problem of today, a condition which actually exists. It is illegitimate of birth, destructive in its tendencies, and is wholly unworthy of the support of the public. It is a dire danger stalking amongst us in the purloined cloak of public approval, alongside w M c h the yellow peril, leering over our western border like a threat ening jack-in-the-box, presents an amusing diversion, oritical though the situation may be. To those of us who have enjoyed the splendid benificence of Providence to partake of the choioest fruits of prosperity as expressed in such exoellent institutions as
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