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Rh least two parties, and if business is to succeed, there must be coöperation, fairness, and justice from each to the other. In the current talk of the day there are the Government and the railways, the people and the railways, the employees and the railways, and the shippers and the railways. And the railways, in a way, are under fire from the four great forces, the Government, the people, the employees, and the shippers.

Without attempting a long discussion over old contentions, or looking back to what the people ought to have done or what the railways ought not to have done in the past, I want to call your attention to some things in which the people, who need and use the railways, for whose service the railways are created, and who regulate the railways, can, with fairness and justice to themselves, be of assistance in conserving railway service for the common good.

The most important service performed by the railways is the transportation of freight. Not everybody has to travel, but everybody Rh