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Rh rates too low, taxes too high, wages too high, service too elaborate, and there are not cents enough in the dollar to meet all these obligations and still permit the business to be attractive enough so the man with the dollar will invest it.

Our American railroads have done good work, and can do own better, and it is to the farmer's own selfish interest to see that they are so treated that they will be ready at all times to handle his business. To be ready requires constant expenditure. In the United States the railroads haul each year 2500 tons of freight one mile for every Rh