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Rh supply of trained railroad officers is not as great as it should be for the magnitude of the business. Experienced men of high character in the management of the railroads give confidence to the investor and to the public, and they are more important than money, engines, tracks, and physical facilities, if progress in the right direction is to be made. It is very much to the interest of the future growth of the United States to have the railroad business offer such rewards to the investor that money will flow freely into building up the transportation machine, and to offer such attractions to the best talent of the country, that men will engage in the business as freely as they engage in banking, in law, in medicine, in manufacturing, and in agriculture.

There is the closest connection between the railroads and the bankers, because the railroads must turn to the banking fraternity to help them in getting funds to carry on the great work of providing sufficient transportation. Is it not to the interest of bankers to try so to shape public opinion that not only will the Rh