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Rh McNamara, in his confession, said, “I did what I did for principle.” It is only necessary for an aroused public opinion to speak out and show the unfortunate men like the McNamaras that the many good men in the ranks of labor and the many good men in the other walks of life will not stand for that kind of principle.

The transportation business, now trying to readjust itself physically to the growing needs of a great country which has developed rapidly, has been subjected to severe attack and criticism. That transportation is a vital part of commerce, and the greatest element, after agriculture, in business success, has been ignored. With other kinds of business it has felt public opprobrium, because an element of the people have revolted somewhat against alleged improprieties of the past. Railroads have had to struggle for existence, as have other forms of business. Their history is similar to the history of other forms of business of contemporaneous development, and their present critics, forgetting all that has been Rh